R.I.P. Legendary Film Critic Roger Ebert

[Kimchi Papi]

RIP to a legend in journalism... He worked for 40 years for the Chicago Sun Times!!! Not to mention his other accomplishments...

 

[Sir San Diego]

The ONLY movie critic who's opinion I respected and searched for if I wanted one on a new movie.

R.I.P

If I remember correctly, he had a pretty funny Howard Stern interview where Howard was trying to push Robin on him because he liked big sisters.

 

[Meangene45]

RIP

 

[stillin729]

He had an awesome life doing what he loved

 

[supervi11ain]

RIP

 

[kepp]

RIP to a true legend

 

[celticsfan9783]

The ONLY movie critic who's opinion I respected and searched for if I wanted one on a new movie.

R.I.P

Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Only two film critics I consistently agree with.

 

[AEA18]

RIP

 

[lobotomybeats]

Do we know for sure it was cancer? I want to know the whereabouts of the cast of Gigli.

It's a sad day, I always loved his insight.

 

[timcity2000]

sad day indeed... i loved reading his reviews.

two thumbs way down

 

[currensy]

Never heard of him until today, always sad to see someone who's loved by many go though.

RIP |I

 

[servechilled81]

Never heard of him until today, always sad to see someone who's loved by many go though.

RIP

 really?  Are you very young or not from the US?

 

[pr0phecy718]

I use to hate this guy but I respect him for what he did.

Rest in peace

 

[Nouss]

Damn RIP, homie has been suffering for a long time now.

 

[SteveSteve72]

R.I.P

 

[andretti]

RIP

 

[HTownsOwn84]

Didnt know he was sick. RIP. I always enjoyed his approach to film critiquing.

Siskel has an aisle seat saved for your bruh |I

well said sir

RIP MR. Ebert

 

[mronegative]

|I

[h1]ROGER EBERT: MORE THAN JUST A CRITIC[h1]by Leonard Maltin
April 4, 2013 7:44 PM

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It’s impossible to overstate the impact Roger and his longtime partner and rival Gene Siskel had on popular culture and the perception of film criticism. They were both firmly established in Chicago (a great newspaper town), writing for the Sun-Times and the Tribune, respectively, when their local public television affiliate exposed them to a national audience on PBS in the early 1980s. Imagine: a weekly half-hour program consisting of two critics reviewing and debating current movies. There had never been anything like it before and it caught on like wildfire. Gene and Roger were in the right place at the right time, and they made the most of it: they became bona fide celebrities, and soon their names were synonymous with film criticism. (I know this first-hand, because Entertainment Tonight went on the air around the same time. When people started recognizing me in hotel lobbies and airports, they would often ask, “Aren’t you Siskelandebert?”, as if it were a compound name.)

There was a reality-show element to their program, long before reality television took root: people loved to watch them argue and fire potshots at each other. The sniping was genuine, and not always benign…but so was their chemistry, which no one was ever able to re-create, including Roger. But at the heart of their show was an absolute passion for film: they really cared about the movies they championed, and their endorsement helped boost the profile of innumerable films.

If there was any downside to their television success, it was that so many people only knew them from that medium and never sought out their printed reviews. I was one of those people. It was only with the invention of the Internet that I began reading Roger’s reviews, on his comprehensive website, and marveling at his writing skill. He is the only critic I know who unashamedly drew on his life experiences to explain his feelings about a given movie. It wasn’t a gimmick, and it never made him seem self-absorbed, just disarmingly candid.

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The role of critics has been marginalized by the growth of the Internet and the empowerment of self-made bloggers who are eager to share their opinions. But few, if any, of these wannabes will ever come close to Roger Ebert as an essayist, and I doubt that anyone will ever have the enormous impact he and Gene Siskel had on the moviegoing public.[/h1][/h1]

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You didn't have to be a fan of his, but you can't be a fan of film and not appreciate him. He opened the so many people's eyes on how to appreciate film as something more than a place to eat your popcorn and laugh for a couple hours. He taught me to flip over rocks, not be put off by subtitles and not to settle for whatever new big thing is getting yelled at you the loudest.

I didn't agree a lot of the time, but I always appreciated. He drove it home, time and again, that nothing is fact. These are all just opinions, and a lot of times you can find meaning in things that weren't especially created on purpose, because the experience of watching it, is all your own.

His last written words: "So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I'll see you at the movies."[/h1]
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[big j 33]

He probably forgot more about movies than most of us will ever know. True legend.

 

[Nike Jordan]

R.I.P.

 

[bhergh]

Hollywood killed him... u saw dave chappele..

Spoiler

jk. ..

 

[jus3]

RIP

 

[af1 1982]

RIP

 

[big j 33]

The People's Critic: Remembering Roger Ebert

Wesley Morris on Roger Ebert, some good highlights

Ebert's dismay changed my understanding of how to read a film. For one thing, I didn't know a film could be read.

Ebert did a lot of reading, particularly on social issues. No major critic did more for black movies than he did. He championed great filmmakers like Spike Lee and Charles Burnett. He lifted up directors like John Singleton and Matty Rich, finding the upside in some of their mediocre filmmaking without ever seeming to damn with faint praise, lower his standards, or lie. Their filmmaking might not have been spectacular, but he deemed it morally necessary.

Even with his illness he continued to write. And the writing (and how much of it there is to read!) is what will keep Ebert a titan, alongside Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, who died last June. Ebert worked in a separate realm (and city) from Kael's and Sarris's rivalries and coteries and seemingly endless word counts. In print, Ebert practiced criticism with vivid clarity. A writer I know once told me he didn't read Ebert because he get could a plot summary anywhere. It's true that a typical Ebert review contains mostly plot synopsis, but it's mostly plot synopsis the way diamonds are mostly coal

Men, women, children, the young, the old, black people, white people, large Scandinavian-looking people, people who lived in Chicago, people crazy enough to vacation in Chicago at the end of July: They all had a look. A few of them stopped him for a picture, an autograph, or an opportunity to give him their two cents about a movie they'd seen. He obliged. I've never walked around downtown Chicago with Oprah Winfrey or Michael Jordan, superstars inextricably synonymous with Chicago, but the response to Ebert seemed vaguely comparable.

When he arrived at the store, he said, matter-of-factly, that he didn't mind the fans and the photos and the gawking — he said he needed to buy the new battery because he wanted to take pictures of them.

 

[MetalMario]

Rest In Paradise