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God rest your soul Mr. Ebert, but when you were wrong...

posted 8 years ago by Mr_Ectoplasma
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... you were SO wrong. 1 star for The Brood; 1 star for I Spit on Your Grave; but 3.5 for Last House on the Left?? I just don't get him when it comes to violence. He wrote off so many films as trash and sleazesploitation for being too violent or gory (The Brood being one of them), but then practically gives LHOTL four stars (no offense to LHOTL)? I still am baffled as to what qualified the extremes for him, because something like Last House on the Left is infinitely more graphic and offensive than anything in The Brood.

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

There are many times I've disagreed with Roger Ebert.

Can't stop the signal.

[–] latherzap 8 years ago

He was wrong about The Brood, but I totally agree that LHOTL is much better than I Spit.

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[–] franzkabuki 8 years ago

"The guy was a pompous self-important toolbag".

Not really... or necessarily. That's just fanboy talk, judging a critic based on his opinion of this one treasured item as opposed to whatever insight said critic has offered over hundreds or thousands of reviews.

"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

[–] Marcwolf-2 8 years ago

In the movie business.

Those who can do.
Those who cannot.. Edit..
And Those who cannot edit.. become critics

Critics are often people with no creative experience themselves - however love to become a back seat producer after the event. :)

Walk Quietly through this Earth
Leave nothing but Smiles and Pawprints

[–] ma_marcil 8 years ago

God bless M.Ebert's soul and no offence to him but I strongly disagreed with many of his reviews, his The Brood review being one of those where I thought he was way off. And one of the most outrageous reviews I have read from him is his positive review for the original The Last House on The Left, which is undoubtly one of the worst,most distasteful movie I have ever seen in my life. I thought the remake of LHOTL, however,was infinitely better and actually the best version of that plot line since Bergman's The Virgin Spring. But to be fair to M.Ebert, he did in fact change his opinions on several movies he had reviewed before.

[–] latherzap 7 years ago

Argh---blaahhhhh! In light of IMDB's imminent shutdown of message boards, just had to let that out. I very much agree with his LHOTL critique, tho certainly not with all his reviews. He often struck me as too eager to give 4 star ratings. But I respect the passion both he and Gene had for film! If there is any sort of afterlife, someday I will hunt those two down to pick their brains on various movies.