No one liked the film of Atlas Shrugged. I just looked at his review of OB and 2 stars is not trashing a film. Look at his review of ‘North’ for him trashing a film. He’s regretful that OB wasn’t better at being the Christian film it was being touted as - his objections were about pacing not ideology. Three stars is a positive review period.
Yes it is when taken with his write up. “He's regretful that October Baby wasn't better at being the Christian film...” ...and you believe he was really regretful. Actually it was the film it was supposed to be and more people should have gone to the theatres and seen it. Ebert did his review to make the film unappealing to all including conservatives. OCTOBER BABY must have been painful for Ebert to watch even for the 15 minutes that he reportedly gave to another film he wrote a full review of.
Someone ran a clip of his At the Movies review of John Travolta's Scientology cultpiece -- Battlefield Earth or whatever they called it. He was really funny. I can't review his content, since I didn't see the movie, based on his and other reviews. (That was, ummm, about 2001, just before he got cancer. Maybe the Scientologists gave him cancer in revenge? </tinfoil>)
PS: John Travolta shares with Ben Affleck the dis-stink -shun of having starred in two of the worst pieces of excrement that ever got thrown up on a silver screen. Travolta did the Scientology thing, and he also "starred", if you can call it that, in that godawful cougar-kisser with Lily Tomlin, Moment by Moment (1978). Affleck did both Gigli (2003, w/ J Lo) and Bounce (2000, Gwynnie Paltrow and Natasha Henstridge).