Siskel & Ebert: Double Dragon (Year 1994)

[pav777tube]

Not sure which review it's from, but I always liked this exchange:

Roger: Gene, will you listen to me for a minute?

Gene:I have to.

[UniteForgetLeftRight]

super merryo-brothers lol gene you crazy bastard

[chosentonessournotes]

Even worse, Gene, is that now they're taking an even lower form of entertainment and making movies out of them; BOARD GAMES. RIP brother.

[yellowcougar18]

@chosentonessournotes Sooner or later we are gonna see a TV show based on Monopoly. It would pretty much be Dallas without the credibilty.

And the villain living in a big red house.

[qwuezalothus]

What was the last movie Siskel reviewed?

[Jaahhk]

haha super mary-o

[Jaahhk]

Of course!

[Cazz8203]

oh come on now!! while true MOST movies made out of video games have been a complete failure...but what about Mortal Kombat???? the first one though.... annihilation obviously shouldn't have happened

[Dreamline78]

I love that Gene says it takes place in the year twenty 0--seven. It's 2011, and people still aren't saying "twenty" yet.

[Mikemaniax]

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!!!! THE FUTURISTIC YEAR OF... 2007???

[jimreid5]

this is their best review ever.

[MichaelBrookham]

I tell you, I saw a trailer (or possibly mock-trailer) to a Pac-Man movie, which, I can tell you now, will probably be the worst one made from a video game. Gene is right on all accounts: Don't make a movie out of a video game.

[JerRocks2day]

I never knew that Paul Dini was behind the story for this film. I wonder what he thinks of that now?

[shogunblade]

@JerRocks2day I think he's made up for it by writing Batman: The Animated Series and Arkham Asylum for Cartoon lovers and video game players alike. To me, he's Like Schumacher, but in reverse: He's fixed Batman, and we are all the better for it. Double Dragon was a skinned knee for Mr. Dini, and I'm sure he's learned his lesson.

[colliric]

@shogunblade

It wasn't schumacher who stuffed Batman, it was the fucken Studio not knowing what it wanted out of the Batman films during and also after the second one.

[littlejake4]

2007 huh

[Chaoitcme]

Double Dragon makes the Mario movie look good.

[TheRiffMaker99]

"I'm gonna praise you in spite of yourself." That HAS to be the most bad-ass thing a grown man has ever said to another grown man.

[tthomaselli2]

I love the video game & when the movie came out, I still looked forward to seeing it.; I still have the VHS of 'Double Dragon: The Movie'.

[aquapendulum]

1:16

"Don't try to make a movie out of a video game" - Gene Siskel

[BRm2008]

this was an Ok. movie it was nonsense ofcourse. but i enjoy the silliness. i saw this at the movies. alyssa milano. cant go wrong there.

[Leftysfive93]

Mark Dacascos is a decent actor and has done some pretty cool films. It's a shame he never quite rose above the B-movie action hero genre since he was very good in Drive and Brotherhood of the Wolf.

[blindthrall]

1994: The last time the word 'tautology' was uttered on television.

[TenderHistoryInRust]

I wont face it!

[PumaSweat]

They should have had the same director as Double Impact with JCVD make this.

If JCVD played one brother and someone else played the other and they made it serious and hardcore!

It's sad how Marc Ducascos is always playing white people or Chinese when he's Fillipino. If you want to see a fun movie of his check out "DRIVE"!

[buckmartinez]

@PumaSweat "Drive" is fucking awesome. See it if you haven't, people!

[PumaSweat]

@buckmartinez That's What's up...The scene where he's sleep in the hotel and the swat guys come for him alone is worth a watch...!

Drive took me like forever to watch cuz I kept rewinding it to catch Marcs. That movies fight scenes are SO under rated. People might not like the camp or the low budget, but Marc runs the show...or his kicks do.

[MarsHottentot]

"Well, forget about the story!"

I love you, Roger Ebert!

[pendulousphallus]

Well fuck your shit.

[DAPDave]

I never knew there was a Double Dragon movie. How did I miss this?

[Hallinilla9]

@DAPDave Didn't miss much.

[hall9111]

In recent years games have gotten more cinematic and profound, with some of the most impressive coming from Tim Schafer. His games always have smart and interesting protagonists with witty dialogue. Why can't anyone adapt these games into motion pictures? I would love to see Grim Fandango on the big screen!

[VodCrack]

I have never heard the year 2007 called "Twenty Oh-Seven" before until I saw this review.

[bierbuik]

@sonicmassi fuck you

[MrKingkong1987]

2007 dam L.A looks even worst in the movie

[yellowcougar18]

No wonder Mark Dacascos had to do DWTS. This film looks terrible.

[joemj413]

Chop saki = racist slang

[Headbanger142]

I think the problem with making movies based on video games is that they try to make the movie seem video game-esque but don't really add all the correct elements to the story. If they did it right, it would be a decent movie. I mean, look at how Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within turned out.

[Quadzilla99]

@Headbanger142 That movie was panned by critics as well. It also tanked at the box office, it had good imagery but little else.

[Headbanger142]

@Quadzilla99 Oh dear...well at least Ebert and Roeper liked it.

[help4343]

@Quadzilla99

The Final Fantasy Movie has a rotten rating on rottentomatoes, but it still the highest rated vide game movie

[ECL28E]

@Headbanger142 A movie that is great that looks like a video game is Scott pilgrim Vs. The World. That is FANTASTIC. This is appalling.