Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 20, 2020 1:58:59 GMT
Ebert was an interesting critic, writing acceptable, but never really warmed to his take on many films. I don't think he got many of them half the time, back-peddled a lot and was full of contradictions. He just had confidence of persona and character to make his shtick work.
I never liked his 4 star rating system either, 5 stars seems more feasible to me and what general consensus would be when rating a film, now it is out of 10. This way you can half a rating to get it out of 5 stars. All subjective anyway.
By the way, I thought Hellraiser 2 was an improvement over the first and where horror was concerned, I wasn't interested in listening to what Ebert had to say. It wasn't his genre so he was biased and shortsighted.
I never liked his 4 star rating system either, 5 stars seems more feasible to me and what general consensus would be when rating a film, now it is out of 10. This way you can half a rating to get it out of 5 stars. All subjective anyway.
By the way, I thought Hellraiser 2 was an improvement over the first and where horror was concerned, I wasn't interested in listening to what Ebert had to say. It wasn't his genre so he was biased and shortsighted.