Ebert DID criticise in terms of social critique, #GamerGate

Here are some examples for you (this is extract from my post http://geekessays.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/gamergate-patriotism-and-c-s-lewis/)



Some of you may say – Ebert didn’t insult his audience. You’re wrong there, I’m afraid – in some of the films he hated most, he often insulted those who would enjoy it. Some examples are below:



“That makes “Hellbound: Hellraiser II” an ideal movie for audiences with little taste and atrophied attention spans…” – Hellbound: Hellraiser II



“It was not just a large crowd, it was a profoundly disturbing one…And if they seriously believed the things they were saying, they were vicarious sex criminals….To hold his opinions at his age, he must already have suffered a fundamental loss of decent human feelings…There is no reason to see this movie except to be entertained by the sight of sadism and suffering.” – I Spit On Your Grave



“If your date likes it, do not date that person again.” – Valentine’s Day



Comments on poorly done sexualisation? Got that too!



“That this film is not only garbage on an artistic level, but that it is also garbage on the crude and base level where it no doubt hopes to find its audience. “Caligula” is not good art, it is not good cinema, and it is not good porn…In the two hours of this film that I saw, there were no scenes of joy, natural pleasure, or good sensual cheer. There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies” – Caligula



“…and a shapely slave girl, who seems to represent the filmmakers’ desire to introduce voyeurism into the big sex scenes” – The Scarlet Letter



A ‘tropes vs women’ equivalent? https://t.co/khT261qL70.



He also pointed out issues of race :



“There’s one peculiarity. Usually in formula pictures with this huge a cast, maybe one couple will be African American, one Latino and one Asian. No such luck.” – Valentines Day



“There is a thin line between satire and offensiveness, and this crosses it…Its portraits of these two working-class black women have been painted with snobbery and scorn…The result is a hurtful stereotype, because the comedy doesn’t work to redeem it.” B.A.P.S



“One of the ancient ploys of the film industry is to make a film about non-white people and find a way, however convoluted, to tell it from the point of view of a white character…One of the last places you’d expect to see this practice is in a Chinese film…Now let me ask you: Can you think of any reason the character John Miller is needed to tell his story? Was any consideration given to the possibility of a Chinese priest? Would that be asking for too much?” – Flowers of War

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