Roger Ebert: Self - Host
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence/The Fast and the Furious/Dr. Dolittle 2/The Princess and the Warrior
Siskel & Ebert
Roger Ebert credited as playing...
Self - Host
- Richard Roeper - Host: "The Fast and the Furious"? I dunno, I think "The Dumb and the Reckless" is more like it.
- Roger Ebert - Host: I really like this movie. I think it's in the great tradition of summer drive-in movies. It goes back to movies like "Death Race 2000", and "Grand Theft Auto", and it is SO much better than a movie like last summer's "Gone in Sixty Seconds". It has interesting characters; Vin Diesel has something going for him, I think. It has utterly ridiculous scenes, I love the fact that in L.A., there is no traffic and no cops, which of course, we know is the way it really is in L.A.
- [Richard laughs]
- Roger Ebert - Host: , and I just felt that it got exactly what it wanted to get done. It's kind of delivered this kind of summer exploitation mentality in a clever way, instead of a dumb way.
- Richard Roeper - Host: I'm thinking between this and "Tomb Raider", that you're going after the job that David Manning, the fictional critic, who likes all these movies, is going after. You are being...
- Roger Ebert - Host: I'll stand behind...
- Richard Roeper - Host: ...You are being so kind.
- Roger Ebert - Host: ...Both of those films. You have to, Pauline Kael said, "If we cannot enjoy great trash, there is...", she s- what'd she say?
- Richard Roeper - Host: You know what? I like great trash, too.
- Roger Ebert - Host: The movies are so rarely great art, she said, that if we can't enjoy great trash, why should we go? This is great trash.
- Richard Roeper - Host: I like great trash.
- Roger Ebert - Host: Yes.
- Richard Roeper - Host: I've given thumbs up to movies that other people think, "Oh my God, that's a bunch of garbage", but this thing is trying...
- Roger Ebert - Host: [wavering his thumb in the air] You have to have the "Trash-o-Meter". Thumbs up for this movie, thumbs down for "Mummy Returns".
- Richard Roeper - Host: Even the drag racing scenes, I mean, it's just, the keep- the music keeps playing in the same way, it sounds just like a video game, and they're going straight...
- Roger Ebert - Host: That's an ironic point, they're...
- Richard Roeper - Host: ...And they're hitting the little, those little rocket booster things, and then they go faster. What's interesting about that?
- Roger Ebert - Host: It's a satirical point that they want you to think it's like a video game...
- Richard Roeper - Host: So you're saying they were aware they were making a bad movie?
- Roger Ebert - Host: Yes, they were- they weren't aware they were making a bad movie, they knew they doing that with the music...
- Richard Roeper - Host: They DID make a bad movie. They did make a bad movie.