QUOTE(nimrod323 @ Jul 9 2009, 12:14 AM)
Courtesy from Nelson , he says it better to summarize Ebert's attempt at lashing at those who dont find his opinions ermm,how should i put it? hold water? thats about right.
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Nothing says more of a film critic than when he's irked by people criticizing his reviews.
So what does the class act do? Go after the fans or the people that liked TF2 and basically calls them neanderthals.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009..._brainiac.htmlThe sad thing is that Ebert thinks he's in the same league as Pauline Kael or even Gene Siskel. He actually *thinks* he's an intellectual.
Think of what poor Ebert must do to justify his pay: sit down at a movie theater (for free), alone (although he's been recently started watching movies with audiences), and review Transformers 2: a film that's made for summer fun. Can you imagine a food/restaurant critic reviewing the local Wendys? Pointless and a waste of time. Yet he fails to understand––miserably–– that some people just view movies as entertainment. Not everyone goes to the movies to have some kind of metaphysical experience or view the ultimate destiny of humanity on screen.
I'm a liberal. And it's fine that some liberals think themselves as elitist. Whatever rocks your boat. You don't like the move, fine. It's your right. But when fans write back to give you their opinion, do you really have to call them "not sufficiently evolved" just because your sensitive ego was bruised? Imagine if a mathematician insulted Ebert for not appreciating and knowing string theory or linear algebra. The mathematician could call him a neanderthal for using a calculator instead of his brain, but that would be assholish of him, wouldn't it?
Yet eclectic is a word you wouldn't use to identify Ebert or most films critics. I love Kubrick's 2001 and and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia" but I can also enjoy Transformers 2 for what it's worth. Personally, Ebert reminds me of those people who think that either OJ did it or he was set up. For them it's got to be one or the other. Their diminutive or one-way minds can't let them understand that there is a great possibility that OJ did it AND was framed by LA's most racist cop.
Just because people don't like, agree, or care for his opinions, he seems to think of them as anti-intellectual.
Talk about being full of one self. Or empty.
Not related but anyway:
copy pasta:
http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/rants_and_r...47/20081571/p1/-Countless lame attempts at sexual humor (It seems Michael Bay finally realized that whoring out Megan Fox would sell more tickets, and that's exactly what he did.)
-Lame jokes overall
-Ridiculously cliche one liners
-excessive amounts of profanity which really had no place in it
-absolutely annoying characters
-Many moments dragged on, when they could have easily cut them shorter to get the same point across.
-Silly attempt at making the audience give a shit about robots and their emotions
-Corny ass love story mixed in
1. sexual humor is fine by me, when the setting and plot calls for it. Excessive amounts ranging from dog humping, to robot humping, etc just made cheap attempts at getting a laugh out of the audience. I'm all for toilet humor, when it's a movie like Hangover, but in Transformers, it was excessive, repetitive, and not close to funny at all.
2. lame jokes overall. I hardly even laughed out loud the entire 2 and a half hours. and when i did, it was because i realized i had wasted my money.
3. Just like in movies like terminator with "I'll be back" Transformers tried to establish some crappy one liners.
4. Profanity. I can't count the number of times I heard a decepticon call megan fox a b****. The robots talked alot more in this film, and most of the time when they opened their mouths, it followed with a number of cuss words.
5. Annoying characters. Two which I utterly hated: the mother, and the twin autobots. When trying to be funny, all three just became the most annoying characters in the movie for me.
6. Too long. a 20 minute action scene/running scene could have been cut down tremendously and be given the same "Wow" effect.
7. I felt that the movie tried too hard to make the audience care about this blood feud between the auto bot and decepticons.
8. Love stories. Have no place in an action movie.
Jul 8 2009, 10:55 PM
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