Siskel and Ebert debate Cronenberg's Crash

Siskel and Ebert debate Cronenberg's Crash
never have I seen these two argue so vehemently over a movie!!!!!
David Cronenberg's film Crash was released in Europe in '96, was supposed to be released in the U.S. in the fall of '96, but Ted Turner personally tried to prevent the release of the film (the same weekend that the violent "Set it Off" with Queen Latifah was released by Turner's FineLine Pictures)

Crash finally got released Spring '97 in the U.S.
R.I.P. Gene!
R.I.P. J.G.!

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[urckrecords]

check the outtake clip that's on YouTube, they clown each other pretty good!

[joemj413]

Full Metal Jacket > Crash

[urckrecords]

@joemj413 that goes without saying!

[Sleepingsparklegirl]

Spader grosses me out, so skip. Cronenberg is like an eqired taste. Some like his work and some don't. I get creeped out so much by his films that I only see a few seens here and there. The other problem I have with his films is that the main actor is always an actor I can't stand.

[urckrecords]

@Sleepingsparklegirl fair enough

Do you happen to like Viggo Mortenson, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, Jude Law, Christopher Walken, Ralph Fiennes, Oliver Reed, or James Woods by chance?

[RotoPlasmX]

I think it's hilariously ironic that the reasons that Roger Ebert defends Crash are the same reasons he totally dismisses David Lynch's Blue Velvet!

[prismgap]

"It's Hooey!"



[TheAndyman1000]

I miss these two debating over films. R.I.P Gene Siskel.

[sammycut1]

I've seen it a few times. It's more interesting each time.

[erikbateson]

@joemj413 no

[Superfreaxx]

A short summary

"Gene: But are they interesting?

Roger: Let me get this straight. You honestly don't think seeing Elastigirl getting fucked is interesting?"

Thumbs up for the reference!

[MightyQuinn2021]

"This movie was hot. I came 5 times," Roger Ebert

[SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

This movie is an examination of sexual fetish. But instead of using the common fetishes like feet or bondage or rubber dress up, they use and obsession with car crashes. And by doing so explore how the human mind can find an erotic connection with otherwise non erotic situations.

[ktoimil]

These are the moments that I love Ebert the most

[dekartd]

This is, I think, the weirdest discussion I've seen them have.

[Chris25698]

I like Cronenberg but I didn't really like this movie. I wouldn't quite put it in the artsie trash realm, but it didn't come off as profound to me either. I just didn't care what happened, though in some ways I do respect it as art.