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I remember he despised the movie Brown Bunny and he panned it (deservedly so). The director responded by calling him fat and Ebert responded by saying “yes I am fat but I can lose weight...you will always be the director of Brown Bunny”. Classic Ebert.
Rodger patterned that quote from a classic Winston Churchill line at a dinner party. A woman told him (Churchill) he was disgusting and drunk, to which Winston replied, "That may be true, Madam, but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly".
@@marvinthiessen3454 Ha ha...thanks for the anecdote...I hadn’t head that one before 👍🏼
He didn't just call him "fat", he said he had "the physique of a slave trader". Which you have to admit is a pretty good insult.
@@gmann6269 True, but how many can relate to such an obscure reference?
he could get right to the gist of a movie or issue. Had to with the time allotted to movie reviews then. I'd love a similar show broadcast so I could enjoy. I actually learn a lot from the thoughts given- and maybe save the ticket price for a lousy movie.
"If a nine year old can crack the code, don't kill the kid, kill the programmer" is both funny and logical.
They would hire him for a few million per year.
Brilliant comment😂
But, the movie was really good... And the comment by Ebert isn't as clever as he makes it seem, cause the character in the movie basically says the same thing... Willis was really good in this movie, and Baldwin was AWESOME in this movie!!!!
@@aspireahead8388 Yeah, it's made explicit that Baldwin's character doesn't really care about the integrity of the code but rather about saving himself from the humiliation of having directed a project that cost millions of dollars to the government and that was unsuccessful because of a kid. I don't get the criticism towards that point in particular.
That movie was not horrible.
It's possible the only person who hated Patch Adams more than Roger was the real Patch Adams.
I know Patch, and this is true.
.......................and the Nostalgia Critic.
I hated that movie as well
@@robertoflores4925 The sad thing is that it stripes out patch's cultural critique and also makes everything extreme in his autobiography tame in the movie. The movie should be much more outrageous.
Great movie. Robin Williams was great
"No matter what you paid, it's worth more to get out"--I miss Ebert so much. He was so savagely witty.
"And the Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women chosen at random while standing in line at Dunkin Donuts." Ouch!
So Fifth Harmony.
Well, I think women encountered at a Dunkin Donuts would very likely be fat and ugly, .. . THAT is ONE difference.
He's no one to judge. He's given bad reviews to some of the greatest films in our time. He's an idiot
@@heatherninneman558 He's formally reviewed over 5,000 films, you haven't. He's not going to get everyone to agree with him. That's impossible.
Also, I'm sure you hated many classic and revered films yourself. Get off your stupid high horse.
Hated their singing and music.
His motto: "I watch so you don't have to."
Does he actually say that? I guess nostalgia critic took inspiration... “ i remember it so you don’t have to”
@@aaronolson8691 Doug Walker worshipped at the foot of Roger Ebert, dude. Yet, he somehow managed to never learn a single lesson about filmmaking or writing from watching and reading his many reviews
@@neal2399 Doug Walker had the passion for films. He just lacked the talent to make a full length film. I assume he has a lot of help from others for the skits and storylines.
@@neal2399 It's as if Uwe Boll became a critic.
@@neal2399 I hate it when people don't learn from the people that they watch
Loved Roger Ebert and his partner, Gene Siskel. I miss them both. They were the entertainment. Not the films. Wish they were still with us.
So true! I loved watching them.
Yep. I agree so much with you. We miss that kind of importance given to the analysis of movies. But they tried to replace them with different people but it never worked.
I never really watched Siskel and Ebert but it sounds like they were more entertaining than the movies themselves!
@@melissacooper4282 One thing I will say is that they made me love movies. Many times I have watched them praise movies I wanted to see and made me want to run to the theaters to watch them. Other times they made me discover movies I had no idea they were about and they turned out to be great.
I don't. He's an acerbic individual, especially in death. He can't take criticism himself. (Yes, read that any way you like.)
My favorite Roger Ebert story is when another critic panned Rob Schneider's Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo by saying that it was "sadly overlooked at Oscar time" because there was no category for "Best running p___s joke delivered by a third rate comic." Schneider responded that the critic had no right to judge because he didn't win a Pulitzer.
