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Siskel & Ebert pan Full Metal Jacket
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:43 am
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:43 am
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Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:46 am to prplhze2000
You're killing your father Larry.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:50 am to prplhze2000
One of them loved it and called it a masterpiece, the other says it was good, but nothing special.
Would not say they panned it.
Anyway, 1st half of movie is totally awesome. 2nd half is merely good IMO.
Would not say they panned it.
Anyway, 1st half of movie is totally awesome. 2nd half is merely good IMO.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:51 am to prplhze2000
I love reading about classic movies that guys like Ebert have scathing reviews to when they came out and then once they because universally loved they retract the critisim and put out a new article saying how amazing the movie was
Posted on 4/22/18 at 12:25 pm to wildtigercat93
Yup. Funny how both glossed over the part everyone loves.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 1:54 pm to wildtigercat93
Ebert did that with Night of the Living Dead.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 2:03 pm to Froman
There’s a big one I saw an article about a while back, I want to say it was taxi driver or something like that where he reviewed it like it was Harold and Kumar part 3, and then a couple years later he was saying it was a landmark film 
Posted on 4/22/18 at 2:23 pm to prplhze2000
I've wondered how popular FMJ would've been (upon release) had Platoon not stolen it's thunder.
This post was edited on 4/22/18 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 4/22/18 at 2:58 pm to wildtigercat93
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I love reading about classic movies that guys like Ebert have scathing reviews to when they came out and then once they because universally loved they retract the critisim and put out a new article saying how amazing the movie was
He famously did that with Blade Runner after he said fanboys hounded him for years.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 3:33 pm to prplhze2000
Ebert sucks. Here are some movies he hated:
The Usual Suspects
Blue Velvet
Raising Arizona
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
The Field
Dead Poets Society
Fight Club
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Donnie Darko
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Everyone has different tastes and you can be forgiven on missing on occasion but that is a list of quality.
The Usual Suspects
Blue Velvet
Raising Arizona
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
The Field
Dead Poets Society
Fight Club
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Donnie Darko
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Everyone has different tastes and you can be forgiven on missing on occasion but that is a list of quality.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 3:39 pm to prplhze2000
Siskel gave The Last Crusade a thumbs down.
Imagine what he would have given Crystal Skull?
LINK
And Ebert listed The Waterboy and Joe Dirt as two of his Top 10 most hated movies of all-time.
Imagine what he would have given Crystal Skull?
LINK
And Ebert listed The Waterboy and Joe Dirt as two of his Top 10 most hated movies of all-time.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 3:46 pm to rebelrouser
Blue Velvet is the best of your list.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 3:59 pm to rebelrouser
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High
He gave it 1 star out of 5. He called it too raunchy, too real and humiliating to Jennifer Jason Leigh and sexist.
If this movie had been directed by a man, I'd call it sexist. It was directed by a woman, Amy Heckerling -- and it's sexist all the same.
For the most part this movie just exploits its performers by trying to walk a tightrope between comedy and sexploitation.
Leigh looks so young, fresh, cheerful, and innocent that we don't laugh when she gets into unhappy scenes with men -- we wince. The whole movie is a failure of taste, tone, and nerve -- the waste of a good cast on erratic, offensive material that hasn't been thought through, or maybe even thought about.
Yesh. He must have really hated Porkys.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 5:45 pm to wildtigercat93
They thought the original Friday the 13th was one of the worst movies ever made. Then it became a damn horror classic
Posted on 4/22/18 at 6:04 pm to wildtigercat93
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I love reading about classic movies that guys like Ebert have scathing reviews to when they came out and then once they because universally loved they retract the critisim and put out a new article saying how amazing the movie was
I don't really pay much attention to Ebert's reviews -- his critiques seem to emphasize different priorities than the ones I possess too often -- but the re-reviews I recall seeing made a point of acknowledging his previous efforts. Hard to knock somebody for being open about admitting he made mistakes the last time. Not really a gotcha moment in those situations.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 6:30 pm to prplhze2000
Siskel wasn't shite
Posted on 4/22/18 at 6:54 pm to lsuwontonwrap
How does anyone hate Dead Poets Society?
Posted on 4/22/18 at 7:31 pm to navy
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How does anyone hate Dead Poets Society?
That's one of his weirdest reviews that I never understood.
Ebert loathed Dead Poets Society.
It is, of course, inevitable that the brilliant teacher will eventually be fired from the school, and when his students stood on their desks to protest his dismissal, I was so moved, I wanted to throw up.
He thought it was so phony.
Ebert was a more loose reviewer, often he would like crap if it was fun.
But sometimes he would get in a tizzy over a really good movie for weird reasons.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 8:07 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
His problem with DPS is probably the same problem Bon Jovi is criticized for. The lyrics can be seen as overwrought and feel not genuine. You hear them and cringe.
My personal example of this is the girl's lines in Juno.
My personal example of this is the girl's lines in Juno.
This post was edited on 4/22/18 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:02 pm to prplhze2000
I remember watching their review of Home Alone “live”. They didn’t like it because it was not realistic and they lamented the fact that Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci appeared in a film that was so beneath their talents. 30+ years later and it’s almost a Christmas classic.
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