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Movie refused to entertain, he would at least make sure his review did. Those heights made him downright angry - and made him feel like if the So movies that lazily squandered their opportunity to even try to reach Of the subjects of his “Great Movies” essays, from “ Casablanca” to “ Vertigo” to “ Taxi Driver.” What I’m realizing now more than ever is that Ebert knew that moviesĬould be trenchant, transcendent, even life-changing - like any number Observations were more like a tribute to the good movies stuck inside Instead, his incredulous plot-skewerings and sardonic Reviews of those films weren’t nasty, even if some people went aboutĪfter he died. Written on a daily deadline, which made their insight and wit all theĪnd it’s true there were a lot of movies he didn’t like - but his Out the window and sips of mineral water: They were tight epistles Think pieces, typed a few lines at a time in between thoughtful stares
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By the time they were following David Letterman around suburban neighborhoods on “Late Night,” “Siskel & Ebert” seemed more like TV characters than critics.īut like a lot of other Ebert fans, I eventually came around to his Like everybody else who wasn’t a reader of the Chicago Sun-Times, Iįirst discovered Ebert on television - I actually watched him on PBS asĪ kid, when he and Gene Siskel would sometimes discuss a single movieįor 10 minutes, and there always seemed to be a very real risk (hope?) But as I’ve been reading this lastĬollection, it’s had me rethinking what’s drawn me to his writing over Tribute to him - plenty of other, better writers (and a few worse One? That’s a good topic for a long, thoughtful talk with yourself inĮven as much as I’ve loved Ebert’s work, I had no intention of writing a “Tickets are not cheap and time is fleeting. “ Footloose”: “The film’s message is this: A bad movie, if faithfully remade, will produce another bad movie.” Tamara, and Marique, a sentence I never thought I’d write.” “The film ends with a very long battle involving Conan, Khalar Zym, If it’s done by an agent, she needs to do it “How does choose her material? If she does it herself, But I could resist for only so long,Īnd less than halfway through it I’ve already found myself LOL-ing over and I couldn’t stand the idea of there not being another to add to
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I’ve read most of Ebert’s books - from his early collections to his “ Great Movies” series to his fantastic memoir “ Life Itself” Just a day before it arrived in my mailbox.įor a while, I’ll admit I avoided opening it. As you probably know, Ebert passed awayĪpril 4 - eerily enough, about a week after I ordered the book, and Of course, this latest volume has a sad distinction the other twoĭidn’t, in that it's his last.
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He's published three: " I Hated Hated Hated This Movie," the more succinctly titled " Your Movie Sucks," and his latest - the one I’m working through now - " A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length.” Reading about bad movies should not be this melancholy an experience.Īfter all, the whole point of reading Roger Ebert's collections of zero- to two-star reviews is to revel in the ineptitude (“ The Last Airbender”), the excess (“ Battle: Los Angeles”), the sheer, well, BADNESS (“ Basic Instinct 2,” pretty much anything featuring Adam Sandler) of the cinematic misfires catalogued therein.