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- semeticstallion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+60"Bad movies for kids?" If only John Simon knew that 20 years down the line we'd have "Bratz: The Movie."
- melve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51"These films try to keep children stupid children forever."
Wow, that John Simon guy was like the Scrooge of movie critics. - KMye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45My god, what would Simon have said about the new trilogy???
- thebrawl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44People are disagreeing but not interrupting each other? Oh I see, this happened a long time ago, in a TV galaxy far far away.
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40Defintely a Sith Lord, this John Simon is.
- TGMD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37"Keeping children dumber than they need to be"
How dumb do children need to be? - dxprog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33You played well Siskel. RIP
- tyywebb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Ha ha a lot of Mr. Simon's remarks definitely sound like they apply to the newer Star Wars. "Everything is special effects, you're looking for flesh and blood but you can't find it, terrible acting, bad dialogue, terrible plotting...."
- raulbot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17that douche can keep his "Huck Finn".
- JazJon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Space Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (In 3D!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacehunter:_Adventures_in_the_Forbidden_Zone - mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Thumbs up Siskel and Ebert, thumbs down Simon, and thumbs up for Ted's hair.
- bimtott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Based on the movies John Simon says he would take his kids to, his children are by now either spoiled elitist snobs, or trailer-park meth addicts.
...But they're probably also Star Wars fans. - Schmidtopolis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Anyone who calls Harrison Ford a "bad actor", is a straight up *****.
- soundex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12He probably would've liked them.
- JlmAWP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9He will pay for talking about the trilogy like that....unless he's already dead.
- xOKxWhy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Breaking News to Simon, most kids don't find Huckleberry Finn intriguing or entertaining. Why is Simon a movie critic when he should be a book critic?
- Schmidtopolis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8And special effects alone are not a good enough reason to chastise a movie.
- falstaff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7He's alive. Sounds like he got canned a few years ago in part for being such a negative critic, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simon_(critic) - mds76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7One of the comments on youtube:
" I wouldnt understand RotJ either if I was Colonel Klink."
Nice. Get that critic a monocle! - grgt1994, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6John who?
- TheCaterpillar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I love the old Star Wars movies, but while I was listening to John Simon describe why he didn't like the old ones it seemed that he perfectly described why I don't like the new ones.... to much special FX, horrible duologue, bad actors/actresses, etc.
- carbonetc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5If this guy had made these exact same comments about the second trilogy instead, I bet most Star Wars fans would be right there behind him (like the commenter above me, I just noticed).
- ahawks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"While it would probably be more fun to have you throw mud at each other, the three of you, let's talk about the movie non-the-less"
That right there tells me how times have changed. They had dignity back then. Go watch some random clip of Bill'O, or any other nonsense on CNN, Fox, etc, and all they DO is throw mud at each other.
No one interrupted each other here.
They spoke thoughtfully.
They didn't raise their voices. - fuzzykazoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5he's going to take his kids to tender mercies?! why doesn't he book their appointments at the shrink's office at the same time, cause those kids are gonna be messed up.
- gerrylazlo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It was good to see Gene again after so many years, and Ebert was as eloquent and cogent as ever.
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hey, jackass! topsalespro is my id at you Tube. you *****!
- virtualfred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Here's a child that is kept dumber than he needs to be!
- ziffel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4John Simon = *shaking fist* "you damn kids get off my lawn!!"
- cnot3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ewoks are trying to keep children stupid forever.
- shertzerj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4At least he was kind of on-target with his comment that special effects alone do not make a good film.
- FXPooky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow, it was nice to see that not only did they have the two extremes, but they also had the middle guy! It's a nice look at back when you didn't have to pick a side and opinions weren't absolute.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You would think that maybe he had read Hero With A Thousand Faces??!?!?!?
http://www.spookybug.com/origins/myth.html - mtrip, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6If you don't like Huck Finn you can ***** off. Maybe the guy had a point...
- cnot3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2cons = ewoks
- sexybobo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3More importantly
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/263670/1048226/ - grgt1994, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Definitely repetitive, x00x is.
- archer104, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Children probably won't like it as much. But try reading it as an adult. Twain pretty much used the book to bash all the backwardness of his time; like that family feud that nobody remembers how it started but they have to kill each other to defend their family's name but they end up dead. It's pretty funny too. I laughed out loud more than a few times. In my college literature class we had to read it and the professor called it the closest thing to the Great American Novel.
- sexybobo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2and of course if you like that Buy the damn thing.
http://www.amazon.com/Spacehunter-Adventures-Forbidden-Peter-Strauss/dp/B00005QVZ3 - grgt1994, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Do you live in a hole?
- shampoovta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 That is just what it is like to be 41.
- archer104, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The Goonies is another movie that I didn't see until recently (what the *****'s my problem?) and ya I didn't like it.
- WanderingK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was just going to mention my man Joseph Campbell, it's nice to see someone beat me to it.
- archer104, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm going to get dugg down to hell for this but here goes...
I didn't see a star wars movie until maybe 10 years ago. I saw the episodes in this order: 5,1,2,4,3,6. I liked the new ones better. Especially episodes 1 and 3. The special effects were ***** ridiculous (in a good way)! After watching Darth Maul take on Obi-Wan and his master I couldn't even watch the fights from the later episodes; so ***** slow and boring. In all the movies the acting was terrible. Story-wise, the originals are better and pretty much seems like the whole story while the first episodes feel like they are just trying to explain the other ones and fill in the blanks.
I'm willing to bet that most die-hard fans of the originals saw them when they were very young. Of course you like them better then, I can think of all kinds of ***** that I used to like as a kid (Power Rangers? what the ***** is that *****?). I don't see how anyone can say that the new ones are so much worse than the old ones. Maybe it's because I never had the impact of learning about Darth Vader being a papa in the movie because Simpsons ruined it for me a good ten years before I saw it. Anyways, I'd like to hear some real reasons why you think that I am a piece o'***** for liking the first episodes better. - shampoovta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That was the age of School House Rock. Every thing had to have something educational in it. I think Nickelodeon was it's bastard child.
- FDL1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Jack Thompson?
- bewebste, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I thought this was interesting from a historical perspective, but this wasn't actually any good if the goal was to give viewers any sense of what the movie was about and why they should or shouldn't see it. There was a lot of generalization about special effects, having fun at the movies, etc., but it was only towards the very end that anyone even mentioned anything specific that was in the film (Yoda). What's the film about? What's the plot? Which characters did you like? Maybe the interview was only meant to try to stir up controversy, but in any case, it wasn't very good at all at being an informative review of the movie itself. If I didn't know about this movie already, I would come away from that still having no idea what it was really like.
- DanDotOrg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree with your point about liking things from a young age. Everyone I know who never saw the Goonies as a child and tried watching it later didn't like it. It is probably the same for the original star wars trilogy. Although I cannot defend you on liking episode 1 the most. Even though the end battle you mentioned is bad-ass, the rest is just poppycock.
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that's funny. that's funny.
- ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1So you are on of those that make Hollywood studios make crappy movies.
- TripCannon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Wow, that Simon guy sucks...
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