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I am fairly new to all this but I have decided that THE GUY IS A DUDE:

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/fyi/teachers.offcampus/11/30/richard.roeper/story.roeper.jpg

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Like last night, when Ebert said that the first 30 seconds of D.E.B.S. is funny, and he said "that's like saying you enjoyed the napkin at a bad restaurant"!

haha!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

adam, please.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

no seriously!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd...kind of still like to see D.E.B.S. anyway.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

To see how it compares with Sugar & Spice.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~moha0117/sonatine.JPG

― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes Ade I like Sonatine.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd trust a napkin at a restaurant to review movies before I trust that fuckhead!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

i like him!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

You think the ending of HEAT is good!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

He's pretty annoying but I see what he's trying to do.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

ME or ROEPER?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I like him, he seems very reasonable and occasionally drops a pretty good zinger.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

He is admirably un-liberal with his upward-pointing thumb. So he's a little smug, who isn't?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

He HAS some of the worst taste known to mankind! He's also an idiot!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

adam, this time you've gone too far!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I saw Ebert in SF last week. Doing a talk at Stacey's.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Ebert looks pretty crappy lately. All of the color seems to be bleached out of his face.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Ebert's taste also seems to have gotten worse since hanging out with Roeper.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Who or what are we comparing him to? He's a smarter dresser than Ebert. Probably has less cowlicks than Rosenbaum. Might be able to do the sliding thumb-removal trick better than Sarris...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm basically comparing him to any other popular tv movie critic. I think that's fair.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

That would pretty much be Ebert, then... and using the word "critic" fairly loosely.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

That's not much of a comparison (I can't name another TV critic right now.) I also dispute that Roeper is popular with anyone. But either way he's significantly worse than Siskel was and not even half as good as most of the people they had sitting in for Siskel after he died. He is better than Michael Medved, but that's not saying much.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.herzbube-mit-zwei-damen.de/spinoff/ropers.jpg

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

TS: Roeper vs Medved

(IOW, FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

but my favorite tv film critic is this guy

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/elsewhere/images/2003/feb4/rosen.jpg

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Minneapolis TV critics repazent!

http://images.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_1695215447/lg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Medved might be a reactionary twerp, but at least his approach to discussing films makes sense compared to Roeper, who I still can't even get a read on (mostly because there's not much to read).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

He's also an idiot!

No, he's criticism for people who don't 'get' criticism. He's pretty clearly smarter than he acts.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't buy that for a minute.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

No, he's criticism for people who don't 'get' criticism.

No, that's:

http://www.angrysimon.com/pictures/1.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ROEPER IS GODAWFUL and if any of you fools ever had to read his stuff in the Sun-Times you'd agree with me. What's even worse than his film "criticism"? HIS GODAWFUL POLITICS/SOCIETY COLUMNS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thesimpsons.stopklatka.pl/bohaterowie/img/miastowi_smithers.gif

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Interesting. Neither Ebert nor Roeper are members of the BFCA.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

He's pretty clearly smarter than he acts.

No, and Hstencil is right about his Sun-Times columns. You'd think that if he was really smart, and was just flexing for the TV show, that his columns would be totally illuminating. Guess what? It's USA Today bullshit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

hstencil beat me to it

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

actually i've read much better journalism/criticism in USA TODAY. Roeper isn't fit to be a middle school paper's lead writer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I love ilx CONDEMNATION, it's like he's turned into hitler or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

If most people on ILX would like to consider themselves social critics, and Roeper is committing what could be considered the mass genocide of critical perception on a weekly basis, the hyperbole isn't misplaced, I guess.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm pleased you all like Roeper like I do.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

But I prefer bitching about Armond or Medved or people who have an angle.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

spencer, at least hitler didn't murder the english language.

