Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on December 21, 2005 at 12:10:53

In Reply to: Re: Ha Ha!! posted by Victor Khomenko on December 21, 2005 at 10:24:43:

"Always highlighting what is good is the job of an industry lackey, and Ebert is one."

I think that you are missing the point. You can highlight something good in a film, but still not recommend the film. Doing so does not make you a lackey. "That speaker reproduces a solid bass, but is not recommended because of what it does to the midrange" does not make the critic a lackey. It merely means the critic did his or her job, and described the entire experience. If you actually read Ebert with any regularity you would know he very often not does not recommend a film, but does discuss positive attributes of the film. How does that make him a lackey?

"There is nothing wrong with finding something good in an otherwise bad film, and pointing that out, provided one has guts and integrity to call it BAD. It seems like Ebert simply doesn't have guts, or, as some others put it, he is on the industry take, even if not overtly, and his job is really to assure good crowds."

Who are the others that you are referring to? Friends of yours? People who complain about Ebert because they are jealous that they do not get paid handsomely to watch and write about films? Let me know, I'd like to know "some others" credibility. You obviously do not read Ebert's reviews with any regularity, because he is not shy about writing that a film is bad when it is bad. Perhaps you should not be listening to others, but rather doing your own homework. What would your response be if I wrote a statement that "some others" said you dressed up cheap wire in amplifiers to fool your buying public?