Ebert then comes into the picture, saying, "As chance would have it, I *have* won the Pulitzer, and as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."
Gotta love it. We REALLY miss you, Roger.
Damnnnnnnn lol
Um Rob Schneider is way funnier that a fat movie reviewer. Roger was a dork youtuber before youtube
I believe that's story is in his intro to the book promoted here: "I Hate, Hate, Hated This Movie."
Rob Schneider does
S U C K
How do these guys
Keep getting multiple movie deals?
@@calessel3139 No, that's in the second book Your Movie Sucks.
Siskel and Ebert should have had many, many more years on this planet.
Unfortunately, a life of sin, the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23
@@Brucev7 Tell that to your "Christian" ex President.
@@mikewilson3581 God bless our President DJ Trump, Jr
@@Brucev7 Obviously he skipped blessing Trump on election day.
@@mikewilson3581 idn. God does turn wicked leaders over to wicked people
"With the birth on an artist, comes the inevitable afterbirth. The critic." Mel Brooks.
“The critic knows the path to perfection, but not how to walk it.”
1000 year old man interview:
1K Man: I like critics. I like how they make music by rubbing their legs together.
Interviewer: Sir, crickets make music by rubbing their legs together, not critics.
1K Man: Oh. Then I like crickets.
"Artists desperately need critics, but only for the good reviews." - Me.
"Action trailer for 2 hours" sound like all of Bay movies.
Lolz I don't care what he says about Armageddon, it's a terrible film, but highly entertaining. One that will always have a stupid spot in my heart.
I know I'm far from the first to say this, but every film he's made since Y2K (besides 13 Hours) makes Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon look like Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, and The Godfather Part II.
Pearl Harbor is 3 hours though. And 3 minutes.
Leave Armageddon alone, it was the turn your brain off,blow em up shoot em up summer movie it was designed to be
Sum's it up pretty well. He does action ok, but the movies are souless and lack any sort of actual story. Big rock need go boom! Scary robots need go boom! Cars go fast with sexy girls go boom!
That Spice Girls call out was especially savage.
@Dean F. this is what white men who sit at their desks all day think lol no
@@BoCaine what ?
@@johngriffiths118 this is what white men who sit at their desks all day think.
@@BoCaine what does that have to do with anything?
@@humanperson318 everything you pea brained rube lol
"Armageddon is such a raucous, ugly assault on the senses that no matter how much you paid to get in, it's worth more to get out!" Daaaaaaaamn.
I absolutely respect this man and i love his reviews, but he was wrong about that movie
@@jeremywoods770 Same.
I loved armageddon...DEEP IMPACT was a copy of it though
@@princedarius7224 deep impact was released first though
armageddon just did it better
Doesn't that pretty much describe every Michael Bay film?
I can’t believe more people aren’t commenting about how he recommended Beethoven wear a rubber
Alright I’m gonna say it, dogs got no hands. IF they had a rubber what good would it be after they pull it up with their teeth ??
I didn't always agree with him, but I always respected him. Roger Ebert was no one's shill. Can't really say that about too many critics these days.
He was a jerk who couldn’t direct a film himself. God blessed him by taking away his voice
The guy liked terrible movies
He knew about film , and should have stuck to his opinions on film. His comment that video games could not be art showed that he was not above giving a stupid opinion on a subject that he was clearly ignorant of.
@@adgato75 That's one thing he was dead wrong about. But in all fairness, Roger Ebert's exposure to video games mostly consisted of all of those terrible game based movies he had to review.
@@asurlybarber3620 That is true. But he gave in to the critic's downfall of spouting a critique about anything anyone asked him about , rather than staying in his lane.
But it is just a minor annoyance. Overall , he was a great critic and brought a huge amount of attention to films as an artform.
Although his views on sci-fi and horror irritated me too. In general , he was a classic "Oscar bait" critic.
Roger had zero tolerance for bullshit, but a good eye and enough humility to give credit when it was due.
It sucks that he always gave bad reviews to Sharon Tate films, but he redeemed himself by being the only major critic to recognise the talent of Brittany Murphy.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Ironically, Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for “Beyond The Valley of the Dolls”. That movie is bats**t crazy!
