A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length More Movies That Suck

Roger Ebert's ;criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range. ;             New York Times Roger Ebert's I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movieand Your Movie Sucks, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, were best-sellers. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel. A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Lengthcollects more than 200 of his reviews since 2006 in which he gave movies two stars or fewer. Known for his fair-minded and well-written film reviews, Roger is at his razor-sharp humorous best when skewering bad movies. Consider this opener for the one-star Your Highness: ; Your Highnessis a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs, and four-letter words. That this is the work of David Gordon Green beggars the imagination. One of its heroes wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck. I hate it when that happens. ; Or this stinger for the half-star The Last Airbender(Roger's comment: ;Let's hope it is. ;) ; The Last Airbenderis an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that somethingshould have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3-D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that. ; And finally, the inspiration for the title of this book, the one-star Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: ; Transformers: Revenge of the Fallenis a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a doglike robot humping the leg of the heroine. If you want to save yourself the ticket price go, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination. ; Movie buffs and humor lovers alike will relish this treasury of movies so bad that you may just want to see them for a good laugh!

Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times. His reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and Canada. The American Film Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have awarded him honorary degrees, and the Online Film Critics Society named his Web site, rogerebert.com, the best online movie-review site.