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Guest AaronRock70

I saw Slackers the other night, and I didn't think it was quite as bad as some reviews have said, but it wasn't anything special. Some of the scenes seemed to cross from twisted humor to being downright disturbing. Did anyone else feel a little odd while watching this? Did anyone else bother to spend money on it?

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Guest Galactic Gigolo

Judging by the fact that it made $3 million this weekend, I doubt we're going to see many people who actually sat through it.

 

If a theater near me keeps it next weekend, I'll probably end up seeing it, but with me still having to see...

 

I Am Sam

Count of Monte Cristo

Kung Pow! Enter The Fist

Birthday Girl

Rollerball

Big Fat Liar

Collateral Damage

In The Bedroom

Lantana

Mothman Prophecies

 

I think Slackers will end up being a Kazaa download.

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Guest upchuck

And Slackers must be bad because Ebert rated it low.  He gives anything 3 stars.  He even gave that horrible 'action' movie, Tomb Raider 3 stars.

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Guest Kahran Ramsus

He didn't just rate it low, he gave it zero.  That puts it in the same category as Jaws: The Revenge and Little Indian, Big City.

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Guest Galactic Gigolo
He didn't just rate it low, he gave it zero.  That puts it in the same category as Jaws: The Revenge and Little Indian, Big City.

But he also gave O zero stars.  That movie kicked some major BUTT!

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Guest netslob

i can only think of 2 other movies he gave 0 stars: Freddy got fingered and I spit on your Grave

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Guest Kahran Ramsus

Movies the got 0 stars from Ebert.

 

Mad Dog Time

I Spit on Your Grave

Freddy Got Fingered

Tom Cats

Frogs for Snakes

Caligula

Little Indian, Big City

Jaws: The Revenge

Slackers

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

BAPS

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Breaking the Rules

Dangerously Close

Dice Rules

Frozen Assets

Key Exchange

Last Rites

North

Pink Flamingos

Rozencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Rude Awakening

She's Out of Control

Sour Grapes

Speed Zone

The Doom Generation

The Hitcher

Walker

Death Race 2000

The Devils

Eric the Viking

Guyana - Cult of the Damned

Prison Girls

Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline

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Guest tripledot
If a theater near me keeps it next weekend, I'll probably end up seeing it, but with me still having to see...

 

Big Fat Liar

 

hmm. first of all i'm surprised that's on anyone's list of movies to see, but more important than that, amanda bynes is in that movie! boo yes! she is a goddess. that's all, i really have nothing else to say. i think this is my first post at a smarks forum thingy, too, so yay for me. i wonder if my signature thing worked.

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Guest J*ingus

Actually, he refused to give a star rating to Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and Pink Flamingoes, but they always show up on lists as "0 stars".  

 

I don't think Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, I Spit On Your Grave, The Devils, or Death Race 2000 deserved those ratings, but the rest were pretty damn bad.

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Guest TUS_02

You can't go wrong with Sly Stallone in a futuristic movie about racing cross country, running over people!!!!

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Guest J*ingus

I loved that movie too, it was one of the few genuinely good ones that Corman ever produced aside from his Poe flicks.  I think Ebert's loathesome reaction to it was mostly because there were a bunch of unattended kids in the theater, who were laughing and cheering at the bloodshed.  Remember that "movies corrupting our children" was an even bigger deal in the early 70's than it is now.  I think he'd be much more favorable towards it today.

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Guest FakeRazor

I may see Slackers just out of sheer curiosity.  I mean, it has Big Pete from "Pete and Pete" in it!

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Guest Annoyed Grunt
Remember that "movies corrupting our children" was an even bigger deal in the early 70's than it is now.  I think he'd be much more favorable towards it today.

Somehow I don't think he'd give it more than *

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Guest Kahran Ramsus
I think Ebert's loathesome reaction to it was mostly because there were a bunch of unattended kids in the theater, who were laughing and cheering at the bloodshed.

 

That was pretty much his main argument.

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Guest Kahran Ramsus
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.

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He never reviewed Spit on Your Grave I don't think....I searached for it and nothing came out. That was cool movie by the way.

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Guest J*ingus

He did review it, but his website doesn't have any reviews on it before '86 or thereabouts.

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Was that ever in the movies????? I saw it video and it don't look like some thing you would see in the movies only on videos.

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Guest netslob
He never reviewed Spit on Your Grave I don't think....I searached for it and nothing came out. That was cool movie by the way.

 

He did review it:  i read it in his "I Hate, Hate, Hated This Movie" book, which gave me the morbid curiosity to go rent it.  i almost wish i didn't.

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