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In Reply to: Roger Ebert defends himslef against being accused as soft on movies... posted by RGA on January 4, 2006 at 19:35:14:
Those who read him will continue to do so, those who don't, will not start.He is the product and the epitome of mass culture. If that's your thing, he is your man, if not, look elsewhere.
It only matters to Ebert himself, who would like to go down into history as a serous critic, not a mass-production guru. So he is trying to white wash his image.
I would say - to little, to late. He should have been smarter all along. As he can write well, and has written well on serious films. Too bad those few good things have been lost in the sea of consumer culture pruducts.
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Mass market? Roger Ebert is a jury member of the Sundance, Montreal, Chicago, Hawaii, Karlovy Vary and Venice Film Festivals. Home of the mass market. Or are those film festivals trying to appeal to the mass market? Vic, how about naming another film critic who reviews more foreign and independent films than Ebert? Or is that a cover for his mass market tendencies? Why let facts get in the way of your opinions?
What is vic -- a nobody -- so who cares.Ebert understand that there are two vary different KINDS of movie making -- one is film as "Art" and two is film as "entertainment" some rare times you even get a film that does both but that is indeed rare. If you read Enert's review of Jurassic Park which i posted somewhere down the page you get a very good idea why Ebert gave JP a *** or thumbs up rating. I see nothing wrong with recommending that film -- I recommended that film -- despite the fact that I had mroe problems with it than Ebert does. I know the target audience and the intention of the film and on those two it works. It is not going to find a place in my DVD collection.
Broccoli is better for my body than empty calorie ice-cream -- but sometimes I would much rather Ice-Cream -- doubt the self appointed snopbs will get the analogy -- they are not too bright.
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