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Post – September 16, 2002

Backhanded Non-Compliment of the Week

“It wasn’t interesting enough to loathe.”
-Richard Roeper, on “Stealing Harvard”

4 Comments

  1. Tuesday

    That is the best. I can think of several areas of my life to apply that to right now.

  2. Lisa

    Being that it has Tom Green in it, I think Ii could loathe just as a general principle.

  3. laural

    I’ve seen it, and he’s correct.

  4. Mike Benedetto

    Roger Ebert compared it unfavorably to “Freddy Got Fingered,” arguing that at least that movie achieved some sort of dubious distinction instead of coasting on an easy concept.

    And I agree — everybody may have hated FGF, but at least it was audacious enough to hate. Audacity may not be a good thing per se, but good things can only come from audacity.

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