2 thumbs up from Siskel + Ebert…
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yihdzelonh — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 05:10 AM)
This is the movie that Jon Voight was born to star in. This was his pre-destined 'calling card.' Forget his role as the Pope. Forget his Oscar-worthy role as a disgruntled Mormon bishop in "September Dawn." This is the role that cemented Voight's incomparable legacy: The muscular/hulking Paraguayan pony-tailed snake catcher villainous SOG with a one million percent bona fide South American accent.
Nor has anyone -BEFORE OR SINCE- pulled off such an amazing acting performance -even if it was in a 'villainous' role -
parknourie — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 04:04 PM)
Do you have a link to that? Or even just what review they were discussing at the time when he referenced that?
I love watching Roger Ebert and I came to know him too late.
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Randy-144 — 12 years ago(January 11, 2014 12:00 AM)
Not only did Roger give it 2 thumbs up but he gave it 3 and 1/2 stars. But then he gave 4 stars to quite a lot of movies.
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parknourie — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 04:03 PM)
"There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an "Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it."
This is a quote from Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy (1999).
3 stars out of 4. That's still a thumb up (with the guest reviewer at the time giving it a thumb up as well, it was a two thumbs up movie).
So I don't know what you're talking about when you say he gave a bad review.
As for the sequel to The Mummy, well, it wasn't as good as the first.
If I remember correctly, Roger Ebert even liked the third Mummy (although that one's quite universally hated).
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parknourie — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 04:07 PM)
I'm bummed.
The link's broken and the page doesn't work anymore.
If anyone could provide the link to the old video, you'd be saving a life!
I'd love to see this particular episode
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