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by **HellboyOne** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:23 am

I'm still trying to wrap my head around Roger Ebert's glowing review.

by **Creamdog** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:37 am

You know what, here in the Netherlands practically every newspaper and magazine gave it 4 out of 5 stars and when I glance through the reviews on rottentomatoes I think most have rated it around 4 as well. What happened, was that a global conspiracy or something? Or were people afraid to give it negative reviews for some reason?

by **AgentHelix** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:48 am

Generally lowered standards, I'd think. From what I recall, the Prequels were rated fairly highly by critics as well.

by **drugmassacre** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:16 am

Elliotanimated wrote:For some reason my comment appeared way down the thread instead of where I originally responded so some things aren't really relevant to your state of mind.
My comment originally referred to your list of highlights from Kingdom of the Brainless Skull.

that's what i had assumed you were referring to

by **Elliotanimated** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:24 am

Good.
You're still nuts.

by **drugmassacre** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:53 pm

i LOVE "Bad Boys 2"

by **Elliotanimated** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:54 pm

I've never seen either.
Still nuts.

by **drugmassacre** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:58 pm

yes, my statement of love for that movie was a testimony to how nuts I am. I think "Armageddon" is a perfectly fine film

by **Elliotanimated** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:09 pm

It is if you're nuts.

by **Moonman** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:52 pm

HellboyOne wrote:I'm still trying to wrap my head around Roger Ebert's glowing review.

When I read that, I thought I'd accidentally stumbled upon The Happening thread.

by **AgentHelix** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:27 pm

Ebert's been giving glowing reviews to a lot of shitty movies since he came back. It's really weird.

by **Moonman** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:14 pm

He now sees beyond the shitty...

by **Benjamin** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:29 pm

It's odd, but I've encountered so many people that... kinda sorta liked it. Didnt really have anything to complain about. I'd bring up a few negative points, and they'd agree with "oh yeahs..." and "I didnt think of that"... but not really add or challange anything. They just plain like it.

its a scant 14 million (domestic) behind IronMan as of tonight (...and the highest grossing indy movie).

Lucas can now see the matrix of movie-making. It doesnt really matter what the quality of story is or even the quality/use of CGI to tell the story... he's struck a balance where he can now present these two VERY poor things together and the general population will not notice and keep buying tickets.

Kids in the hall: Beware the lollipop of mediocrity, lick once... and suck forever.

Unless people whose opinion I trust come out of the theatres saying its an all-time greatest film... I think I'll be skipping clone wars this summer.

by **jharker** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:34 pm

AgentHelix wrote:Ebert's been giving glowing reviews to a lot of shitty movies since he came back. It's really weird.

Is it me, or does Ebert go on non-sensical tangents even more now, ever since he returned?

It's not that he's never referenced things I don't get of or never made the occassional off-beat comment.
But it seems that a lot of his recent reviews, don't seem to be as coherent or well thought out as in the past.

Half of the time I'm reading his reviews, and at the end I've read the entire thing and still don't exactly know what he thought of the film.

by **Kelly Tindall** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:26 am

Roger gave a lot of bizarre movies good ratings even before his sickness. He liked Garfield and Van Helsing, too.

He's one of the only critics I read with any consistency... I read Ebert and Peter Travers once in a while. A.O. Scott is okay.

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