Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on November 27, 2002 at 01:46:49

In Reply to: Re: In case you're wondering, Ebert's top ten greatest movies of all time...: posted by TA on November 26, 2002 at 00:28:45:

I think most of the critics participating in the S&S poll, if not all of them, are rather self-conscious in their selections, there's a feeling of compiling a list for the ages. The directors seem much more frank about their choices.

I used to do a fair bit of reviewing. In picking the "greatest of all time", I think it's fairly typical that one would select films that one thought were outstanding in all their respects and had withstood the test of time, even if they weren't one's very favorite masterpieces. So many masterpieces, so little time.

But the polls are fun to peruse and they do provoke discussion.

Siskel was a master of intellectual precocity and eloquence compared to Roeper. Roeper's review of LOTR basically dismissed it - everyone knew that the only people who would be interested in the film were Tolkien geeks who consisted entirely of nerdy young male persons who'd never had a date, why would anyone else wanna see movie like that? (Gee, Roeper therby dismisses C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, 30 million married women, 50 million baby boomers who read it and wore Frodo lives buttons, plus countless children and old people.) Roeper is more about promoting and entertaining himself than he is concerned about offering any remotely perceptive insights into cinema.

Someone shoot him...please.