And how not, when he writes stuff like this?
Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” sounds like a waste of time, don’t waste yours.
I, as it happens, have time to waste and cannot do better than to quote from my review of “The Mummy” (1999): “There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.”
Go Roger! Go Roger! Go Roger! Go Roger! (etc)
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You know, aside from his wit, which is massive, Ebert and I seem to agree 99.9% on movies. I can only think of one review he gave that I thought was crap.
Case in point: The new X-Files movie: 38% on RT, 3.5* from Ebert, and I loved it.
Ebert is one of the few critics that seems to understand when a movie is just for fun, and when even the “just for fun” movies fail — as the case above demonstrates. FSM bless him, I don’t know what I will do if/when he finally kicks it.
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