“Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), Chicago Sun-Times
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Clear filters“Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Chicago Sun-Times
“I’m curious about who would go to see this movie. Obviously moviegoers with a low opinion of their own taste. It’s so obviously what it is that you would require a positive desire to throw away money in order to lose two hours of your life. ‘Sorority Boys’ will be the worst movie playing in any multiplex in America this weekend, and, yes, I realize ‘Crossroads’ is still out there.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Sorority Boys (2002), Chicago Sun-Times
“This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels….The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Chicago Sun-Times
“‘Battlefield Earth’ is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It’s not merely bad; it’s unpleasant in a hostile way.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Battlefield Earth (2000), Chicago Sun-Times
“‘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. Oh, I’ve seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you’re not sure they have a bus line.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Mad Dog Time (1996), Chicago Sun-Times
“I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on North (1994), Chicago Sun-Times
“Many films are bad. Only a few declare themselves the work of people deficient in taste, judgment, reason, tact, morality, and common sense. Was there no one connected with this project who read the screenplay, considered the story, evaluated the proposed film and vomited?”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Last Rites (1988), Chicago Sun-Times
“That makes ‘Hellbound: Hellraiser II’ an ideal movie for audiences with little taste and atrophied attention spans who want to glance at the screen occasionally and ascertain that something is still happening up there. If you fit that description, you have probably not read this far, but what the heck, we believe in full-service reviews around here. You’re welcome.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Chicago Sun-Times
“‘Caligula’ is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty. Disgusted and unspeakably depressed, I walked out of the film after two hours of its 170-minute length.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Caligula (1979), Chicago Sun-Times
“So leave locking to the pro's. They _also_ got it wrong, but they got it wrong several years ago, and fixed up their sh*t.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“The fact is, any time anybody makes up a new locking mechanism, THEY ALWAYS GET IT WRONG. Don't do it.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“Code can't look this bad and still be fine.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“I hate code that has #ifdef's. It's a major design mistake, and shows that the person who coded it didn't think of it as _one_ problem, but as two.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“AND USING VLA'S IS ACTIVELY STUPID! It generates much more code, and much _slower_ code (and more fragile code), than just using a fixed key size would have done.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“The above code is sh*t, and it generates shit code. It looks bad, and there's no reason for it.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Pull request to an operating system kernel
“And by "garbage" I really mean it. This is stuff that nobody should ever send me, never mind late in a merge window.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Pull request to an operating system kernel
“NAK NAK NAK NAK! QAK! HAK! Crap code! Stop adding undocumented interfaces. Just stop it. Now. Geeze.”
Code review: Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel
“I interpret this as evidence that the PI is an excellent networker but that he does not have sufficient required scientific expertise and capacity to successfully execute the project.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Grant proposal
“Maybe this paper could be suitable for a journal with readers in statistical genetics or medical mathematics, if such journals exist.”
Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review