Roger Ebert is one of the all-time great newspaper writers, on par with Royko and Breslin and Hamill. He’s amazingly lucid, prolific and bright. And his ability to continue growing and learning, especially in the face of his health problems, is inspiring. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been hugely wrong about films at times. The first video below, a ridiculous review of Blade Runner, by Ebert and his late TV partner Gene Siskel, was dug up by Open Culture. The second one, a pan of Blue Velvet, is etched into my brain for its wrongheadedness. Luckily for Roger, I can’t find his venomous take of Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 masterpiece, Dead Man. Well, we all have our moments.

Starts at the two-minute mark:

Ebert disses Blue Velvet, 1986: