5. Attack of the Clones | Gene and Roger

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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As Gene and Roger jumped from one program to another, they left behind shows that were desperate to replicate the duo’s groundbreaking success. These reiterations, along with other imitations of the format, paved the way for a television market saturated with Siskel and Ebert wannabes. But what they all failed to realize was that what made Gene and Roger special was Gene and Roger themselves. Host: Brian Raftery Producers: Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey, Isaac Lee, Noah Malale, Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When Jean Siskel and Roger Ebert first teamed up in the 70s, no one had seen or heard
0:05.5	anything quite like them before.
0:07.9	The idea of movie critics going head to head every week was so new, so unusual, that
0:12.0	required the creation of a whole new format, one that soon began to spread across TV.
0:16.7	No comic, timing in this picture.
0:19.6	It drags.
0:20.6	No comedy in this picture.
0:21.6	It's just not funny.
0:22.9	You know, you look at this movie and you can see how much smoother it is than its earlier
0:27.7	one.
0:28.7	How much about a director he's become?
0:29.7	I don't know, it's more clear he is in his age, it's not just doing stand-up comedy.
0:33.2	Plus it's too long and it's gross and it has lots and lots of foul language.
0:37.1	What do you say but?
0:38.1	There you go.
0:39.1	But I couldn't help myself.
0:40.1	You got to laugh at these guys.
0:42.4	Throughout the 80s, the small screen would become full of movie critics trying to imitate
0:46.0	Jean and Roger's style and replicate their success.
0:50.1	We are need deep in critics, complained one newspaper writer in 1986.
0:54.5	According to some, it was Jean and Roger's fault.
1:02.5	For the ringer, I'm Brian Raftry and this is Jean and Roger.
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