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Roger Ebert is all thumbs


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Film critic Roger Ebert is in negotiations with the Walt Disney Co. over the show At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper, and apparently the negotiations aren't going well.

On Friday, Disney released a statement saying that Ebert wouldn't allow the show to use the traditional "thumbs up-thumbs down" critique. Ebert isn't on the show currently because of health reasons.

Ebert denied that he said the thumbs up-thumbs down couldn't be used on the show, but what's amazing to me is that he has a copyright on the thumbs up-thumbs down critique of a film.

The critics could just say "good" or "bad." But I guess that wouldn't look as good in the movie advertisements.

I could never be a movie critic because I don't know enough about films. But it might be fun to be one of those sell-out critics from the tiny media outlets who you find on promos for horrible movies. They must get showered with gifts or get expense-paid trips to premieres.

So here goes:

"Norbit is over an hour long!"
"I almost stayed awake in The Number 23!"
"SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 might be Scott Baio's best movie!"

Do I get two thumbs up?


Posted by Matt Wixon on August 30, 2007 8:56 AM |

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