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I'm gonna go ahead and bet that Ebert's defense was "it's engaging and very watchable" and Ted Rall expected him to prove that argument while only being able to articulate his own as "it's boring and unwatchable."
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:But that's not what he's saying, at least in that comic (I don't know if this guy's full discussion with Ebert is written about anywhere else). Oh, I see the problem here. You're unfamiliar with Ted Rall. You're giving a hypothetical stranger the benefit of the doubt. That's usually a very noble thing to do! Ted Rall had an illustrated autobiography where he told the artist to write down that this happened. He was too much of a visionary to live off of political cartooning, so he had to become a male prostitute whose clients were all supermodels who wanted to top him off.  Just as a random example of what he says about himself and his life.
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ted lol
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Roger Ebert ranked 'The Wedding Singer' as one of the worst movies ever made so chew on that for a minute.
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I watched Kung pow last night That movie has no subtle moments
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Jestery posted:I watched Kung pow last night 
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In Kung Pow, they deliberately trained Wimp Lo wrong as a joke.
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Milo and POTUS posted:They just give those away Oh? did you get one?
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Krinkle posted:Oh, I see the problem here. You're unfamiliar with Ted Rall. You're giving a hypothetical stranger the benefit of the doubt. That's usually a very noble thing to do! Oh. Wow.
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Ebert was really good at judging a film by what it was trying to be. He'd give a really good popcorn movie a good review because he was judging it as a popcorn movie, not against Schindler's List. I appreciate this every time I go into the Cinema Discusso thread and see people calling Avengers badly written and mediocre. Those films are exactly what they want to be and they're really good at it, and that's fine.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Roger Ebert ranked 'The Wedding Singer' as one of the worst movies ever made so chew on that for a minute. I wouldn't say it's the worst movie ever, but most of the jokes are "This is a thing that happened in the 80s that's only funny because we can look back on what happened afterwards" like when he tells his ex-girlfriend to take off her Van Halen shirt before the band breaks up.
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It's not like people saying Citizen Kane is boring today is a rare opinion though.
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Yeah, but those people are wrong.
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Both Siskel and Ebert often had odd opinions on movies that are well regarded as good or even classic these days. I also pick up that neither had a really strong technical appreciation for film and often missed a lot of subtext. Generally though at least one of them was right about the film, its the ones they both hated that were generally crap.
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I remember Howard Stern clowning on Ebert years ago for giving Godfather II three stars.
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Ebert was wrong all the time but usually did a very good job of communicating his thoughts. Here's one of my favorite reviews he wrote, about night of the living dead https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968 ebert posted:The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying. mastershakeman has a new favorite as of 15:05 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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mastershakeman posted:Ebert was wrong all the time but usually did a very good job of communicating his thoughts. I like to think there are different kinds of horror movies, and that NotLD, Dawn, and even Day are examples of True Horror, where the result is kind of a deep existential sickness at the thought of the situation, that dead bodies are actually slowly, inexorably coming after you, rather than the jump-scares you get with their remakes and most other horror movies. You get some of this from Terminator as well.
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Sorry to add to the S&K derail, but one of my favourite moments was when they were arguing about The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Siskel was trying to logic in having a compy as a real pet, and Ebert wasn't having any of it. After some super dumb point made by Siskel, trying to defend his position, Ebert just takes one perfect beat, turns to the camera, and either introduces the next film or goes to commercial, I can't remember.
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Plus, the guy had an unabashed love of tits. He'd specifically mention giving it a better review if the movie had nice ones. I mean, there might be some problems with that in the women's liberation sense, but it's pretty funny to me.
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I've read before that Ebert's whole thing is that he tried to engage with movies on their own terms and rate them by what they're trying to do, while a lot of other critics just basically have one ideal of what a movie is meant to be and don't bother even trying to engage with anything else.
