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January 31, 2005
Spoiler Michael Medved's critical politics
In a long and telling essay about Million Dollar Baby and the turns in its plotting, Roger Ebert has a few choice words for the political activist's "[active] attempt to sabotage" the movie's surprises: "Medved feels moviegoers deserved to know what the movie is about, and that critics have been dishonest in not telling them. Medved has for a long time been a political commentator, not a movie critic, but he must remember from his earlier days that moviegoers do NOT want to be informed of key plot surprises, and write enraged letters to critics who violate this code. He says the studio concealed the ending because "no one would come" if they knew how it turned out. In fact, the movie is a great success because of word-of-mouth praise from people who have admired it and urged others to attend."
Posted by Ray Pride at January 31, 2005 05:44 PM
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