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A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
by
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, were best-sellers. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel.
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length collects more than 200 of his re
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Published
March 6th 2012
by Andrews McMeel Publishing
(first published February 7th 2012)
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I review this mainly to annouce to anyone who might not know but needs to: library patron Wayne Omura has written a book! It's called Movies and the meaning of life : the most profound films in cinematic history and I am tickled to death that he singled me out one night to let me know. It is not an option on Goodreads, but if you're a DPL person, you can put it on hold. Reading this concurrently with Ebert, it turns out that Mr. Omura is not as funny as he is, but he nonetheless has some excelle...more
No need to go into a plot summary here as this book is a straight-forward as it gets. Film critic Ebert has collected over 200 of his reviews dating back to 2006 and published them in this fun book. The title comes from his review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I don't know if he purposely used this phrase or not, but I was immediately reminded of a movie and a book title fused together to come up with the phrase: the wonderfully cinematic The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the book...more
Jul 15, 2012
Kirsti
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
anger,
arts-and-photography,
business,
imagination,
journalism,
los-angeles,
nonfiction,
sarcasm,
things-blow-up
Roger Ebert’s third collection of zero-star to two-star movie reviews. Delightful.
“All About Steve . . . is billed as a comedy but more resembles a perplexing public display of irrational behavior.”
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1: “The dialogue seems to have been ripped throbbing with passion from the pages of Investor’s Business Daily.”
Battle: Los Angeles: “Here’s a science-fiction film that’s an insult to the words ‘science’ and ‘fiction,’ and the hyphen in between them.”
Burlesque: “Other people age. C...more
“All About Steve . . . is billed as a comedy but more resembles a perplexing public display of irrational behavior.”
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1: “The dialogue seems to have been ripped throbbing with passion from the pages of Investor’s Business Daily.”
Battle: Los Angeles: “Here’s a science-fiction film that’s an insult to the words ‘science’ and ‘fiction,’ and the hyphen in between them.”
Burlesque: “Other people age. C...more
First, I'd just like to say that this book doesn't live up to it's title. :)
As for the contents of the book, if you like Ebert's reviews, especially at his snarkyist, you will probably like this book.
It does, however, share a problem I had with his earlier Your Movie Sucks. The first book of bad reviews, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, seems to be a cherry picked collection of two-star and under reviews, ranging from the beginning of his career to the point when the collection was assembled. T...more
As for the contents of the book, if you like Ebert's reviews, especially at his snarkyist, you will probably like this book.
It does, however, share a problem I had with his earlier Your Movie Sucks. The first book of bad reviews, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, seems to be a cherry picked collection of two-star and under reviews, ranging from the beginning of his career to the point when the collection was assembled. T...more
Continuing the tradition that began with "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", this book is a collection of Roger Ebert's most scathing reviews for films released from 2006 to the present. The title references his review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the Michael Bay explosion-fest that I readily admit I enjoyed. He also savages films that audiences expected more from, like M. Night Shayamalan's adaptation of the animated series, The Last Airbender. If you like snark (fans of MST3K and Ri...more
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...more
Apr 01, 2012
Melissa
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Melissa by:
Mediazombie Robinson
Shelves:
books-and-movies
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 (I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks), 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 HIGHNE...more
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 HIGHNE...more
Two-star reviews (of which there were many in this book) just don't inspire the level of vitriol necessary for a really entertaining review. In fact, I found myself wanting to see a lot of those movies and finding that I'd seen a lot of two-star movies that were pretty good. (Granted, I am fairly artless these days when it comes to choosing films.) That said, I was mostly entertained.
I got this book the same day I found out about it. With this book and its past predecessors, I would just flip through the reviews and find ones I'd like to read (although I disagree with him sometimes like with LXG, featured in Your Movie Sucks).
If I'd seen more of the movies I'd have rated it higher (3 out of five), but I wasn't interested in reading the reviews of things I haven't seen and have little interest in seeing -- maybe I'm just not in the mood to do so.
I love Roger Ebert's writing, but you can have a drinking game while reading a pile of his reviews. Take a shot whenever he mentions Gene Siskel's "Is this movie more interesting than a documentary of the same people having lunch". You'll die.
Ebert skewers about 200 more bad movies!
Eagle Eye: "The film contains not a single plausible moment." I kind of liked it for it's implausibility. Maybe one day it could be plausible, with advances in technology?
Eat Pray Love: "A Harlequin novel crossed with a mystic travelogue."
The Green Hornet: "An almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about."
Quantum os Solace: "Worst title of a James Bond movie, except for Never Say Never Again. Bond is not an action hero!"
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Eagle Eye: "The film contains not a single plausible moment." I kind of liked it for it's implausibility. Maybe one day it could be plausible, with advances in technology?
Eat Pray Love: "A Harlequin novel crossed with a mystic travelogue."
The Green Hornet: "An almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about."
Quantum os Solace: "Worst title of a James Bond movie, except for Never Say Never Again. Bond is not an action hero!"
Twilight Sag...more
These are all recent reviews, up until last year. So sad that he will be unable to review the undoubtedly equally bad sequels that have and will come along.
More Ebert vitriol that's a hoot to read when you're in the mood for pan reviews.
It's a book of collected reviews. Ebert's style is always great but if you've read these reviews when they were originally published there's no reason to read the book.
Thank you Roger Ebert, from the bottom of my heart, for seeing these films so that I am spared from doing so. Though there are a few that I disagree with you on, you at least reviewed these stinkers honestly and fairly.
There are few people on the planet that can deal out literary insults like Roger Ebert.
Snarky! Snarky! Snarky! But it is what I expect from Ebert.
Not as good as "Your Movie Sucks," but still a fun read.
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Roger Joseph Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.
He was known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, he auditioned several potential replacements, ultimately choo...more
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He was known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, he auditioned several potential replacements, ultimately choo...more
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