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tha_dingus: I love Roger Ebert's review of Halloween III. He payed such little attention to the movie, that he thought the hospital robot assassin near the beginning was Michael Myers.
dcuniverse: In his one-star review of 1987’s Like Father, Like Son, Roger Ebert described the film as “one of the most desperate comedies I've ever seen” and “dismally, painfully not funny.”
But guess what, Roger? I, at the time a child and the film’s target audience, LOVED it.
Checkmate.
anitaleirfall: The movie is a classic case of "It's not WHAT the film is about but HOW it is about it," as Roger Ebert would say. Cries and Whispers is unrelentingly claustrophobic, taking place almost entirely in a few rooms of the sisters' childhood manor...
GeorgicusF: When you hear ‘Ebert’ you think ‘Roger’, I think ‘John David’
We are not the same
drematurgy: Roger Ebert and his take on video games as not art. Does anyone remember him? He was a big name film critic.
alacrangroup: "A wondrous work" - Roger
REDDEVILGEEK1: "Cinema is a machine to create empathy" - Roger Ebert
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KrikkitMotel: It's about Roger Ebert & Cliff Booth killing Hitler with baseball bats
DawsonEJoyce: "The first film was so good and now they're trying to remake Spy Kids, I don't understand it." – Roger Ebert, 2005
lambwaffle: The idea that Twitter is important just seems ridiculous. when I signed up I'd get 100 texts a day from Roger Ebert about his crock pot or some shit. Nothing important has or will come from it.
somnolentist: "From the director of where is Anne Frank, a vitally important new horror. Roger Ebert describes it as a spine tingling slowburn for fans of Candyman."
phenocine: Sharmila Tagore: Shattering Stereotypes for Over 60 Years | Interviews | Roger Ebert
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dean_frey: From Roger Ebert's 2007 interview with Studs Terkel, a great Nelson Algren story:
"He had a lot of typewriters."
IANdrewTheGiant: "Before Willem Dafoe was the Green Gobin, there was plenty of gobbin' going on in the movie Body of Evidence starring Madonna." - Roger Ebert.
nathanl75: For some reason this Roger Ebert review of Aguirre The Wrath of God always reminds me of Elon Musks tenure at twitter
owwmylowerback: Jolly roger ebert kk onto the next one
DankwaBrooks: The Great Movies IV, Ebert, Roger. p. 28
I’m unabashedly a SPIKE LEE stan so maybe coming someone else will have more credence. LOL, But I feel the exact same way about his work. To me he’s one of the great American filmmakers.
DankwaBrooks: The Great Movies IV, Ebert, Roger. pp. 207-209
Great essay on this film. Se7en (1995)
DankwaBrooks: The Great Movies IV, Ebert, Roger. pp. 245-246
Great points about modern superhero movies in his essay about ‘Superman’ (1978) and NO it is not his imagination.
dennisbhooper: I think I’ve posted this before but it drives me absolutely up the wall that Roger Ebert never got to see Fury Road, (a) because I’m certain he would have loved it, and (b) because there’s a slight chance he still would’ve preferred Thunderdome and we’ll never know
FilmDetective: Ann Savage gives a sizzling performance in DETOUR (1945) opposite Tom Neal. Roger Ebert described it as "haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it." Catch it tonight at 10:45PM ET!
Tapamaii: Ah yes, the journalist doesn’t want to actually do his job.
Don’t worry, wait there, Hundeyin would do your job and you’d play Roger Ebert and tell us if it follows journalistic standards
bornposting: roger ebert was the best he gave four stars to prometheus
Zackazumpazoo: So angry Roger Ebert died before he could see AI replace all art except videogames. Check mate. You Chicago blow hard!
PraxJarvin: We have to go back in time and stop Roger Ebert.
gimletmonocle: lord do i hate roger ebert.
SchmanthonyP: "Roger Ebert stated that this was the only film he ever walked out of because it was "utterly without redeeming merit"." WELP
therealaaronk: In his contemporary review of Cul-de-Sac (1966), Roger Ebert refers to its auteur Roman Polanski as “the wild man of young European directors,” which was certainly one way of putting it.
seer_2501: Look it is cool that Roger Ebert made film criticism accessible and trolled gamers, but at some point we gotta talk about his taste in movies
SheppyCicero: How much money did they pay Roger Ebert to give Phantom Menace 3 1/2 stars out of 4
themattmcd: This is a great review by Roger Ebert from back in the day that also contains a glaring error:
hbobillo: “No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough,” - Roger Ebert
FuznFancy: Clem Snide once sang a song called "Roger Ebert". It was about his dying words. Roger stated via pen to paper "Its all an elaborate hoax" as he passed away. Life can at times certainly feel that way, especially with all this random doctor stuff going on with me.
