Siskel and Ebert review Heartbeeps starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters

[Charlenefabulous]

OMG, can anyone get more tasteless and gross than Ebert? He tells you what to watch?

[CoolerKing37]

I only know this movie from being a reference on The Simpsons. A coffee mug from this film was put in the Smithsonian!

[mcasual]

i liked that movie, it's always re-comforting to realize the amount of boredom and distaste i can sidestep :) 

[jksonny]

Is Kaufman made up to intentionally look like Tony Bennett?

[Jawsphobia]

Nice to hear the old theme and see the old goofy intro of Sneak Previews. But Ebert is wrong about the sunset scene he mentioned. Someone posted the opening on youtube. The sunset scene takes place AFTER the opening credits. I don't like Heartbeeps, but I can say the same thing for a lot of well-reviewed art films.

[mrgb46]

Real bad movies are a pain to sit through and can drag on forever.This movie is both.

[kellygreen5556]

ebert is so ugly and yesterday

[ertznay]

Knowing of Andy Kaufman's eccentricities, has it occured to anyone, that he picked the worst script he could find, just to be Andy Kaufman. I'm ot saying he did that, but he liked to take a joke real, REAL far. I couldn't even sit through the whole thing. I laughed more at Ebert's review than at any scene I saw in Heartbeeps.

[mbarbarelli]

@ertznay Excellent explanation of why Kaufman might have chosen to do this film. (Heartbeeps) Not so sure it's true, but I choose to believe it.

[edgalaxie]

My God! I haven't seen the opening to "Sneak Previews" in almost 30 years. It feels like yesterday, I remember is so well!

[KillSwitch2]

This film was the inspiration for 'WALL-E'!

[MoreBarn71]

sometimes you want to believe there is true genius afoot. sometimes you're sure an undiscovered treasure gains brilliant "ahead of its time" perspective after a couple decades.

and sometimes, it just sucks.

[Capt777harris]

I don't remember much of the film, but I recall it being a bit more upbeat than Siskel and Ebert are making it out to be.

Anyone else?

[tictixtiv]

My Heart Beeped Once But The I Forgot I Had A Pace Maker

[guendoloena1]

I saw this in the theatre, it was lonely.

[mbarbarelli]

@guendoloena1 Ha, I saw Heartbeeps in the theatre also. I was about six years old and bored to tears.

[guendoloena1]

@mbarbarelli I was born in 76 so we must be about the same age :)

[zestyguy87]

Good god, Andy actually worked on this turkey of a movie??

[acholl980]

This may also explain why SNL did a poll whether to allow Andy to be on anymore. That along with the wrestling controversy might have drawn him over the edge.

[yaywhewclips242]

Heartbeeps is on my list as THE WORST FILM EVER MADE

[HightowerAndJones]

"About a thrilling as a cold potato pancake." Ebert best summed up the entire movie with this quote.

[gregpicadash]

Just hear me out: It is in my opinion that this was a big elaborate joke to Andy. He knew this movie would. The man made his career out of making people so uncomfortable to his amusement. He already knew in his head that this thing would be bad. He was an artist unlike any other. The man knew exactly what he was creating and how it would be observed by the critics and general public. To Andy, this was funny.

[evilmidget]

hard to believe that movie theaters are still using that old ticket machine to this day.

[ibrumaire]

@evilmidget Hard to believe the ticket cost $1.45

[donnation25]

My God the horror!!!

[nickelindimer]

I remember the original broadcast of this... I probably would have never heard of this movie otherwise, or tried to see it when it was first broadcast on cable years-ago... let-alone bootleg it to DVD when it was broadcast on cable again... if I didn't see it on Saturday night.

And after seeing it in-full recently, I find Siskel & Ebert aren't kidding: God, was it slow-moving! Not to mention not terribly intriguing. They should have given the leads more emotional felling, not technical chatter.

[BigCarreyKauffmanFan]

Haha 80s movies were pretty ridiculous. I think it`s so bad it`s interesting. But that`s my taste. I don`t know - It`s something about the 80s that just makes me laugh and smile! We`ll truly miss Andy, and its upsetting that because of this film he couldn`t go and create the Tony Clifton Movie. SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE IT!

[cinemavirtualis]

The boys from Chicago were right, of course, its a truly awful film in every way, including Andy's faux attempt to recycle his Latka/Foreign Man voice into something robotically cutesy (and instead coming off sounding like Latka with a bad cold). Its a great tragedy that this piece of crap ended up being the beginning of the end for Andy's career, and especially that it killed off the potential Tony Clifton movie, which would have been a true classic.

Don Alex (Subterranean Cinema)

[AndysCoffin]

Yeah i agree this movie was a huge misstep in his career.

[Nostalgia4me]

Ditto.Thank you Tony.

[LibraryMan2010]

Thanks for the video. I appreciate it.