Ebert & Roeper and The Movies: 4-21-01

Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper reviews "Freddy Got Fingered" (Ah yes, the infamous ground zero of horrible gross-out, dark, raunchy and edgy comedies and this one features Tom Green doing his stony, obnoxious impression all with his disgusting insane gags and stunts! Now, I do have a confession. I love the guy in the comedy, "Road Trip" and his MTV show but this film I couldn't handle any longer, makes "Monkeybone", "Tomcats" and other mean-spirited ones look like the geek show!); "The Body" (One of those forgettable religious and mysterious type of thrillers with Antonio Banderas and Olivia Williams.); "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" (While it was great to see Paul Hogan reprises his role as the original handsome heroic Aussie Crocodile Hunter (Besides Steve Irwin) from Down Under and stay at the Big Apple from the first two films that I love! This final third installment after 13 years is a major disappointment. He's now a family man, has a son and they go out to the City of Angels for the usual Action and other gags. It was lame. BTW, I heard a new 4K UHD release in Australia of the original will be censored. I feared for an American release. Thank goodness, I owned the first two on Blu-ray uncut!); "The Center of the World" and "Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale".

Another Look: Roeper takes a special return on "The Claim" where it finally receives a general wide release after a limited opening in December, 2000. (Michael Winterbottom's Western Romantic Drama Based on Thomas Hardy's Novel: "The Mayor of Casterbridge" with Peter Mullen, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley and Nastassja Kinski. I just picked up the 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray release and the film is terrific! First saw it on IFC back in 2008 and recorded it on DVD-R. And yes, it originally had the United Artists "UA PaperClip 2000" Placeholder logo before it got plastered by the 2001 "Metallic UA Swoosh II" logo that's on the Blu-ray. Luckily, the original theatrical trailer had it!)

Movie Answer Man: Ebert talks about the audience analyzation of "Memento" (Christopher Nolan's Best Psychological Thriller about a psychological thriller about an insurance investigator with short term memory loss trying to figure it out a mystery. Starring: Guy Pearce, Stephen Tobolowsky, Carrie Anne-Moss and Joe Pantoliano (Both were in "The Matrix"). Note: They shot this movie in my area! Such as "The Travel Inn" in Tujunga, CA; "The Grinder" (Now "Glendale Federal Union") in Glendale and most scenes in Long Beach, Burbank and Pasadena. I have the Sony Blu-ray release of this film.) And a recap of Today's program.

Recorded on KATU ABC 2 in Portland, Oregon with Commercials intact.