Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

American Wedding/Buffalo Soldiers/Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over/Hotel/Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life/Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Richard Roeper: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Roger Ebert - Host : [reviewing "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life"]  I think Angelina Jolie brings great spirit and energy to the role. She's not upstaged by the special effects, but she inhabits them easily. The movie looks good and has a lot of wit, and doesn't just fill the screen with mindless violence. It has the kind of storytelling imagination we remember from the Indiana Jones movies. And I had to grin when she dismisses the "Sunday school version" of Pandora's Box. I'm wondering, "What Sunday school does SHE go to?"

  Richard Roeper - Host : Well, I don't know, but I'd rather go to Sunday school than sit through this again.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Oh come on!

  Richard Roeper - Host : I think you are so smitten with Angelina Jolie...

  Roger Ebert - Host : What's wrong with that?

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...That you're giving...

  Roger Ebert - Host : What's WRONG with that?

  Richard Roeper - Host : That's fine- well, first of all, her British accent slips in and out, that's one thing.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Oh, well.

  Richard Roeper - Host : And you talk about this story having imagination; oh, we have another mad man who wants to take over the world, or destroy half the world...

  Roger Ebert - Host : But a different kind of guy! For example, this guy's secret lab is in the middle of mall, a shopping mall in China. I mean, that's kind of interesting.

  Richard Roeper - Host : No, that's silly. It's ridiculous. And this is another one of those movies where the police never show up, even when there's shoot-outs everywhere.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Oh, you do NOT bring logic to a movie like this!

  Richard Roeper - Host : And, and, and...

  Roger Ebert - Host : Logic has no place in movies like this!

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...I'm not saying logic, it just sillier than the stuff we've seen before. If it's going to be played for camp, MAYBE, but if we're supposed to take this as some sort of fun adventure-filled...

  Roger Ebert - Host : No, you're not...

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...Romp, it just doesn't, I don't think it has the spirit and humor that you're giving it credit for.

  Roger Ebert - Host : I'm telling you, I'm there for this movie all the way. I liked the first one, I like this one better. I'm telling you, it's got it. It's got something.

  Richard Roeper - Host : Silly...

  Roger Ebert - Host : It's fun.

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...Silly cheesy and tacky. Okay.

  Roger Ebert - Host : NOT silly, NOT cheesy, NOT tacky!

  Richard Roeper - Host : All three of those.

• Richard Roeper - Host : [wearing 3-D glasses]  Our next movie is yet another summer sequel: "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over". It's further evidence that 3-D is about 2 1/2-D at best.

  [takes off 3-D glasses] 

  Richard Roeper - Host : Now, in 1838, physicist Charles Wheatstone invented a special viewing device that could show two images from two angles simultaneously. One hundred and sixty five years later, we have these.

  [holds up 3-D glasses] 

  Richard Roeper - Host : Not much advancement.

• Richard Roeper - Host : [reviewing "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over"]  Writer/director Robert Rodriguez had a frighteningly vivid imagination, and if you're gonna do a 3-D movie, I guess it's smart to place the action inside a video game. Still, the technology just isn't there; it's not close to giving us anything approaching a true three dimensional experience, and given the price of today's movies, that's a lot of quarters to spend to watch a game where you can't even work the controls. "Game Over", indeed. Thumbs down.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Y'know, my dad took me to the first 3-D movie, ''Bwana Devil'', and I've seen just about every 3-D movie since then, and I'm gonna tell ya: 3-D sucks

  [Richard laughs] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : as a way of looking at movies. 2-D looks a lot better. It's more convincing, it's brighter, it's crisper, it's cleaner. 3-D, even the very best systems I've seen, kinda washes out things and makes them murky, and doesn't add anything. Because I don't care if the arm comes towards me

  [moves right arm towards screen] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : in the screen.

  [Richard laughs] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : I'm really, I'm not really moved by that!

  Richard Roeper - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : And so, as I looked at this movie, I was irritated by the process, and also disappointed, as you mentioned, by the story, which doesn't amount to much.

  Richard Roeper - Host : So it's not really a movie, it's a video game that doesn't work.

  Roger Ebert - Host : That's right.