He was a jerk
@@sirmount2636 A jerk, a snob, and an overbearing bully too frequently. Highly preachy. Part of me doesn't miss him much at all.
@@babymammoth34 Well said!
Roger’s expertise and clever reviews of movies is sorely missed. God bless you, Roger! RIP.
also miss Lipton's interviews at the Actor's Studio school. I suppose they might be available though.
He is wrong though
WRONG!!! Ebert had so many damn film details wrong it wasn't even funny!
@Jam Drew exactly lol
He was the only film reviewer that I cared to follow. His taste in films was almost identical to mine.
Wish we still had this instead of bloggers. Dude was dropping bars.
These one-liners are comedy, not fine reviews Roger wrote. There are less and less fine reviews and professional critics, even less fine films, which may have all been made already.
He was able to take any movie and break it down with ease and intelligence.
Truly missed.
He was Awesome on Howard Stern. Not intimidated at all
@Move_I_Got_This They were all valid.
Bloggers? This isn’t early 000s
Consider it a blessing that hes not around to see the rise of fast and furious and transformers.
He would have seen at least the first two or three of those franchises
He liked the first transformers, he gave it a three out of four
You need to watch more movies if you think those are the worst. Not even close, Johnny
ha!
@@Nova-fh2et he never said he did though, he only said he wished Ebert was around to see them (he actually was around to see the start of them)
I use to think the phrase "SISKEL AND EBERT gives TWO THUMBS UP" was on all movies but then I realized it was on the good movies. They were definitely my favorite film critics
Siskel and Ebert will always be the best critics for movies! I grew up watching them. I didn't always agree with their decisions, but the two of them together had a perfect relationship. RIP
@@aliceshaw8265 ebert was definitely more of the obnoxious and overbearing ass on that show. He had a problematic mental complex. Could not handle Siskel disagreeing with him too often and seeing the brilliance in something where he saw it. Took it personal. A jerk off.
"The Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women chosen at random while standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts." 💀💀💀
Ebert bringing his A-game to his murder game
It’s nice to hear Ebert speak. It’s sad how his life ended.
Unfortunately, a life of sin, the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23
@Jj Repent and Believe. Mark 1:15
@Jj What you meant to say was, those who reject the truth, can expect a life of uncertainty, no peace, and no restored relationship with the One who created them in love. Just a short passing time of, chasing fleeting pleasure.
@Jj Yes, we know. Up is Down, Down Is Up.
@@Brucev7 Roger Ebert lived a life of sin? What did he do that was so bad? There is no god, by the way.
Growing up in the 90s all you’d hear behind every single movie trailer is “ Siskel and Ebert give this movie two thumbs up” . Directors hated them but always would capitalize on their approvals if given the chance.
As someone who grew up in the 90s, I agree.
David Lynch famously had the "Two Thumbs Down!" from Siskel & Ebert displayed prominently on the theater poster for his movie _Lost Highway_ .
Or the occasional, "Two thumbs way, WAY UP!!"
What’s funny is, it made me want to watch almost all of these, while his reviews are 100% accurate.
💯💯
"Spice Girls could be duplicated by any 5 women randomly selected while standing in Dunkin Donuts" 🤣
And Roger would know since he was constantly found on the floor of a Dunkin Donuts bathroom with discarded donut boxes twitching in sugar shock. 👌🤣
@David Mutchler - It IS funny because he was a fat tub of lard.
How I miss this man’s wit, insight, passion for good movies and contempt for bad ones. This is what you get when you put newspaper people in front of the camera: thoughtful words and witty writing, delivered by someone who doesn’t look like they’re from central casting.
Do you think newspaper people are still like this? Most of them are political hacks cut-and-pasting social media posts as if it's actual reporting.
He’s not clever, he’s just a jerk
Ebert's best quality was that he was a close, personal friend of Russ Meyer. Both of them loved large female breasts.
@@jimhenderson9173 and ebert never got anywhere near such breasts. he was condescending, overbearing, and plain gross.
