A book with this title is not going to be easy to dedicate.

Ebert: The dedication reads:

"For Peter Sobczynski and his merry band of wise-crackers at the Lake Street Screening Room."

Regarding your Nosferatu musings: in the novel Dracula, Count Dracula can conrtol the storms, and uses the storm to navigate the ship he's on right in to the port he seeks. It was not left to chance at all. Also, even in Nosferatu he's not comatose in the onboard coffins at night. The shots of him rising from his coffin and stalking about the ship are some of the most-celebrated in the movie. As for dumping his coffin overboard, it would work even not at sunrise. According to Stoker, the running water would imprison him in the coffin and probably kill him.

Does it ever fit into your unfourtunate scheme that the knowledge of the person making the films overdawms his.imaginative pwers he was eclipsed in knowing and when he sought tips for how to provide an audience. But sone theatres just like don't give a daamn about bad reputation. So the opinion of art was bad then it became ruthless. And that takes us to me who would do art tasteful local respectful dignified. Comedick. Be a dick about comedy. Slogan!
But seriously how do you suffer all such foolery and far off distant places. And when are we gona build africa gant space shades?

Ordered. I adore your bad review books. They make me scream with laughter, once resulting in some embarrassment. That said, I do wish you'd give up this awful vendetta against Michael Bay. TROF was fun. The criticisms seemed unfounded to me. Dark of the Moon was a different story, disjunct and overblown, difficult to watch. My kids took me to see it, and at one point (that big thing tunneling through the building) she turned to me with a fatalistic shrug, and whispered, "OK, we're f***ed. What could anybody do??) That about summed it up. While on the subject, I love many of the films of Night Shyamalan, which seem to give you a severe headache. I confess I watch his films in an unorthodox way, more as poems than as prose, but I find them delightful. Thanks - anticipating some serious roars of laughter when the book arrives.

"Why does Michael Bay get to keep onnnn makin' movies? 'Cause Transformers sucked...just a little bit morrrre than I miss you."

Anyone who deals fairly with a bad movie and then gives it a negative review has performed an inestimable public service. I hope you appreciate how many hours of torment you've saved people from by throwing yourself onto the hand grenade of bad cinema.

Now, here's a curious thing. I've noticed that, in recent years, while you're quite merciless in skewering bad films, you seldom criticize bad performances, which seems to be the bread and butter of other film reviewers. And I wonder why that is.

You wrote Orlok as "Oriok". Just a minor mistake.
Until you mentioned TROF, I couldn't remember from which review came the title words...

Two comments:
1. Why no picture of you this time? Same thing with the Movie Yearbook. Run out of pictures of yourself?
2. This better not be like Your Movie Sucks where you only picked recent titles you didn't like. The first book was better, going back over many years to reviews never printed out before.

You the man, Roger.

Zombies eat brains because they need all the help they can get!

Kudos to Tim Lynch for the wonderful cover on your book, Roger. A great job!

I always thought you'd give a nod to the guy who suggested the title. Someone mentioned (I forget who) that you ought to name your next collection of sucky movies "A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length".

Your reply: "That's it!"

Ebert: And so it was. Before anyone suggested it.

Donald Miller - the guy c'est moi. And given I too mistook the Eureka Moment, Roger and I have come to an undisclosed agreement. Ok, I'll disclose it: Roger has to refer to me as "my close personal friend Mike Spearns" once annually in a blog entry or Facebook status.

Reading reviews of bad movies is truly one of my greatest pleasures.

I have a smile on my face after reading, "I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again."

:)

Just bought the IBook, noticed a typo btw, in the index for Atlas Shrugged. Anyway, I just love your reviews on bad movies!

Roger, you're the only critic who can get me to buy collections of reviews I could just read online for free. My copies of I Hated Hated Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks are well worn from the hours I've read them with a nightcap.

It should be noted that Michael Bay later agreed that Revenge of the Fallen was bad, but only after it made $800 million. Dark of the Moon wasn't quite as bad, if only because it had so much going on (JFK, President Obama, Buzz Aldrin, Russian gangsters, and half the regular company of the Coen brothers all in one movie) that it was never quite boring. What gets me is how a fantasy manages to be drained of any real sense of fun in the hands of Bay.

I have the first two. I see on the back cover the third one contains your review of the execrable "The Last Airbender." I will be purchasing book three, you betcha.

Now, now..."The Rock" was a lot of fun, and you liked it a lot. If David Gordon Green can fall from grace, perhaps Michael Bay can rise to the angels. The theologian in me believes that all might be saved, even Michael Bay.

Roger I am truly blessed to have basked in your light. Keep it coming!

My favorite zombie movie: "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things." Made me laugh even when I saw it at age 12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Shouldn%27t_Play_with_Dead_Things

Well, I've looked at the new book in the bookstore (will buy it later). Can see that you basically only used recent years again. I will compliment you on putting in some reviews that are not yet in your Yearbook but will be in the 2013 Edition, as you did in your first book of bad movies. However, I hope for the fourth one you try to go back a little bit more and put in some reviews that haven't appeared in print. It is pretty easy to do: Just go to your website and look for some one star reviews. If you need any suggestions, I'll help you out, my friend.

You the man Roger.

Could be someone else has injected this niggle, but just in case no one has--and out of deference to Irish authors, of which there have been not enough. Orlok and his story weren't "patterned" after Stoker, but plagiarized. Surely you know the tale of how the missus sued to get every copy of Nosferatu destroyed, and almost succeeded. Much as I support copyright laws, I'm glad she missed one.

Re Graf,

Im sure he's done it before. I suppose as a vampire you just learn to trust your intuition about some things. Somehow he discovered that if he put himself on a boat somehow things tend to work out for him. Including waking before the alarm clock. Likely if you asked him he wouldnt have been able to tell you much more than that.

I admit, i tune in to read the 1-1.5 stars. Your wit is attractive in that it contains humour and you dont feel you are about to pull a hamstring trying to outdo yourself. As you mention, your review goes with the movie, allowing the movie to remain the centerpiece. Sometimes, when I read 1 star reviews from other critics I get the sense the movie is the pretext and the "wit" of their review is the centerpiece.

Yes, re lines arriving. That is the territory of a natural writer/reader. Like Graf, you just allow it to happen and feel mildly amused when it does.