Roger Ebert quotes - page 2

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. (Roger Ebert)
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. View quote
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There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is. View quote
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Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them. View quote
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It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer. View quote
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In Blue Crush, we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions. View quote
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I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there? View quote
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Parents: If you encounter teenagers who say they liked this movie, do not let them date your children. View quote
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Films like Fargo are why I love the movies. View quote
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This movie was made by professionals. Do not attempt any of this behavior yourself. View quote
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The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. (Roger Ebert)
Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners. View quote
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Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. View quote
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. View quote
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One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean. View quote
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A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise. View quote
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result. View quote
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The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. View quote
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I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking. View quote
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The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. View quote
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...If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails. (Roger Ebert)
Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. View quote
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Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star. View quote
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It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time. View quote
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Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. View quote
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