His taste was awful. A number of films he completely riffed on are now looked at as all time classic films. The man gave the Zookeeper with Kevin James a better rating than A Clockwork Orange
I've flown between China and the U.S. many times (14 hours), but the longest and most excruciating flight of my life was from Houston to Seattle during which they showed Patch Adams. Twice. Parachute, please.
My gosh I miss Roger Ebert dearly. I know it’s been 8 years since he died but at least he’s with Gene Siskel now. He was so on point with his reviews and when he panned something he panned it. Anyways he was such a great guy to the film industry. I still miss him.
Yeah. I'll bet knowing he'd be with Siskel really comforted Ebert in his final moments.
Ebert is savage! “Fran Drescer is someone who would work better in a silent film” 🤣🤣🤣
he was just a miserable blob who couldn't get past the fact, that he could never get a woman as beautiful as her. Pretty obvious.
I remember when Siskel died. Somebody said, "Who would've thought that Gene would clock out before Roger?" Roger lasted many more years.
"whose principal diversity is that they have different names"
And the two Mels can't even claim that
I gotta think that was part of the joke, right?
I remember Ebert was one of the first folks to get on the internet. He had all his reviews back to 1985 on the Sun Times website. This was around 1998 or so. Every Friday I used to print out his reviews at work and do my business the bathroom while reading them. Nope, you couldn't get internet on your phone back then kiddies.
Yeah, and I can only be grateful to internet for presenting me Ebert and Siskel. Now I can see their reviews on another country, what is amazing. You're luck my friend, for knowing him for so long.
Still waiting for a smart brick-phone.
The opposite of Gene though. A lot of his written content has been lost.
Some times you had to wait ages for a picture to up load to the screen.
Ebert was probably the best film critic in history.
"Im told that five thousand singing and dancing cockroaches were used while shooting Joe's Apartment but what upsets me is none of them were harmed during the making of the film"
LMAOOOOOOOOOO Dont show this to Animal rights activists.
They weren't even REAL in the first place. They were all CG, .. . now-badly dated 90's CG at that!
Cockroaches aren't animals.
They are monsters.
😆
Putting them up at the Roach Motel proved fatal however.
At least Jennyanydots in "Cats" managed to gobble up a few of the little pests.
I forgot about that movie... And I would've been happy to keep it that way. 😀
The way he describes these terrible plots makes me want to see these movies even more
I never liked Ebert. But I'll be damned if I didn't respect him.
Kind of like how Wes Mantooth felt about Ron Burgundy
@@ResistanceQuest exactly like that
@@bubbafranks2298 It was the fact that he was so consistent in his critique. If he criticized a film for something he didn't like he wouldn't give another film a pass on doing that same thing.
The funny thing is, though, some of those movies he considered bad are probably better than many of the films Hollywood cranks out today! Rest in peace Roger Ebert, and Gene Siskel.
RIP Mr. Ebert. Nowadays, the studios don't make certain films available for critics.
If Siskel AND Ebert BOTH loved a movie you couldnt go wrong .
They were an invaluable resource
I miss them both!
couldn't
Three bad films by Bruce Willis.
@David Topchiev off course, what a masterp...
And he didn't even include the titular movie he "hated, hated, , hated" which also featured Willis.
The 90s was a bad film decade for him
Pulp Fiction and the third Die Hard are it
@@jb888888888 It's in the book, okay? He's not going to mention everything.
@@jb888888888 sorry, I loved Armageddon. It was not good But I loved it.
I vividly remember going to see Get Shorty in the theater, but the projection broke down at the beginning, so the theater offered a current viewing of Assassins... watching a blank screen would've been actually entertaining.
I simply have to say, I miss Roger Ebert so much. 😔 He always directed you the right way, when it came to what to watch . He truly always made going to the movies fun. One of the best movie critics of all time.📣💡.🎥🎬.... R.I. P. Roger Ebert.😇
Siskel and Ebert did have (a once a year I think) show in which they listed their guilty pleasures - horrible movies that they loved. I remember one was called Infra-Man or something and Ebert couldn't get enough of it.
Infra-Man is awesomely bad!
Tremors was one of Ebert's guilty pleasure. And it's one of mine, too.
@@mournblade1066
Is it even considered "bad" though?
