Roger Ebert's Top Ten

[ono]

Monster?  Hahaha.  I'm sorry, but as much as I respect Ebert, I think he may have lost it a bit here.  So Charlize Theron gets uglified and shows a little skin, and we're supposed to believe this lesbo-serial-killer fare is better than Finding Nemo and Lost in Translation?  Granted, I haven't seen Monster, but I can't believe something seemingly banal could be the best film of the year.

"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups."

-Under Seige 2

I prefer "don't assume - it makes an ass out of you and me."  Um, yes.

Anyway, we don't know whether any movie will be good or not unless we see it, but there are some you can just tell by the publicity material they will be crap or you probably have no interest in.  I just don't see what the appeal of Monster is right now, except for the skin factor, which, even though I respect Ebert, some of his reviews indicate he falls victim to.

[Ghostboy]

I don't think Monster looks particularly good, either, and Ebert has a tendency to fall for this type of movie (Monster's Ball, which I did agree with him on at first, is a prime example). But it's a good list, and on his actual article he followed it with more films that he claimed were just as much an equal as any on the 'official' list, and that included Kill Bill -- and May (yay!). He said he tried doing an alphabetical list one year, because he hates ranking movies that shouldn't be compared, but he got tons of hate mail about it.

[Gamblour.]

I don't think Monster looks particularly good, either, and Ebert has a tendency to fall for this type of movie (Monster's Ball, which I did agree with him on at first, is a prime example). But it's a good list, and on his actual article he followed it with more films that he claimed were just as much an equal as any on the 'official' list, and that included Kill Bill -- and May (yay!). He said he tried doing an alphabetical list one year, because he hates ranking movies that shouldn't be compared, but he got tons of hate mail about it.

But he still avoided ROTK, likes too good for it, he's basically snubbing it. He was that kid in school who tried to be different, wore shirts that said "You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same" and stuff like that  

[Thecowgoooesmooo]

I think we are forgetting this simple phrase. Or two phrases... Or just two phrases I just made up.

"Every boy and girl across the land, is different. No two people are alike!"

"We all have different opinions!"




chris

[cine]

Or just two phrases I just made up.

 You're a fountain of wisdom...

[Thecowgoooesmooo]

Thecowgoooesmooo wrote:
Or just two phrases I just made up.

You're a fountain of wisdom...

Well thank you. You've got a long way to go.




chris

[pete]

I feel ebert went gaga over american splendor and lost in translation, as well as elephant, way too easily.  he wouldn't've five years ago.

[ShanghaiOrange]

Wait, wait. Hold on just a minute. Everyone just shut up. WAIT!

...there was a Under Siege TWO!?

[bonanzataz]

yes, and it was better than the first. the new one is coming out sometime next year. can't wait.

[pete]

this is the new steven segal movie, directed by a pretty badass hong kong director/ choreographer (he choreographed the upcoming Shaolin Soccer and Hero)-turned slave of segal.  the movie looks selacious (exploitative) as hell.

http://www.videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=237127&VideoKbRate=1&AltID=&CustomerID=14817&WM=False&Ads=True&Play=False&Shorten=False

[cine]

I feel ebert went gaga over american splendor and lost in translation, as well as elephant, way too easily.  he wouldn't've five years ago.

I never understand these anti-Ebert comments. How do you know he wouldn't have five years ago? Where is the evidence to support this?

[pete]

the evidence is that Ebert was never a big fan of irony before.  He was always pointing out that we lived in an age of irony, and he liked films like Magnolia that never hid behind irony and that was just unashambly sincere.

I wasn't anti-ebert either, more like anti-these movies.

[mutinyco]

Screw Ebert. Read my year end article!

http://movienavigator.org/2003take.htm

[oakmanc234]

Hey mutinyco, I really enjoyed reading that. And now I actually wanna see 'Gigli', which I'm still not sure is a good thing...

[Alethia]

good read.......but i strongly disagree with you on finding nemo!