I have a passionate love for GOOD music. I become and elitist asshole critic any time music is brought up in a conversation. I feel so strongly about music that I am willing to settle an argument about music with an old fashioned western gun fight. The way I look at it is there are two kinds of people in this world; those who like The Beatles and those who like The Monkees. Should you pick the latter I would like you to go ahead and find a way to remove yourself from my friends list so I don't have to do it myself.

I am getting a little off topic here. O.k. so I have this passionate love for music and I love hearing what critics such as Stephen Thomas Erlewhine think about music I love. I realized the other day that I like movies a lot too but I don't put too much thought into what critics think about movies. This lack of thought came into play last night when my friend and I were deciding which movie to rent off of Time Warner On Demand. We had narrowed it down to 3 movies; Dirty Harry, Blazing Saddles and Dog Day Afternoon. We had never seen these movies all the way through but we knew they were classics.

So, now on to how to settle this. Well we decided to check what the reviewers had to say. We looked on allmovie.com and noticed that all three movies recieved 5 stars, no help their. So, we decided to check rogerebert.com. He is the man to turn to. Mr. Ebert gave Dirty Harry 3/4, he gave Dog Day 3 1/2 /4 and he gave Blazing Saddles 4/4. So, it seemed an obvious choice. We watched Blazing Saddles. FREAKING TERRIBLE. It was not a good movie at all, mainly because every movie that came out after it ripped off everything this movie had to offer. This was a cotastrophie.

I decided later to look at some of Eberts other reviews. He apparently believes the first four Harry Potter movies are better than Dirty Harry; a classic. Now I love these movies and I think they are all 4/4 stars, but I didn't think Roger Ebert would feel the same. IDK, what do you think about that decision? What movie out of those initial three would you have watched? Thanks for reading!

Personally I would have gone with Dog Day Afternoon. Al Pacino starring in an unusual role as a homosexual bank robber trying to get money for his "wife"'s sex change operation.


And are you serious about the Harry Potter thing? I always imagined Roger Ebert as a "Citizen Kane" kind of guy.

Exactly you can look it up rogerebert.com

I actually really like Blazing Saddles,so I would choose that. As for Roger Ebert, despite his use of a four star scale he doesn't really have everything on the same plain of criticism. Perhaps Blazing Saddles was a perfect ridiculous comedy (his opinion) and Dog Day Afternoon was a very good, but not perfect crime drama, a completely different kind of movie. Another comparison, he gave both Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift three stars. On the surface it appears he is saying they are equal but it becomes clear in his written reviews that LOTR is a far more ambitious and important film, whereas Tokyo Drift is a fun but stupid racing flick. Same score, not the same level of reverence.