Roger Ebert and guest critic Joel Siegel review the worst films of 1999.Roger Ebert and guest critic Joel Siegel review the worst films of 1999.Roger Ebert and guest critic Joel Siegel review the worst films of 1999.
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Joel Siegel: [referring to "Lake Placid"] I was very lucky with this film. I took your advice, I missed it.
Roger Ebert: Don't go to see it! Choose another picture!
Joel Siegel: I will not. To me, "Wild Wild West" isn't just a movie gone bad.
[footage from the film is being shown]
Joel Siegel: "Wild Wild West" represents the very worst about the Hollywood system. They can create huge and amazing special effects, but they can't solve the simplest problem in filmmaking: How to tell a story. Why spend millions to reshoot the ending when the beginning stinks too? And why make Kevin Kline's character a master of disguise? This was not only before movies and TV. This takes place before newspapers could take photographs. A master of disguise from who? Nobody knows what he looked like!
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Season 14, Episode 19
Roger Ebert and Joel Siegel give their opinions on the Worst Movies of 1999, the year-end special where the critics get to payback the movies that they hated. INSPECTOR GADGET, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, THE STORY OF US, JAKOB THE LIAR, FORCES OF NATURE, LAKE PLACID, WILD WILD WEST, CRUEL INTENTIONS, JAWBREAKER, MAGNOLIA, THE MESSENGER, BABY GENIUSES and POKEMON THE FIRST MOVIE are the movies that are reviewed here. This was the first "Worst of the Year" show without Gene Siskel so he was certainly missed. Siegel does fit in well with Ebert in regards to being willing to mix it up. They have a couple very good arguments in regards to CRUEL INTENTIONS and MAGNOLIA that really makes this a fun episode. These episodes were always entertaining but this certainly ranks among the best in regards to its fun level.
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- Jan 10, 2018