Ok xtro wasn't that bad. Yea cheap ok it is a low budget film afterall. But they tried and least made it interesting. If you look hard you might find the xtro original soundtrack. There is one on eBay for $75.00
Meh - coupla killjoys, Xtro is good, grim stuff. Cheap and incoherent yes, but so what? It's got a creepy vibe to it and the aliens look well nasty. Sounds like they actually expected a happy ending. Well going by the tone of the rest of the film could you honestly expect that? :D
I can't believe they reviewed Xtro. Did it actually get a real theatrical release or did it just attract their attention because it was so bizarre, I wonder.
I personally am very undecided about Xtro. I don't think it was awful, but it wasn't very coherent and that's only one of the many flaws. But I didn't get bored and, honestly, the movie is successfully creepy even if there's no ultimate goal in that.
I clarify this so I don't sound like a fanboy when I say, and I'm sure most people will disagree with me, that these two are the most over-rated movie critics ever and Ebert is especially arrogant about his opinions. I can't stand them.
@wataki2 Having watched various other combinations of reviewers over the years none of them have come close to matching the pairing of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, especially in the earlier years of "Sneak Previews". It was just fun to watch them.
These guys are douche bags. They dump on small budget but creative films like XTRO, and then tell you to watch the next mediocre big budget crap fest that probably isn't very good anyway.
Xtro had some great ideas but it seemed they threw everything AND the kitchen sink into it and forgot the story-line! But I loved the giant Acton Man character although he didn't last long in it.
Just because a movie is depressing and nihilistic doesn't make it bad....they should have focused more on the holes in the plot/character development. XTRO was bad but bizarre enough to be entertaining.
These Siskel and Ebert clips are great. There was a guy on Youtube a few years ago who posted ALL of their movie reviews from around 1982-1987 but the bastard Youtube moderators removed them all =)
That guy was firstmagnitude. Actually, he took down his own site, because he was sick of Youtube pulling many of his videos for copyright. A minor point, granted. Its too bad though. I wish he would just leave what he could.
Xtro did ROCK!
zanydeath 3 weeks ago
Xtro WAS crap! An ugly movie if there ever was one.
StanleyKu 1 month ago
love the commercial at the end.
Analog is still the best lol
Oneaphelion 2 months ago
xtro- "not" accptable trash ? what IS "ENJOYABLE crap" for thes two cuntdooosens then !!
... i wish they BOTH got cancer : (
alifelesscritic 3 months ago
oh boy their credit sequence sucks on siskel and ebert, its sooooooooooooooo bad its awesome
BONDAGE97 4 months ago
Ok xtro wasn't that bad. Yea cheap ok it is a low budget film afterall. But they tried and least made it interesting. If you look hard you might find the xtro original soundtrack. There is one on eBay for $75.00
MAXIMUMGODZILLA45 5 months ago
Meh - coupla killjoys, Xtro is good, grim stuff. Cheap and incoherent yes, but so what? It's got a creepy vibe to it and the aliens look well nasty. Sounds like they actually expected a happy ending. Well going by the tone of the rest of the film could you honestly expect that? :D
atenskinner 5 months ago
Love the old video disk player ad. Thanks for leaving that in.
DejectedPanda 6 months ago
I can't believe they reviewed Xtro. Did it actually get a real theatrical release or did it just attract their attention because it was so bizarre, I wonder.
DejectedPanda 6 months ago
@DejectedPanda It had a real theatrical release. I remember the newspaper ad when I was a kid.It disturbed me.
zanydeath 3 weeks ago
"Xtro doesn't even try. Here's a scene where a spaceship lands" LMAO
Reip187 6 months ago
Wait, "Harry" had eggs?
VergilsRespite 8 months ago
They have outtakes of Lugosi in Dracula?!
Drac39 1 year ago
WOw Roger Moore seems ancient
Drac39 1 year ago
At 0:22 I thought that was his bare ass hanging out of his pants. :/
ralfsu 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I loved this movie, just look at my screen name!!
xtroxtro1 1 year ago
I personally am very undecided about Xtro. I don't think it was awful, but it wasn't very coherent and that's only one of the many flaws. But I didn't get bored and, honestly, the movie is successfully creepy even if there's no ultimate goal in that.
I clarify this so I don't sound like a fanboy when I say, and I'm sure most people will disagree with me, that these two are the most over-rated movie critics ever and Ebert is especially arrogant about his opinions. I can't stand them.
neomerlin 1 year ago
Piss on the critics. Xtro ROCKS!
TheAltair4 1 year ago 5
What does he mean "'Xtro' doesn't even try?" Obviously the special effects department had to work pretty hard to create the crab-walking alien.
grahamlaur 1 year ago 4
@grahamlaur Yeah, the effects dept. did its best with what they had, I think. The writers on the other hand...
DejectedPanda 6 months ago
Even the director of this movie admits he had no idea what it's about. He tried to make a stupid horror movie and who can blame him for trying? Lol
Or maybe he got reasonable after a few years and came ot his senses? Probably the latter.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
I loved those 2...Its sad about them now.
wataki2 1 year ago
@wataki2 Having watched various other combinations of reviewers over the years none of them have come close to matching the pairing of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, especially in the earlier years of "Sneak Previews". It was just fun to watch them.
robatsea2009 1 year ago
RCA Videodisc.....STEREO SOUND!!!!!!
cybersalad 1 year ago
These guys are douche bags. They dump on small budget but creative films like XTRO, and then tell you to watch the next mediocre big budget crap fest that probably isn't very good anyway.
Nerdsansintelligence 1 year ago
Xtro had some great ideas but it seemed they threw everything AND the kitchen sink into it and forgot the story-line! But I loved the giant Acton Man character although he didn't last long in it.
djbethell 1 year ago
@DarthJesus2 this from a "man" who plays in a pretend world. yeah o.k. i thought so.
doberfag 1 year ago
Octopussy was garbage.
drduke28 1 year ago
Just because a movie is depressing and nihilistic doesn't make it bad....they should have focused more on the holes in the plot/character development. XTRO was bad but bizarre enough to be entertaining.
elementz1986 1 year ago
XTRO IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF CINAMATIC GARBAGE I EVER SAW! Watch The THING!
Phantanos 1 year ago
While it's horrible what's happened to Ebert and one shouldn't mock the afflicted...Xtro is pretentious? What a fat pompous arse.
Scunner23 1 year ago 2
video disk in 1983? thats longer than you would think
firekind1980 2 years ago
Comment removed
doberfag 2 years ago
Comment removed
doberfag 2 years ago
Nevermind what those 2 say, I love Xtro!
mogwali1 2 years ago 2
Boy, that RCA commercial must've appeared on every At the Movies episode at the time!
jstrewth 2 years ago
I thought XTRO was a Mexican TV station!
heine71 2 years ago
These Siskel and Ebert clips are great. There was a guy on Youtube a few years ago who posted ALL of their movie reviews from around 1982-1987 but the bastard Youtube moderators removed them all =)
Wildcock23 2 years ago 9
That guy was firstmagnitude. Actually, he took down his own site, because he was sick of Youtube pulling many of his videos for copyright. A minor point, granted. Its too bad though. I wish he would just leave what he could.
gradepoint 2 years ago 4