Gene Siskel - Host: [reviewing "Larger Than Life"] I appreciate him
[Bill Murray]
Gene Siskel - Host: for doing his own stunts, and I enjoyed his constant befuddlement at his predicament, and the wiseacre way he tries to overcome it. "Larger Than Life" isn't the best Bill Murray comedy of the year, "Kingpin" was ten times as funny, but I still smiled enough at it to recommend it.
Roger Ebert - Host: Well, Gene, to quote you from a couple shows ago, come ON, big guy, be a better critic, get tough. Don't give this one a pass; you don't really think it's that good.
Gene Siskel - Host: Oh, I DO think it's funny. I think he's funny when he's alone, just talking, I mean, ordering the whole salad bar, those are big laughs. And I had a lot of them with him itself.
Roger Ebert - Host: Well, I tell ya, I think you put your finger right on the flaw in the movie, right in the beginning, and the flaw is the elephant. I thought the original opening scenes, involving motivational speaking...
Gene Siskel - Host: Yes.
Roger Ebert - Host: ...Were very funny.
Gene Siskel - Host: Yes.
Roger Ebert - Host: And if had played a motivational speaker, and if they had taken motivational slogans and books...
Gene Siskel - Host: Right.
Roger Ebert - Host: ...And banquet speakers as their target, it would've been a totally different movie...
Gene Siskel - Host: Yes.
Roger Ebert - Host: ...And maybe a funny one. As for the elephant...
Gene Siskel - Host: Well, now to quote YOU, of course, review the movie that they made.
Roger Ebert - Host: I AM reviewing the movie they made,
[Gene chuckles]
Roger Ebert - Host: and it has too much, too many pachyderms in it.
Gene Siskel - Host: I know, that's what I always want to say to you, Roger...
Roger Ebert - Host: Yeah, uh-huh.
Gene Siskel - Host: ...Of COURSE we're reviewing the movie that was made when we're offering an alternative.
Roger Ebert - Host: Okay, fine.
Gene Siskel - Host: And the point is, uh, that the elephant isn't funny, but Murray IS, and he's on the- he's in the film constantly, so therefore, I'm, I'm not being soft, he made me laugh.
Roger Ebert - Host: Well, he didn't make me laugh enough to give it thumbs up.
