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- TriviaGene Siskel called Junior (1994) "lame", despite giving it a thumbs up a couple years earlier.
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Roger Ebert - Host: I'm told that "Little Indian, Big City" was a big hit in France. Over here, "Little Indian, Big City" was a big flop. If the French laughed at this, it helps me to understand why they think Jerry Lewis is the funniest man on Earth. In a movie filled with one scene after another, a consistent thread throughout the film was the awfulness of the dubbed dialogue, in which people speak English as if it had been translated out of French via a third language not known to either side. When we saw this movie, one of the reels was missing. A man from the movie company told us we could see the missing reel the next day. My colleague here informed him, quote: "If it was the legendary missing footage from "The Magnificent Ambersons", this movie would still suck." Very well said.
Gene Siskel - Host: [chuckles] Thank you very much...
Roger Ebert - Host: You're welcome.
Gene Siskel - Host: ...For remembering that. I forgot I...
Roger Ebert - Host: It was a very nice line.
Gene Siskel - Host: Thank you so much. Now, I wanna tell you something: I was in France, as you know, this summer.
Roger Ebert - Host: Yes.
Gene Siskel - Host: At the end of my trip, in Paris, at Brasserie Lipp, a great restaurant...
Roger Ebert - Host: Yes, uh-huh?
Gene Siskel - Host: ...I confronted my friend- my newfound French friends about this movie...
Roger Ebert - Host: Yes? Uh-huh?
Gene Siskel - Host: And they said, "We're astonished too. We thought it was horrible."
[Roger laughs]
Gene Siskel - Host: I mean, I don't know what's going on there. That's a country, they got 12% unemployment, who knows what's going on.
[Roger laughs loudly]
- ConnectionsFeatures Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Season 11, Episode 19
HIGH SCHOOL HIGH, BLACK SHEEP, HAPPY GILMORE, THE CABLE GUY, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER, LITTLE INDIAN BIG CITY, STRIPTEASE, KAZAAM, FLED, JOE'S APARTMENT, JACK, HOUSE ARREST, LAST MAN STANDING, THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, MAD DOG TIME, JINGLE ALL THE WAY and DAYLIGHT are the lucky films that make The Worst of 1996 lists from Siskel and Ebert. Fans of the series always looked forward to this episode because the critics got to really take their gloves off and bring out the jokes. There are some great moments throughout this including some hilarious stuff dealing with the bad Saturday Night Live cast movies. There's also some good stuff about the action pictures gone wrong and LITTLE INDIAN BIG CITY gets a good ripping.
- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 14, 2018