Okay, stop being stupid... now
Jan. 27th, 2010 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficNow, I admire the hell out of Roger Ebert, but good god, the man is racking up blowhard points and not just when it comes to videogames (I will fight you if you say a Michael Bay movie is superior in any respect to Uncharted 2). Take his review of The Lovely Bones. You can look it up on his website. 'Flawed' would be a generous way to describe the film, yet the central beef Ebert seems to take with it is that it depicts an afterlife. Or at least he has a problem with the movie failing to make the consequences of a murder tragic enough, but if so, he's phrasing it really awkwardly, which is death for a critic. Take this quote.
The makers of this film seem to have given slight thought to the psychology of teenage girls, less to the possibility that there is no heaven, and none at all to the likelihood that if there is one, it will not resemble a happy gathering of new Facebook friends.
They haven't given thought to the possibility that there isn't a heaven? IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A MURDERED GIRL NARRATING HER STORY FROM HEAVEN. If that's such a deal-breaker for you, why are you even reviewing it? Really now, could that statement get any dumber?
J.K. Rowling writes her Harry Potter books with no inkling that there might not be such a thing as magic.
J.J. Abrams directs the latest Star Trek installment with no consideration for the possibility that faster-than-life travel is impossible.
The new Mad Max movie gives no thought to the possibility that in the future, the Singularity will turn us all into gods. I will be a god! I will be a naughty movie critic god!
Ebert spends so much time talking about how the movie fails on his terms that he gives no thought to how the movie fails on its own terms, which is bad criticism and bad cinema-going. Two thumbs down.
The makers of this film seem to have given slight thought to the psychology of teenage girls, less to the possibility that there is no heaven, and none at all to the likelihood that if there is one, it will not resemble a happy gathering of new Facebook friends.
They haven't given thought to the possibility that there isn't a heaven? IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A MURDERED GIRL NARRATING HER STORY FROM HEAVEN. If that's such a deal-breaker for you, why are you even reviewing it? Really now, could that statement get any dumber?
J.K. Rowling writes her Harry Potter books with no inkling that there might not be such a thing as magic.
J.J. Abrams directs the latest Star Trek installment with no consideration for the possibility that faster-than-life travel is impossible.
The new Mad Max movie gives no thought to the possibility that in the future, the Singularity will turn us all into gods. I will be a god! I will be a naughty movie critic god!
Ebert spends so much time talking about how the movie fails on his terms that he gives no thought to how the movie fails on its own terms, which is bad criticism and bad cinema-going. Two thumbs down.
