Has Ebert ever been as wrong as he was with Tommy Boy?

Has Ebert ever been as wrong as he was with Tommy Boy?

>No one is funny in "Tommy Boy." There are no memorable lines. None of the characters is interesting except for the enigmatic figure played by Rob Lowe, who seems to have wandered over from "Hamlet." Judging by the evidence on the screen, the movie got a green light before a usable screenplay had been prepared, with everybody reassuring each other that since they were such funny people, inspiration would overcome them. It was Forrest Gump, I believe, who said, "Funny is as funny does."

He's right though. You just like it so Chris Farley's life wasn't a complete waste

He's right, it was awful and not funny at all

I've seen it once and I don't remember any of it

I would ask you why I liked it before he died, but I was like 7. Still funnier than say, Zoolander 2.

>Housekeeping, you want me jerk you off?

Erbert is really stupid I don't really understand why he's respected

How can two different people be so wrong in the same exact way? Tommy Boy is right up there with Dumb & Dumber when it comes to stupid comedies.

>Do you validate?

HERE COMES THE MEAT WAGON

>rob lowe is obviously in tommy boy
>has multiple scenes
>basically the antagonist of the movie
>not actually credited

who did he piss off? i know they did some major changes to it before shooting, like putting spade in it.

i think it's nitpicking, i agreed with most of his reviews. but he has a few weird moments. never been a big fan of brazil myself though.

It was a contract issue since he was working on the Stand concurrently.

He was wrong with his tax policy

Ebert gave 3/4 stars to Orange County. I agree with him about a lot of movies, but rarely on comedies. I think he just doesn't get comedy on a fundamental level.

He's hated on quite of few movies in his career as a critic

Brazil
The Raid Redemption
Team America world police
Zoolander
Fight Club
Wedding Singer
Taste of Cherry
Shanghai Triad
Die Hard
The Living Daylights
Rope
Footloose
An American Tail
Batman

But for me it was when he insulted Good Burger that I realized he was a worthless hack beyond redemption

>Good Burger

Sinbad's shining moment

>hating on rope
why?

What the fuck does this even mean

most of those are legit bad movies though

but die hard? come on rog'.

Don't forget

The Usual Suspects
Blue Velvet
Raising Arizona
The Devils
A Clockwork Orange
All video games
The Cat in the Hat
Bee Movie

Fuck this idiot

He feels bad for the actors that are in Blue Velvet, and anger at David Lynch for what he made them do.

Note: I like Blue Velvet, I'm just interpreting Ebert.

>The Cat in the Hat
>Bee Movie

I'm glad he's dead

Why would you expect an old-guy film critic to be in tune with popular comedies and action flicks?

I feel like when you've seen 10k films, it's a lot harder to be impressed by stuff like that, besides the fact that he was like 2-3 generations removed from a lot of those films. Not like his opinions wouldn't be very useful for other films, but why bother reading them for films like that?

such great performances in such a cheap, nonsensical movie and that he didn't utilize the actors enough, they were just along for his ride.

or something.

...

>All video games
damn Sup Forums is still triggered over this? the man has been dead for years. time to let it go.

>made

Yes. See Ebert on The Thing. total pleb.

Not to mention in happened in the 80's

Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

Didn't he even concede that video games could be art after Shadow of the Colossus or something? I disagree with him but I get what he was saying and where he was coming from.

Ebert gets on my nerves for making it acceptable for reviewers to give bad/good scores to movies they disagree/agree with ideologically. He started all this SJW shit in movie reviews when he gave bad reviews to all of Lynch's work because it was too violent and dark for his sensibilities.

Continuing

Full Metal Jacket
Harold and Maude
Donnie Darko
Leon: The Professional
Reservoir Dogs
Straw Dogs

Now some movies he loved

The Happening
Speed 2
2012
Knowing
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Junior

Oh shit I didn't even know, I thought it was in the 2005+s at least.

The salt mine of Sup Forums

>no memorable lines in Tommy Boy
>what is fat man in a little coat?
>what is you can shove your head up a cow's ass but i'd rather ask a butcher
Ebert was a fucking hack. That's not even to mention classic sight gags like failing to tip a cow and the bandolier of hotdogs.

>not liking junior
>not liking speed 2
kys

>Didn't he even concede that video games could be art after Shadow of the Colossus or something?

Nope.

Christ, and people give Armond shit for being an "edgy contrarian"?

he's most wrong about The Master

Rob Lowe is one of the most attractive men ever born in the past century

This is an arbitrary fact and I mean nothing else by it. I'm just kinda shoving it into this thread on purpose to be annoying because how annoying is it that someone this good looking exists.

>Paul Thomas Anderson has referred to "Punch-Drunk Love" as "an art house Adam Sandler film." It may be the key to all of the Adam Sandler films, and may liberate Sandler for a new direction in his work. He can't go on making those moronic comedies forever, can he?

>Oh shit I didn't even know

That's because I made it up.

I don't even like armond but it pisses me off when people call him a contrarian. If you go through any half decent critic's past reviews you can cherry pick instances where they disagree with the majority view.

>Speed: This Time in a Boat

>dat fagface

would 2bh

he's right about video games, deal with it childs

Anybody seen Richie?

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that review came from another movie entirely.

My god tommy boy amd black sheet are equally wastes of celluloid fucking embarassingly bad

you say fag face, I see a human man face that is far from entirely terrible to look upon

Quick, give me the name of a reviewer you prefer over Ebert, who is not Armond!

