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Don't be too down CP, Ebert was often very critical and I too didn't agree with him a lot. Also keep in mind he's been around forever his taste is a bit different then ours.
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For top 25 that list is not that good. The lack of LOST eps is one problem but it seemed heavy on BB and like they didn't watch much of anything else.
All time list and I'm seeing Scrubs
I liked Scrubs and seen every ep but c'mon
I was often more surprised and :x @ the movies Siskel & Ebert did like than ones they hated. That list doesn't have anything on it I loved just like 3 or 4 I liked and the rest I really agree with.
All time list and I'm seeing Scrubs
I liked Scrubs and seen every ep but c'monI was often more surprised and :x @ the movies Siskel & Ebert did like than ones they hated. That list doesn't have anything on it I loved just like 3 or 4 I liked and the rest I really agree with.
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I'd say a majority of movies don't intend to be Oscar contenders, but that doesn't automatically give them a pass to be awful. Just because you're a summer blockbuster doesn't mean we have to ignore bad plots, terrible acting, overuse of CGI, etc. Some people don't or can't enjoy movies that fail basic elements of movie making.
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I HATED armageddon
im suprised he hates stargate so much "The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate." that is waaaay OD
I also think the village gets a bad rap for no reason other than people were expecting some sci fi/ boogy man thing
now lady in the water is personally the worst movies ever ever seen
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he Usual Suspects, one-and-a-half stars. Once again, my comprehension began to slip, and finally I wrote down: "To the degree that I do understand, I don't care." It was, however, somewhat reassuring at the end of the movie to discover that I had, after all, understood everything I was intended to understand. It was just that there was less to understand than the movie at first suggests.
Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/49913/10-movies-roger-ebert-really-hated#ixzz2Q6H5JjSK
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I always thought usual suspects was one of the most overrated movies ever made. i loved the acting, and the twist ending was interesting at it's face value. But ive never understood the hype
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one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies
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I haven't seen all of the movies on Ebert's hated list, but most of them. The only one I really take issue with is Pootie Tang. I'm not saying its a good movie -- its sort of dumb and makes close to no sense -- but I still find it amusing. Its definitely not offensively bad in the way something like Battlefield Earth is.
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I told yall.
Bryan Fuller.
These are when things really get interesting.
Roger Ebert Reviews: Beloved Movies He Didn't Like
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one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies
that ******g song haunted me for 9 months. everywhere i walked. every store i went into. every time i turned on the radio.
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Just to touch on Shaun of the Dead for the 368th time, I watched it last night (never seen it all the way through).
Loved it. I could see that being a regular background noise movie for me.
That British deadpan.
Loved it. I could see that being a regular background noise movie for me.
That British deadpan.
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I'm surprised Chester hasn't been hyping up the last movie in the blood and ice cream trilogy.
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Watching There Will Be Blood for the first time.
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Watching There Will Be Blood for the first time.
DDL killed it as Plainview. One of my favorite performances of the decade. Enjoy!
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So? Fantastic right?
I've been realising recently that there are movies (and shows to a lesser extent) that I've missed - and are classics.
I saw One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest only recently - and it was great. Until yesterday I hadn't seen Casino. Still haven't seen The Shining. Must be others too. I'm pretty sure I'd love the Sopranos but I don't save time for that. Should have watched it on TV when it was spread out.
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4 leaf clover and Fry's dog
Simpsons episode where Homer thinks he's gonna die and listens to the whole bible on audiobook and wakes up to a new day
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... you'll see.
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Honestly, me too.
The Village was so well shot and memorable. That scene with Adrien Brody and the knife stuck with me.
And Signs...Mel killed it...and those kids with the tinfoil hats. It was a great movie about grief and paranoia and family.
Everything until the ending was so moody and distinct and well done. It didn't feel like any other movie I've seen.
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Agree. I liked those two movies as well. Probably the Village a bit more than Signs, but I think they're both solid movies. I think we all felt a little let down in those films because the big plot twists didn't live up to what M. Night did in 6th Sense -- especially in Signs (I mean, water, really?) -- but if you leave that aside, they're both well acted, entertaining movies.
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Again...GI Joe was so bad. Just awful.
I liked Oz though...
Oh and Burt Wonderstone? Steve Carroll...cmon bro. That was just horrendous
I liked Oz though...
Oh and Burt Wonderstone? Steve Carroll...cmon bro. That was just horrendous
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M4rioL you picked the exact futurama episodes i was talking about
That homer one is def up there. I love the one where maggie is born and homer has to go back to the plant. The hockey one is also a favorite. Both bleeding gums murphy episodes. The one we see krusty's dad. Countless sideshow bob episodes. Homer and apu. The bordello. The monorail
Ahhh memories
That homer one is def up there. I love the one where maggie is born and homer has to go back to the plant. The hockey one is also a favorite. Both bleeding gums murphy episodes. The one we see krusty's dad. Countless sideshow bob episodes. Homer and apu. The bordello. The monorail
Ahhh memories
Sixth Sense, Signs were great, but Unbreakable was his best by far imo. That movie is tremendous.