@@LarryLopez91 Honestly? Not really. I think it's one of the greatest "dumb movies" ever made. I watched it about two years ago, and it was as good then as it was 30+ years ago when I first watched it.
@@mournblade1066 “Tremors”, like “Aliens” and “Galaxy Quest”, is a well-written, well-acted movie in a genre that is famous for the opposite - and then everyone is shocked by how good it is.
Crime movies and war movies used to like that, until “Godfather” and “Saving Private Ryan” and now every mafia and war movie has to be “a serious meditation on the effect of blah-blah-blah.” I was expecting “Unforgiven” to do the same with Westerns, but nope.
"The Beatles had talent....The Spice Girls can be duplicated by any 5 girls, chosen at random, while standing in line at Duncan Donuts.".....I couldn't have said it better!! Gawd, I'm glad those airheads are long gone!!
Unfortunately over here in Ireland and UK we can’t quite seem to get rid of them as they have found a new haven in low brow trash talent shows.
@@brendansheehy8124 I don't know what's worse: their music or that they like Margaret Thatcher
Just tell me what you want, what you really, really want
You know you’re a hit when people seek out your movie reviews much more than they seek out the movies you reviewed.
Man I miss him. He was the conscience of the movie business. I would like to see him give us his views on the current movie business and so forth. Just him sitting down on a random talk show and just talk.
I believe he wrote books and still commented online. He was so intelligent and KNEW movies !
@@KindCountsDeb3773 yea I have his 2003 movie yearbook of all his critics for that year. it's pretty fun to go back to. And goes more into details about his views on certains movies which he could not do on his show
"The volcano is draino" - I love it.
I disagree with his take on the movie "Volcano". I loved it! Still, though, to each his own. If he didn't like it, he had the Freedom to say so... unlike today, in a good many "Circles", where you're basically ostracized for expressing your own opinion...which, by the way, we still have a right to do, according to the U. S. Constitution, and according to the Declaration of Independence!
Ah, my favourite post-coital expression
I much preferred Dante's Peak.
@@ronaldshank7589 If that movie Volcano took place in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming instead of Los Angeles, that is something more volcanic realistic.
God, I miss him.
Even when I disagreed with him, I understood him well enough to know _why._
Aggregate sites like rotten tomatoes are useless, industry-manipulated trash.
Ebert was truly one of a kind. What a unique personality and style
God bless the 90s, a time where critical thinking where at display. Today, any form or criticism is labelled as hate, plagued with a positivity toxicity. No wonder the entire entertainment indusry today is in the shitter.
The fact that there are so many film critics on RUclips making a living off of their jobs shows that the critical thinking level has probably increased, or has at least been made known. People have always been sensitive, thin skinned creatures. Why else would people be so horrible to each other? Stop being biased towards your own time.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 You mean so called film critics or gaming channels making off a living by shilling the product? That's how i see it these days. Again, the plague of toxic positivity culture. You're not biased for telling the truth, the 90s where objectively a better time.
@@outlawfly664 No, I mean scores of people doing the same thing as Roger. Remember, this is the same generation that has seen The Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic, I Hate Everything, Jeremy Jahns, Chris Stickman, etc. Those are some of the more popular ones. Maybe you mean "professional" critics? In that case, yeah, I get what you mean, but they are completely irrelevant in today's society. I have noticed FAR more negativity than positivity, especially since we have shit like Disney filming movies near Islamic death camps set up by the Chinese and do many people being called out for violating human decency. The term "Cancel Culture" has been popularized in this generation, and our political landscape is hellish.
In order for "Toxic Positivity" to be prevelent, the general population has to be indoctrinated as well, yet I see none of this. Humans are just as stupid as they ever were, it's just being exposed now that we have the internet. So, stop being blinded by nostalgia and accept the truth of the matter, the 90s were not better than today. You're no better than some idiotic boomer bragging about ''the good old days."
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 What dressing comes with that word salad?
This guy was a really smart person. I would never ever say I agree with all his reviews or heck, even most of them but I remember reading his reviews in the years leading up to his death and couldn't help but gain a lot of respect for his work.
Check out his Great Movies series, where he reviews the best classic films of all time. He'll get you hooked.