>lol its a bad movie staring a fuck up of a person so its contrarian to say its good ebinnn

at least you're talking about a film I'll give you that

>deal with it childs
lol you should stick to tumblar theirs a reason they already have a place in art museums

The average publicly educated Sup Forums poster

this man said that his weakest moments is life was when he was fucking a 10/10 underage model, it was a low point in life

fuck this man

Well, Ebert is dead, so it's hard to trust his newer reviews.

>literally playing with children's toys and proclaiming it as art
I laugh at you, I laugh at you from my mountain

Nobody.

I gained my own taste and criticism from the Sup Forums hivemind and there aren't any critics who usually agree with Sup Forums. Critics are worthless.

That's one Ron Donald don't for you.

I'm not a guy so these lamentations mean nothing to me

you can fuck a drugged out Stacy any time you like ... for drugs

status doesn't make you happy

Ebert is essentially a confirmed pleb. He's only well known because he and siskel basically invented the simplified review using thumbs. That's it. His taste and general understanding of films is really questionable

dumb and dumber wasn't funny either.

No, Tommy Boy isn't very good. Here are examples of Ebert fucking up:

>movies Ebert gave 4/4 stars:
Knowing
Prometheus
Avatar
Crash (2004)
Salt (2010)

>movies Ebert gave 3.5/4 stars:
Cars 2
Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Anonymous
2012
The Karate Kid (2010)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Paranormal Activity
Brüno
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Snow White and the Huntsman
Junior (1994)
The Matrix Reloaded (he gave the first Matrix a 3/4)
The Amazing Spider-Man (he gave Sam Raimi's Spider-Man a 2.5/4)

>movies Ebert gave 3/4 stars:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Transformers
The Matrix Revolutions
Ghosts of Mars
Deep Blue Sea
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
The Santa Clause 2
Garfield: The Movie
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Jennifer's Body
Total Recall (2010)

>movies Ebert gave 2.5/4 stars:
The Omen (he gave the remake a 3/4)
John Carpenter's The Thing (he gave the prequel the same score)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Full Metal Jacket
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Rushmore
Wild at Heart
Naked Lunch
Reservoir Dogs
Grindhouse
Caddyshack

>movies Ebert gave 2/4 stars:
Straw Dogs (he gave the remake a 3/4)
Die Hard
A Clockwork Orange
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Army of Darkness
Big Trouble in Little China
Prince of Darkness
The Fog (1980)
Starship Troopers
Basic Instinct
An American Werewolf in London
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Lost Highway
Brazil
The Fisher King
Fight Club
Bottle Rocket
Papillon

>movies Ebert gave 1.5/4 stars:
Raising Arizona
Day of the Dead (1985)
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Phantasm
The Usual Suspects
Dead Man

>movies Ebert gave 1/4 stars:
Blue Velvet
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Frighteners
Scrooged
The Raid: Redemption
Phantasm II

>movies Ebert gave 0.5/4 stars:
Hellraiser

>he succumbed to the hivemind
BREAK THE CONDITIONING

Ebert was a really fucked up guy.
From what I've seen of his, sometimes he gets it absolutely right, and other times he turns into an absolute faggot about everything.

Reminder that siskel was a giant fucking hack of a critic

he obsessed over dark city just as much as i did when i first saw it, he's /myguy/

>Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
>3/4

What the fuck? That movie was at least 3.5/4

Someone shop his head onto the little girl

I hope you're replying A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 should have been rated lower...

It's horrorkino.

What was the movie Ebert went back to years later and said he was completely wrong about it when he originally panned it?

I would only rate 1st and New Nightmare above 1.5 2bh.

For some reason I swear it was Apocalypse Now, but I can't find anything about him giving it a bad review.

I remember there was either an episode of his show, or there were two movies he reviewed within the same month or something. One was some shitty movie about a teddy bear which he gave a better review that the classic that I swear was Apocalypse Now.

>Still funnier than say, Zoolander 2.
setting the bar below sea level isn't helping your case

One of the things Ebert made clear, at least in later years, was that he reviewed movies based on what they were trying to make. So a 4/4 silly comedy wouldn't be the same abstract quality as a 4/4 drama, and it's wrong to compare them that way.

>So a 4/4 silly comedy wouldn't be the same abstract quality as a 4/4 drama, and it's wrong to compare them that way.

Yet you get tears of blood from the jackasses on this board who come crying when the Lego Movie has a higher RT than Nocturnal Animals

Ebert was a retard.

He constantly recanted his opinions if the films became popular.

I didn't compare them in that way, it was just me trying to explain why I thought it was Apocalypse Now from my memory.

I liked when Rob Lowe fucked his mom.

Steve Sailer. I was just revisiting his incisive reviews of District 9 and Elysium.

yeah i agree whenever i look up his review of a movie i disagree, not sure how he became "the" guy for reviews.

recently i recall i looked up that he hated dead man which is one of my favorites, also he said video games werent art and that was just old man bias shit when anyone who spent thier life calling movies art should be well aware that it took old book fags a while to respect that media as art in the early days.

The closest I can think of or find is The Brown Bunny, but that was just about a year later, and a recut, not the same version of the film.

you can tell with things like the star wars prequels and garfield (it had bill murray as the lead) he reviews based on how he thinks the film will do and how people will remember it as a big hit or not, its such a shitty dishonest way of reviewing.

you wanna see a good example of this, Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. When it first came out, reviewers reviewed it as a jew-bashing film. When it turned into a giant hit, they re-reviews came out of the woodwork praising it as great filmmaking.

His Blue Velvet review is a crime of Film Criticism

>New guy puking up in the back, old guy gets out and says *imaginary cigar* OH MAH GAAAAD

Fucking die at this scene every time.