Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Malcolm X/Bram Stoker's Dracula/Traces of Red/Love Potion #9 (1992)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : [reviewing "Bram Stoker's Dracula"]  Coppolla is a master of the visual, but I thought it was a pretty empty picture.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, the important thing with a movie of this length and complexity is to have a storyline that is clear enough...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Driven through.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...So that people know at every moment who is who and why...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...And why we care about them and what's going to happen to them.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : And here you have, as I said before, set pieces in which everything spins around in beautiful pictures, but there's no real emotion to it.

  Gene Siskel - Host : So then why do you give it thumbs up?

  Roger Ebert - Host : I love the way it looked.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Well, I like the way it looked.

  Roger Ebert - Host : There has to be, uh, y'know, thumbs up, thumbs down is such an arbitrary thing anyway.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Not arbitrary.

  Roger Ebert - Host : This movie does things with the visuals of vampirism and the Dracula legend...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...That you have not seen done before. I mean, the sets, the costumes, the atmosphere, the music, the special effects...

  Gene Siskel - Host : But you were b- I know you were bored during it, and I was bored, too. I really was. Coming up next...

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, I'm glad you're a mind reader. Maybe you can get a job in the next picture doing your act, or something.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Thank you.

• Roger Ebert - Host : [discussing a character in "Traces of Red"]  Within the confines of the movie, he seems to behave in such a way that he could only do that if he knew what it was he had to do in order for the plot to turn out the way the screenplay wants it to.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Roger will be back with, you can get that on, y'know, we ought to have a number you could dial to get that printed out for people. You won't get a lot of calls.

  [Roger laughs] 

  Gene Siskel - Host : When we come back, "Love Potion No. 9" makes the heroes of a new comedy sexually irresistible, whether they want to be or not.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Wasn't that very clear? What's the matter? You didn't understand it?