KIDDING.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Hitler!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Where?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

under the bed!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

get the broom!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

D.E.B.S.!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

i actually do think he's smarter than he appears, but he's pretty devoted to his just-a-regular-guy schtick and i'm not sure that speaks any better for him than if he really were just a knucklehead.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

look, get this straight: one of these days justice will be done. and on that day Roeper will be pulled from his home, tied to the back of a horse and dragged through the streets where we can spit on him and kick stones at his naked body, and he will be ripped asunder for our enjoyment.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i like roeper, but am skeeved out at his hand

― anthony, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

is it coated in baby blood?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

i actually do think he's smarter than he appears

Is this just a really really really understated slam on Roeper (i.e. "he appears to be dumber than a piece of lint, therefore he's got to be smarter than he appears"), or is this the whole Rosenbaum vs. Ebert thing all over again?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

what about his hand?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

It's like Johnny Tremaine's hand!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

who is Johnny Tremaine? Is he like Jeremy Beadle?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Who the hell is Jeremy Beadle? He's referenced on some Roll Deep song, isn't he?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahahaha!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Is this just a really really really understated slam on Roeper

no. i just mean that i think his schtick is a self-conscious one to some degree, that he probably cusses out interns during commercial breaks and stuff like that.

i saw him "live" once, before an outdoor film screening. he told bad jokes, and had a very ill-fitting sweater. but i couldn't work up any dislike for him.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Jeremy Beadle is a Trust Patron of The Philip Green Memorial Trust, and he annually hosts a quiz party along with Crown Prince Shwebomin of Burma to raise money for disadvantaged children.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

but i couldn't work up any dislike for him.

I can't either. That's why I hate him.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

GENE SISKEL's ROTTING CORPSE WRITES BETTER REVIEWS THAN ROEPER!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I found this by way of further explanation. It's a bit "Calum":
http://www.ubersite.com/m/47944

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I defy you to find one sentence in any of these three columns that doesn't make you regret being able to read English.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep171.html

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep151.html

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

gene siskel was a crap writer too.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

(xxpost)That's pretty repellent.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

You know, in print he reads sort of like Tom O'Neil, don't he?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

i told you so.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Do you really not who Johnny Tremaine is?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

OMG those columns are awful. also, at times, very strange:

'Sometimes I'll go six months or even a year without seeing the Walking Man, but he always resurfaces. He walks in the morning, he walks in the afternoon, he walks and walks. In the last month, I've seen him at least a half-dozen times. Earlier this week, he was on Wacker Drive between Wabash and State.

What. Is. His. Deal."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson has to be the first accused child molester in history to show up for his trial in pajamas and slippers. My God, why not show up carrying a lollipop and a guide to area grade schools?

Haha, this is like a cross between conservative talk radio and stand up comedy without the jokes!

Or are those basically the same thing?

Do you really not who Johnny Tremaine is?
not a clue

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

He uses words like "kudos" and "bomb" that make me thirst for blood.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Apparently I don't know how to spell Tremain either.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Here.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

stand up comedy without the jokes!

this is EXACTLY how roeper was in person.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! That snippet that Amateurist posted is grimly hilarious!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

While you're over there.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Hmmmm....

I envy the person who has not read this book., April 23, 2002
Reviewer: Joann Fantina (Bernardsville, NJ, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
Good for the young and old alike. This historical fiction book is quite accurate about the American Revolutionary war era - and is easy to read and moves along quickly. Very well written and very enjoyable reading. I often give it as a gift to a 'New' American.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Ugh! (Stand-up comedy, indeed! "Women be different than men!")

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe someone would publish his stuff?!!? Who buys these?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Apparently no one as the first book is #202,926 on Amazon's sales ranking thing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
A waste of money, November 26, 2002
Reviewer: A reader
Mr. Roeper has said that he "doesn't get" the fuss about Charlie Chaplin, and he gave a "thumbs up" to JACKASS: THE MOVIE.
Why anybody would pay good money to read a movie book he has written is beyond me.

