Roger Ebert Love
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jade_sabrebecause I don't give it to the man enough.
1) from his review of The Last Song:
"The Last Song" is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the screenplay. Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived. His story here amounts to soft porn for teenage girls, which the acting and the abilities of director Julie Anne Robinson have promoted over its pay scale.
The movie is intended, of course, for Miley Cyrus admirers, and truth compels me to report that on that basis alone, it would get four stars. But we cannot all be Miley Cyrus fans, and these days you rarely hear Hayley Mills mentioned. Yet I award the film two and a half stars.
To be sure, I resent the sacrilege Nicholas Sparks commits by mentioning himself in the same sentence as Cormac McCarthy. I would not even allow him to say "Hello, bookstore? This is Nicholas Sparks. Could you send over the new Cormac McCarthy novel?" He should show respect by ordering anonymously. But it seems unfair to penalize Miley Cyrus fans, Miley herself, and the next Peter O'Toole for the transgressions of a lesser artist.
2) from his review of How to Train Your Dragon:
We are born knowing how to command dragons and spaceships and down we forget as up we grow.
1) from his review of The Last Song:
"The Last Song" is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the screenplay. Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived. His story here amounts to soft porn for teenage girls, which the acting and the abilities of director Julie Anne Robinson have promoted over its pay scale.
The movie is intended, of course, for Miley Cyrus admirers, and truth compels me to report that on that basis alone, it would get four stars. But we cannot all be Miley Cyrus fans, and these days you rarely hear Hayley Mills mentioned. Yet I award the film two and a half stars.
To be sure, I resent the sacrilege Nicholas Sparks commits by mentioning himself in the same sentence as Cormac McCarthy. I would not even allow him to say "Hello, bookstore? This is Nicholas Sparks. Could you send over the new Cormac McCarthy novel?" He should show respect by ordering anonymously. But it seems unfair to penalize Miley Cyrus fans, Miley herself, and the next Peter O'Toole for the transgressions of a lesser artist.
2) from his review of How to Train Your Dragon:
We are born knowing how to command dragons and spaceships and down we forget as up we grow.
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Date: 2010-04-03 04:29 am (UTC)Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy.
but, uh, yeah Roger Ebert! high-freakin-five for that delicious BURN :D
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Date: 2010-04-03 04:42 am (UTC)also
I HAVE READ THE ARTICLE, IT IS PRETTY MUCH THE MOST INFURIATING THING EVER
yeah pretty much this is why I love him especially when he is being a grumpy knows-everything old man.
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Date: 2010-04-03 08:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-03 11:07 pm (UTC)meanwhile
YOUR ICON
I LOL'D
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Date: 2010-04-03 11:21 pm (UTC)context.
Also, it's a t-shirt! (An overpriced t-shirt that charges way way too much to ship internationally, true, but a t-shirt still.)
Meanwhile, as much as I love Roger Ebert, I prefer Eilonwy's similes.
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Date: 2010-04-03 05:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-03 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-05 12:17 am (UTC)Oh god I love movies.