1 paragraph actually...at least it was funny:)
Anyways, to Seth, my wife keeps me in a nice padded room, even my keyboard has rounded edges ;) It's admittedly a weird reaction, but it's how I felt, crazy or not.
Anyways, I look forward to his MR review, but I am skipping it until I have...
I have always enjoyed that "inconsistency" of Ebert's. Since I feel the same way. I felt TPM was a 3-starrer, AND I feel AOTC is less than. Minority, yes. Clinically insane, no. Ebert did not state what everyone thinks he did in those reviews. AOTC and TPM are not the same movie. What worked for...
Matt,
I NEVER meant to insinuate that you were a fanboy...here, or in the SW thread I mentioned earlier. You are always civil, and I can completely see where you are coming from. There is no direct correlation between questioning Ebert and being a fanboy. There is apparently a direct...
Backlash on backlash, Matt? ;)
I was a big member of the initial SW: EII/Saga thread (the archived one). Once Ebert's AOTC review hit, the folks in there went NUTS! Look it up (late 190's and beyond). Cruel comments by short-timers AND regulars were splashed on every page. Over ONE review of...
The essays he has written, the reviews he writes, how he can consistently deconstruct narrative and plot elements, his insight into the medium - and so on and so forth. And by most directors...I mean most directors, not all. Most directors in Hollywood don't know squat about filmmaking, as...