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.

*guff*

Do you guys actually READ 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.

I was wondering about that when I saw his high rating for Tomb Raider 2. I think subconsciously, Ebert is influenced by big ones. 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!!!