Roger Ebert: Self - Host
Boulevard Nights, Phantasm, Last Embrace, Voices, Get Mean, The Great Bank Hoax
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Self - Host
- Himself - Host: [Roger on 'Get Mean'] My dog this week is one of those spaghetti westerns shot in Spain on a budget of peanuts. It's called 'Get Mean' and it stars Tony Anthony, and its ads are really pleasant "Go ahead," they say, 'You've always wanted to... Get Mean!' The movie itself seem to exist in some kind of a time warp. Tony Anthony plays an American cowboy - regulation - he gets mixed up with hordes of barbarians and Mongols though who chase him around the landscape for no particular reason except, I guess, he searching for some kind of buried treasure. And there's a girl, of course, who gasps a lot and she runs around in the sand. Maybe she's just turned on by the costumes because Tony Anthony wears a regulation Clint Eastwood uniform complete with his flat black hat and his blanket thrown over his shoulders but the barbarians and the Mongols, they seem a little confused, they're not wearing costumes out of the same period. One of them even has a Viking helmet, one of those helmets with the horns on it, you know. I think his next raid ought to be on the wardrobe department.
- Himself - Host: [Roger on 'The Last Embrace'] Gene thinks it's a stylish thriller. I found it confusing. He says 'Yes', I say 'No'.
- Himself - Host: [Roger on 'Phantasm'] Neither one of us can recommend 'Phantasm', also R-rated, the horror thriller set in a cemetery. Bury this one with two 'No's' for 'Phantasm'.
- Himself - Host: [Roger on 'Voices'] We also split on 'Voices' about a love affair between a deaf girl and a rock singer. I found a lot of it warm and involving, Gene only liked the love story.
- Himself - Host: [Roger on 'Boulevard Nights] 'Boulevard Nights' was the R-rated drama about Chicano street gangs. Gene liked it, he gives it a 'Yes'. He recommends you see it. I admired a lot of it too but I give it a reluctant 'No'.