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The Worst Movie reviewers

Palpadious

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Most of them are hacks, but who do you consider the worst?

Without a doubt, for me, it's Michael Medved. He doesn't judge movies based on quality, but rather if they agree with his agenda. He gave Pulp Fiction a bad review because it wasn't family friendly and called V for Vendetta terrorist propaganda. He has a smug look of self-satisfaction on his face that just screams to be punched. He is such an ass-hole.
 
Anne Hornaday. Horrible woman, and a horrible critic. She hated virtually everything she reviewed - even the films that were actually good.
 
Some ****e from Entertainment Weekly gave The Matrix a C! What a clueless b**ch!
 
Leonard Maltin and Joyce Kulhawik.Kulhawik didn't like Big Fish or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,but loved Welcome to Mooseport and Rugrats meet The Wild Thornberries.:rolleyes:

I would mention the CAP Alert guy,but I love his reviews.:up:
 
A bad critic is someone who cannot put their opinions across eloquently, not someone who doesn't like the films you do.
 
Kevin Roegele said:
A bad critic is someone who cannot put their opinions across eloquently, not someone who doesn't like the films you do.


Darthphere said:
Lisa Shwartzbaum from EW.


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EW has some f@#ed up critics! Robert Bianco has some good taste in TV shows for USAToday, but his writing style is stupid, and he's the biggest d-bag around! And whoever writes for "the hollywood minute" sucks hard too!
 
Prognosticator said:
EW has some f@#ed up critics! Robert Bianco has some good taste in TV shows for USAToday, but his writing style is stupid, and he's the biggest d-bag around! And whoever writes for "the hollywood minute" sucks hard too!


The only real reviewer I respect from Ew and all around really is Owen Gleiberman, he seems to review from a an average movie goer perspective rather than some elitist critic perspective.
 
While a great reviewer most of the time, Roger Ebert is bad when it comes to superhero movies, at least in my opinion.
 
i have yet to find a review from Roeper than i can agree with.

and i think Ebert just gives good reviews to whichever film gives him the best freebies.
 
Roger Ebert. Everyone looks up as if he's the greatest movie critic ever, but he's a moron. Plus, he gave bad reviews to many a great movie, including Die Hard, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, both of Tim Burton's Batman movies and much more.
 
I hate them all, too. They get the idea in their head that everyone listens to them so they act like they decide the fate of movies. I hate them all. Die! :mad:
 
blind_fury said:
Some ****e from Entertainment Weekly gave The Matrix a C! What a clueless b**ch!
Was it the same ****e who gave Charlies Angels Full Throttle a B+ while only giving Pirates of the Caribbean a C?
 
amazingfantasy15 said:
While a great reviewer most of the time, Roger Ebert is bad when it comes to superhero movies, at least in my opinion.

why? he called batman begins one of the top movies of 05, same with history of violence.
 
i used to hate Tom Long from the detroit freepress, but then he gave hills have eyes a B+, i forgive him now.
 
I would like to be a professional film critic myself actually or failing that, to write books about cinema (including a book on the history of comic-book films which would, ideally, have interviews with the directors as well as reviews and behind the scenes info). If I did get to be a critic, my approach would be to judge each film on its own merits, regardless of whether it's an adaptation or remake or whatever and give my honest opinion, even if it goes against the majority. For example, most of the reviews for Narnia were one big love fest, but I personally thought it was a terrible film, a complete waste of time and money. It was trying way to hard to be Lord of the Rings (even going so far as to film in New Zealand) and Andrew Adamson, while a talented director of animated films, is a total hack when it comes to live action. Hollywood would have to have absolutely no taste whatsoever to ever give him another directing job.
 
Palpadious said:
Without a doubt, for me, it's Michael Medved. He doesn't judge movies based on quality, but rather if they agree with his agenda. He gave Pulp Fiction a bad review because it wasn't family friendly and called V for Vendetta terrorist propaganda. He has a smug look of self-satisfaction on his face that just screams to be punched. He is such an ass-hole.
SooOOOOOoooo TRUE!
I feel as if I wrote that post myself.
He is truly repulsive. I used to listen to his radio show and you could feel his smug, seething only barely containable sense of superiority just dripping out of the speakers.
When he debates, he's just got this transparent childish thing where you know that deep down it isn't really about the issue at hand or trying to exchange ideas but just mainly that he gets an addictive adrenaline rush from being right/proving someone else wrong. He's such a psychologically ****ed up guy.

When you have a good reviewer, who isn't a maniacal zealot, they have the ability to watch, say, a dumb teen comedy, but to analyze it and say "this is not my thing, but as for the target audience they will enjoy it and as an example of this genre, it's well done."

But with him, if a gay character is depicted as a hero, then *bam* it was a terrible MOVIE.
If a priest is depicted as a psycho, *POW*, the film had no artistic merit.

He is turd-for-brains.:down


How ever, he is intelligent enough to speak his own language.
The WoOOOOorst reviews I have ever read (and that includes the ones in my junior high school paper) were by HARRY KNOWLES.

He is a certified ****** and consistently you have to skim through 4 or 5 pages of, "Well, I got up the morning of the screening and couldn't decide whether to have bacon, or eggs for breakfast, so finally it dawned on me, "I'll have bacon AND eggs!" So I had an ass-rash and wasn't looking forward to sitting through a three hour movie, but my nephew needs to be exposed to the work of this director and since my grandpa twisted his ankle I wouldn't be able to go until after Sam and I get back from our fishing trip..."


S.T.F.U.

So, that's bad enough, but then...you know how a stupid person or a foreigner writes something and you have to read the same 3 sentences 5 times because you honestly can't even imagine what they were trying to say, you just have no idea what the hell you just read, because it bears very little resemblance to anything remotely ENGLISH???
He writes like that all the time. He writes stuff that is so geniusly beyond stupid and outside the bounds of even remedial grammar that, I can't even...I'm trying but I can't even think on that level long enough to try and think up an example, just, insane run-on and on sentences and mixed metaphors and mis-used words like freaking Crazy.

The thought of that moron having a.n.y. success in his field just...blows my mind.
 
That's why I try to just ignore them and see movies for myself. Plus Ebert's melting face scares me.
 

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