Roger Ebert solved the world's energy crisis: the absolute lack of creativity coming from Disney these days is making him turn in his grave so much, that a generator can now be attached to his tomb and it can power the entire continent of North America.
He gave spidermans 4 stars. Who tf gives a marvel movie 4 stars? Or any comic book movie for that matter. Comic book movies aren't written by writers, they're written by financial analysts and are targeted at man-children who only want repetitive and predictable stories of heroics and romance.
@@numalesoybea1348 There's artistry to be found in any genre. The fact that you have such a clear bias against anything comic book related tells me that Ebert is more credible a source than you.
LMAO!😂😂😂😂
"It's nothing more than an action trailer that lasts 2 1/2 hours" lol.
Oh, Siskel and Ebert, why did you have to go? The last of the real, honest-to-goodness film critics. Not the vacuous, sellout shills whose "reviews" are bought and paid for these days.
I agree. They could have opinions I widely disagree with them (Blue Velvet, John Carpenter's The Thing, Die Hard and Siskel' negative review on Silence of the Lambs) but at least they were giving their honest opinions.
Critics nowadays give 5 stars to every fucking Disney film because otherwise, they'd lose their valued early screenings.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Amen.👍
I didn't always agree with S & E, but their sincerity I loved, and their creatively expressed reviews were usually sufficient to help me decide if I, myself, would enjoy the film. They are already missed.
I miss Roger. He was funny and so brilliant. He was like a friend I could trust. 😔
Patch Adams has some solid moments though…it’s not perfect by any means but it’s not deserving of “Hate”.
That is one opinion. I found it to be terrible. The real Patch Adams also hated it.
Guys, calm down. Ebert was just a critic giving his personal opinions, opinions are not facts. If he trashed movies you love here, who cares? I loved Ebert and hearing his reviews but none his words are law. Look back through his career, he gave negative reviews to about ten thousand movies that went onto be classics, while at the same time, gave glowing reviews to Cop and a half and Garfield. Take him with a grain of salt and love what you love.
Ha ha, he liked cop and a half, I remember you only had to look at the front cover of the video box to see it was trash!
@@melvert33LOL, there was an awesome dis of it no less on The Simpsons. It's cartoon Burt Reynolds being interviewed by Kent Brockman: "I play a fireman who fights fires with a dalmatian, it's, ah, total garbage"
@@user-ln4gd6hx7e I remember that scene in Simpsons, brilliant
I think he was spot on in most of his criticisms. A lot of people settle for low grade movies, never explore anything above that. ALSO, don't forget he PRAISED and loved a lot of movies, that's why he was a film writer.
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert had some hilarious verbal jousts. Gene said that when Roger wore his brown sweater, it looked like a mudslide. Snap!
"No matter what you paid in, it's worth more to get out." lol
Siskel and Ebert were the greatest movie critic duo ever, their demise was tragic.
...No matter what you paid to get in, it's worth more to get out...
...How come they're not bright enough to take precautions...
This is gold, comedy gold. I miss Roger.
Siskel and Ebert praised former actor John Gielguld last movie before he died. They both loved the film. Later on that same film was named "worst movie of the year" by critics. It makes you wonder.........
Each to their own taste. It's always subjective and personal. I hear folks say, "That's a bad movie!" And I always think, "No - that's a movie you didn't like" even if I have to restrain my gag reflex. Love the Steve Martin quote - "Even a bad movie is hard to make."
While I enjoyed "Armageddon", that was a nice shot by Ebert.
Surprised he wasn't seen stomping on "North". I think that was the movie that inspired the original line. His other great one ("your movie sucks") was inspired by the Deuce Bigalow sequel.
It was absolute the North review that spawned this quote. I can't believe I didn't preserve that issue of the Sun-Times for posterity.
I've always liked Volcano, although I haven't watched it since I was a kid. The scene where the guy tries to jump from the train and lands in the lava always freaked me out.
But he saved the engineer (or whatever his job title was.) I like it too, though that blond gal drives me crazy.
Good news for Bruce Willis, at least he didn't sweep the list. Ebert was such a kind man.
