re: What was once a cineaste, film-loving community has been co-opted by corporations

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He puts down an entire genre of fans because *gasp* they really like movies

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His point is pretty specific to the movie Fanboys, as these people who camp out for weeks in front of theaters exist much more in certain types of movies and TV shows than they do in real life. If Fanboys had been the least bit funny he might have been nicer to it, but it does present a world of fandom almost wholly separated from actual movie content. Those dudes have made Star Wars a part of their personality to the extent that their conversations consist of strings of references to Star Wars. In the case of the movie at least, that familiarity doesn't equal affection for a movie, it's just a different form of elitism to exclude certain acquaintances and the women in their lives, like Kristen Bell, who is revealed to be just as big a fan of the movies without exhibiting all the stupid fanboy behavior. Star Wars is presented as the nostalgic language of a small click, not something to love.

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You think this guy has ever been to comic-con and actually talked to people?

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The people at comic-con at the time the movie was set (1999) would have cared about comics, not massive blockbusters. The big guests that year were Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, and Mike Mignola. In 2006, the year Fanboys was released, TV/movie studios were dipping their toes into comic-con. Samuel Jackson was there promoting Snakes on a Plane. The cast of Heroes was there. Comic-con fans were not camping out for movies then, and very few are camping out for movies now.

Ebert loved movies of all kinds, and he spent half a century trying to make others love them. I can see how his dismissal of a fictional set of fans might sound elitist, but I think it makes sense that fans of movies who are actually only fans of one movie or one franchise would seriously irk him.