At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert, 1983 - Trading Places, Psycho II (pt. 2 of 2)

[joramma20]

Pyscho 2 really sucked.

[mrfunderful]

these guys just didn't 'get it'. i'm glad i didn't trust their word, because i loved 'psycho II'. i thought it was very creepy & atmospheric, with a nice 'wink' to hitchcock.

bozos.

[ryan49er1]

@mrfunderful I dont think they really thought it was a bad movie... they or gene just thought it was a retread with nothing new

[chism26]

godfather 2 was nothing as good as the first psycho 2 however was great

[Guitarist500]

Eddy Murphy = GOD

[MetallicBill]

It's why we would keep watching when R and E dissed something we liked, they had some taste for what movies SHOULD be, but not everyone can aspire for an OSCAR, after all, King's Speech didn't.

[Derby14]

I absolutely love it at 1:26 when they cut and we see both Gene and Roger genuinely laughing with each other after Eddie says "This kind of thing happens to me every week!"

[lucky44124]

I still cant believe that Gene Siskel compared Rocky 2 to Godfather 2 ???? That might the stupiest thing I ever heard.

[MetallicBill]

@lucky44124 Should compare it to Terminator 2, but in hindsight of course.

[lucky44124]

ROCKY 2??????? Are you kidding... these 2 guys are the biggest morons! The stupid thing is after Ebert saw Pyscho 2 was a smash he tried to be in the mainstream by giving Pyscho 3 ... 3.5 stars?? Really these 2 had a agenda in the 80's with their Horror Ban.. Pyscho 2 is BETTER or as good as the orginal. This isnt a copy to the original. Wow these guys really were horrible. Just plain dumb.

[RetroBoyWontDie]

they start to evaluate psycho II as anyone should (put the original out of mind), then proceed to say it shouldn't have been made anyway. eh? and VERY few sequels take place away from their original area. that's why people go, familiarity. BTTF, Hill Valley; Star Wars, Outerspace; Lethal Weapons, around L.A. Sending Norman to SF to rent a shitty apartment and work at Duncan Donuts among "regular folk" would've been hugely dumb.

[MetallicBill]

@RetroBoyWontDie It's a chance to see the characters we love, for various reasons, and yes, it can easily fail. GF II and T2 were some of the best ever made

[zmbdog]

They were too hard on Psycho 2. It's as good as a Psycho sequel could've possibly been.

[martinwilliamrandall]

All the Psyco Sequals Are Really Good Apart From The Horrible Psycho Remake

[Jonathan6561]

At 6:45 Norman Bates acts like Michael Palin in the early part of the "Lumberjack" Monty Python sketch.

[dkempf1]

Compare how good all of these movies are to things made for summer today. This is just one review show.

[thehourcup]

i like the music in it and the poster the most  but the moive is the fat of it.

[Anarkokommunist]

Eddie Murphy was 22 there? Looked like 33 to me.:P

[toiletholder]

Psycho 2 didn't have to answer to one the film greats. It was NOT AT ALL a carbon copy of Psycho. It's a very different movie. Psycho was very plot-based. Psycho II fleshes out its characters more. It's a GREAT movie and it DOES add dimension to Bates' character, not that it's responsibile for doing that.

[toiletholder]

I wonder if they just reviewed movies with a slant toward Disney-owned films and strategically gave bad reviews to others in direct comp w/ Disney's movies opening that week. Their show was owned by Buena Vista (Disney).

[levanyzzuf]

I wouldn't say Psycho 2 was a great movie, but it was surprisingly effective and original.

[yak6ex]

What are you talking about? Murphy was a sterotype. His white friends in the film are also heroic. He gets choked by Louis and called a nigger by the Dukes. It has no point. It's a movie and not even original, "The Prince and the Pauper".

P.S. I liked the film.

[blueeyesofice]

yes he was set up in the film as a stereotype all for the purpose of having that stereotype broken down once all the characters' 'true colors shown through.' bologna with extra cheese :oP

[yak6ex]

This isn't meant as a moral lesson. It's was a movie. Three of the heroes were white. This was the best story that they could have created with the premise. Was "Gone with the Wind" racist, perhaps and yet it was brilliant. Get a life.

[blueeyesofice]

kiss my booty :oP

[yak6ex]

Would it make you feel any better if Valentine's character were white?

Why is it that you didn't mention the

depiction of Ophelia as a whore.

[yak6ex]

You're not rich don't sweat it.

[blueeyesofice]

and you kiss my booty too :oP

[ChantaRelanta]

In real life Norman Bates would never have gotten out of the mental institution. The guy who tried to assasinate Reagan is still in one 30 years later and he never actually killed anyone. Bates is a criminally insane serial murderer with an extensive body count under his belt. It would be too dangerous to release such a person back into the public, but even if that were the case why would he move back to the house where he was abused by his mother & went on his killing spree? Just an observation

[diuga1]

Gene praises TRADING PLACES for being an ADULT COMEDY and says that (at the time), they were ´past ANIMAL HOUSE´and ´beers crushed against foreheads"...he segues into mentioning the talented directing job in TRADING P. by J. Landis (Siskel even talks briefly about THE BLUES BROTHERS).

The point I wanna make is that Landis also directed ANIMAL HOUSE, the movie whose kind of humour Siskel´d just expressed relief PLACES went beyond (I guess he did not make the connection).

[quixoto]

@diuga1 I think that was his point. John Landis has moved beyond the "immature" humor in Animal House and onto something more sophisticated like Trading Places.

[woollybully100]

makes me hungry for PB and J sandwich.

[joemj413]

He's 22 in this movie?!?!

[themightycelestial]

Is that Jennifer Tilly?

It looks like her, but definitely doesn't sound like her.

[ntmfilms]

its meg tilly

[AORMETALGORE]

@ntmfilms I miss her.what happened to her???

[MetallicBill]

@ntmfilms Yep, she was in Masquerade with Rob Lowe and with Tim Matheson in Impulse, another from my Beta collection

[pladampa]

@themightycelestial jennifer tilly has big breastasiths

[MetallicBill]

@pladampa That's right, Cleavage that never stops and a voice that's naturally high, she's rather funny though. I saw her playing on TV with the Poker All Night at one point

[goldlessbassist]

i agree .. i always though psycho 2 was one of the few sequels that lived up to the original

[LanceK17]

PSYCHO 2 IS FUCKING AWESOME!

[debgibsonfan]

Psycho II is completely awesome...one of the best sequels ever IMO.

[diuga1]

I´m sure if PSYCHO 2 had been shot in B&W, many critics who´ve dismissed would have reviewed as a masterwork along the lines of the original.

Yeah, it´s THAT good.

[QAndJMovies2]

@debgibsonfan I loved Psycho III and IV to you should check those out o