Sho_Nuff82
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22 movies Ebert really hated
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Gamers get super, super salty at reviews with snark.
SonicMegaDrive
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Gamers get salty over everything.
Can you imagine a one star review of a game in this current climate?
Professor Beef
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Well said. As a kid I would buy his year end review books and before bed I would at read at least one review before I went to bed. As a film lover I loved they way he wrote, and I would always learn something about the craft of a film.
Not just gamers, Gerstmann was fired because the "tone" of his Kane and Lynch review didn't match the review score Eidos paid for.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Control + F = The Village
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poppabk
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The writer and director are just feeding us a bullshit story for a couple of hours. It's interesting that one of the things that gets people bent out of shape about the usual suspects is that they didn't get the 'true' story and that they wasted their time watching a made up one. That they'll never know what really happened.
Lol wow I messed that one up
Puck Beaverton
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Imagine a critic disliking a game the way Ebert disliked Blue Velvet. I'm sure there would be nerd rage (and I'm sure its already happened.)
The Village is a masterpiece btw.
The Village is a masterpiece btw.
Not with that twist.
dingdingdingding
Telling someone on Twitter that they're a cunt and should die is the only way to prove how much of an artform videogames are.
Didn't 'gamers' nag and death threats to folks for posting news that a game is delayed?
As I mentioned in my post, if The Usual Suspects is meant to be ironic metacommentary on moviemaking it's pretty tedious at that too. You can make the same comment in fifteen minutes with the same effectiveness. Next time just cut a short and save everybody time.
Been over a decade since I watched the Usual Suspects but from memory the ending didn't pull the rug the whole way out from under the movie. There was someone who could identify KS and was being sold to an enemy, and so KS had to risk sticking his head up to get the deed done. That part was straight true. But he got nabbed.
And so the 'real' movie was what was going on in the interrogation, not the retelling. Verbal was simply keeping the cop occupied, playing the shit eater the cop had pegged him as so he wouldn't catch on to what he had. And when the KS name got dropped, Verbal played to the cop's prejudice which the cop had revealed earlier, and steered the story to a place where the cop could force the KS = Keaton connection.
If Verbal had to do it or not, if he could have just shut up but got a superiority kick out of fucking with the cop I can't remember.
The weak point of the story I thought was, that while KS took out his competition (I think), the bloke who could identify him survived (or did he die? A sketch got done anyway so it doesn't matter if he did), so that was all for nothing on the suppressing the hidden identity side of things anyway.
And so the 'real' movie was what was going on in the interrogation, not the retelling. Verbal was simply keeping the cop occupied, playing the shit eater the cop had pegged him as so he wouldn't catch on to what he had. And when the KS name got dropped, Verbal played to the cop's prejudice which the cop had revealed earlier, and steered the story to a place where the cop could force the KS = Keaton connection.
If Verbal had to do it or not, if he could have just shut up but got a superiority kick out of fucking with the cop I can't remember.
The weak point of the story I thought was, that while KS took out his competition (I think), the bloke who could identify him survived (or did he die? A sketch got done anyway so it doesn't matter if he did), so that was all for nothing on the suppressing the hidden identity side of things anyway.
GamingOblivion
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what are even opinions
Because its horrible.
gollumsluvslave
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Have to disagree on the Usual Suspects, not because of the plot or the twist, but mostly because of the 'verbal' back and forth between Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) and Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey).
There are some great bits of dialogue from the supporting cast as well, Gabriel Byrne and Benicio Del Toro especially, some funny quotes, especially the line up.
Love John Ottman's score as well.
But it's really all about Spacey and Palminteri for me, and I can watch it again and again and not get bored.
There are some great bits of dialogue from the supporting cast as well, Gabriel Byrne and Benicio Del Toro especially, some funny quotes, especially the line up.
Love John Ottman's score as well.
But it's really all about Spacey and Palminteri for me, and I can watch it again and again and not get bored.
DerZuhälter
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Can we talk about this shit, though?
Well it explains why he gave The Raid only one star.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-raid-redemption-2012
Adam_Vania
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yeah it was funny the first time i saw it insanely high.
but it's not this absurdist masterpiece the internet pretends it is. it's just an edgy so random gross-out comedy with 2-3 "surreal" skits that are self aware LOOK HOW WEIRD WE ARE BEING
Chuck Norris
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I appreciated the end of the Usual Suspects whilst simultaneously hating the rest of the movie
autumnleaf
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Ebert was usually on the money but Armageddon is great.
Fried Food
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He didn't like the moths in the motel scene in tommy boy?
Fudgepuppy
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My ex made me watch Good Luck Chuck.
That's when I realized we came from different cultures that valued human life and empathy differently. I was just appalled by the meanness and idiocy of the humor, whereas she was laughing hysterically.
That's when I realized we came from different cultures that valued human life and empathy differently. I was just appalled by the meanness and idiocy of the humor, whereas she was laughing hysterically.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Hocus Pocus!? GTFO!
karmaforgotme
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DerZuhälter;228253976 said:
No one is perfect, and Ebert was off way here.
I like Ebert, and you have to remember it is subjective. It's ok for a critic you like to have a different opinion than you. If it becomes the norm, you may need to find a new critic to follow.
Also Tommy Boy is awful. Chris Farley, while great on SNL, never starred in a good movie.
Sorcerer
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I'm not sure what Ebert saw in the theatrical revision of the Brown Bunny that he later praised it.
I have the dvd. (I love Sevigny, and had to see the movie), and there is no movie until she appears in the hotel. Its just Gallo driving around, occasionally stopping to meet a few women. Pointless.
The ending at the hotel is kind of fascinating in that it could be really creepy depending oh how you look at it. It did not need the notorious scene. Its just exploitive bullshit.
Buffalo 66 with Christina Ricci is a very good movie. So Gallo is not without talent.
I have the dvd. (I love Sevigny, and had to see the movie), and there is no movie until she appears in the hotel. Its just Gallo driving around, occasionally stopping to meet a few women. Pointless.
The ending at the hotel is kind of fascinating in that it could be really creepy depending oh how you look at it. It did not need the notorious scene. Its just exploitive bullshit.
Buffalo 66 with Christina Ricci is a very good movie. So Gallo is not without talent.
Risible
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"I liked 2 out of those 22 movies! That invalidates everything this man says!"
He and Gallo got in a huge fight about the movie. Ebert said it sucked and Gallo called him a fat-ass. Ebert came back saying I can always lose weight, but you'll still be the director of Brown Bunny. Gallo went back and edited it and replayed it. It played much better and Ebert liked it. The ver you saw is probably the edited ver of it.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-brown-bunny-2004
First post wins.
The first time I saw the backwards man I had to pause the movie because I was crying so hard from laughing. It took my brain a couple of minutes to actually get a grasp on what was happening. Never had I seen anything like this before.
He was WAY off on Fight Club too. Think he actually even wrote it off as fascist propaganda even though the movie was clearly tongue in cheek about the cultist/fascist/masculist/red pill aspects of Tyler that it was in fact lampooning.
To his credit he wrote a blog about it and interviewed Lynch about the movie.
http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/my-problem-with-blue-velvet
TBH I love Gallo. His persona is amazing because it's basically a guy like Trump only you laugh with him instead of at him somehow. Egomaniacal, reactionary, childish, etc, but also hilarious. He says the craziest shit but in reality is shy and introverted, and he's a true artist. That said, TBB is awful, but Buffalo 66 is so good its all the Gallo you'll ever need. It will be your best friend. The best friend you will ever span time with.
He would be perma banned in no time.
acheron_xl
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The Usual Suspects is his only bad call.
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