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Originally Posted by Ernest Rister
Oh, really? Is that why Roger Ebert wrote the following:
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Okay, fine. It's been long RUMORED then. I'm not sure how anyone could produce "evidence" that Disney was unhappy about bad reviews. Note that I said they were unhappy about bad reviews (pretty much common sense that film studios are happy about good reviews and unhappy about bad ones, no?) while you said that I said they were pressuring Roger Ebert into giving them good reviews (a pretty horrible allegation that I never made). Not sure where that leap came from.
All of this aside, the new hosts are complete hacks, and neither would be considered a professional critic in film circles. If you don't like my sarcastic speculation as to why a major film studio would want to replace veteran critics with hacks then fine... your opinion that people would rather watch a show with hacks glowing about every Will Smith or Michael Bay movie that comes out may be right on the money. If that's true, though, then its an even sadder statement about the current state of film criticism.