# Ebert exploitations **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896 "2013-04-05T04:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Man\_from\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Man\_from\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_from_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/21 "2013-04-08T06:19:39Z")
Comfort saying that Dawkins has no “training in theology” is accurate. His skill in water dowsing and phrenology are also lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/22 "2013-04-08T06:56:49Z")
> [@Tony](#): > > Comfort saying that Dawkins has no “training in theology” is accurate. His skill in water dowsing and phrenology are also lacking. I, on the other hand, have been fully trained as a Jedi Knight. Self-taught. I even have a framed diploma that I downloaded off the internets. I spent 8 dollars on the frame. It’s a nice frame. Whoooooszh… wooooossszzzhhh… giszh! GISZH! Vwoooom. Vwoooooom. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/23 "2013-04-08T08:34:58Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I always found it ironic that the guy that wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens would have the balls to critique anyone else’s movie work. Are you kidding? That’s some of the best softcore trash ever made! ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/24 "2013-04-08T09:04:38Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > God bless Rayturd Comfort and Roger Ebert always!!! Where are the smileys?! It doesn’t work without the smileys! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/25 "2013-04-08T09:12:07Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I always found it ironic that the guy that wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens would have the balls to critique anyone else’s movie work. You made me do some googling. I had no idea that Ebert was involved in those films or that he had an association with Russ Meyers. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/26 "2013-04-08T12:05:15Z")
God bless you and the smilies always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/27 "2013-04-08T16:33:42Z")
Anyone else open the thread expecting a description of the next hot genre–Ebloitation? It features super-cool, pimped-out film critics in gritty, urban environments. Even when the film isn’t that great the soundtracks are usually funk masterpieces. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/28 "2013-04-08T16:43:11Z")
Ironically, multiple political cartoonists have noted Ebert’s passing in the same way: showing him sitting next to Gene Siskel in heaven. I’m both a theist and a big Ebert fan, and I hope I can face my end with half as much grace, dignity and courage. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/29 "2013-04-08T21:21:15Z")
I see Westboro Baptist Church picketed his funeral. He was a big man and his fans can take it. I think the Westboroites wasted their time standing in the cold Chicago weather. But I’m still angry with them for trying to mess with the Newtown funerals. A number of groups combined to stop them back in December. > **[Good Samaritans Thwart Westboro Baptist Church Protest At Newtown Funeral](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/westboro-baptist-church-protest-newtown-victim-funeral_n_2331880)** > > Good Samaritans Thwart Westboro Baptist Church Protest At Newtown Funeral ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/30 "2013-04-08T21:46:38Z")
I can’t get angry at the WBC people anymore. They’re a very small group of very stupid people, and they sincerely believe that they are hated because they’re the only ones upholding “God’s” word. They stopped being brain-wielding adults and became children a long time ago. The kind of children that flip out in special classrooms and have to be restrained for their own good, so they don’t harm themselves or others. Little, hateful, very disturbed children. Sometimes children say cute things. Sometimes children say accidentally profound things. And sometimes kids with severe mental problems throw nonsense tantrums and throw chairs and try to bite the other children. This isn’t an example of evil, this is an example of brains that haven’t formed properly. They are damaged people, acting out in a public way, trying to get their high of self-righteousness by declaring everyone else to be tools of the devil. I can’t hate them, because they have not a shred of a clue. I pity them. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/31 "2013-04-09T14:16:58Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > The kind of children that flip out in special classrooms and have to be restrained for their own good, so they don’t harm themselves or others. Little, hateful, very disturbed children. So you’re saying “God hates Special Ed kids”? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/32 "2013-04-09T14:33:28Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > I, on the other hand, have been fully trained as a Jedi Knight. Self-taught. Don’t try to frighten us with your mind tricks, **pizzaguy**. Your devotion to that ancient religion has not helped your movie review blog succeed, or given you clairvoyance enough to find out where these rebels are posting from. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/33 "2013-04-10T04:55:00Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Anyone else open the thread expecting a description of the next hot genre–Ebloitation? It features super-cool, pimped-out film critics in gritty, urban environments. Even when the film isn’t that great the soundtracks are usually funk masterpieces. You see this cat Roger is a bad mother– Shut your mouth! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/34 "2013-04-10T05:06:32Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > They are damaged people, acting out in a public way, trying to get their high of self-righteousness by declaring everyone else to be tools of the devil. I can’t hate them, because they have not a shred of a clue. I pity them. Phelps himself at least deserves any hatred thrown at him. Especially if we are to believe what some of his children have said about him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896/35 "2013-04-12T05:08:13Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I always found it ironic that the guy that wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens would have the balls to critique anyone else’s movie work. I recall a Mike Royko column from many years ago about commiserating with Ebert about the reaming-out he got from his fellow critics for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Apparently, according to Ebert, “The director didn’t know it was supposed to be a parody.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebert-exploitations/654896.md?page=1)