Posted on 08/12/2005 8:10:01 AM PDT by Borges
I wouldn't have placed Schneider as high as third-rate. Fifth-rate or sixth-rate maybe.
Just like Homer Simpson, I have a cheat sheet in my wallet. One of the things it says is: "Anything Ebert says, assume the opposite to be true".
It sounds like this may be the one time he is right.
I had forgotten about "Demolition Man" and yes, I did happen to like that movie. Did he have any lines in it? I can not remember any, so I guess it did not exceed my Schneider quotient.
That's gonna leave a mark.
I have a pet theory that conservative actors are generally bad at their job because they lack the childlike sense of disengagement with reality that makes liberal actors - think Sean Penn - so good.
It's no suprise that Schneider is a Republican.
[That said, I do have a guilty love, or at least indulgent tolerance of, nearly all his, and Adam Sandler's, flicks...yeah, I know]
I went to see "Wedding Crashers" last weekend (funniest movie that I've seen in years) and the previews forced us to watch the DB:EG trailer.
I was immediately angry at the way Hollywierd insults us. They think I'm stupid enough to fork out $9 for another Deuce Bigalow movie and they're not afraid to say it. BTW, I caught the first one on cable, so I saved another $9 by missing that one.
Schiender did do a great job doing the weather on Fox & Friends yesterday.
If Ebert's against it, I might have to be for it.
Patrick Goldstein has won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement
Film critics sit around all day in a circle jerk of giving each other awards.
You know, I’m positive Rob Schneider’s new movie is downright awful, but for a guy who wrote the following movie, Ebert shouldn’t be talking too much smack:
The review is probably correct...but Ebert is still a jerk.
Y'all have got to read this review.
Indeed. The playwright of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, also directed by the inimitable Russ Meyer, has precious little business criticizing Rob Schnieder.
Russ Meyer actually served in WW2 under Patton!
When, oh when, will these comic geniuses be paired together in a movie.
Generally, that's a pretty safe rule: If Ebert likes it, I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Once in a while, though, he actually gets it right. I suspect this might be one of those times.
What did Ebert say about "Dukes of Hazzard," I wonder?
I believe the term for that is "Armageddon." Or "The End of the World." Something like that.
He hated it. If you take that rule seriously you dislike a lot of great classics that Ebert writes about.
A movie that would suck so badly as to resemble a Black Hole.
Glenn Beck was reading from a similarly awful review of this film from the New York Times this morning. I still can't believe they made a sequel.
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