Roger Ebert bashes original GODZILLA

[Gecko Brothers]

He is usually too kind to some movies. But sometimes we could agree with him. Personnally  I like his reviews even the harsh one because he is just one person. You are always going to have a few people that won't like your greatness or love your stupidity. That is why the show is split up between two people. And by the way he loved the origional Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2 so he has some good qualities in him.

[Max Gardner]

You know, Ebert is generally the closest thing we b-fans have to a friendly critic, but there are times when he utterly baffles me.  There are three primary examples of this.  One, when he suggested there "might be some mysterious connection" between Ripley and the cloned alien taken from her body in Alien: Resurrection.  Had he not bothered to watch Alien 3? Two, when he denied hotly that any "lesbian breastplay" occurs at Bennington College (re: "The Rules of Attraction").  Having attended Bennington for four years and graduated, I can say with absolute certainty that he's wrong on that count, and I'm happy, at least, to see that he has since recanted the statement.  Third, what critic would ever, ever let loose so mercilessly on the original Godzilla? Is he trying to be edgy? Hell, I don't know.  I swear the man is schizophrenic.

[JohnL]

>Had he not bothered to watch Alien 3?

Possibly not, but even if he did, he probably wasn't paying much attention to it.

[Foywonder]

If the movie had starred Angelina Jolie it would have gotten at least three stars. That's where Toho went wrong.