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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Siskel and Ebert review latest Star Trek movie
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:46:17 -0000 (UTC)
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>On 2/12/2025 9:32 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOqq2w92ss

>>Think I'll go see it.

>I was a huge fan of their show, but this episode aired long before I 
>started watching.  I thought they hated Star Trek (and sci-fi in 
>general).  One of the things that annoyed me about Siskel and Ebert and 
>mainstream critics in general is they tended to give genre movies bad 
>reviews.

.. . . and we didn't know how good we had it when producers of action-
adventure-thriller-suspense movies done as Western or Science Fiction
genre movies were trying to exploit an audience and not please
mainstream critics.