That look of pure disappointment by Roger when Gene would have a terrible take on a great movie, always puts a smile on my face.
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That look of pure disappointment by Roger when Gene would have a terrible take on a great movie, always puts a smile on my face.
Neither. I never listened to either of these homosexuals' opinions on whether to see a movie or not
Cool guy alert
This. Wikipedia and media in general needs to stop including his opinion as a matter of course like it is the final word.
gene wolfe is on the same plate as anime isekai coomers
I like Gene Wolfe, and I like anime, but I don't like isekai garbage.
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Roger Ebert is such a moron, he thought the Ghost and the Darkness was a made up fiction movie, he didn't understand why they were building a railword in it
I sided with myself and didn't watch it at all.
Gene always had the most pleb takes, Roger was based
Roger Ebert hated David Lynch until every other critic under the sun was sucking off Mullholland Drive then he did a complete backpedal on all his previous takes on his directorial skills. Gene mogged him there at least.
He gave The Straight Story 4/4 stars https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-straight-story-1999
>he gave Disney Lynch 4 stars
Not discounting The Straight Story at all either. Just saying, if that film didn't touch you then you are dead inside. It's obviously his most "normie friendly" work.
The most brilliant part of this is when Ebert says something like "I just want to understand it," Lynch replies "You already do." He preempted what Ebert was about to say when he responded that he understood it emotionally. This is one of those moments Lynch outright explains it all to us. It's just a film with stuff happening that prompts a series of emotions. I don't think Ebert understood that or appreciated it, and that's why he trashed Lynch.
and this is why Lynch is a moron. It's filler noise.
Lynch openly said, in multiple interviews, that all of the plot points and mysteries in his movies and series have a definitive answer. He simply refuses to give them, because he views your own interpretation of his works as equally valid, and doesn't want to rob you of it.
In gaming terms, he's someone who would always refuse to have one canon version of events in a non-linear game.
Tell me why I should watch Lynch's stuff. I want to watch something right now.
LYNCHED
Review from David Foster Wallace on lost highway is kino in highest form
It wasn’t a review, it was kind of a behind the scenes thing. He actually didn’t like the film when it came out in the end. Don’t know if he made any public comment on Straight Story, Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire but I would be interested to know what DFW thought of them.
It was the other way around. Not sure why Gene had this reputation for being stuck up. Almost every erotic movie got a glowing review by him.
This is a funny aspect of Siskel. He was unashamedly horny. Always commented on actresses being sexy. Even admitted to jacking off to Blue Lagoon
Gene hated fake blood, he seriously probably had some sort of phobia over it.
It's still weird that he liked Carnosaur.
>Home Alone 3
I never watched this show but I've read hundreds of Ebert's written reviews. He's the only critic I can stand to read. RIP
Ebert had many good takes, but his superior attitude makes him a c**t.
He IS superior to Gene when it comes to film history. Gene does not know his shit. Gene is a very capable film critic, but he's a Chicago guy, while Ebert would read books, go to film festivals and really earned and deserved his position. Gene would be nowhere without Ebert, Ebert was going places though.
no no you're thinking of Siskel
>both gave thumbs down to the warriors
They both had some baffling opinions
>Roger hated David Lynch, went on a tirade again Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart for being racist and misogynistic
>Roger was the only critic in the entire country who liked Cop and a Half
>Roger didn’t like Full Metal Jacket, gave a shitty Benji the dog movie a positive review in the same episode, Siskel threw a fit at him
And then Siskel
>Didn’t like Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Aliens, Blade Runner, Chinatown
>Favorite movie of all time was Saturday Night Fever
>Hated Friday the 13th movies so much he urged people to send hate mail to the producers in his reviews and spoiled the movies
>Both of them are the only 2 critics in America to have positively reviewed Speed 2
>Roger didn’t like Full Metal Jacket
It's overrated
>Siskel didn’t like Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Aliens
Damn what a moron
And David Lynch?
Lynch wasn't some universally acclaimed filmmaker back then. I feel like Zoomers overrate his status in cinema.
