So ask CNN's Todd Leopold regarding Roger Ebert's one star review for the film "Tru Love", a movie he could only suffer for the first eight minutes. Look, you may not agree that Ebert "reviewed" the movie in the formal sense but this man has sat through tens of thousands of movies over this 30 plus year career. He knows what a bad movie looks like. In a movie he can spot very bad very quickly. Aferall wasn't this the same man who wrote a book titled "Your Movie Sucks"?
If I put together some crap-fest with my HD VideoCam and assemble a group of amateur actors should I expect my movie to be taken seriously by the same person who reviewed Schlinder's List? No. At the same time if your independant movie shot on HD with zero professional actors is good enough Ebert has the guts to call the film a masterpiece provided the end result warrants such praise.
Besides Ebert stated in his review his one star "..applies to the first eight minutes only. After that you're on your own." Fair enough in my book.
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