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― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I'm gonna give you Johnny Tremain as a gift. Then I'll explain our tax system to you!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

xp-fuck your tax system!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

wow, roeper really is a douchebag.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)Our tax system fucked you FIRST!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

he gave a "thumbs up" to JACKASS: THE MOVIE

See, he's not all bad.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

he is very eclectic though:

Schlock Value: Hollywood at Its Worst
Ten Sure Signs a Movie Character is Doomed, and Other Surprising Movie Lists
Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That Are Absolutely, Positively, 100% Not True
Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully Persistent Myths of Films, Television, and Music
He Rents, She Rents: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Women's Films and Guy Movies
Short-circuit Currents in Three-Phase Systems
Biology of Symbiotic Fungi Associated with Ambrosia Beetles of Western United States

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

I would tend to agree with him about Jackass, and there's really no point in comparing his views on the film to his views about Charlie Chaplin. But the existence of that book and all like it ("movies for guys who like movies") are more offensive than that comparison.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

i mean, how many other movie critics do you know that have also written books on symbiotic fungi?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Two.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Oops, sorry. Here's the third column I meant to post:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep091.html

"(No word yet on whether Tara Reid is still attached to her breasts.)"

But why limit yourself? There's a whole world of fun at:

http://www.suntimes.com/index/roeper.html

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

I was surprisingly UN-surprised by his Surprising Movie Lists.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

i think they would be surprising if you used most of your brain energy trying to decide how to get a free snickers from the break room snack machine.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

With me, that task takes teamwork, but deciphering Roeper's books is a solo endeavor.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

D.E.B.S.

http://www.chicagohs.org/AOTM/nov98/graphics/socpart.jpg

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I don't care enough to click on the columns but in isolation that easy jab at Tara Reid is hilarious.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I knew it was just gonna be a matter of time before Keith found this thread.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm astounded at both the love and hate! (I venture towards the 'he seems like a smug dick' side.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

did you read those links, Ned?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Not those in particular yet -- most of what I've read from him were these complaints about the LOTR movies, which didn't make me well inclined towards him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Well normally I would say complaining about the LOTR movies showed good sense, but this is Richard Roeper. . .

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

FIGHT WITHIN YOUR SOUL, ALEX

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

roeper is like the "friend i only sort-of like from down the street's boring & slightly creepy dad" i never had. adam, you are a wingnut.

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/amiga2/horizon/Gene-Shalit-web.jpg
AREN'T YOU BITCHES FORGETTING SOMEONE!?!?!?!?

― THAT'S RIGHT IT'S THE SHALIT (Dan I.), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

I know Roeper's sister, and she is bad-ass (and smart). To quote a friend, she's got more ink on her than a retarded kid at a pen factory. If R. Roeper, on the other hand, is indeed smart as well, then the man is just terribly unambitious.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not too keen on LOTR, but Roeper was all, "C'mon, it's just a ring, who cares?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Josh -- did you write that SYGC profile in Red Eye? (If so, good job. They're friends of mine, we share a practice space, etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

"C'mon, it's just a ring, who cares?"

awesome

― who's asking? (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that is kinda awesome, now that I think about it -- but on TV, saying it, he was floundering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

i think this whole thread shows what a wonderful diversity of perception there is among us human beings!

― who's asking? (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could grow long arms and hug you all

― who's asking? (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

it's gene shallot!

― lame nytimes crossword pun (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.landware.com/movieguide/tour/images/Maltin.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

What wonderful diversity of opinion? Everyone except for you pretty much thinks the guy is a moron and a terrible film critic!?! There's probably more consensus on this thread than any except the Pat O'Brien one!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

I think Ebert hired Roeper just so he could have a snot-nosed kid to push around from time to time. My favourite Ebert moment ever (and I'm a huge fan...check out his print review of Gerry) was on the show where they were arguing over the use of blue language in some Jeffrey Tambour movie about old people having dirty sex. Roeper was all, "It's so brave to have old people cursing!"
And Ebert lays the smack down: "Yeah, but there's a difference between good cursing and bad cursing. Take it from me, I wrote an X-rated movie. How many X-rated have you written? None, that's how many!"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

