I'm not a big fan of Ebert at all...he seems to like just about everything out there, but imagine my pleasant surprise reading an article about Ebert's praise of Seven Pounds, and look what he said:
“I like movies too much. I walk into the theater not in an adversarial attitude, but with hope and optimism (except for some movies, of course). I know that to get a movie made is a small miracle, that the reputations, careers and finances of the participants are on the line, and that hardly anybody sets out to make a bad movie. I do not feel comfortable posing as impossible to please. Film lovers attend different movies for different reasons, all of them valid; did I enjoy ‘Joe vs. the Volcano’ more than some Oscar winners? Certainly ... If my admiration for a movie is inspired by populism, politics, personal experience, generic conventions or even lust, I must say so. I cannot walk out of a movie that engaged me and deny that it did. I must certainly never lower it from three to 2.5 so I can look better on the Metacritic scale."
Wow! I always check out MetaCritic scores before I see a movie (not that they're always correct...), but I guess MetaCritic is more mainstream than I thought!
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