Richard Roeper: Self - Host
Swordfish/Bride of the Wind/Atlantis: The Lost Empire/Evolution/Divided We Fall
Siskel & Ebert
Richard Roeper credited as playing...
Self - Host
- Roger Ebert: [reviewing "Evolution"] I have a real affection for the line where Orlando Jones says, "There's always time for lubricant." I thought that was a classic line.
- Richard Roeper: Oh, but it was in a terribly tasteless, stupid scene, come on.
- Roger Ebert: Well, now, it had to do with the favorite subject of comedies this spring and summer, which is the lower end of the intestinal tract. I mean, we saw a movie where someone had his arm stuck up a cow. Then we saw a movie where someone had his HEAD stuck inside an animal. Now, Orlando Jones goes entirely inside the alien, and I'm sitting here wondering, "Am I a film critic or a proctologist?"
- [Richard laughs]
- Roger Ebert: I mean, what's going on with these movies? Isn't there some other way to get laughs than with excremental humor?
- Richard Roeper: I hope so. "Excremental humor", I like that!
- Roger Ebert: Yes, that's what it IS!
- Richard Roeper: That's the scientific term for it.
- Roger Ebert: ...On family television, anyway. I could think of OTHER terms for it.
- Richard Roeper: Y'know, I really liked Travolta's performance in "Swordfish", especially his opening monologue.
- Roger Ebert: It takes a certain amount of nerve to start right out by telling people, "Most movies are crap."
- Richard Roeper: [laughs] Especially from the guy who did "Battlefield: Earth"!