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22 movies Ebert really hated

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BobTheFork

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BadAss2961 said:
Maybe I need to revisit it, but I thought it was super boring back then.
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It's a good movie but I think the ending seemed to catapult the movie to legend status with many people.

I often think when people say it's their favorite movie, they mean it was really just the first movie they saw with an ending they didn't expect and that's it. Like Donnie Darko
 
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Messofanego

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"Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women under the age of 30 standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts."

I've got to use this sometime whenever there is a Spice Girls fan about XD
 
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TheJollyCorner

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8. Spice World, half star.

"Spice World is obviously intended as a ripoff of 'A Hard Day's Night' which gave The Beatles to the movies...the huge difference, of course, is that the Beatles were talented--while, let's face it, the Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women under the age of 30 standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts."
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Jesus Christ, lol.
He's lucky he didn't start a World War with the UK with this one.
The Spice Girls are a national treasure! :p
 
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Ovid

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12. Charlie's Angels, half star.

13. Mannequin, half star.

19. She's Out of Control, no stars.
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I love these movies.

I also had a crush on Ami Dolenz after seeing "She's Out of Control".
 
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Teggy

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Summer School is a good movie. I think it even got pretty good reviews when it was released. It also has Gibbs from NCIS playing teacher to Bud from JAG/NCIS.
 
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LakeEarth

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As someone who has to endure watching Hocus Pocus every Halloween (due to his spouse and her friends), I must say that I 100% agree with Ebert on it. There's some entertainment in the movie, but it's mostly crap.
 
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Catdaddy

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He expressed the same feeling I had at the reveal of The Village....I'm pretty sure I said aloud "you have to be shitting me"...

As far as the rest of the list - pretty much spot on a few I liked more than he did.
 
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Hickbilly Deluxe

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CarpeDeezNutz said:
Lmao heard the praise about the usual suspects but never saw it. Is it pretentious or what?
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It's a good flick. Nothing super amazing, but good. But some people for some reason downright hate the movie, which amazes me. Lots of good acting, a fun story, and a nice little twist at the end.

Strangelove77 said:
I had completely forgotten that Tom Green existed up until now.
Hmm.
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Give it five minutes, you'll forget about him again.
 
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gaugebozo

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If you like these, former avclub writer Nathan Rabin had a great project called "My Year of Flops". Some were hilarious, some serious, they are all entertaining. Here's the one for North, one of Ebert's most hated: http://www.avclub.com/article/my-year-of-flops-case-file-87-inorthi-10244
 
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DeathyBoy

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MattKeil said:
It's crazy to me that anyone thought that movie was anything more than an insultingly transparent tap dance to a blatantly obvious "twist" whose only bright spot is Spacey's performance. As Ebert says, there's no "there" there. A wafer-thin appetizer crisp of a movie, not satisfying in the slightest.
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Doesn't matter, no way is it a 1.5 star film.

Like 2, 2.5 is fair enough - but 1.5? Fuck off.

Course we're still discussing Ebert's ratings years after he died, and I don't discuss/keep up with any critics to half that extent, so Ebert truly has to go down as the best. His reviews incite actual discussion in an age of 'WOW, LOOK AT HOW ANGRY DAT NERD IS' rubbish.
 
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It's funny, Siskel and Ebert were often wrong about movies, but I still love them. With Die Hard, for example, Ebert became hung up on the portrayal of the cops and the FBI as stupid, totally missing all the other great stuff.
 
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Parch

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Always thought Usual Suspects was overrated as well. The only one on that list I would disagree with is Armageddon. It's dumb fun and still a well made, entertaining action blockbuster.

Completely agree with the comedies. Even if it's low brow comedy, that can still be done extremely well. But the comedies on that list are just immature trash. There's always going to be a crowd who find annoying characters humorous, but in no way does that make it well written or clever. Ebert knew good comedy. He definitely knew bad comedy.

Don't agree with all his reviews and he can get hung up on parts of movies without appreciating the big picture, but I always found most of his reviews spot on. Very respected.
 
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Monocle

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My view of Ebert dimmed slightly when he wasn't won over by the marvelous Lord of the Rings trilogy. His complaints struck me as hollow. Sad not to see him give those remarkable films their due.

He was always dead on about Tarantino's films though. I always appreciated that.
 
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MonkeyKing

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the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching 'Mad Dog Time' is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.... 'Mad Dog Time' should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor."
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That's harsh LOL
 
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Monocle said:
My view of Ebert dimmed slightly when he wasn't won over by the marvelous Lord of the Rings trilogy. His complaints struck me as hollow. Sad not to see him give those remarkable films their due.

He was always dead on about Tarantino's films though. I always appreciated that.
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i dont remember reading his reviews but the LOTR movies were very overrated. if they were released today they would get blasted for their one dimensional leads, boring supporting cast with gollum being an exception of course and some of the most boring walking segments of all time.

Hobbit was poorly reviewed because of all these problems and that despite the fact that it at least had an interesting lead.
 
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Surfinn

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“Charlie’s Angels’ is like the trailer for a video game movie, lacking only the video game, and the movie.”

Lol. These quotes are killing me..
 
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AyaisMUsikWhore

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17. The Village

“Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. It’s a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It’s so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don’t know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we’re back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.”
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Phew! What a read 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
 
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