So I’m on a kick of thinking that movie reviewers are incompetent. Or I just don’t understand movie reviewing.

I know one thing that I think, and that is Roger Ebert’s review of Rampart is not good.

In this review of the movie Rampart, Roger Ebert says that Dave Brown reminds him of Judge Holden in Blood Meridian. I had to look up whether Blood Meridian became a movie already and he was perhaps talking about Judge Holden in the movie version, but no. He’s talking about Judge Holden in the book version of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. He calls Judge Holden “one of the most evil characters in American fiction.” I feel like Judge Holden wasn’t an evil character he was the embodiment of evil itself. He was omniscient like the devil if the devil was omniscient. He was a pedophile. How can you compare Dave Brown in Rampart to Judge Holden?

You can only do that if you are thinking of evil characters. Hm, list of evil characters, Judge Holden, Captain Hook, Humbert Humbert, Dave Brown, Hamburglar, Alonzo Harris. Ok fine those are all evil characters. Where’s the fucking nuance though man what the fuck is happening to this world. You’re going to mention one character in your review of a movie and you review movies for a living and have done for so long that I actually heard your name. And it’s going to be Judge fucking Holden?

Dave Brown is a bad person but I think the movie showed enough complexity in his character so that Roger Ebert would compare him to someone else. Who? I don’t know who because I’m not a movie reviewer. That’s not my responsibility right now. Even the Grandpa in Chinatown isn’t as evil as Judge Holden and he had sex with his daughter. Least Dave Brown feels sad that his daughters hate him.

I guess it’s dumb to think the popular movie reviewer would be any good. I don’t know maybe he had an off day.