Siskel and Ebert Defend RETURN OF THE JEDI

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[SamJohnsonAZ]

John Simon is that guy who passes out toothpaste instead of candy on Halloween

[D.Pensak]

Interesting that no one in this interview mentions the use of classic lore & mythos tied to great storytelling, albeit redressed in sci-fi, to introduce it to a younger, and next generation.

[thisguysays]

Multiple decades later & people STILL cant get enough of the mystique of Yoda, as indicated by Grogu's popularity. Obviously Grogu isnt Yoda but he is the same species & speculated to be a relative to Yoda.

Great job NMSW on deep diving for this rare footage 👍

[UltimusMagus]

John Simon was not a Sci-fi fan. He used Mark Twain's "Huck Finn" as a reference, instead any of the works by H. G. Wells, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, etc. Someone who doesn't like a genre cannot be objective about it.

John's proper response should have started with "I don't normally enjoy this type of film."

The same can be currently said of not only critics, but creators that join a genre they don't love, simply for a paycheck or inclusiveness. You're doing yourself and your audience a disservice if you work on topics you don't love, because audiences won't see the best of you, and you'll be forever marked as subpar, or even hated because of it.

The fans are not at fault, if your performance reflects the disdain you have for your work.

[SonicSkychaser]

Return of the Jedi > Rise of Skywalker

[benjaminhope]

The final dual and helmet removal redemption scene is genuinely brilliant cinema. The best of Star Wars.

[jbrisby]

Notice how he contradicts himself? First he says that these movies are suitable only for children, and dumb children at that. Then he turns around and complains that there was so much going on that he, a grown man, couldn't understand the story.

I think that people get from Star Wars exactly what the ancient Greeks got from listening to the Iliad. Timeless themes of courage, of honor, of friendship, heroism, right-and-wrong; and I think he's just a bloodless old turnip who has forgotten what it means to be human.

[gordonmacdonald]

As Albert Einstein once put it: "The greatest sign/mark of intelligence is imagination and creativity." I'm paraphrasing of course, but you get the idea; and you know anything that Einstein said had merit/weight, as it was coming from one of history's brightest minds. Not to mention of course, kids are often times smarter than a majority of adults, as adults are so often severely closed minded, as to quote the wise master Yoda: "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is."
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[Starhorsepax]

Simon seems to be a sad sad man. Many of us identified with Luke and his dreams

[AdamSternberg]

When he's not a "film critic" he's actually the grinch during Christmas time

[vincentbarajas]

This guy referred to Mark, Carrie, and Harrison as "ghastly actors". I love them all.

[Dektoonics_inc.]

I wonder if he would have lived to see if Episode III and say that left children

[DuncanSmith]

😂 “Star Wars tries to keep kids stupid” 😂😂😂

[darthyodafarts]

Return of the jedi is the end of the "SkYwAlKeR SaGA". I wasn't alive back then but at least the films didn't need that BS marketing "Skywalker saga solagon" for them to sell.

[zyxwut]

John Simon was perhaps the most miserable man in Hollywood history, I'm not even kidding or exaggerating. He made a whole career out of being a heel, the very embodiment of the stereotype of the pretentious, unctuous theatre critic, rarely ever giving any film a positive review, frequently attacking actors' physical appearances (despite as Ebert once said, "looking like a rat"), making misogynistic, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic comments and "jokes", etc. He reveled in being reviled. Just a loathsome creature, through and through, and since only the good die young, he outlived both Siskel AND Ebert, finally dying in 2019 at the age of 94.

[HarbingerOfBattle]

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
-C.S. Lewis

[cellobob]

This guy doesn't even know that Huck Finn was NOT a children's book.

[anthonyscully]

i agree with john simon, all children should spend the holidays watching the nuremburg trials

[mandalorian]

Could you imagine being this guys kid? Hopefully they turned out happier than their father.