I was lukewarm on Ebert, until they actually got him to be a guest speaker at work a month or so ago. (Long story, but yeah Ebert came to Folsom.) He's damn cool. Plus he has these little snippets of stories that made me nearly fall out of my seat...like mentioning hanging with Thelma Schoenmaker & watching 'Raging Bull'. Damn his oily hide!!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

a few months ago, i met this girl at a club in chicago. she was drunk and cycling through her text messages and there were some from "r. roeper" and i was like "is that..." and she was like "yeah we went out for a year and we're still friends."

his messages were SO corny, they were all like "hey baby, u wanna get dinner 2nite?" and stuff like that. anyway she and i ended up getting really drunk and going out for a 3am dinner of our own later on that nite, but when it came time to go back to her hotel afterwards, i put the brakes on. casual sex lasts for an evening; being the guy who hit cleanup for richard roeper lasts a lifetime.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

dude!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

x-post jaymc, yeah that was me. Talked to them in the house of Canasta and snagged a copy of your Peter Schilling cover.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

TS: Roeper vs Medved
(IOW, FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY)

I didn't see that anyone ever posted Medved's 50 worst movies as published in the book of basically the same title roughly 25 or 30 years ago:

Abraham Lincoln
Airport '75
Alkazam the Great
The Ambushers
The Assassination of Trotsky
At Long Last Love
The Big Noise
Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number
Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo Garcia...!
Che!
The Conqueror
Daughter of the Jungle
Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball
Dondi
Eegah!
Godvilla vs. the Smog Monster
Goldwyn Follies
Horror of Party Beach
Hurry Sundown
Ivan the Terrible...!!!
Jamaica Inn...!
Jet Attack
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
King Richard and the Crusaders
The Last Movie
Last Year at Marienbad...!!
Lost Horizon ('73)
Myra Breckinridge
New Moon
Morthwest Mounted Police
The Omen
Parnell
Place for Lovers
Return of Sabata
Robot Monster
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Say One For Me
Solomon and Sheba
Spinout
The Story of Mankind
Swamp Women
Swing Your Lady
Terror of Tiny Town
That Hagen Girl
Three on a Couch...!!
Trial of Billy Jack
Trouble Man
Twilight of the Rio Grande
Valley of the Dolls
Zabriskie Point...!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Josh. I'd suspected you were the dude behind the byline I see every so often, but wasn't sure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Critics are awful. Worst of lists are awful.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Ivan the Terrible?!?!?!?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I'll have to watch that again tonight in Michael Medved's honor.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

is this the same ivan the terrible that's made several sight & sound top ten lists?

i'm guessing medved thinks a lot of himself for daringly declaring this film to be one of the "worst." he also obviously has no fucking clue about anything.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Myra Breckinridge

TAKE THAT REX REED!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

haha if only he listed "BEYOND the valley of the dolls," he'd have taken swipes at TWO fellow film critics

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Are you guys sure that's the same Ivan The Terrible?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I mean I gotta say to Medved's credit most of these movies are really pretty bad (some are so bad they are actually campy fun, but they are still bad.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

And even the movies that I really like (The Omen, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, Zabriske Point) are movies that I TOTALLY understand why other people might despise.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

The Omen is actually good, though.

xpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

A friend and I nearly peed ourselves watching Roeper splutter over the Oshima film "Taboo." Roeper was in classic gay-panic mode re its homoerotic samurai content, and Ebert was failing to calm him down.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Was Ebert trying to calm him down with a tender, but masculine, back rub?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

ha roeper + oshima = good times

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

So he's a little smug, who isn't?