I miss Roger, used to buy his movie review books (no PC then) and compare to my reaction for fun, and knowledge. I miss Gene as well, and their banter over a movie was solid. I hope serious film critique stays and film makers stay with quality. I wonder though when I hear young people say a movie that made a LOT of money should be nominated for Best Film, when it's just a C rated movie in reality. But, I love entertaining movies, doesn't have to be serious, just well made.
This was the best of the three books he did on bad films because he didn't just do recent ones here. He went back over many years and a bit ahead to films that hadn't yet appeared in the Video Yearbook. In fact, one of the reviews in here would appear again in Your Movie Sucks.
sha11235 That's why I'm looking forward to collecting his Movie Home/Video Companion rather than his Yearbooks. His Yearbook editions only covers 2 years per book because his reviews from previous decades would take too much room.
@@patrickshields5251 The early ones were cross sections. He switched to Yearbook because the early books were bursting at their seems and it was too difficult to decide which reviews to cut so he could put in new reviews. I don't blame him.
@@sha11235 He also got a lot of flak for being too generous because most of the reviews in the book are actually positive. Even when he started doing Yearbook, he still puts way too many positive reviews per book.
@@sha11235 Another thing I like to note is that he actually likes a lot of blockbusters.
He also wrote a book about how rice cookers are great , and not enough Americans use them.
Oh yes, Roger’s now iconic line referring to the film, North. Truly a despicable movie from Rob Reiner, who is usually very talented.
I don't think he mentions North here though unless I missed it.
Roger didn’t. But he famously referred to North as that.
@@musicuniverse1356 The North review, which has the sentence which is this book's title, does appear in here.
North sucked shit. And it will go down in history as the first film Scarlett Johannsen appeared in.
And he was riding probably the best hot streak ever before that. His seven movies before that, over 11 years were: This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men. Depending on your taste, that's 2-6 all-time classics and no bad movies.
The book mentioned in this video is a pretty entertaining one. Even if you don't agree with Roger Ebert's assessment of the film, the way he goes after it will usually make you smile. He may even get you to want to see the film, if only to see if it is as bad as he says it is.
Ebert was a very nice guy when he signed my copy of this book at the University of Illinois. It's a shame that he and Gene Siskel are no longer with us, as their take on the films is far more entertaining than 90% of the blogs and RUclips reaction videos out there.
Jesus christ I'm laughing my ass of about what he said about Beethoven 2
Should have been called "Beethoven's B**ch"!
I loved watching him and Siskel, particularly before we were dumbed down to a thumbs up or thumbs down world. Their reviews were insightful and intelligent. They taught me a lot about constructing good sentences, although I didn't quite see that until years later.
Sure do miss him. RIP, Roger.
i miss ebert, gave honest non biased reviews. His reviews sorely missed today. Bloggers & paid Disney shills would be irrelevant if we had guys like ebert giving reviews & called them out for what they were & didn’t give a shit if director’s or studio’s were upset about it.
Damn straight!😎
Edbert also told people not to see John Carpenter's _"The Thing"_ unless they wanted to see grotesque body horror as the film had no redeeming qualities.
He was def wrong about that brother
I love that movie, but I understand that it was pretty hated by everybody when it came out.
I still find myself heading to his great movie list to find stuff to watch. Folks would be surprised to see the good reviews he gave to some horror. 3 star reviews for stuff like Motel Hell, Re Animator, Evil Dead 2, and a few others. Would love to hear his opinion about some movies we have today.
Just go in the bathroom, drop a load and listen to the splash. That's the sound of his review of today's "movies."
Miss you Roger & Gene (& all of the truly intelliigent, discerning minds who seem to have disappeared in the new-age-tech era). :(
Roger was also humble enough to admit when he'd been wrong. After giving a lukewarm 2.5 star review of Unforgiven, 10 years later he upped that to an enthusiastic 4 stars and added it to his "Great Movies" list.
When asked about his original review, he stated In a 1996 interview that his original viewing of the film was tainted by a preoccupation with his personal life: "I wasn't thinking very well when I reviewed that."
Unforgiven has grown into its stature as a Western classic. At the time people who didn't care for Western's did perhaps diminish it's importance.
