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balletbookworm's review against another edition
4.0
A really nice collection of Ebert's movie reviews for movies he felt were on the failing side. He and I almost always have the same opinion on movies so I enjoy both his opinion and the seemingly effortless way he writes them. I've read his first two collections of bad movie reviews ([b:I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie|23569|I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie|Roger Ebert|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328041388s/23569.jpg|24522] and [b:Your Movie Sucks|96765|Your Movie Sucks|Roger Ebert|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327948942s/96765.jpg|93266]), would love to read the next.
We disagreed on THOR (I had so much fun at this movie but he only gave it 1.5 stars - did we watch the same thing?) and YOUR HIGHNESS (I hated it so much I would have given it maybe 0.25 stars only because there are things like HUMAN CENTIPEDE that exist to deserve zero stars - Ebert gave it a full star).
We disagreed on THOR (I had so much fun at this movie but he only gave it 1.5 stars - did we watch the same thing?) and YOUR HIGHNESS (I hated it so much I would have given it maybe 0.25 stars only because there are things like HUMAN CENTIPEDE that exist to deserve zero stars - Ebert gave it a full star).
bryce_is_a_librarian's review against another edition
4.0
Ebert's heartbroken review of Your Highness is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
oohsarracuda's review against another edition
3.0
Re-read: November 2018, for Friday Night Bad Movies & Junk Food fodder. 3 stars.
Originally read: May 2012. 4 stars.
Originally read: May 2012. 4 stars.
ashleylm's review against another edition
4.0
I've heard his reviews on his popular show(s), but hadn't really read them before this year. He's very, very funny, (humor's subjective, but we have the same sense of humour, thank goodness). Even reading them back to back to back, it doesn't pall. I don't always entirely agree with his take, but he gives reasons, and I concede his points. This made for very fun bedtime reading, a few a night.
Tiny caveat: I don't like gruesome horror movies (nor does he), but he describes much of the gruesome which is just as bad, for me, as watching the movie. So skip by anything if, like me, that would be nightmare-inducing.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
Tiny caveat: I don't like gruesome horror movies (nor does he), but he describes much of the gruesome which is just as bad, for me, as watching the movie. So skip by anything if, like me, that would be nightmare-inducing.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
crowyhead's review against another edition
4.0
This is a collection of Roger Ebert's reviews of recent movies earning two stars or fewer. There's some hilarious bits here and it's a great deal of fun. Ebert is also occasionally spot-on in questioning the deeper social implications of some of the films; I thought his review of the remake of "I Spit on Your Grave" was particularly good, and gets right to the heart of what makes the film troubling. This is a great book to have lying around to dip into occasionally, or as a reference, and I also enjoyed just reading it straight through.
foxwrapped's review against another edition
2.0
I read only the movies that I was familiar with, Atlas Shrugged, Thor, Fanboys, Basic Instinct 2, yadda yadda. Entertaining but not particularly enlightening, which is... to be expected I suppose. But I did expect funny, passionate "I hate this movie, so so much" reviews instead of like, grumpy get-off-my-lawn rants. Instead of "A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length" the title should be like, "Meh. I don't get why you kids like these things."