Siskel & Ebert – As Good as It Gets (1997)
Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert enjoy, to differing degrees, the 1997 Oscar-nominated comedy-drama As Good as It Gets. This placed at #10 on Siskel’s Top 10 list.
Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert enjoy, to differing degrees, the 1997 Oscar-nominated comedy-drama As Good as It Gets. This placed at #10 on Siskel’s Top 10 list.
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Also Nicholson won his (2nd or 3rd?) Best Actor for it.
What the hell? Ebert you gave away the ending!
In my opinion Ebert is 100% correct, even though he pretty much spoils the ending here. About halfway through the movie loses its edge and then it introduces the idea that two acts of egotism from Melvin can propel a believable romance. First he sends for a doctor so Carol can continue to serve his food, then he uses it even more to his advantage in order to get Carol on his road trip. Once the trip is over the movie could have ended with Melvin realizing the chance he missed.
it’s funny, he cuba gooding jr. chooses good scripts
siskel spoke a little too early when he said Cube Gooding Jnr knows how to pick scripts.
I agree with Ebert at the end of this…I felt like the Nicholson character, although good, was never going to be able to hold a relationship. But it was a good film.
jack nicholson is such as brillient melodramatic actor
Ebert just got a haircut
This movie was fucking awesome, one of my all time favs. For me, its up there with the LoTR trilogy, Disneys The Little Mermaid, and In Her Shoes. Very touching, feel good movie with a marvelous soundtrack and perfect acting.
out of all the romantic comedies ive seen, this is one of the few i can watch over and over. this may be nicholson’s best performance, though its hard to pick one.
fact: they shot much of this film in Prospect Park, Brooklyn… I lived there at the time and Kinear could not have been nicer… Nicholson didn’t even smirk when i started my BEAT LA chant… he and that director had NO sense of humor
I felt exactly like Ebert about this movie!!!!!!! Jack’s character stayed almost the same troughout the movie. The happy ending was so out of place.
one of the best rom-coms in past 20 years
@gravelandgrain100 There was nothing special about Helen Hunt’s performance. Like you, I was baffled by Siskel’s comment also that she played the waitress as perky. Actually it ws far from it.
lol “gooding certainly knows how to pick scripts.” omg how wrong could he be……
And the ten other bad scripts he endorsed afterwards disqualify him as a script chooser.
Well, Nic Cage was in Adaptation, which is one of the most amazing scripts ever put to film I think.
It’s clear this movie sailed over a lot of people’s heads. It did mine when I first saw it. I’m so used to the hollywood ending, and this was somewhere in the middle. Does he end up with Helen Hunt? We’re reading too much into it. These 2 can’t really get along, but they’re drawn together by their problems and they’re giving it a shot. In many ways, it’s incredibly realistic.
@stimpp this is why you are unemployed…stupito!
It didn’t win Best Picture (although it won Best Comedy at the Globes).
When this won best picture I really started to hate Hollywood. This film was boring, the characters were uninteresting, the ending was contrived. No way Jacks character gets together with Hunts character. I can think of 10 better love stories and dozens of more interesting characters. Lame. Nice to see other people below who know crap when they see it.
Helen Hunt plays perky???
I got more of a whiny bitch feel from her performance, the same bogus acting that she carried from “Twister”.
Greg Kinnear was good in this.
This whole movie was so phony.
Nicholson is classic in the movie and Hunt really does put in a terrific performance. Award worthy? ALMOST. I don’t think she should of won, but a definite nomination.