@@thegreatreverendxno because it’s not an average of scores like meta critics: it’s an average of the binary outcome of « good » vs « bad ». This is like saying a percentage of how many weathermen say it’s hold vs cold is a good estimate of weather compared to an aggregate of temperatures reported by weathermen on a specific day (which is what meta critic is for critics and what IMDB is for audiences).
@@igotkiwi Well, unfortunately, Metacritic has neither movie, so we’re going to have to go with RottenTomatoes. Although, if you want to go with IMDB, Roger wins by a slight margin. (Cop & 1/2: 4.1/10, vs Carnosaur: 3.6/10).
If "Cop and a Half" would have been released while they had their old show it would be for sure the Siskel's "Dog of the Week"... Anyway, one of the most epic moments of this duo and even american television and one of the most out-of-mind moments of Roger Ebert.
This was the final theatrical film co-produced and directed by Emmy Award winning legend Henry Winkler. This was a co-production of Imagine Entertainment, Boardwalk Entertainment, MBST and Renfield Enterprises for FairDinkum Productions, distributed by Focus Features in the spring of 1993. Cop and a Half has honored a 1994 Young Artist Award nomination for Norman D. Golden II. As of 1998, Paramount/Viacom finally bought the entire Imagine Entertainment library of television and films, beginning with 1986's Gung Ho. Now seen on syndication variants, including My9/WWOR TV, THIS and CHARGE! Peace!
I think the main reason why the Siskel-Ebert duo works so well is that they never come across as pretend. They are two very intelligent people who have passionate disagreements and take movies very seriously -- and what is really telling is that Siskel and Ebert were last together more than 25 years ago and yet nobody has been able to find a duo of film critics who were just as good since then. Siskel and Ebert are an art that just cannot be followed.
It's the sort of chemistry you can't replicate. Vastly different temperaments, but they complimented each other. And behind the gibes and the bickering there was obviously a deep, mutual respect.
And just remember comedies that Ebert did NOT like: Christmas Vacation, The Jerk, Spies Like Us, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, or My Cousin Vinny. 😳😳😳😳
I took an 18-hour flight across the world and the only movie they had to show was this one, which is only 1 1/2 hours. It was a total stinker and I cannot believe Roger liked it. I have disagreed with him before but saw his point. He was way to enthusiastic about this movie and I cannot see why.
Well I've never seen _Cop & A Half_ although it certainly sounded and looks stupid, AND Gene was right in saying that Roger Ebert was the ONLY major film critic who liked it. That being said, I've actually SEEN _Carnosaur,_ and boy, was it BAD.
It looks like a straight to video Jurassic Park rip-off and I imagine it was. I was a kid in 1993 and probably watched this episode then and I have no memory of this movie until now. Putrid looking movie.
Im not picking a favorite critic, cuz thats pointless and not necessary and may color my opinion on movies. I will say the Cop and a Half is very generic, trite, rote, and saccharine. If thats something you want from a movie, fine. Its stupid but you are allowed to like a stupid movie. It doesnt make it good, it can make it popular with the average simple suburban family who seems to buy tickets in droves for this shit. Carnosaur is in that special category I have: Fun But Not Good. Yeah it only appeals to a small audience, but for that audience its kind of original and genuinely entertaining and also fun. It is the superior film simply because they tried to do something kind of weird and they succeeded. I'm glad its not popular. If it were popular it would have been complete mindless garbage. You gotta let yourself enjoy a weird movie, at least once a year. And Carnosaur was definitely that movie. Not popular, but still fun. Cop and a half feels like every other safe cute family movie out there only it starred someone who used to be badass, and would later on have better acting roles like a pervy senator in basically softcore porn, and a sleazy porn producer in a very serious ugly look at the rise of the porn industry in the 70's. Thats acting. Not cute, not sweet, real. And we needed more of that from Burt Reynolds before he died.
@@nomadcowatbk I was an adult working in a residential facility for kids with behavioral disorders. The kids I worked with loved this movie because they could relate with that kid's situation. Most of them had ADHD but this movie kept their attention until the end.
@@sleuthentertainment5872 what are you talking about? cop and a half is a wholesome kids movie about a child that witnesses a mob murder. It can't get better then that. Except for maybe "man of the house." With Chevy Chase.
@@lyndonchastain3181 he listed "The color purple", "hoop dreams", "do the right thing", "Eve's bayou" and "Malcom X" as the best films of the respective years they came it. No, he's not at all biased