I gave up after those 3. I'm surprised to see you guys saying good things about The Village, I always heard it was horrible. And the Happening.......... ************. Dude stole my money for that ****. Worst freaking pile of crap I ever seen. "I can hear the wind thru the phone....." *shoots self* God I hated that mess. Had some pretty shots, the bodies off the roof, the dude divin into the lawnmower, but the rest was terrible. Dudes were running from air.
******g air.
I gave up after those 3. I'm surprised to see you guys saying good things about The Village, I always heard it was horrible. And the Happening.......... ************. Dude stole my money for that ****.
Worst freaking pile of crap I ever seen. "I can hear the wind thru the phone....." *shoots self* God I hated that mess. Had some pretty shots, the bodies off the roof, the dude divin into the lawnmower, but the rest was terrible. Dudes were running from air. ******g air.
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Wasnt it the plants that were the cause?
The premise Wasnt any more outlandish than the birds. I thought it had crazy potentiaIt was just terrible awful hideous execution
With that said the lady in the water is ten times worse.
The premise Wasnt any more outlandish than the birds. I thought it had crazy potentiaIt was just terrible awful hideous execution
With that said the lady in the water is ten times worse.
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Second trailer for one of my most anticipated films of the year - Now You See Me starring Jesse Eisenberg - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-2Qm
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M. Night's movies always retroactively get graded. Because that moment when he was it, was so short, it's like it never happened. And because you can almost ruin his "greatest" movie just by spoiling the twist, makes it feel like dude was never good in the first place. You can't make movies where all people are waiting for and care about is the last 5 minutes and hope for any kinda fair consideration.
I agree though, Unbreakable is clearly his best film, to me. It's a shame they never made the sequel, but that's probably for the best.
The Village...I don't especially like it, but there was some really good, really well done parts. It just felt like the movie up and decided to end cuz why not? And everything sorta didn't have a point. People call it a twist, but really it was just a copout. And worse, it exposed the fact that we were watching a movie with sets and actors and costumes. It made you dislike every bit of its own aesthetic up to that point. That's just like...rare failure. You can't see one of these Pilgrim looking people and take any of them and their motivations seriously. The performances are great and distinct, but there's this cloud of ******** handing over them now. I don't think he intended that, but that's how I feel trying to watch it again.
Signs though...that had a twist. Signs had a terrible, miserable, spit in your face twist, made all the worse by...yeah...that awful cgi. The twist in Signs is the kind of thing that stays with you as one of the very first things you see in your mind when you even think of the movie, so I don't blame anyone who says it sucks. If you put that image on the boxcover, you'd laugh and keep it moving.
But it was his later movies. Especially Lady in the Water. The Happening letdown the people who just wanted a great twist ending. The popcorn crowd. Lady in the Water let the heads know that M. Night was just about done making anything decent ever again.
I mean...Disney fired him. I remember the article. It read like a Rolling Stone exclusive with an exiled dictator. They said, oh Lady in the Water sounds terrible. Do you wanna make something else instead? No? Your head too big right now? Okay, go with God.
Airbender was just the icing on the cake.
I agree though, Unbreakable is clearly his best film, to me. It's a shame they never made the sequel, but that's probably for the best.
The Village...I don't especially like it, but there was some really good, really well done parts. It just felt like the movie up and decided to end cuz why not? And everything sorta didn't have a point. People call it a twist, but really it was just a copout. And worse, it exposed the fact that we were watching a movie with sets and actors and costumes. It made you dislike every bit of its own aesthetic up to that point. That's just like...rare failure. You can't see one of these Pilgrim looking people and take any of them and their motivations seriously. The performances are great and distinct, but there's this cloud of ******** handing over them now. I don't think he intended that, but that's how I feel trying to watch it again.
Signs though...that had a twist. Signs had a terrible, miserable, spit in your face twist, made all the worse by...yeah...that awful cgi. The twist in Signs is the kind of thing that stays with you as one of the very first things you see in your mind when you even think of the movie, so I don't blame anyone who says it sucks. If you put that image on the boxcover, you'd laugh and keep it moving.
But it was his later movies. Especially Lady in the Water. The Happening letdown the people who just wanted a great twist ending. The popcorn crowd. Lady in the Water let the heads know that M. Night was just about done making anything decent ever again.
I mean...Disney fired him. I remember the article. It read like a Rolling Stone exclusive with an exiled dictator. They said, oh Lady in the Water sounds terrible. Do you wanna make something else instead? No? Your head too big right now? Okay, go with God.
Airbender was just the icing on the cake.
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