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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 9:49:10 GMT
Ebert wrongly criticized a lot of now classics: Blade Runner, The Thing, Starship Troopers, Blue Velvet, Die Hard... As a Heinlein fan Starship Troopers is watchable, but as a movie fan it's nowhere near being a classic.
I feel that all nazi symbolism and totalitarian themes went right over his head. Looking at his reviews the guy had a pretty bad taste in sci-fi movies. For instance, he gave 'Knowing' 4 and 'The Happening' 3 stars.
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Post by msdemos on Jan 20, 2020 14:55:39 GMT
Whether I agree with them or not, I can trust that both Maltin and Ebert at least watched the film in question. Other critics, like Rex Reed, it's a crapshoot. I found Pauline Kael perhaps the most interesting of reviewers. Again, I may not have agreed with her, but she was very intelligent and great at dissecting and expressing herself, that she could make it understandable and believable to buy into any reservations she had, even if one liked a film more than her. I guess she was more objective with her subjective take. Owned more of it from her own perspective for herself. "...more objective with her subjective take." Hmm......at first that struck me as making absolutely no sense.....but when you think about it, it does. That, my friend, is 'next level' thinking! Uh.....would you mind 'dumbing it down' (just a bit) for those of us who have trouble keeping up here ?? Oh, and one other thing......will any of this be on the test ??  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by senan90 on Jan 21, 2020 16:27:32 GMT
He was incredibly overrated. I would take Kael, Sarris or Derek Malcolm over him anyday.
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