Roger Ebert

And ratings are such an interesting thing, too, because now anybody can do it.

It's not just the Roger Ebert's of the world throwing that out there.

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But also, if it makes people feel bad and they rate it low, I can't really blame them, even though I think it's incredibly impactful and important.

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um so i want to talk about a few critical opinions of this movie and you know i want to point out the difference of men's criticism versus women's criticism of this movie and it's not gonna listen listeners do i have to tell you hashtag not all men do we have to do that here i don't think we do i'm just saying this is a good example of how these discussions can go so Roger Ebert gave the film no stars, referring to it as a vile bag of garbage without a shred of artistic distinction.

And he said attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of my life and considered it the worst movie ever made.

So it's one I would highly recommend and it's always fun when showbiz get creative with applauding if you have like a Mighty Peking Man or the Oily Maniac.

Just those really sort of experimental movies because this and Mighty Peking Man were the only real sort of like... attempts to do something in the kaiju um super saiyan sort of genre um and it's also the film which uh roger ebert managed to get went back and re-evaluated and gave an extra star to just on the strength of how much he liked uh mikey mighty picking man he re-evaluated his opinion of both movies and gave this one extra star so

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I haven't seen this yet.

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What did Roger Ebert say? Well, shockingly, he didn't review this movie.

So we can just move right along.

Okay.

And, you know, some people down there said, thank you very much.

They all depart, you know, at the very back of the room, still big in those days, Roger Ebert.

Wow.

Yeah.

IMDB, 5.6. Letterboxd is probably the highest at 3.2.

This is Siskel and Ebert talking about Clifford.

Ugh.

Clifford is like a movie from Mars.

guess you already did

it.

Well, I do want to say what Ebert was saying, how he was kind of gearing up to tear it down.

Everything that he said, I agree with until he said, this is a terrible movie right like that it's a movie from mars yeah that it's insane yes uh that it's has some of his favorite actors in it

Audiences gave it a 60%.

This is a negative review from Roger Ebert, actually.

He gave a positive review last time.

Yeah, Chicago Sun-Times.

So I'm glad that people are seeing this.

Well, it's like Roger Ebert said, there's no bad movie too short and no good movie too long.

This is the way it should be.

This is the way it should be.

Okay.

What did Roger Ebert say? Well, shockingly, he didn't review this movie.

So we can just move right along.

Okay.

I'm talking about the visceral reaction people now have to AI.

You probably saw that The Ringer got roasted online because they have a sponsorship with OpenAI and they're doing like a Roger Ebert chat GPT bit.

Anytime you see a small business use an AI graphic on their Facebook post, people like stop posting AI slop.

And a lot of it's coming from Gen Z, but it's pretty broad as well.