Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, November 01, 2005


From a Sun-Times profit center:

Roger Ebert's Current Reviews
G (R)
The Legend of Zorro (PG)
The Night of the Hunter (Not rated)
Nine Lives (R)
Prime (PG-13)
Shopgirl (R)
Three... Extremes (R)
The Weather Man (R)
Where the Truth Lies (Not rated)


Not counting The Night of the Hunter -- an old film and a "classic" film and therefore from another galaxy -- let's do the math: 23.5 stars divided by 7 movies equals 3.357 stars. It is foolish to judge reviews by star ratings -- they only obscure matters, which is why movie ad-blurbists love them -- and maybe Rog has been in a mood lately, but obviously he thinks we're in a MEGA-PLATINUM AGE OF MOVIES. I've long believed Rog and ESPECIALLY his late unlamented partner in millions GENE raved three-quarters of the movies they "reviewed," and judging that GENE's widow put his condo up for $8.25 million I'd say they did well by it. Whether WE'VE done well by it is, natch, another matter.

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