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You apparently have no concept of what it means to offer evidence to support your case, because absolutely nothing in your post qualifies.
All you did is cite other people with vague, half-formed memories that are similar to yours. That is not evidence of anything other than, perhaps, a shared delusion.
Evidence would be you citing an actual bad review from Siskel and Ebert that was different from subsequent reviews published later. Or actual footage from their review show with both giving thumbs down ratings.
But you can't. I think it is because these reviews never existed in the first place.
As it is, all that can be found out there is Siskel and Ebert giving Star Wars a positive review and later enthusiastically defending the movie against snobs like Simon.
And most reviews that I can find are not two stars, but very positive. That's why the movie was nominated for so many Best Picture of the Year awards. In fact, in another video interview with Simon where Siskel and Ebert defend Star Wars against him, Simon complains that Star Wars received too many rave reviews from critics. This contradicts your narrative that it was never well received.
So again, I don't give a crap about your memories, or senile George Lucas's memories, or the memories of butthurt fans. I care about facts. Nothing else.
^^^^^^THIS!!!!!
"Having said that - you really need to consider the fact that most critics on imdb and RT are largely being paid off. . ."
If you mean that some user scores and reviews on those two sites come from people who are paid, sure. If you mean professional critics are paid off by the studios, you are just out of your mind.
Collins was consulted closely throughout the entire process of making the film, had total veto power over anything she didn't like (which she used) and saw all of the auditions, which you did not. Given this, there is absolutely no reason to doubt her sincerity in praising the choice of Lawrence to play Katniss. If she had not been enthusiastically on board with the casting or preferred someone else, she would have prevented Lawrence from getting the role. It is as simple as that.
If you look at reviews of the movies, it is pretty clear you are in the minority on this, even on the specific point you made about Lawrence not being to emote without words, a skill I've seen her praised for in this role.
No, she was nearly perfect in the part, as attested to by the author of the books herself, Suzanne Collins.
I note with great satisfaction and no surprise that you have cited absolutely nothing to support the case that Siskel and Ebert ever gave a bad review of the first Star Wars movie.
What's especially irrational about your post is that the second video (which does not even try to support your case) features a review by John Simon and both Siskel and Ebert were brought on to an episode of Nightline to DEFEND the Star Wars movies against him. No one would have thought to invite them if they had panned the movie.
You've got nothing. Grow up and admit it.
Hell, no. I'm glad Lucas is no longer in charge and I greatly prefer Johnson's vision to anyone else's. Lots of things in all the Star Wars films annoy the hell out of me, and The Last Jedi is no exception, but I think he's the smartest, most sophisticated writer/director to ever be involved with the franchise.
Excuse me, cupcake, but all the evidence supports me and you have absolutely nothing you can cite in your favor. That means you have lost the argument by any rational standard.
"Please link to the original May 1977 video of "Sneak Previews" because that is the specific episode I'm talking about. "
That's your responsibility, not mine. I've found two archived reviews from the both of them and they are both positive. That the newspaper site put the wrong date on Ebert's review decades after it was published is meaningless--the evidence is out there that they both liked the movie.
So the proof to the contrary needs to come from you. Until then, I'm justified in thinking you are the one who is putting revisionist garbage out there.
His economic policies were completely centrist, idiot--he could have been elected as a Republican in the 1980's without changing a single idea.
You couldn't find a mainstream scholar of economics or political science who agreed with your lunatic world view if your worthless life depended on it. Obviously anyone who thinks YouTube videos amount to scholarship has the education level of a nine year old child.
"Under Obama you had peace. "
Actually, Obama was more militaristic than the Bush administration and expanded the number of countries we dropped bombs in and sent soldiers to.
"We didn't like Obama's Marxist policies. "
Anyone dumb enough to write something like this is immediately disqualified and is incapable of adult conversation on any subject whatsoever.
"They were both quality candidates whose character was trashed by the bigoted left winged media."
If you really believe this, your stupidity and ignorance is as bottomless as theirs.
"The left seems to have problems with race/gender, just look at the way they treated Herman Cain and Sarah Palin. "
The left (and anyone on the right with any integrity and perception) had no problem with their race or gender. What we had a problem with was the fact that the both of them were and still are knuckle-dragging morons.
"You're forgetting about all the Americans who still believe in our values, and are armed to the fucking teeth."
And exactly how do we expect these fine people to use those arms? To what effect? Under what circumstances?
JJ Abrams has never been known for anything other than the most lazy writing imaginable. Even though I enjoy most of his movies, the scripts are typically dumb as a bag of hammers.
"Nope. They originally gave two thumbs down on their show. "
Google is your friend. Both of them gave the movie positive reviews. Look it up. I have no idea what reality you think you are living in.
More like a victory dance over your pathetic ass.
"Siskel & Ebert both gave it a thumbs down. "
1. Siskel and Ebert didn't have a movie review show in 1977.
2. Both of them gave rave reviews to the original Star Wars, as did most critics.