• snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    While S & E were great for explaining why they liked or did not like movies, their opinions were still opinions and at best they gave middling reviews to the types of movies they did not like even when those movies were the best of their type.

    Plus Ebert gave Anaconda a high rating and praise. Fucking Anaconda.

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      He liked Spawn as well which I still have not entirely forgiven him for! But like I say, of the two, he was the one who went easier on populist media than Siskel did. That’s probably why putting the two of them together worked better than anyone else who inherited the shows they left as they bounced around from one to the next to the next.

      Who else had their platform before Siskel died? Rex Reed + somebody else was one, and I think there was one more pair as well.

      Rex Reed sticks out because he turned into a giant bitchy queen when he really hated a movie and it was hilarious.