Siskel & Ebert was on channel 2 at 11:35pm every Sunday. Here is our weekly tribute to the two legends. Film school starts now.
G's Take: CHILD'S PLAY 2 - The original CHILD'S PLAY was an inventive entry into the horror genre. Though it always made me want to watch Anthony Hopkins and his evil dummy Fats in MAGIC, I thought it was very creative and genuinely sadistic. CHILD'S PLAY 2 takes all the elements that worked in the first film and hits the repeat button. Usually this wouldn't work but CHILD'S PLAY 2, in a way, is even more fun than the first. It has a cool style and one of the best endings in the franchise. THUMBS UP!
G's Take: THE CROW - Brandon Lee's death gave this film an eerie feel the permeated the entire picture, but this film would have been just as good had that on-set tragedy never happened. Brandon Lee gives such a powerful, and toughing performance that this almost certainly would have made him an action star. Alex Proya's created a darkly stunning film that truly reflects the tones of it's graphic novel origins. If the film has a flaw it's that the villains are text-book (though there deaths are certainly not). Michael Wincott is good as the leader of the ruthless gang of fire-starters, but his henchmen could have been more smartly written. THUMBS WAY UP!
See you on forty deuce,
G
