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141 " he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom "
― Roger Ebert
142 " It is a truism that Hollywood trailers advertise not the movie that has been made, but the movie that the studio wishes had been made. "
― Roger Ebert , The Great Movies
143 " Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter’s basilica. "
― Roger Ebert , I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
144 " The movie teaches us how action is the enemy of suspense—how action releases tension instead of building it. Better to wait for a whole movie for something to happen (assuming we really care whether it happens) than to sit through a film where things we don’t care about are happening constantly. "
145 " which plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians. "
― Roger Ebert , Your Movie Sucks
146 " Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn’t know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can. "
147 " because in American movies, as we all know, sexual misconduct leads to bad real estate choices. "
148 " The franchise was founded by Wes Craven, the Ray Kroc of horror, "
― Roger Ebert , A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
149 " calling out, “Trog! Trog!” As if Trog knew the "
150 " I have often asked myself, “What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?” Now I know. "
151 " He is so solemn, detached, and uninvolved he makes Mr. Spock look like Hunter S. Thompson at closing time. "
152 " Lasse Hallstrom’s Dear John tells the heartbreaking story of two lovely young people who fail to find happiness together because they’re trapped in an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. "
153 " Alex North, "
154 " The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there? "
155 " To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. "
― Roger Ebert , Life Itself
156 " The dancers march about and twirl their scarves as if Leni Reifenstahl’s Triumph of the Will had been gotten pregnant by Busby Berkeley. "
157 " Too-Soon Apology. Whenever one character seems to have died, and his best friend arrives just "
― Roger Ebert , Ebert's "Bigger" Little Movie Glossary
158 " Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said, “To kill one lover may be regarded as a misfortune. To kill three seems like carelessness? "
159 " Buñuel’s films constitute one of the most distinctive bodies of work in the first century of films. He was cynical, but not depressed. We say one thing and do another, yes, but that doesn’t make us evil—only human and, from his point of view, funny He has been called a cruel filmmaker, but the more I look at his films the more wisdom and acceptance I find. He sees that we are hypocrites, admits to being one himself, and believes we were probably made that way. "
― Roger Ebert , The Great Movies II
160 " Robin Hood is a high-tech and well-made violent action picture using the name of Robin Hood for no better reason than that it’s an established brand not protected by copyright "