No, critics overrate his status. Mulholland Drive suddenly became considered a top 5 movie ever made and the rest of his work was revaluated
>Mulholland Drive suddenly became considered a top 5 movie ever made
I don't know where everyone else was on this but I thought so as soon as I saw it.
Mulholland drive was what caused Critic re-evaluation of his flicks but Twin Peaks: The Return garnered him a huge zoomie fanbase. Twin Peaks now features in top "movie" rankings.
For plebeians and proto-redditors, yes. The people who championed him to begin with already knew and it was a mistake, just like /b/tards who broke rules 1 and 2 and showed their homosexual proto-redditor high school friends fricked up.
>For plebeians and proto-redditors, yes
Reddit has always liked Lynch and so have "proto-redditors". He was a quintessential film bro director before Nolan/Fincher/Tarantino took the helm.
>Nolan/Fincher/Tarantino
Those homosexuals suck and are nothing. Lynch is kino in human form. Even his last name is based.
Lynch appeals to the kind of degenerate who thinks taking drugs and watching cinema counts as a spiritual experience.
Tarantino appeals to the kind of degenerate who thinks smoking weed and being a mental goonslave and slavishly inserting into everything you do is spiritual kino.
I think Lynch jus has a different style of filmmaking that some people mistake for genius. His movies have a different pace and sensibility than most other high profile slop, and some people find that refreshing, but it does not mean it is great or genius, it's just different. Different can also be bad.
You just described Tarkovsky, Cocteau, Bunuel and a million others
Tarkovsky too. Now, I'll be honest and say I'm open minded to the idea that these people are legitimately great and I'm just not getting them but their fans are not really not doing them any favors. They almost always throw around phrases like "It's a pure audio-visual experience bro""it's not supposed to make sense dude". They almost always throw around the phrase "Spiritual experience" too. These people are rarely religious, don't do anything that require intellectual rigour but they'll tell you that the activity of watching these flicks gives them enlightenment. Sounds lazy and self-aggrandizing to me.
I pity you. I managed to avoid all of the reddit and Cinemaphile tier discussions on film because I was an animugay for a long time and viewed it all as Hollywood slop and "what could movies do that books or anime can't"
Maybe try to worry less about what other people think and just focus on what how you feel. There are scholarly film critics who will defend Ed Wood to the death and write flowery verbose articles on the merits of Plan 9.
There are so many films anon
Something that is different is interesting
Lynch's films also happen to be good, so,
Its just any normal person who can digest. You have to see a work as if you made it to start breaking down the decision making choices of the original creator.
You would have better taste in music if you followed this advice
Kek
I will watch
>the prestige
>Pulp Fiction
>Kill Bill
>Fight club
Anytime before
>Blue velvet
What the frick are you talking?
Elephant Man was a big commercial and critical success.
>I feel like Zoomers overrate his status in cinema.
Maybe you do, but it has frickall to do with my or my post, me, or what I said.
I'm not a huge Lynch fan but Blue Velvet is great, and Wild at Heart is also good. I don't recall either of these movies being racist though, but it's been a while, not sure what Ebert was on about.
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Listen for yourself
I think Ebert is right about Lynch trying to shock the audience with the kind of shit some college level filmmakers would do. It worked well for Lynch in his earlier smaller movies, but he kept doing it and it's just no longer shocking, because everyone has seen those kinds of juvenile attempts at being shocking so many times already. I did rewatch Wild at Heart last year for the first time since it came out, and it wasn't as good as I remembered.
Friday the 13th movies so much he urged people to send hate mail to the producers in his reviews and spoiled the movies
This is unironically based. The movies really are "bad on purpose" or so fans tell me. They're bad movies, don't give me this bullshit it's supposed to. Horror movies getting away with sucking is a wild take to me.
>Roger didn’t like Full Metal Jacket, gave a shitty Benji the dog movie a positive review in the same episode, Siskel threw a fit at him
Full Metal Jacket is an experimental movie. It's wildly different. The purposeful de-humanization in the first half makes it harder to connect to the characters once they're allowed identifies and personalities again. It really, is not, a good movie.
