Ugh! Ebert and Boobs Again!
 

Ok, so Ebert gives the new Tomb Raider movie 3 stars, but gives A Woman Is A Woman (a new restored 35mm print of Godard's second film is touring around the art houses) 2 stars. Gee, forget the fact that A Woman Is A Woman is hilarious and beautifully shot. Forget that it was directed by a master director, perhaps the most important filmmaker of the modern era. It gets a thumbs down! Go see Angelina's boobs instead!

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They both sound like borefests.

Maybe Tomb Raider is decent and the other one is pompous and boring... have you seen either film?

And he's fat! Did I mention he's fat? And crazy! Fat and crazy!

Zzzzz....

Tomb Raider - 3 stars?

Further proof that Roger Ebert is slowly losing his mind.

Does anyone like you?

Interesting how every week on DVDtalk you can count on two things:

1) A thread about the weeks new blockbusters.

and

2) One devoted to illustrating that Roger Ebert has lost it for the umpteenth time.

The last thing to describe A Woman Is a Woman would be pompous and boring.

Deja vu all over again .....

2 stars is a thumbs down? That’s an average rating. Ebert has praised much of Godard’s body of work—the fact that he feels A Woman Is A Woman doesn’t deliver does not imply he’s lost it---it simply means he doesn’t feel this flick is exceptional in any way—a point he elaborates on in the body of his review.

As to Laura Croft, I haven’t seen it—but it does look like fun (even though I hated the first installment) and that’s pretty much what he says about it.

Amen. Enough is enough.

If you don't like the guy's reviews, don't read it. What's wrong w/ people having to dislike something, but continue to rant about it week after week? Maybe the problem's not Ebert, but you.

I doubt any of the Ebert-haters have anywhere near the movie knowledge that Ebert has. Plus, I doubt that any of them can write as well as he can.

Yeah, I'm an elitist snob.

At least you can admit that.

I give a *guff* to this thread.

<b>*guff*</b>

Do you guys actually <i>READ</i> his reviews?





I guess I wasn't very clear. I'm pro-Ebert.

Why don't we just petition for a new sub-forum entitled "Roger Ebert has Lost It" to go in the movie section? Lord knows it would get updated every week or so.

why not just ask for a "Critic-bashing" Forum? ;)

I second that.

Why do so many people say Ebert has lost it. Just look at the guy sitting next to him. I was flipping through one of Roepers books and that guy is so bad its unbearable.

Richard Roeper is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

And of course, all the above are the most important criteria to be a film critic. :D

I was wondering about that when I saw his high rating for Tomb Raider 2. I think subconsciously, Ebert is influenced by big ones. :D But Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal also gave Tomb Raider 2, a good review, and I find him also to be quite reliable. Let's see how the other critics judge it.

You can't compare one review to the next. His expectations for a movie like Tomb Raider are different than that of Godard's movie. he expects a fun little action romp with fun visuals from tomb raider, and with that, I suppose he got it so he gave it a thumbs up. Hell, he liked the first Tomb Raider and gave it three stars. Nonetheless, considering that no one here has actually seen the movie, not to mention Roger Ebert is a movie critic, not a person who gives tells us what our opinion will be on the movie, these threads are pointless. What if I watch Tomb Raider and I like it? Does that mean I've lost my mind also? OMG!!! I even enjoyed Congo, the first Tomb Raider, Last Action Hero, I must be INSANE!!!

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I guess we have a genre snob here.

And you know, we can repeat this until we're blue in the face, but 90% of the people out there will still misinterpret the "stars" in his reviews. It's all relative, but nobody cares. He gave "Tomb Raider" *** ? How dare he!

IYO

Tomb Raider 2 was a boring, unexciting over-the-top Hollywood crapfest action movie. It sucked, just like the first one did. Just because a movie is an escapist 'popcorn-flick' doesn't mean I go into the theater with lower standards than I do when going to see movies of other genres. Apparantly Hollywood thinks I should. Lord knows Ebert does, and I lose respect for him every time a review of his reflects that.

I pretty much ignore Ebert's reviews of popcorn-flicks as of late.

Muhahahaha. Man, you're so damn funny.

Due do popular demand, I think the admins should create a Ranting and Dissing Movies/Critics Forum.

Well he did give Original Sin a thumbs up. Anything with Jolie being in a major role in a movie = thumbs up. So Michael Bay, hire Jolie as the main female character and you will get a good review from Ebert.

:thumbsup:

Like the thumbs down for Girl Inturrupted, Gone in 60 Seconds, Playing By Heart, Life or Something Like It, and The Bone Collector?

well, its all relative... maybe tomb raider is a 3-star summer flick and what-ever-its-called is only a 2-star film considering whatever genre its supposed to be.

AFA "the most important filmmaker of the modern era", thats completely irrelevant... even great film makers can make a turd and a movie should receive no more or less praise based on who directed the film. It may be worth discussing elsewhere, but in a review of a film, it has no real importance.

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It's not like Ebert hates Godard - you noticed that he just wrote about Breathless in The Great Movies, right? And A Woman is a Woman is nowhere near as good as Breathless, so on Ebert's method of review, two stars sounds about right. He's holding Godard to a higher standard because that is expected.

Tomb Raider, on the other hand, is not held to such a standard. It's pretty obvious that it is a mindless popcorn action flick, so Ebert assumes (correctly, in my case, and I am guessing many others') that the question is whether it is a good mindless popcorn action flick. If it is, then three stars sounds about right. Of course, Angelina Jolie might just have given the movie a bonus star - considering how reviled Godard's last film was, maybe he should recruit her if he really wants to get a favorable review from Ebert :)


And anyway, it's been said many times before that the star rating is not really important, it's the review. I wish that Ebert would just switch to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating or just drop the score entirely, so there wouldn't be all this petty quibbling about stars.

You should be nice to Ebert. He helped Russ Meyer bring us "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".

I think when you compare his Sun-Times reviews to his TV reviews, his :up: corresponds to his *** or higher write-ups.

As for Tomb Raider 2 I don't care what ebert gave it, or anyone else, but...

...If you were familiar with film and had seen the work of Godard (or at least could remember his name) I might listen to this arguement, but considering you have no frame of reference I really think this statement is rediculous. See the movie...then comment.

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