EvangeliTron: PERSECUTION? Roger Ebert Draws Criticism For Trying To Teach Negativity!
TruthsandLies14: For Tarantino's birthday: an excerpt I think about frequently from one of Ebert's last reviews before his death, Django Unchained. Ebert begins to say "hm, this violence is too much" but is so entertained he forgets about it. One of his best reviews.
news_gazette: Actor Mykelti Williamson — who played Forrest’s shrimp-loving sidekick, "Bubba" Blue — will accompany what Roger Ebert called “a magical movie” in his four-star review on April 22 at the Virginia Theatre.
MatthewMcSween1: That’s why I only recommend getting yearbooks for Roger Ebert’s movie ones, schools and motorsports since the latter two only use past tense as they were published at the end of the school years and seasons while being cautious with the prices and try spending under $20.
damian_oaks: "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough" Roger Ebert.
606f84551bce490: "Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives."
- Roger Ebert
ATRightMovies: Famous film critic Roger Ebert asking ALFRED HITCHCOCK a question.
Jamison_Jmac: I feel like Roger Ebert every time I give a Netflix movie a thumbs up
DankwaBrooks: The Great Movies IV, Ebert, Roger. p. 10
I agree with this in the Foreword by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
DankwaBrooks: The Great Movies IV, Ebert, Roger. pp. 17-19
The beginning and end of the heartfelt INTRODUCTION by Roger’s widow CHAZ EBERT.
SHANNON52713567: The World Is Not Enough movie review (1999) | Roger Ebert
winestainedlens: Great article on one of the most criminally underrated films (hard to believe it’s been 25 years now). Must watch for those who’ve never seen it, and if you really want to geek out, try to find the Roger Ebert commentary track he cut for the Dark City DVD.
Zoe_Zoologist: A Good Person movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert
anukasan1977: I really liked *Ghost Dog*, & think Roger Ebert's ⭐⭐⭐ review nailed it:
NOTWOKESHOWS: I distinctly recall Roger Ebert giving this film 3 out of 4 stars & writing, "Only movie lovers who have marinated their imaginations in the great B movies from RKO and Republic will recognize 'The Hot Spot' as a superior work in an old tradition." ... I couldn't agree more.
RealMaryK_56: So I guess Roger Ebert who helped to launch her career in Chicago was just a means to an end? Otherwise she’d still be a mere newscaster.
I call that totally ungrateful!
StarterScript: I loved Roger Ebert and would buy his review compilation books but eventually realized that's because I considered him a great short form essayist who used movies as his canvas to talk about people and the world.
rebeccamlan: one of my favorite things about Roger Ebert was how much he loved J Lo
timtrimingham: The Last of the Mohicans movie review (1992) | Roger Ebert
24panels: Have some of Roger Ebert's reviews been removed from his website, or did he never do a print review of CONSENTING ADULTS?
KateTrinity: Swarm movie review & film summary (2023) - Roger Ebert 5
MAVERIC68078049: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." -Roger Ebert
PBSWI: Tonight at 10p on PBS Wisconsin: Meet the woman who Roger Ebert declared the most influential film critic of the late 20th century.
superisabel76: I agree. As Roger Ebert once observed no good movie is too long, no bad movie is too short.
scottheisel: Is it possible I am the Roger Ebert of emo?
alamofilmguy: Apparently Roger Ebert was on the set in Italy when they were filming the balcony scene.
