The Big Picture The life of a movie critic, at first glance, is desirable. Watch movies all day, give your opinion on them, repeat. Who wouldn't want that? But as you dig deeper, you realize that one has to watch every movie, the good and the bad, and judge its merits on more than just simply liking, or not liking, it. Roger Ebert, perhaps the most famed movie critic of all time, was very good at it, leading to him being the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975.
‘The Human Centipede’ Is Body Horror at Its Most Disturbing Two American tourists in Germany, Lindsay and Jenny , are on their way to a nightclub when they get a flat tire. They make their way to a nearby house, hoping to get some help. Unfortunately, there is no help here as the house belongs to the psychotic Dr. Josef Heiter , a retired surgeon with expertise in separating conjoined twins. He drugs the women, and then takes them to his ad hoc medical ward.
Why Did Roger Ebert Not Rate 'The Human Centipede'? The Human Centipede, inspired by the horrific experiments of infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele , is a difficult one to even write about, let alone watch. But to Ebert's credit, he doesn't outright rip the film to shreds.
We then get to the famed moment of the review where Ebert refuses to award The Human Centipede any stars. "I am required to award stars to movies I review," he begins, "This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film.
He ends his review with a summation of that very logic: "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." For Ebert, however, The Human Centipede 2 lacks any token of artistic merit, citing the film as "reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless, and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency." No stars, but a big thumbs down.
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