"Siskel & Ebert" The Object of My Affection/Paulie/Nightwatch/Suicide Kings/Wild Man Blues/Chinese Box (TV Episode 1998) Poster

Gene Siskel: Self - Host

Quotes 

  • Roger Ebert - Host : [reviewing "Paulie"]  In a way, this whole movie comes down to whether or not you like Paulie the parrot, and I didn't. He talks and talks and talks, and at first, you're amazed by a talking parrot, but at the end of the movie, you're ready for the parrot to shut up already!

    Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah, I mean, I didn't like "Paulie" either. Now, I want to tell you something. Just by sheer coincidence, two days before we saw this movie, I saw a movie called "Babe" again.

    Roger Ebert - Host : Uh-huh.

    Gene Siskel - Host : Oh. Oh my God...

    Roger Ebert - Host : Okay, "Babe"?

    Gene Siskel - Host : In other words, it CAN be done. You can anthropormorphize...

    Roger Ebert - Host : Well no no no no...

    Gene Siskel - Host : ...A creature.

    Roger Ebert - Host : ...Wait a minute, I'd like to corr- it can be done with a pig, a dog, a horse, and a cat, and a monkey...

    Gene Siskel - Host : And a duck.

    Roger Ebert - Host : And a duck, and a whale, but it can't be done with a parrot.

    Gene Siskel - Host : Well, I wouldn't want to put limits on people, it can be done with good writing, and there isn't any in this one.

    [Ebert chuckles] 

    Gene Siskel - Host : I mean, no, I did not like "Paulie", I wanted, uh, to have a big cat come up and just eat the parrot.

    Roger Ebert - Host : Oh no, no, no, that's cruel, Gene.

    Gene Siskel - Host : That's intended to be cruel.

  • Gene Siskel - Host : [reviewing "Nightwatch"]  "Nightwatch" really offers the morgue as the only reason to watch. Some of the mayhem, like a blood splattered corpse of a teenage girl, is just disgusting. No character is fully developed. Just repetitive cheap thrills in a film that ultimately bored me.

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