Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:16:38 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
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Subject: [WSFA] [wsfa-forum] Re: [WSFA] Roger Ebert no like Battle for LA
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> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 3/10/2011 7:01 PM >>>
>On 3/10/2011 5:51 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> "a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and =
>> "fiction," and the hyphen in between them."
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/45ojrl8
>
>Wow.  Apparently he didn't like it.  Worse, he has fairly good reasons
>for that opinion.  Darn....I was hoping it would be a fun movie, but,
>like him, I'm getting tired of "action" being synonymous with random =
and
>rapid camera cuts, lots of noise and strobing flashes, and no
>perceivable plan on the part of anyone.
>
>His parting shot at it is particularly vicious:
>
>"Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it,
>tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes
>this movie, tell him you've been thinking it over, and you think you
>should consider spending some time apart."

And let us not forget Ebert's fannish past:
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0501/thoughtexperiments.shtml

And here he is with Walt Willis:
http://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/i01-007.html

mjw