Roger Ebert Quotes

'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.

'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

"Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.

I like a good, strong statement. I walk out of movies all the time saying, 'That was terrible!' or 'That sucked!'

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

Trinidad Jame$ is the most garbage piece of rapper that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

I saw 'Spacehunter 3-D.' It gave me a headache.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

We give this practice two thumbs down!

Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?