OTM

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

It is indeed the Eisenstein Ivan. The accompanying chapter comes with the requisite swipes at the "swishy" male characters.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

that is indeed the same Ivan the Terrible (xpost)

Eric brings up something I only noticed recently, re-reading those Medved Bros. books--they're homophobic as all fuck.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

If Roeper was just "a little smug" he wouldn't provoke this level of ire. The man is a complete nitwit.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Yep. Ed Wood gets more flack for wearing ladies' sweaters than any of his directorial choices. It's been so long since I looked at the book, I can't remember what his objections to Three on a Couch (of all Jerry Lewis films) were, but I wonder if it has anything to do with Lewis' extended drag sequences, as opposed to the mere "drag cameos" in other Lewis films.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

You OWN Medved's books, Matos?!!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Also, I still want to see Losey's Assassination of Trotsky.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

of course! they were HUGE influences on me in high school. (The 50 Worst Movies of All Time, Hollywood Hall of Shame and Golden Turkey Awards, not the later craptastic shield-our-children-from-the-shame ones.) my paper did a good profile of Michael Medved a couple years ago, between my stints here: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0320/film-medved.php

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I wish more film critics were actually like Jay Sherman.

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

note Medved Bros., not Medved. the three I have (well, two--still missing HHoS, still looking) are co-written w/his brother Harry.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I will admit I actually liked Medved when he did the "Golden Turkeys" on Sneak Previews on PBS (not enough to buy his books though-esp. after realizing what a right-wing kook he was.) As soon as he replaced Neil Gabler though WOAH boy was he terrible. He needed to focus his "talents" on tearing apart goofy b-movies and stay away from everything else.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://cache.eonline.com/Gossip/Answer/Images/210.ebert.roeper.081104.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

It's great that Judi Dench has finally found someone.

― the black hand, Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Roeper sometimes reminds me of Jonathan Franzen:

http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/art/franzen_j.05-01-03.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

somebody's got a cruuuuUUUUUUUUUuuuuuush!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

he sort of reminds me of loudon wainwright iii, or will ferrell.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Am, I think that's the first time anyone's ever typed that sentence.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

The real best tv movie critic
http://www.novatocommunity.sutterhealth.org/images/wahl_jan.jpg

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell is that, Bella Abzug?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jan Wahl.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

His defense of Crash makes Roger Ebert look like André Bazin.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I dressed as Roeper for Halloween last year and my friend put flour in his hair and went as Ebert. Least recognizable halloween costumes ever...

Mario and Luigi won the costume contest ;(

― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

jan wahl needs her hat stuffed up her ass

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i hardly even know her

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

There was a woman who did movie reviews on the ABC overnight news who I quite liked.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Their video picks of the week:

Ebert: The 400 Blows, Munich
Roeper: A Day without a Mexican, Rumor Has It

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see his girlfriend at the howard stern film fest? shes like 19 and hot.

― city of gyros (chaki), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, you are a roffle-matic this weekend.

― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

god, roeper is so hot.

also, DEBS was such an awesome movie

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guessed the plot of A Day without a Mexican before I imdb'd it (and you will too).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

wait, which thread has miccio's hilarious ebert/burns-roeper/smithers dialogue if not this one??

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Roeper once did a frame-by-frame analysis of As Good As it Gets at a local high school.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

did he point out todd solondz on the bus

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

the roeper/ebert dialogue was on the Ebert hates rollerball! thread.

The poster for Terence Malick's The New World at our store has a solitary pull quote.

"The Best Romantic Epic Since Titanic"
--Richard Roeper

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

A Chicago film critic was ego-surfing and discovered that I'd said he was a dick at a party we were both at a couple years ago:

"I wonder what party I was such a dick at... Thanks for the words."

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...)

― and what (ooo), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc rolls with a rough crowd

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think its fair to say youre no longer bi-curious when youve had roepers dick in your party

― and what (ooo), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. It wasn't Roeper. Actually, Gear, I think you know who it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

r853nb@um? pr1de??

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

The latter.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

i hate that guy

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't David Cross say Scott Stapp told him "thanks for the words" in some bit?

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you know Rosenbaum. Always dicking up parties.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Could happen.

http://www.cinemaparallel.com/rosenbaum.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like what might happen if Christgau let himself go.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

the last 30 months have been the stupidest in human history & this is the stupid nadir https://t.co/7wyqHwk5my
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 30, 2018

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:47 (seven years ago)

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