I was going to seriously reply until I realized both were shitwit takes
FMJ is a good movie
Black person alert
moronic Black person takes.
>Aliens
Siskel was a homosexual, anon.
F13 is garbage so I have to side with Gene here
For the rest, well it's as my dad used to say, "the fat man liked it but the bald man didn't"
They were both born before people let the internet guide their opinions on things. Now everyone must love the same movies.
thats true. and when you steer into another direction you'll get called contrarian because thats the MO on the four chins weaving whateverthefrick comment section.
how are they racist?
Full Metal Jacket is cheesy garbage.
Remember that episode when ebert got his jaw b***h slapped off by the lord almighty and then he gave siskel a brain tumor the size of a catchers mitt?
>bitches out about Don't Be a Menace
Who
Gene?
>offended by Friday The 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street
Why were they such pussies?
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It's not shocking it's just gritty and true. I wish I could find the story that used to be on his wiki where he was on the subway in Philadelphia back in the '70s and some naked Black person woman was breast feeding an invisible baby. This is sort the sort of nightmarevision shit you could only experience in large cities back then but is now coming to a small town near you courtesy of ZOG
>It's not shocking it's just gritty and true. I wish I could find the story that used to be on his wiki where he was on the subway in Philadelphia back in the '70s and some naked Black person woman was breast feeding an invisible baby. This is sort the sort of nightmarevision shit you could only experience in large cities back then but is now coming to a small town near you courtesy of ZOG
Siskel was the in the right most of the time. Ebert is more fondly remembered simply because he died later
>tfw Gene chooses Vampire Assassin as best of the worst
jaw-dropping reviews
They had a lot of respect for quality animation which is rare for mainstream film critics
>Who did you side with most of the time?
Jay Sherman
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968
Ebert's original Night Of The Living Dead review is a great piece of writing.
>At this point, the mood of the audience seemed to change. Horror movies were fun, sure, but this was pretty strong stuff. There wasn't a lot of screaming anymore; the place was pretty quiet. When the fire died down, the ghouls approached the truck and ripped apart the bodies and ate them. One ghoul ate a shoulder joint with great delight, occasionally stopping to wipe his face. Another ghoul dug into a nice mess of intestines.
>The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying.
Who else /watches old movies and goes on youtube to see their review/ here?
I read the TV Tropes page usually
I do. Pastime of mine since about 2015/16
I thought Ebert's pearl clutching over muh wimmins was always pretty bad.
Whatever weird opinion I couldn't get behind Siskel having was always pretty minor compared to Ebert getting sanctimoniously offended on women's behalf.
>I thought Ebert's pearl clutching over muh wimmins was always pretty bad.
And yet he gave thumbs up to Emmanuelle, French porn with a graphic rape scene.
Ebert was still a misogynist. When he had female guests he would talk over them and even yell at their shitty takes. You can want women to be respected in media while wanting them to STFU when they start yapping.
Gene was sometimes a contrarian or liked to support an odd film for its own oddity now and then. I can get behind that.
>It's a Martin Scorsese guest episode
just watched the 1991 holiday special where they talk to danny devito about his love of laser discs
Never watched these gays, but Ebert hated The Thing and and the other one was les of a gay
Siskel's achilles heel was being closeminded and deciding a film was bad before he's even seen it.
Ebert's achilles heel was being too much of a sensitive gay who took offense too easily.
Overall, Ebert's take were generally better than Siskels, but when Ebert went full moron he REALLY went full moron.
Just found out Rog was a coal burner wtf
https://twitter.com/futurecanon/status/1359531108917006338?lang=en
There's a funny clip of them together
I liked their BTS banter where Siskel made fun of how fat Ebert was, and Ebert making fun of Siskel for being a stuttering drunk.
I only watched for the free previews.
It was probably for the best that they were limited to 4 minutes of discussing a movie, if they had a radio show they would kill each other out of hatred
If these morons started nowadays they'd advertise for NordVPN and have soitastic meltdowns on twitter.com frick em
ebert is a contrarian homosexual