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Gene Siskel

Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don’t understand the film, don’t leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

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Gene Siskel

We’d rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn’t.

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Gene Siskel

We don’t pretend to disagree.

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Gene Siskel

They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald’s or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.

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Gene Siskel

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie – a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

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Gene Siskel

That’s probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

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Gene Siskel

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he’s a wonderful actor.

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Gene Siskel

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

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Gene Siskel

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

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Gene Siskel

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

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Gene Siskel

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of ‘Patch Adams’ again. The title of this movie should have been ‘Punch Adams!’

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Gene Siskel

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

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