Who was in the wrong here?
Siskel & Ebert - Blue Velvet Review
Luke Gray
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Jeremiah Wood
it was nice to see S+E. Hadn't seen them for a while
Ebert was more of a hack. Siskel was objectively the better critic, though more traditional.
on a related note
Mike and Jay are truly their inheritors
Luis Sanchez
Jace Morales
who /siskel/ here?
Ayden Adams
I always forget that Ebert used to look like a fat lesbian.
Adrian Baker
Childhood is when you listen to Ebert
Adulthood is when you realize Siskel was right
Dylan Rodriguez
Siskel was a normal dude that talking in common sense terms. Ebert was a pomo fruitbag faggot and complete phony without any legit insight.
Jonathan Gomez
>"The movie clearly and unmistakably gives us a character who understands the Bill of Rights, understands his legal responsibility as a police officer, and nevertheless takes retribution into his own hands. Sure, Scorpio is portrayed as the most vicious, perverted, warped monster we can imagine -- but that's part of the same stacked deck. The movie's moral position is fascist. No doubt about it."
Ebert was so bad at his job but with Siskel the banter made up for his shit reviews.
Charles Price
Ebert can't into Post-Irony
Juan Fisher
There was a great doc about them on 'flix. you should watch it.
Jaxson Flores
>it's a ebert has to defend his giving 4/4 to triumph of the will so no one thinks he's a nazi review
Jordan Cox
Ebert has always had the bad habit of hating a movie that upset him, even if upsetting the viewer was the director's intention.
The man was a fucking hack who cared more about his feeling than whether or not a filmmaker did a good job of evoking the targeted emotions.
This is the same dumbass whose largest writing contribution to film was a rejected Russ Meyer screenplay.
Rejected. Russ Meyer. Screenplay.
Luis Moore
Ebert went completely retarded on Blue Velvet and A Clockwork Orange, though Siskel didn't even like Breaking the Waves from what I remember; or heavily undervalued it.
Carter Phillips
>I got upset so the movie sucks
Nice critical analysis
Aaron Rivera
Exactly what I've always hated about Ebert.
Dylan Martinez
Is this some shitty On Cinema At The Cinema ripoff?
Asher Perry
People don't fucking remember but the joke about Ebert for years was that he always gave positive reviews to "black" movies.
does anyone else remember that? Anything with a remotely black cast "IT'S GREAT"
Carson Cooper
I don't know, but here he is shutting down some SJWs.
Easton Robinson
My mother would always joke that Siskel died because Ebert literally ate him alive because he got hungry.
Aaron Brown
Maybe that's why he was successful, he told the plebs which movies were fun.
Jonathan Wright
He could easily say "It was fantastic. Unsettling, maybe, and it won't make you feel good, but fantastic."
No, he legitimately watched movies with a pleb's mind and said something more along the lines of "This movie was bad because it made me feel bad and the director should be ashamed of himself for making movies that hurt my feelings."
Daniel Nelson
films of the year
1985: The Color Purple
1989: Do The Right Things
1992: Malcolm X
1994: Hoop Dreams
1997: Eve's Bayou
2001: Monster's Ball
Charles Morris
>1994: Hoop Dreams
He said Hoop Dreams was the best film of the whole decade.
Nathan Adams
what a fucking retard
it's not even Spike Lee's best film
Justin Johnson
It's not even a Spike Lee film.
Aaron Taylor
Both are retarded kikes and I'm glad they're dead so the true king can ascend to the throne.
Liam Edwards
oh fuck i was thinking of he got game lel
Cameron White
>Spike Lee
>good film
>ever
Robert Harris
Plebs don't want to think they're plebs, if he said that they'd see it anyway and then they'd be the ones saying what you said, except then Ebert wouldn't have his cushy job.
I mean maybe you're right and he was sincere but I find it hard to believe he could make movies his career and honestly still be that much of a pleb, not to mention the fact that he had Siskel there to balance him out and give the show some legitimacy shows a certain level of self awareness about his appeal.
Zachary Cooper
Will this replace half in the bag?
Hudson King
Did you really not like Do The Right Thing?
Ethan Garcia
Showbusiness, including film criticism, is all about kissing the right asses and being in the right place at the right time.
Plebs are perfectly capable of being professional film critics, especially if they help put asses in seats.
Reminder again that Ebert's contribution to film was a Russ Meyer screenplay that Russ didn't think was good enough for one of his films.
Jayden Adams
Nope. Its entire atmosphere rubbed me the wrong way. Danny Aiello was good as always, but it wasn't enough to save Spike Lee's awful direction or much of the cast.
Eli Butler
>that last point
True enough.
Grayson Torres
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eve's Bayou
fucking LOL Ebert
Henry Johnson
total hack
Hunter Allen
>ebert thinks blue velvet is a comedy
Oh god how is this guy so famous ?
Jaxon Hill
The problem with this board is that idiots take sarcasm literally and now actually like this stupid fuck unaware that it's a meme.
This guy considers Transformers high art.
Dominic Nelson
>Transformers isn't high art
>>>/reddit/
Connor Mitchell
Jesus Ebert was such a pleb it is jaw-dropping that he even had a career.
Elijah Brown
>it is jaw-dropping
well played good sir!
Jacob Hernandez
what a fuckin sjw fucekr
Colton Foster
He had the grace and understanding to admit that as much as he hated it Freddie Got Fingered would almost certainly become a cult-classic and possibly even be considered culturally significant.
Xavier Gomez
>this guy considers Transformers high art
citation needed