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Posted on 4/4/13 at 4:38 pm to shutterspeed
Yeah we should pull this thread back from the whiny Dunn fans to an actual discussion of Ebert's massive influence on the popular reaction to film.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 4:44 pm to Freauxzen
Scott Tobias nails it:
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Now, please pardon my indulgence as I break obit form and speak personally, but as a film critic operating out of Chicago, I can’t pretend that I didn’t know him or that he didn’t have a profound impact on my life—an impact that he likely didn’t know and that’s likely shared by so many other film critics and cineastes, whether they had the pleasure of meeting him or not. Cinema is a river with many tributaries, and I’m sure I’m not alone among movie-crazy teenagers in the ‘80s in using Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion as the boat downstream. You go through all the four-star reviews. You see Taxi Driver, and then of course you have to see Raging Bull, and then every other Martin Scorsese picture that sits on the video shelf. (And then you get into the movies that influenced Scorsese, which is a lifetime in itself.) You argue with him, you glean insights in the things you watch, you learn an entire new way of thinking, talking, and writing about the movies. And you never stop watching. You never stop debating. You have a companion for life, even now that his is over.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 4:49 pm to Freauxzen
Roger Ebert was one of my two favorite critics, and I read his stuff all the time. I thought he was a fantastic writer, and I'm seriously bummed that I'll never get to read anything new from him. He took the fantasy of every real movie fan, and made it an incredible, dream career, he was bigger than most of the movies he reviewed...when people ask me what my dream job is, I answer "I'd want to be Roger Ebert." I'll miss reading his thoughts. RIP.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 4:58 pm to DanglingFury
I remember watching Siskel and Ebert at the Movies back when it first came out. I enjoyed both of their takes on the movies they reviewed and enjoyed the way they played off of each other.
In a way it kind of introduced me to a whole new way to watch and enjoy movies. Or at least let me realize that watching them with a critical eye was not a crazy thing that only I did.
RIP Mr. Ebert.
In a way it kind of introduced me to a whole new way to watch and enjoy movies. Or at least let me realize that watching them with a critical eye was not a crazy thing that only I did.
RIP Mr. Ebert.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 5:08 pm to 1999
Just continuing this trend of old people dying I guess.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 5:32 pm to Kafka
The last movie he reviewed was the Host, which will from this point be known as the film so bad that it killed Roger Ebert
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the Host was terrible, if it is the overseas horror movie.
i always like Siskel myself, Ebert was biased with the black movies (since he was married to a black woman). not saying those movies were bad, but he graded all of them as good.
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the Host was terrible, if it is the overseas horror movie.
i always like Siskel myself, Ebert was biased with the black movies (since he was married to a black woman). not saying those movies were bad, but he graded all of them as good.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 5:50 pm to lsufan112001
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Ebert was biased with the black movies (since he was married to a black woman). not saying those movies were bad, but he graded all of them as good.
I wouldn't go that far he said this of Alex Cross
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the film would perhaps have been much improved with Medea in the title role.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 6:00 pm to SJS Eagle 85
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He's a film critic. The world will not miss him.
Only the most famous, and probably the greatest. I will miss him. He's been with me for years.
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Posted on 4/4/13 at 6:07 pm to Rex
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I will miss him. He's been with me for years.
Damn, Rex does have a soul.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 6:17 pm to ProjectP2294
Wow. RIP
Posted on 4/4/13 at 6:30 pm to Baloo
I remember when I first discovered Rotten Tomatoes around 10 or 11 years ago. Ebert was always the first review I'd find for a movie I wanted to see.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 7:10 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:05 pm to Sinister1
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:16 pm to 1999
R.I.P.
He left us a lot of great reviews.
He left us a lot of great reviews.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:22 pm to Sinister1
You know, when Seth MacFarlane joked about Lincoln's death at the Oscars it was pretty tasteless... but at least it was clever and funny.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:22 pm to constant cough
How many movies did Roger Ebert make in his lifetime?
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:24 pm to baybeefeetz
He wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:39 pm to Rex
He also wrote Who Killed Bambi? for the Sex Pistols, but then Sid died of an overdose and the movie never got made.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 8:53 pm to Baloo
So sad... I had tears in my eyes when I heard the news. I can still see him boasting to Gene in a snide but guilty sort of chuckle about "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".
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