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on: April 04, 2013, 12:51:38 PM

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

Legitimately sad about this - loved reading his reviews whether I agreed with them or not. Wasn't afraid to talk about his own shortcomings - I read a great article that was the top 20 horribly reviewed movies (both good and bad)by Ebert that HE tweeted the link out.

Genuinely loved movies, which seems somewhat rare in a critic these days.

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Reply #1 on: April 04, 2013, 12:52:44 PM

Pretty sudden, given just yesterday he was saying he'd just have to dial the amount of writing he was doing back.

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Reply #2 on: April 04, 2013, 12:54:41 PM

Pretty sudden, given just yesterday he was saying he'd just have to dial the amount of writing he was doing back.

Posted two days ago: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/04/a_leave_of_presense.html

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Reply #3 on: April 04, 2013, 12:58:12 PM

Well now he and Siskel can get back together again.

And yeah, I just read that thing about him saying something about taking a leave of presence. Meh... Sad.

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Reply #4 on: April 04, 2013, 01:08:29 PM

Really sad. I grew up watching when they were on PBS and in the last few years enjoyed his social/political columns a great deal as well.

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Reply #5 on: April 04, 2013, 01:11:04 PM

What a shame, I didn't agree with everything he wrote, but damn did the man have a way with words. A real loss there, I can't think of any other critic in pretty much any field who compares to him in his.

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Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 01:12:16 PM

Well shit.

I sat here trying to think of something more to say, but that just really sums up how I feel about this.

I will say, I often didn't agree with his opinion, but I appreciated how he presented it and that he did so in a manner I was able to draw my own conclusions from. He never just said "Don't watch this".

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Reply #7 on: April 04, 2013, 01:13:44 PM

Just read about this and was in the middle of making a thread in General when I saw one here.  Really sad to see him go.  I didn't always agree with his reviews, but I always enjoyed reading them.

Oh, by the way.  Fuck cancer.
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Reply #8 on: April 04, 2013, 01:37:12 PM

Ebertfest is in two weeks, it is probably going to be mauled by national press wanting to get the "reaction" of people here. Bleh.

Really sad to see him go, he was a genuinely nice guy. A lot of people I know knew him really well (I met him once in college too).

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Reply #9 on: April 04, 2013, 01:47:47 PM

Very sad. Fuck cancer indeed.

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Reply #10 on: April 04, 2013, 02:23:12 PM

Fucking cancer.

He was tops in his field, not many can say that.  Bon voyage good sir.
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Reply #11 on: April 04, 2013, 04:24:01 PM



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Reply #12 on: April 04, 2013, 04:25:25 PM

Damn someone made the joke before I could.

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Reply #13 on: April 04, 2013, 05:36:15 PM

I loved how he wrote, even if I didn't agree with him, and I loved how much he clearly loved everything about what he did. I am seriously surprised by how sad I am he's gone.

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Reply #14 on: April 04, 2013, 06:25:41 PM

I liked him, too.  And he had been through such awful stuff the past few years.   Heartbreak

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Reply #15 on: April 04, 2013, 06:36:10 PM

Fuck cancer.

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Reply #16 on: April 04, 2013, 07:15:53 PM


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Reply #17 on: April 04, 2013, 07:35:23 PM

Loved his passion even when I didn't agree with him.

There's no better testimony to just how distinctive he and Siskel were together than the fact that every single attempt to capture the chemistry of that pairing in similar formats has failed dismally.
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Reply #18 on: April 04, 2013, 10:09:00 PM



video games

The fuck.

Not to go too off-topic, but since leaving Epic CliffyB has made a strong play at becoming the biggest douche in the industry.

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Reply #20 on: April 05, 2013, 04:52:57 AM


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Reply #21 on: April 05, 2013, 06:50:06 AM

Yeah, the Onion's obit was just perfect, actually.  Really sad to hear he's gone but the media here in Chicagoland is in full swing.  I certainly hope nothing major happens in the rest of the world because I'm not sure I'd hear about it.

I read his obit in the Sun-Times and was surprised to hear how much he'd done, especially as an author.  I knew about his reviews and his columns but never realized he had written books as well.  Everything I've heard, too, was that he really was a genuinely nice man who could do a bit of it all.

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Reply #22 on: April 13, 2013, 09:26:55 PM

No thread on Ebert is complete without mentioning the best movie review of all time.
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