Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence/The Fast and the Furious/Dr. Dolittle 2/The Princess and the Warrior (2001)

Richard Roeper: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Richard Roeper - Host : "The Fast and the Furious"? I dunno, I think "The Dumb and the Reckless" is more like it.

  Roger Ebert - Host : I really like this movie. I think it's in the great tradition of summer drive-in movies. It goes back to movies like "Death Race 2000", and "Grand Theft Auto", and it is SO much better than a movie like last summer's "Gone in Sixty Seconds". It has interesting characters; Vin Diesel has something going for him, I think. It has utterly ridiculous scenes, I love the fact that in L.A., there is no traffic and no cops, which of course, we know is the way it really is in L.A.

  [Richard laughs] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : , and I just felt that it got exactly what it wanted to get done. It's kind of delivered this kind of summer exploitation mentality in a clever way, instead of a dumb way.

  Richard Roeper - Host : I'm thinking between this and "Tomb Raider", that you're going after the job that David Manning, the fictional critic, who likes all these movies, is going after. You are being...

  Roger Ebert - Host : I'll stand behind...

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...You are being so kind.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...Both of those films. You have to, Pauline Kael said, "If we cannot enjoy great trash, there is...", she s- what'd she say?

  Richard Roeper - Host : You know what? I like great trash, too.

  Roger Ebert - Host : The movies are so rarely great art, she said, that if we can't enjoy great trash, why should we go? This is great trash.

  Richard Roeper - Host : I like great trash.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yes.

  Richard Roeper - Host : I've given thumbs up to movies that other people think, "Oh my God, that's a bunch of garbage", but this thing is trying...

  Roger Ebert - Host : [wavering his thumb in the air]  You have to have the "Trash-o-Meter". Thumbs up for this movie, thumbs down for "Mummy Returns".

  Richard Roeper - Host : Even the drag racing scenes, I mean, it's just, the keep- the music keeps playing in the same way, it sounds just like a video game, and they're going straight...

  Roger Ebert - Host : That's an ironic point, they're...

  Richard Roeper - Host : ...And they're hitting the little, those little rocket booster things, and then they go faster. What's interesting about that?

  Roger Ebert - Host : It's a satirical point that they want you to think it's like a video game...

  Richard Roeper - Host : So you're saying they were aware they were making a bad movie?

  Roger Ebert - Host : Yes, they were- they weren't aware they were making a bad movie, they knew they doing that with the music...

  Richard Roeper - Host : They DID make a bad movie. They did make a bad movie.