HJY07121034: I don’t go to the AAG meeting this year and watched this movie at a theatre instead today. Return to Seoul movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert
DL_Polonsky: Movie Critic Roger Ebert Circa 2002. © 2010, by D.L. Polonsky. Colored pencil on Bristol board. Feel free to re-tweet.
onemintjulep: Sometimes I think I'm too easily pleased/too generous with how I rate & review movies, but then I remember Roger Ebert gave Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull three and a half stars
andrewfarago: "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." -Roger Ebert
PaulMue14452841: The Ark is a Modest Adventure of Clever Pseudo-Science | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
littlefidough: Just published my review of ET on letterboxd under my new username… llama face Roger Ebert era has commenced
FaizanHasnain5: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
-Roger Ebert
blumbirde: "An awesome experience"
-Roger Ebert
boriskarkov: the game that killed roger ebert
RXCafeTX: Roger Ebert, I believe, suggested that if you're going to have remakes, why not remake bad/obscure films instead of remaking classic movies. It's just lazy to remake films already established in cinematic canon.
Lialogia: "Now our whole culture has been tamed by marketing and branding, and mass entertainment has been dumbed down. Is it possible that the next infusion of creativity will come from cultures like India, still rich in imagination, not yet locked into malls?"
- Roger Ebert, em 2000.
jackisonholl: Totally second this, Not only is it wrong for people to think that Roger Ebert wouldn’t do this (he did), I think it’s also wrong to think expressing these feelings is BAD! The job of the critic is to express what they feel about an experience.
cosmicwav: Completely ruined movie.
There are some good examples like "24", the FOX show
CharleeRemitz: Gotta agree with Roger Ebert on this one, something about Elvis the movie doesn’t quite work
basedbaizuo: Roger Ebert predicted everything everywhere all at once
Thread_Harvest: I just learned about The Mighty Quinn (1989), a Jamaica-set crime film starring Denzel Washington early in his career. Apparently Roger Ebert absolutely loved this movie.
krista_leighx: roger ebert was tripping balls on his deathbed but do i want it to be true? of course. getting hypnotized to believe this is true could fix me
schmaudrey: "Sid and Nancy" makes these observations with such complexity, such vividness, and such tenderness... You do not weep for Vicious, or Spungen..you weep for all of us, that we have been placed in a world where it is possible for people to make themselves so unhappy."
- Roger Ebert
blipstress: on the one hand, it's absurd to say that a critique must also be a great artist. on the other hand, if roger ebert had ever said shit to me, you know i would immediately bring up his terrible exploitation movies.
ag_smarmy: The Roger Ebert doc was fascinating. It featured outtakes from their show, which unveiled an intense ego driven rivalry between the two, starting with Ebert's lamentation that the show was called "Siskel and Ebert" and not the other way around.
VidiotBox: If readers wanted to challenge Roger Ebert on his reviews, what could they do? Write in to the newspaper (or later, email) and hope somebody read it? When I was young, I had plenty of thoughts about Siskel & Ebert, and they never knew any of them, which was best for all involved.
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ExtraKisses: Extremely charming clip of Gene Siskel getting Roger Ebert to laugh his ass off
ClintOCoast: Reviews weren't too kind at the time - see Richard Corliss's review from TIME on the right - but Roger Ebert adored it (his on the left).
Be keen to hear from any of the critics who reviewed it at the time and didn't think much of it - did it grow on you?
CHatfieldJourn: An old Roger Ebert quote I've been thinking about a lot lately:
"Kids are not stupid. They are among the sharpest, cleverest, most eagle-eyed creatures on God's Earth..."
Children are so much more intelligent, so much more thoughtful, than we often give them credit for.
Prateek_goyl: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
-Roger Ebert
emmawatermelon: You are not Roger Ebert
TheDavefather: If something like LOTR isn't your jam, I could definitely see this. Pretty sure Roger Ebert felt the same way
CannonFilmGuide: On this day in 1990, Siskel and Ebert got a little heated while discussing the movie Lambada. Gene liked it. Roger really, *really* did not.
ofadam: "To Kill a Mockingbird" is on TCM tonight, so I popped over to see what Roger Ebert had to say.
Was it an easy four stars? Nay. Somehow, unlike his reviews of a hundred other movies, Ebert became stuck on the implausibility of it all.
chrisyeh: Whenever I read a piece about the limitations of current AI, I am reminded of the classic Roger Ebert quote (from his review of "The Phantom Menace!?"): "How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders."
Jacquilope: In a four-star review Of the 2022 Jackass movie, Roger Ebert called “lead jackass Johnny Knoxville, an unholy fusion of Brad Pitt and Beetlejuice.” Accurate!
Sanketbelieve: "The greatest trick devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
-Roger Ebert.
