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[The Penultimate Warrior]

"Hey you, apologise for calling me a Mack Truck"

Isn't that more of a compliment? I also like to think it was the brothers who wrote the blurb on the back of the case, genuinely believing they'd created the greatest action film ever.

 

[Flexo]

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

"Hey you, apologise for calling me a Mack Truck"

Isn't that more of a compliment? I also like to think it was the brothers who wrote the blurb on the back of the case, genuinely believing they'd created the greatest action film ever.

It probably was them.

Watch The Foot Fist Way to get an idea of how a lot of white martial arts senseis see themselves and behave. It’s billed as a comedy, but it’s more true than most people would think.

 

[BrunoMattei]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mSFGoon-5Wc

This is a good one. Especially the cutting back and forth with Siskel and Ebert ranting on their soapbox.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

This is a good one. Especially the cutting back and forth with Siskel and Ebert ranting on their soapbox.

I always wondered how Ebert could climb up on that soapbox, considering the trash he produced:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68865/when-roger-ebert-made-x-rated-movie

“I’ve considered full and pendulous breasts the most appealing visual of the female anatomy,” Ebert later wrote.
(well, I kinda agree with that statement...)

Ebert was also one of the Karens that would later try to link movie/tv violence to RL violence.
Guess that argument didn't hold up.
He also petitioned the MPAA to lower violence rating standards, and raise nudity/intercourse tolerance.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I always wondered how Ebert could climb up on that soapbox, considering the trash he produced:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68865/when-roger-ebert-made-x-rated-movie

“I’ve considered full and pendulous breasts the most appealing visual of the female anatomy,” Ebert later wrote.
(well, I kinda agree with that statement...)

Ebert was also one of the Karens that would later try to link movie/tv violence to RL violence.
Guess that argument didn't hold up.
He also petitioned the MPAA to lower violence rating standards, and raise nudity/intercourse tolerance.

It got much worse when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire episode to chastising studios for making horror films and outright saying these movies would make men want to rape and kill women.

 

[Amused_To_Death]

For some reason critics in the 80s had this weird moral panic where they would denounce depictions of violence and gore. The Thing got thrashed by by them for that.

 

[Flexo]

Which is funny because there's this perception that Americans have no issue with gore but are uptight about sex.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Which is funny because there's this perception that Americans have no issue with gore but are uptight about sex.

That is true. Siskel and Ebert were being made fun of by their classy Euro-Critic friends.
You can be a art critic/art snob, but you can't REALLY be an American art critic/art snob.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

It got much worse when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire episode to chastising studios for making horror films and outright saying these movies would make men want to rape and kill women.

You don't need a movie to make you want to do that!

 

[ProfDongs]

Might just be me but Josh looks like he ballooned up way more since his last appearance, maybe its the chair not doing him favors but he looks huge.

 

[Salubrious]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nbtUnOHAX3E
It got much worse when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire episode to chastising studios for making horror films and outright saying these movies would make men want to rape and kill women.

You're doing a terrible job convincing me you're not Brad.

Anyway, we still see that in "current year." Hell, people were pissed off that the Joker movie resulted in no deaths.

 

[starborn427614]

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Might just be me but Josh looks like he ballooned up way more since his last appearance, maybe its the chair not doing him favors but he looks huge.

My diet be so fine, then BOOM. Corona.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nbtUnOHAX3E
It got much worse when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire episode to chastising studios for making horror films and outright saying these movies would make men want to rape and kill women.

Siskel also doxed Betsy Palmer in his newspaper column and told his fans to send her hate mail for being in a movie he didn't like.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

This is a good one. Especially the cutting back and forth with Siskel and Ebert ranting on their soapbox.

That is all the reminder I needed that Movie Critics are useless.

 

[Schmeckel]

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Might just be me but Josh looks like he ballooned up way more since his last appearance, maybe its the chair not doing him favors but he looks huge.

He looks to have put on the covid 19.

 

[deeman]

This is a good one. Especially the cutting back and forth with Siskel and Ebert ranting on their soapbox.

I've seen my fair share of reviews and such about the series (i grew up on this, have fond memories of my little brother sitting in his diapers and yelling "LOOK! THERE'S JÖNSSON!" *Jönsson is a boring last name in Swedish) so i thought this would be pleasant but not that i would learn something from it, but i did, thumbs up Siskel & Ebert's asses!

That is all the reminder I needed that Movie Critics are useless.

The Cinema Snob did a good job on it too!

 

[Dom Cruise]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mSFGoon-5Wc

Great episode.

It's a shame though that there doesn't seem to be a "perfect" Friday The 13th movie, if only Part 4 had the better craftmanship of part 6 and if only part 6 had the gore and nudity of part 4 (it's honestly really lame that part 6 has no nudity at all)

Ironically the remake may have actually gotten it the closest, except it didn't, because it was lacking in atmosphere (typical generic 2000s horror style) and didn't have any creative kills, at least it had great nudity though.

This is a good one. Especially the cutting back and forth with Siskel and Ebert ranting on their soapbox.

It's a bummer to be reminded how much of a shithead Ebert could be, between his pearl clutching over horror films and his "a video game is not art" comment.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nbtUnOHAX3E
It got much worse when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire episode to chastising studios for making horror films and outright saying these movies would make men want to rape and kill women.

It's depressing that in any era of American culture you're always going to have today the moral busybodies, today it's the dyed hair brigade and they sadly are able to get what they want more than most prior busybodies, but it's sadly a constant in American culture.

Which is funny because there's this perception that Americans have no issue with gore but are uptight about sex.

The truth is they're uptight about both.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Siskel also doxed Betsy Palmer in his newspaper column and told his fans to send her hate mail for being in a movie he didn't like.
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The grandfather of the Sleeping Giants. What a cunt.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Great episode.

It's a bummer to be reminded how much of a shithead Ebert could be, between his pearl clutching over horror films and his "a video game is not art" comment.

I dunno man.

Ebert was kind of the Stephen King of film criticism. I don't mean that entirely as a compliment.

Otoh he was right about vidya (it's maybe more interesting to ask why nerds would want Super Mario to be "art" ) and he was right about horror movies. Horror is absolute trash*.

It's ok to like trash, and I'm not even judging - who doesn't enjoy a KFC Double Down? Just don't pretend it's a gourmet meal. But like Ebert's long-running feud with vidya dorks, it seems to enrage horror consoomers when you point out their masturbatory pastimes are dumb. But they are dumb. I saw the one where Jason goes to space and kills somebody on a giant corkscrew. It was hilarious. And dumb.

Ebert was also on point when he "reviewed" that disgusting Dutch weirdo's Human Centipede movie - "it occupies a world where the stars don't shine".

*The nihilistic exploitation stuff they started making from the 70's onwards, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and whatnot. Psycho and The Shining are legitimately great movies.