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Contact. It's the first shot of the drat trailer. Someone whos job is to listen to poo poo has her headphones backwards (left and right channel). It one of my eternal small things that annoy me:
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Do you actually have a pair of those headphones to check? Because i wear mine the same way (minus the upside down thing). The right channel is the one with the cable coming out of it.
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HenryEx posted:Do you actually have a pair of those headphones to check? Because i wear mine the same way (minus the upside down thing). The right channel is the one with the cable coming out of it. I have a pair of those and the cable is on the left speaker.
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Nov 3, 2019 14:12
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the worst part is the sound will come out upside down.
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She's a SETI researcher, so listening to the raw-rear end signal fresh off the antenna is probably less dumb than it would be for a normal radioastronomer, but I'd guess it's in mono anyway
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NtotheTC posted:the worst part is the sound will come out upside down. Nahh man she was at the parkes observatory in Australia so that's how she had to wear them.
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always strange to me when a reviewer doesn't simply print The Truth instead of their thoughts and opinions but that's media I guess
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Why would it matter what ear the sound is going into
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freeedr posted:Why would it matter what ear the sound is going into Ah gently caress you’ve summoned audiophiles into the thread Time to shut it down & start fresh
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I wasn't crazy about the Halloween 2018 movie but there were some cool callbacks in it. The masks from Halloween 3 on some trick or treaters, the framing of Michael when he shows up at the stairway leading to the basement bunker, Laurie Strode "stalking" her grand daughter outside the school, the escaped mental patients wandering around after the bus crash, Laurie searching through the wooden slat closet. there were more I think but I've only seen it once. Oh, yeah, there was a shot of Laurie laying on the ground as Myers looks down from a balcony that reversed and echoed the final scene of Loomis looking down after he shoots Michael.
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freeedr posted:Why would it matter what ear the sound is going into I was wondering the same thing. I don't know the context of the picture but unless you're listening to something like a movie or game where you're supposed to hear things on the right side of the screen on the right side why would it matter?
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Humphreys posted:Contact. It's the first shot of the drat trailer. Someone whos job is to listen to poo poo has her headphones backwards (left and right channel). It one of my eternal small things that annoy me: Ellie didn't want to take off her festive hat, so she was forced to wear her headphones like a dolt.
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Len posted:I was wondering the same thing. I don't know the context of the picture but unless you're listening to something like a movie or game where you're supposed to hear things on the right side of the screen on the right side why would it matter? If the hi-hat isn’t on the left it bothers me.
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freeedr posted:Why would it matter what ear the sound is going into NtotheTC posted:the worst part is the sound will come out upside down.
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I'm watching toy story 3 and I noticed that Woody still had the extra stuffing in his right arm from after Andy's mom sewed him back up. Nice bit of visual continuity there.
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The Ape of Naples posted:If the hi-hat isn’t on the left it bothers me.  I can't fathom people who pan drums from the audience's perspective instead of the drummer's.
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HenryEx posted:Do you actually have a pair of those headphones to check? Because i wear mine the same way (minus the upside down thing). The right channel is the one with the cable coming out of it. I do. And you can even see the blue denoting left channel. As I said, it's one tiny small thing that really shouldnt matter. It gets me every time I use those headphones, stupid brain.
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Baron von Eevl posted:
I am hosed when I record left hand drummers.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I am hosed when I record left hand drummers. Try listening to any of the Melvins albums they did with the guys from Big Business. 2 drummers, one lefty and one righty, sharing the floor toms. edit I'm trying to think of an overheard mic setup for that. I'm thinking sort of like XY but with 3 mics, one each pointed like 110 degrees apart and one straight down Baron von Eevl has a new favorite as of 00:17 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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Rewatching The Matrix. I never noticed before the parallels between Neo's first meeting with Morpheus, and his first meeting with Smith. They're both sitting directly opposite him, and Smith is giving Neo the exact same choice Morpheus does with the pills. 'In one life you're Thomas Anderson, in another you're Neo. One of these lives has a future, the other does not'.
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