Team Ebert’s Political Police

TAS ^ | 10/19/2004 | Chris Reed

[Paul Atreides]

Anyone who would go see a movie based on the opinions of Ebert/Roeper is pathetic.

[UCANSEE2]

Hollywood (movie and TV industry - a branch of ORGANIZED CRIME) hated THE PASSION.


Now, this movie comes out and satires 'the left' and it will be hated by HOLLYWOOD with A PASSION as well.

Every Mature, rational, American should see it.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Anyone who would go see a movie based on the opinions of Ebert/Roeper is pathetic.

Don't (quite) agree. I see films based on the opinion of Ebert from time to time. I mean, if Ebert has a negative opinion of a film, that's a pretty good sign I'll like it... ;-)

[Moral Hazard]

Roger Ebert lost what little respect I had left for him when he became a fashion critic of the Bush daughters.

[DAC21]

To his credit he did rave over The Passion..............
That's all I can say good about him

[Antonello]

Anyone who would go see a movie based on the opinions of Ebert/Roeper is pathetic.

Hey, now, watch who you're calling pathetic. I've actually gone to see movies I hadn't initially planned on seeing based soley on Ebert and Roeper's (bad) reviews.

[lovemyfamily004]

I saw Team america and havent laughed so hard in such a long time..It was a little on the crude side but the puppet sex was the funniest thing i have ever seen on a movie... And the politics of the movie are so right on... God bless Our president...

[lectricpup]

With all respect to the man from "Dune", I can agree with your assessment of Ebert.

-I'm still laughing.

[valkyrieanne]

Has anyone ever seen Michael Moore and Roger Ebert together at the same time?

[sfrepub]

If you want to have some fun, go with a lib who doesn't know much about the movie.

I went with a lib. She was laughing, clapping, genuinely enjoying the movie for the first half. As soon as the Film Actors Guild meeting started--which was hilarious in the way it depicted the Hollywood left acting like self-exaulted members of the U.N.--she didn't make a peep for the rest of the movie.

I think this movie points out how humorless the libs have become. They are completely unable to laugh at their positions on any level. I suspect that most conservatives, like me, can laugh at our own caricatures on occasion because in the end, we have the courage of our convictions. They don't.

Watch "Diary of a Political Tourist" on HBO and see what I mean. (I know, Alexandra Pelosi, blah blah blah). But what comes across in this documentary is how utterly humorless Kerry is, and how gracious and warm Bush is.

America loves to vote for someone with a self-depricating sense of humor. There's no contest folks.

[Kirkwood]

At one time just a couple years ago, Ebert praised the Looney Tune cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, et al) who lambasted the axis in WWII, putting down totalitarian regimes with spirit-lifting humor. Now he says that war is nothing to make fun of and making a cartoon about terrorism is sad and pathetic. Boy, did he ever do a flip-flop.

[GSWarrior]

The puppet scene wasn't that bad, IMO.

[GSWarrior]

I mean the puppet SEX scene wasn't that bad.

[flashbunny]

it was pretty tame. Can't wait for the dvd to see what was cut out.

The puppet vomit scene was one of the funniest things I've seen since 'the germans' episode of fawlty towers.

[jennyp]

I mean the puppet SEX scene wasn't that bad.

Yeah, nothing about the movie was as disgusting as the worst bits of South Park that I've seen.

The movie was hilarious! (Strangely, hubby, who's more of a South Park fan than I, was disappointed in the film.)

[GSWarrior]

The puppet who distrusts actors because of his ..uh.. encounter with a cast member of Cats was pretty hilarious too.

[flashbunny]

Ah, yes, that too. There were quite a few things.

Another thing that kept me laughing was gary's "plastic surgery" to make him look like a terrorist. The set up was wonderful - all the work they did, all the build up, and then - well, I don't want to spoil it for anyone. But it kept me laughing whenever they showed a closeup of his face.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I loved his "signal" to the team that something was wrong as well. As they're flying across the desert in jeeps, it was absolutely hysterical. And everybody in the theater was ROFL over the sex scene.

[CaptainK]

Next summer, according to a recent announcement in Daily Variety, Moore will be back with his next film -- Sicko, a "documentary" about the problems of the American health-care system

Hopefully a large segment of the alleged "documentary" will deal with obesity and the burden that big fatso's like Moore put on our health care system.