2 thumbs down
nobody cares
If they cared, they’d have been watching.
I remember when they reviewed Raiders. 29 years ago.
Ebert is a jerk, so I’m glad it’s cancelled.
It is rather dated as well.
I just put down 29 years ago. I know for sure this show was on prior than 86.
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The show was stupid. Almost everytime I went to see a “two thumbs up” film I walked away thinking “What the hell was that crap?”
How about Dinner and a Movie, is that still on?
The irony of movie criticism is that the most capable critics, who have seen thousands of movies, and know vast amounts of trivia about them, rarely agree with most of the public.
However, some teenager who knows very little about the movies, but knows what he likes, and what his peers like, will be a lot more popular.
As far as Ebert goes, the great big glob of tar that stuck to him was that he wrote the screenplay of the awful, dreck movie, called “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (1970). It guaranteed that if he truly panned a movie, those involved could point to Ebert’s failure as proof that anything they did couldn’t have been that bad.
It was an interesting show when I first started watching it. The problem was I would go see the movies Siskel and Ebert were touting and found myself not liking a lot of them. Any European artsy-type flick would draw reams of praise from them. I remember them being enthusiastic about some dull French flick called “Diva” that almost had me comatose by the time it ended. But movies have always been mostly crap. Now the ratio of good to bad is worse than ever.
ping
You probably remember it as a local show when it was called, Opening Soon at a Theater Near You. :)
A.O. Scott is brilliant, imo. But it’ll only take him opening his mouth with some snide remark about Palin or Rush or Coulter, etc., and I’ll be sour on him forever. Happened with Ebert and given the venue, it’s sure to happen with Scott. So it’s just as well; there are plenty of critics to choose from who know how to stay on subject. I won’t miss it.