Can you name the movies to which Ebert gave zero stars?

created by seanw
  • Enter a movie in the box below
  • Correctly named movies will show up below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • Source: Chicago Sun-Times
  • He hated, hated, hated these movies. Hat tip to @Easton_Lewis and @jmsr525
  • This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle
PLAY GAME
12:00
Show Missed Answers  
Director, yearMovieEbert says ...
Ray Kellogg & John Wayne, 1968The film is embarrassing to hawks as well as doves. In one remarkable speech, John Wayne tells the journalist: 'Out here, due process is a bullet.'
John Waters, 1972In the other corner: Mr. and Mrs. Marble, who kidnap hippies, chain them in a dungeon, and force their butler to impregnate them so that after they die in childbirth their babies can be sold to lesbian couples.
Artie Mitchell & Jim Mitchell, 1972The plot (if I may misuse the word) involves a series of fantasies in which Miss Chambers is forced to undergo public humiliation at an orgy attended by various freaks. She puts up a token resistance for about seven seconds, after which we get an hour of surrender.
Meir Zarchi, 1978I do not often attribute motives to audience members, nor do I try to read their minds, but the people who were sitting around me on Monday morning made it easy for me to know what they were thinking. They talked out loud. And if they seriously believed the things they were saying, they were vicarious sex criminals.
Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione & Giancarlo Lui, 1980There are scenes depicting a man whose urinary tract is closed, and who has gallons of wine poured down his throat. His bursting stomach is punctured with a sword. There is a scene in which a man is emasculated, and his genitals thrown to dogs, who eagerly eat them on the screen.
Hugh Wilson, 1984Don't they know that in comedy, you need a twist—like, why not make Bubba Smith a pathological coward who's afraid of everybody? Now right there is one good idea more than you can find in this entire movie.
Robert Harmon, 1986There are other disgusting moments, as when a police dog feasts on the blood dripping from its master's neck, and when Howell finds a human finger in his french fries.
Joseph Sargent, 1987Michael Caine passed up his chance to accept his Academy Award in person because of his commitment to this movie. Maybe he was thinking the same thing as the marine biologist in the movie: that if you don't go right back in the water after something terrible happens to you, you might be too afraid to ever go back in again.
Tom Stoppard, 1991As a play, [it's] fascinating .... As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring.
Rob Reiner, 1994This idea is deeply flawed. Children do not lightly separate from their parents - and certainly not on the evidence provided here, where the great parental sin is not paying attention to their kid at the dinner table.
Robert Townsend, 1997The message of the movie, I guess, is that two homegirls can find wealth and happiness if only they wear blond wigs, get rid of those gold teeth and country vocabularies, and are nice to rich old white men.
Arthur Hiller, 1997The movie was directed by Arthur Hiller, who hated the way the film was edited so much that, yes, he insisted his name be removed from the credits. So now it really is ...
Tom Green, 2001Six minutes into the film, his character leaps from his car to wag a horse penis. This is, we discover, a framing device—to be matched by a scene late in the film where he sprays his father with elephant semen, straight from the source.
Alan Parker, 2003Spacey and Parker are honorable men. Why did they go to Texas and make this silly movie? The last shot made me want to throw something at the screen—maybe Spacey and Parker.
Marcus Nispel, 2003That film at least had the raw power of its originality. It proceeded from Hooper's fascination with the story and his need to tell it. This new version, made by a man who has previously directed music videos, proceeds from nothing more than a desire to feed on the corpse of a once-living film.
Mike Bigelow, 2005In his investigation he encounters a woman with a penis for a nose. You don't want to know what happens when she sneezes. Does this sound like a movie you want to see?
Tom Six, 2010I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.
You might also like these games:
Pixar MoviesMovie QuotesDisney Songs
There are 10 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

Ebert's Zero-Star Movies Quiz

  1. by seanw
  • Created Jan 6, 2011 in Movies
  • Game Plays 308

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....