100 (or More) Great Quotes by Roger Ebert: An Interactive List

[Pop Trash]

[Mysterious Dude]

66. "The lesson, I guess, is that if you are a 12-year-old orphan in a Bulgarian forced labor camp, you need not despair, because the world is filled with good luck and helpful people and besides, you speak all those languages." (I Am David)

[Dead & Messed Up]

67. "Nichols stays on top of his material. He never pauses to make sure we're getting the point. He never explains for the slow-witted. He never apologizes. His only flaw, I believe, is the introduction of limp, wordy Simon and Garfunkel songs and arty camera work to suggest the passage of time between major scenes." (The Graduate)

[Ivan Drago]

68. "This movie is called Highlander 2: The Quickening....and what a title!" (Siskel and Ebert, at the 5:05 mark of this video)

[Mysterious Dude]

69. "'Baby Geniuses' is about toddlers who speak, plot, scheme, disco dance and beat up adults with karate kicks. This is not right."

[Rowland]

70. ""Narrow Margin" is a clumsy version of the Idiot Plot, dressed up as a high-gloss chase thriller. The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot. And rarely has there been a film in which more idiots make more mistakes than in this one."

[Rowland]

71. "Speaking of movies that go over the top, "Running Scared" goes so far over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles back on itself; it's the Mobius Strip of over-the-topness. I am in awe. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Then it throws in the kitchen sink, too, and the combo washer-dryer in the laundry room, while the hero and his wife are having sex on top of it."

[Yxklyx]

71. "Speaking of movies that go over the top, "Running Scared" goes so far over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles back on itself; it's the Mobius Strip of over-the-topness. I am in awe. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Then it throws in the kitchen sink, too, and the combo washer-dryer in the laundry room, while the hero and his wife are having sex on top of it."

Has anyone else seen this? I've queued it up...

[Sycophant]

I apparently watched it on or a day before March 1, 2008 and said "Whoa."

I can't remember much more than that. It is something to behold. I remember that much.

[Mysterious Dude]

The one thing I remember about Running Scared is that, at one point, one of the kids wanders into a house that just happens to be occupied by a husband and wife who are also child pornographers and serial killers working as a team. That's some bad luck.

[Rowland]

The one thing I remember about Running Scared is that, at one point, one of the kids wanders into a house that just happens to be occupied by a husband and wife who are also child pornographers and serial killers working as a team. That's some bad luck.

No, I think they lure him into their van with ice cream. They also project Nosferatu shadows.

It's coming out on Blu-ray in a few months. I was a fan, I'll revisit to see if I still like it.

[Raiders]

I found it to be just batshit enough to work as a darker, more twisted cousin to something like Scorsese's After Hours or even Adventures in Babysitting, where nighttime reveals a city full of horrors. The last act is pretty disappointing though.