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The one I always immediately think of is Dude, Where’s My Car? because I remember how Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs down and called it the worst film they had ever seen, as well as it generally bombing in reviews at the time, but it was fucking hilarious and is when I started thinking maybe the critics are just pretentious snobs; I mean the only thing they ever do seem to like are artsy-fartsy things and super old shit that they probably have nostalgia for because they were new when they were young.

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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Critics are comparing a film to thousands of movies whereas most people will compare it to a few dozen. Some subjects get boring when you have seen this premise 100x times before. That’s why sometimes critics and audience scores can have such a huge gap.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think Roger Ebert’s quote was “I wish to take up a habit smoking pot I the hopes of killing the brain cells that record my memory of watching this movie”

In a world where The Emperor’s New Groove gets a 97, Dude gets a 2. Out of 100.

We got free tickets to a movie of our choice when the film for shaft burned up like you see on TV. It was awesome! And it was a dialogue part between Shaft and Palmieri That didn’t detract from the film at all.

So we saw dude. It was so bad that we almost felt we wanted our money back on a free film

Having said that, we say both the quotables all the time.

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