wokelstein's "Good Movies that Roger Ebert gave One and a half stars or less to"

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Yes, when Ebert hates something it usually sucks. But I think this list shows that my taste leans a little more toward the grotesque and transgressive than his own. It’s my personal opinion and while I don’t think that indicates I’m not willing to argue in favor of any of these choices I do want to invite others to create their own lists like these.

5/5/12 Added, surprisingly, Transformers: Dark of the Moon

3/16/12 Atlas Shrugged added.

  1. 1.
    Atlas Shrugged Part 1
    by Paul Johansson
  2. 2.
    Bad Boys 2
    by Michael Bay
  3. 3.
    The Big Hit

  4. 4.
    Blindness
    by Fernando Meirelles
  5. 5.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

  6. 6.
    The Brood
    by David Cronenberg
  7. 7.
    Cabin Fever
    by Eli Roth
  8. 8.
    Coneheads

  9. 9.
    Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)
    by George A. Romero
  10. 10.
    ?
    The Devils (Special Uncut Restored Edition 1971)
    by Ken Russell
  11. 11.
    The Devil's Rain
    by Robert Fuest
  12. 12.
    Dune
    by David Lynch, Freddie Francis
  13. 13.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    by Terry Gilliam
  14. 14.
    Freddy Got Fingered

  15. 15.
    ?
    friday the 13th part 2

  16. 16.
    The Frighteners
    by Peter Jackson
  17. 17.
    God Told Me To Kill
    by Larry Cohen
  18. 18.
    The Good Son
    by Joseph Ruben
  19. 19.
    Harold And Maude
    by Hal Ashby
  20. 20.
    Hellraiser
    by Clive Barker
  21. 21.
    High Tension (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by Alexandre Aja
  22. 22.
    The Hitcher
    by Robert Harmon
  23. 23.
    Hocus Pocus

  24. 24.
    In Praise Of Love

  25. 25.
    Kick-Ass
    by Matthew Vaughn
  26. 26.
    Lawn Dogs
    by John Duigan
  27. 27.
    The Limits of Control
    by Jim Jarmusch
  28. 28.
    Mandingo
    by Richard Fleischer
  29. 29.
    I Spit On Your Grave
    by Meir Zarchi
  30. 30.
    Mother's Day
    by Charles Kaufman
  31. 31.
    Needful Things
    by Fraser Clarke Heston
  32. 32.
    A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
    by Samuel Bayer
  33. 33.
    ?
    Old School

  34. 34.
    Pink Flamingos
    by John Waters
  35. 35.
    Scrooged
    by Richard Donner
  36. 36.
    Snake Eyes
    by Brian De Palma
  38. 38.
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    by Michael Bay
  39. 39.
    Uncle Buck
    by John Hughes
  40. 40.
    The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
    by Bryan Singer
  41. 41.
    Very Bad Things
    by Peter Berg
  42. 42.
    Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by Greg Mclean
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Created by wokelstein on Jun 06, 2009.
 

Comments

youdontseeyouwant

Good one. — 2 years ago

Timely, too—after watching Swing Vote and Up nearly back to back yesterday, I immediately started thinking of doing something of my own along the lines of Crap Movies That Armond White Likes and Would Claim Are Better Than There Will Be Blood or something to that effect. But White’s insistent contrarianism would probably render that a pointless exercise, as what is the purpose of pointing out the perversity of things that everyone already disagrees with anyway?

Ebert’s negative reviews of debatably valuable films are therefore considerably more damning as a result, and thus more worthy of discussion. Most of the films you list here have solid followings despite Ebert’s pans, sure, but whether they represent him going against the critical grain (Blue Velvet) or revealing his biases (pretty much any horror film listed above), Ebert is an important enough figure that his reviews are part of their legacies.

That said, expect that you will have to answer for Coneheads, The Good Son and Hocus Pocus.

Jun 23, 09:58AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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