God rest your soul Mr. Ebert, but when you were wrong…
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franzkabuki — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 02:00 PM)
"The guy was a pompous self-important toolbag".
Not really or necessarily. That's just fanboy talk, judging a critic based on his opinion of this one treasured item as opposed to whatever insight said critic has offered over hundreds or thousands of reviews.
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jbaker1-2 — 12 months ago(April 07, 2025 09:36 PM)
Actually, I think "pompous, self-important toolbag" describes him (and most other critics) pretty well, and it has nothing to do with his opinions re. my favorite movies. And what "insights?" Ebert, like any other critic, was paid (
over
paid is more like it) to offer us his subjective personal opinion. His word wasn't law.
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Marcwolf-2 — 9 years ago(April 27, 2016 07:58 PM)
In the movie business.
Those who can do.
Those who cannot.. Edit..
And Those who cannot edit.. become critics
Critics are often people with no creative experience themselves - however love to become a back seat producer after the event.
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ma_marcil — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 12:26 PM)
God bless M.Ebert's soul and no offence to him but I strongly disagreed with many of his reviews, his The Brood review being one of those where I thought he was way off. And one of the most outrageous reviews I have read from him is his positive review for the original The Last House on The Left, which is undoubtly one of the worst,most distasteful movie I have ever seen in my life. I thought the remake of LHOTL, however,was infinitely better and actually the best version of that plot line since Bergman's The Virgin Spring. But to be fair to M.Ebert, he did in fact change his opinions on several movies he had reviewed before.
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latherzap — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 09:24 PM)
Arghblaahhhhh! In light of IMDB's imminent shutdown of message boards, just had to let that out. I very much agree with his LHOTL critique, tho certainly not with all his reviews. He often struck me as too eager to give 4 star ratings. But I respect the passion both he and Gene had for film! If there is any sort of afterlife, someday I will hunt those two down to pick their brains on various movies.
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jbaker1-2 — 10 months ago(May 08, 2025 09:30 PM)
Ebert did try to make a movie once. The results were pretty much what you'd expect.
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SealedCargo — 6 years ago(May 21, 2019 06:40 AM)
last house on the left did suck
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jbaker1-2 — 12 months ago(April 07, 2025 09:39 PM)
It did (and does) indeed. And why the hell is it considered a horror film? It's a violent revenge melodrama.
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it.