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>I think what set Ebert apart is that he consistently judged films in the context of their ambitions Yet he consistently dismissed films that I would describe
by papsosouid 14y ago
>I think what set Ebert apart is that he consistently judged films in the context of their ambitions
Yet he consistently dismissed films that I would describe as "low brow humour" as being terrible films. He said Ace Ventura was one of the worst films he had seen for example, and his reasoning appeared to be "the character is annoying, and the jokes are crude".
- raganwald 14y agoTrue, but there is a difference between well-crafted jokes about a crude subject and crudely fashioned jokes.