[Cicero]

As Ebert half admits, he hasn't read the book, or he would know that in The Two Towers the action shifts from Frodo to Aragorn in the book as well as the movie.

Ebert is a lazy, ignorant reviewer with very little to say, as is obvious enough from this review. Basically his job is to say what is expected of him by the movie industry, but he doesn't do it very well.

[junta]

He is a Lefty with a fixation on his looking like a moral superior to the reactionary rabble. His review of "Fight Club" should be excerpted and posted as a guideline for deciphering his words. In reviewing FC he injected the word "Facist", but withdrew it coyly by mentioning that it could not be Fascist simply because the FC was integrated into a "multiracial" organization. Ebert is a hypocratical kook with an atrocious double standard towards those he views as moral inferiors, he is easily dislikable. I can see he was straining to paint TT as "Nazi" and my guess is that somewhere in his future writings we shall see he uses that term. BTW he is an Illinois casino king due to his wife (who is black, perhaps explaining his moral fanaticism) being a high powered Chicago attorney with connections.

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Ebert is a lazy, ignorant reviewer with very little to say, as is obvious enough from this review. Basically his job is to say what is expected of him by the movie industry, but he doesn't do it very well.

Amen -Ebert doesn't want this film to win any major awards because that might validate the fact that most of what comes out of WhorryWood is crap.

I guess Peter Jackson should have shown Arwen's ta-tas and had Gimli use the F-word in every other sentence, and blamed Frodo's broken home for the whole ring problem. Now that would have been good cinema and worthy of an Oscar or two.

[LdSentinal]

Ebert is a lazy, ignorant reviewer with very little to say, as is obvious enough from this review. Basically his job is to say what is expected of him by the movie industry, but he doesn't do it very well.

Don't forget the Ebert is a lefti-commie at heart. Remember hsi review of the liberal trash, "The Contender"? He called it a gutsy movie that told the truth and gave it 4 stars.

Ebert gave the first movie 3 stars and now the second. He's an idiot.

[Paulus Invictus]

Hey Cicero!~ I thought I was the only one who thinks Ebert is a dolt and a poor film reviewer. With you on board we can now both complain to his publishers and pushers.

[LibertarianLiz]

Ebert is a lazy, ignorant reviewer with very little to say, as is obvious enough from this review

I have stopped paying attention to Ebert reviews for some time now. I have noticed over the last few years that he has gotten into the annoying habit of reviewing the movie that HE would have made, rather than the movie that is there before him. What he is basically saying is that Peter Jackson decided to focus on parts of the story that Roger Ebert would not have and so Peter Jackson must be wrong.

I'm going on Sunday, and I'm psyched about it and very much looking forward to a great movie.