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Hahahah exactly....

"The value of a critic is not in the reader's agreeing with the critic, but it is the ability of that critic to communicate to the reader why he or she did or did not like the film"

I have disagreed with Ebert a great deal of the time. For instance he will like a film for being what is designed to be "brain candy entertainment" then he gives a movie like Splash *1/2 stars. Granted Splash is no great movie but to me it should be in line with many other movies of "this type" which he has given *** to. Indeed for what it is Splash was better than most. But It's an opinion and he usually defends it.

There is an art house movie called Blue Velvet which many crtics RAVE about and I thought it was pure drivel -- guess what Ebert gave it ONE star. Then there is A Clockwork Orange which he gave ** to and a thumbs down. Soft? C'mon this is a Kubrick masterpiece in many quarters his best or second best film.

Then there are movies like Crash (the Cronenberg Crash) where he raves and I gave it no stars - i consider the movie to be aimpless and pure shock porn for shock sake -- I just can't agree with Ebert on this film. I could go on and on and on about how often i disagree with the man -- yet he defends his position well and that's all I can ask for. Genererally when it counts I agree with him - when he gives something Zero stars chances are he's right and when he gives it 4 stars it's usually at least a good movie.

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