[Borges]

He's generally a good film critic.

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I got really sick of the "How can you like that? How can you have any self-respect or consider yourself at all intellectual?" routine he used on poor, timid Siskel. It may all have been in fun or part of the shtick, but it could get pretty unpleasant. From what I can see he chose the most unthreatening cohost the second time around, so as not to challege his judgments. The way he'd take out his frustrations on the usual suspects and give big stars a pass when they made bad movies was also off-putting. So he may not be that bad as a film critic, but there are plenty of them to go around, so I don't have any problem ignoring Ebert or Maltin or Shalit or any other pop guru.

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Actually, "Deuce Bigelow, American Gigolo" was awful, and yes, the sequel can be that bad and worse, but I couldn't resist the dig at Ebert.

[weegee]

Ebert has been a lousy critic and an outspoken political ever since Gene Siskel died.

Those two might not have been good friends but Rog wouldn't have tried half of his crap with Gene still around. He'd be too ashamed to try.