I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie 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.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“In literature, it’s called plagiarism. In the movies, it’s homage.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“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”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter’s basilica.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“The plot is so familiar the end credits should have issued a blanket thank-you to a century of Hollywood lovecoms. Through a tortuous series of contrived misunderstandings, the boy and girl avoid happiness for most of the movie, although not as successfully as we do.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“I was reminded of the child prodigy who was summoned to perform for a famous pianist. The child climbed into the piano stool and played something by Chopin with great speed and accuracy. When the child had finished, the great musician patted it on the head and said, “You can play the notes. Someday, you may be able to play the music.” Puppet”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“I have often asked myself, “What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?” Now I know.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“The dancers march about and twirl their scarves as if Leni Reifenstahl’s Triumph of the Will had been gotten pregnant by Busby Berkeley.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“It is eerie, watching the shots of the audience. You never see anyone just plain laughing, as if they’d heard something that was funny. You see, instead, behavior more appropriate at a fascist rally, as his fans stick their fists in the air and chant his name as if he were making some kind of statement for them. Perhaps he is. Perhaps he is giving voice to their rage, fear, prejudice, and hatred. They seem to cheer him because he is getting away with expressing the sick thoughts they don’t dare to say.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie