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I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

Roger Ebert

Top 10 Best Quotes

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

“It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.”

“Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.”

“The story is recycled out of a 1983 French film named Les Comperes, as part of a trend in which Hollywood buys French comedies and experiments on them to see if they can be made in English with all of the humor taken out.”

“Of that one, I wrote: “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.”

“In literature, it’s called plagiarism. In the movies, it’s homage.”

“If I were more of a hero, I would spend the next couple of weeks breaking into theaters where this movie is being shown, and leading the audience to safety.”

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its “self-help” section: “For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history, and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

“You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.”

“You know a movie is slow when you start looking to see what time it is. You know it’s awful when you start shaking your watch to see if it has stopped. One”

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