The movies are terrible, but Roger Ebert's insults of them are priceless.
Rip Roger 😖😭
And it starts with fran drescher.
I even found her annoying in Weird Al Yankovic's UHF, so that's saying something.
Agree wholeheartedly about Patch Adams. That film drove me nuts.
Assassin's is a great movie. People complain a lot about not their not being action but the movie was more mental and dialog than anything else.
Yeah - and I've never seen a character quite similar like the one Antonio Banderas played. It was vicious!
I enjoyed it, also.
He missed a few. I remember his review of The Terminator saying the movie would have been better if it explored the relationship between kyle and sarah more in depth. swing and a miss.
Roger Ebert is a perfect example of why I go by audience score and not critics reviews.
And you are basing this off of 3 minutes of brief comments from him?
He is an audience member as well.
Very sad ending ... could not believe how Ebert looked at the end. it was unreal.
I sure miss Rodger and Gene.
Me too. I watched them since I was a kid, way back when they started on PBS. Always loved their reviews and was heart-broken when they each passed. They truly had great chemistry together.
Volcano was a fun empty headed movie.
Armageddon is AMAZING. I'm so confused on the hate. It is literally in my top 20 all time.
My condolences. :D
What I remembered about him is that in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, Gene Siskel was the one who was respected as a critic, not Ebert.
I thought Joe’s Apartment was a novel premise and executed quite well. It never aspired to be high art but it held itself up through the story.
So there is another person out there that agrees with me on that movie. Ha good to know.
Getting old sucks because as time goes on you have to lose living treasures like Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. The new generation of reviewers is great and all but you just miss the legends that inspired most of them.
You mean Pauline Kael?
I'm over 40 and I've never heard of her until this moment.
@@blazerocker1734 That's my point. One's favorites are the previous generations sadly (already) dead ones.
I never understood his hate for "Armageddon." The plot was far fetched, but the movie was still darn good. The acting was superb, and the comedy parts were hilarious.
I've met Patch Adams. I thought that he was the most humorless "funny" person that I've ever encountered. Williams did what he could with the material.
It is all opinion. I liked Robin Williams in serious roles , and he was a nice person. But I find his coked-up act to be terrible and not at all funny.
This is great. I really miss Ebert (and Siskel)
I like the "The Third Man" reference at the end of his segment.
That was from the 2011 show he did. He loved the film so he did that for his company as a slogan.
It was one of his favorites
Miss that man so much. Only movie critic I HAD to know before watching a movie, even though I disagreed with him plenty of times
So far, I've read two of the collections of Ebert's worst reviews, "Your Movie Sucks" and "A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length," and I have to say, this man doesn't get nearly enough credit for being able to talk about things he disliked. He never takes anything personally (even when a movie offends him personally, he NEVER attacks the filmmakers, just the films), he articulates exactly what he doesn't like and why in the most succinct was possible. I've gone through both books, plus The Great Movies, with a highlighter pen multiple times just so I could remember a particular phrase or expression for when I'm talking about entertainment with other people.
He literally despised Lynch for what amounted to a made-up story of exploitation Ebert conjured up solely in his head regarding Isabella Rossellini, giving the movie 1 star. Nevermind the fact that Rossellini herself expressed multiple times to have loved the experience.
In this video, he brushes off Mercury Rising by derisively bringing up a question that was directly addressed in the movie itself, making the critique utterly nonsensical. It stared Bruce Willis; Ebert had a thing against Willis, going so far as to give 3 stars to both Unbreakable and Sixth Sense -- the same score he gave The Happening.
He gave Swing Kids 1 star because he was aghast that apolitical german teens during the rise of the third reich weren't depicted as Ebert wanted them to be (i.e. outspoken crusaders against the nazi party) but instead depicted like every other teen during any sociopolitical upheavel -- confused and always searching for escapist fun.
@@Tretas. Not sure what any of that had to do with what I said but ok.
@@gabe_s_videos _"He never takes anything personally, he never attacks the filmmakers, just the films."_ I gave you a few of the counter-examples of that.
@@Tretas. Okay
"The volcano is Drano" - Love it!
didn't get it :(