Roger Ebert Stops the Film
Oct. 17th, 2008 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAmong the films Roger Ebert reviews today is something call Tru Loved. He gives it one star. He also turned the film off after eight minutes. (He was watching a screener copy since the film interested him but wasn't playing at a convenient location.) This is the first time since Caligula that he's quit a film he was reviewing in the middle.
He discusses his decision to quit after eight minutes and to still do a review here. There is also a link to the review, of course. And this being the Blog Age, he lets his readers chime in. It's fascinating to read, as most readers have well-reasoned opinions about whether Ebert is obliged to still through a film, whether he should still review something if he can't sit through it, and whether a critic of Ebert's caliber (or anyone) can tell after eight minutes that something is total crap.
I am not sure I would have reviewed anything after quitting it so quickly. But a man who's reviewed 8,000 films has probably earned the right to quit a bad movie once in a great while. And reading his reviews of bad films and his reasoning is sometimes more interesting than reading his good reviews.
Some of you may be aware that Roger Ebert cannot currently talk, a complication of cancer surgery to his face a couple of years back. But it's good to know that through his writing, and through the Internet, he hasn't been silenced in the least.
He discusses his decision to quit after eight minutes and to still do a review here. There is also a link to the review, of course. And this being the Blog Age, he lets his readers chime in. It's fascinating to read, as most readers have well-reasoned opinions about whether Ebert is obliged to still through a film, whether he should still review something if he can't sit through it, and whether a critic of Ebert's caliber (or anyone) can tell after eight minutes that something is total crap.
I am not sure I would have reviewed anything after quitting it so quickly. But a man who's reviewed 8,000 films has probably earned the right to quit a bad movie once in a great while. And reading his reviews of bad films and his reasoning is sometimes more interesting than reading his good reviews.
Some of you may be aware that Roger Ebert cannot currently talk, a complication of cancer surgery to his face a couple of years back. But it's good to know that through his writing, and through the Internet, he hasn't been silenced in the least.
