He also gave Batman Begins and TDK four stars. I don't get why people are discounting his opinion.
The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)
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He also gave Batman Begins and TDK four stars. I don't get why people are discounting his opinion.
Nor anyone else.
ShipTheCheese
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Why do we fall, Guy?
Secret Fawful
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I don't really care to discredit him. I just felt like pointing it out.
Good Job Bob
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If we can't protect The Dark Knight Rises than you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it.
Oh wait, wrong movie.
Oh wait, wrong movie.
Angry Fork
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Ebert is really weird, he doesn't have a standard it just seems like he goes by however he was feeling that day. I know you can't into a theater with a check list of things a movie 'has' to do but he's the type to give a genuinely bad movie a good score just because it made him laugh a few times (obviously we can debate what a genuinely bad movie is, but I don't feel like getting into that). I like him he's not an asshole or anything and knows what he's talking about but the contradictory nature of a lot of his reviews is just odd.
CaptainSchwann
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Why do so many critics act like BB didn't exist? All I keep seeing is comparisons to TDK.
BurnOutBrighter
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5 more hours and the lights will be dimming at a New Zealand advance screening I'll be at.
I don't mean to brag, but I mean to brag.
I don't mean to brag, but I mean to brag.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Still haven't given up on me?
Hero_of_the_Day
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I wouldn't go that far. There are 8 people on RT who obviously have shit taste, and must be taken down.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Who?
You know, that guy who did stuff.
MrPink93485
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Never really thought about it that way, but it's kinda true now that I think about it. Not that I'm discrediting it, he seems to have valid reasons, and that's fine. His taste has been erratic recently but I still respect the man greatly, even if he's become a spoiler heavy critic these days.
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ViewtifulJC
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So the biggest Ebert "controversy" this year remains his one-star review for The Raid.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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THAT MONSTER!
The Raid was awesome. A future Batman movie should try to follow that plot outline. Like A Serious House on Serious Earth, but tons of Batman kicking serious ass.
Secret Fawful
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:I
Forgot about that...
But yeah, Ebert is not at all an objective reviewer. He also operates a lot on his personal ideals and will sometimes rail against a film that is too bleak.
Wafflecakes
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So just went to the Avengers (not sure why I waited so long) and saw the trailer for TDKR. Major hype killer. That trailer was horrid.
ShipTheCheese
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*mumblemumble*punishment*mumblemumble*ashes*mumblebumble
MrPink93485
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Totally not my gif BTW, from SHH.
bryanee
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
TrumanBurbank
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Awesome
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I've been thinking about it, but to a degree, these movies aren't really about 'Batman'. They're about Bruce Wayne and his suffering. Batman's a facet of his personality, but the movies are really about Bruce's (the man) actions and consequences.
Which is interesting to think about.
I had been watching Ebert and Roeper; and been reading his reviews since I was 9.
He is the only critic whose opinion I respect or care about.
I've been watching porn since I was 9 and I respect no one involved, including myself.
ViewtifulJC
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his true nature revealed
Secret Fawful
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Totally not my gif BTW, from SHH.
Someone should add a 'RT 90%' to the cliffside in this gif.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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SCULLIBUNDO
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You gotta love how making Bruce look younger = giving him a fringe.
Old Bruce = hair pushed back.
Old Bruce = hair pushed back.
For some reason, it works. He looks so young at times in BB
CaptainSchwann
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True, but a lot of the negative reviews so far have been from critics that didn't like TDK either.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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The sad part is Phillips gave TDK 4 stars and I think he enjoyed BB too.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Yeah. Things aren't looking so hot right now as far as 90% or above goes. Unless every review from now on likes it.
2.5/4 can go either negative or positive. In this case, I would say Phillips teetered slightly more positive.
ShipTheCheese
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You gotta realize that RT only has 57 reviews up right now, I remember TDK having over 200 at one point.
Killing_Joke
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Honestly didn't think the lack of Joker was going to effect the reviews this much.
But what's REALLY hurting my head is all those rotten critics gave a lot of shitty movies fresh reviews.
But what's REALLY hurting my head is all those rotten critics gave a lot of shitty movies fresh reviews.
283 now
I'd say negative. Can critics have their 'review' changed from rotten to fresh?
I love Ebert, and I'm not saying reading reviews for this movie is completely worthless, but people put way too much stock into some arbitrary Rotten Tomatoes number in cases when it has no real effect, and emphasize the negative reviews too much (and Ebert gave it 3 stars).
If TDKR doesn't break 90% by the time other reviews roll in, that won't really matter at all to anything. It's going to make huge bank at the box office regardless of reviews and probably be fairly popular at the Oscars as well.
Greatest movie of the 00s has a 51% score on Rotten Tomatoes. And in that case it probably has kept plenty of people from seeing it.
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