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I love when Ebert reviews a movie and gives it one star

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-village30f.html

Surrounding the village is the forest. In the forest live vile, hostile creatures who dress in red and have claws of twigs. They are known as Those We Do Not Speak Of (except when we want to end a designation with a preposition). We see Those We Do Not Speak, etc., only in brief glimpses, like the water-fixated aliens in "Signs." They look better than the "Signs" aliens, who looked like large extras in long underwear, while Those We Do Not, etc., look like their costumes were designed at summer camp.
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Hrmm, so in 'Signs' we were invaded by Aliens who didn't like water even though are planet is made up of a little bit of water...

Are these 'Things that Live in the Woods With Trees Of' afraid of grass by chance?
 
Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.
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rofl...
 
"Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets."

Hahaha.
 
Originally posted by: gistech1978
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
he's a hack, and his movies are cliche and trite.
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this man speaks the truth.
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Whats funny is when he talks about movie piracy.... hes got this real smug attitude when he makes the point that people should be paid for their work etc, but the whole time Im thinking, yeah thats all well and good but what about when the movies suck... we dont get our money back. We should be paid to watch his crappy movies.
 
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.
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Gee Roger, tell us how you really feel 😛
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
he's a hack, and his movies are cliche and trite.
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No, not all of them. He did a movie and a half. The Sixth Sense was a very good film and the first half of Signs was excellent. Other than about those 2 hours he's a hack.
 
I saw it for free and I liked it 🙂 I wonder what roger would think of that!

Originally posted by: nan0bug
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.
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Gee Roger, tell us how you really feel 😛
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Pretty funny description of all the rewinding and backward motion and that
cash jumping back in your wallet at the ticket window......

Wasn't planning on see the movie in the first place and this fair warning
really kills it for me.
 
Originally posted by: dnetmhz
Originally posted by: jjones
A movie worse than "Signs"? That's unpossible!
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That's what I thought.. apparently we are mistaken!
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I liked Signs 🙂 It was full of plot holes, but I loved the end where it became evident that every crappy thing that happened to the preacher happened for a reason. It was kind of cool how they tied every bit of misery together in a 10 minute scene to show that everything happens for a reason. So, excellent idea, but poor execution of the idea.
 
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