RIP Roger Ebert

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/319894506931617793


Few people truly enjoyed the internet more than him, after his surgery. It must have truly been truly empowering to him to still be able to converse about his loves/interests even after losing the ability to speak.

[Joe Molotov]

Damn, just yesterday I read that his cancer had come back, now he's already gone. I hope he's banging black ladies in heaven now.  :'(

[Positive Touch]

wut

was he working right up til he died? swear i seen him on twitter in the last few days. really sucks tho. dude was genuinely amazing.

[Great Rumbler]

Few people could savage a bad film quite as good as Ebert, that's for sure.

[Human Snorenado]

I'd like to think he would want to be remembered for this tour de force Deuce Bigalow 2 review, and not for having written Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

[Positive Touch]

beyond the valley of the dolls is top 10 come on now

[Yeti]

The Thumbs up/Thumbs down is still probably the best way to rate anything. Also, PD how could you not use the thumbs down message icon when making this thread? smh

[hampster]

RIP :'(

I haven't followed him in years and had no idea he could no longer talk but I loved watching Siskel & Ebert as a kid.

[Joe Molotov]

I'd like to think he would want to be remembered for this tour de force Deuce Bigalow 2 review, and not for having written Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

Truly a classic.

[Joe Molotov]

Looks like his final review was a mildly negative 2.5 star review for The Host. Sun-Times is getting slammed right now, so I'll repost it.

Stephenie Meyer, whose books inspired the "Twilight" movies, now presents a new way for true love to struggle against itself. In the "Twilight" world, characters were invited to become vampires to share more fully the lives of those they loved. "The Host" presents a possibility that, if anything, is a deeper commitment. Earth has been invaded by a race of "souls" who inhabit human bodies, stripping them of their memories and identities. It's the way the alien race survives and spreads.

We meet Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), who through some sort of glitch, is inhabited by an alien soul but still retains, there inside her mind, her own identity. This leads to interior conversations between the Soul Melanie and the Earth Melanie. Soul Melanie (known as Wanderer) falls in love with Earth Melanie, even though in theory this isn't possible because the Wanderer has become Melanie. This intimate form of self-love leads to dialogue that will possibly be found humorous by some people. When Wanda is about to kiss the boy she loves, for example, the film uses voiceover to warn her: "No, Melanie! Wrong! No! He's from another planet!"

True, in our own lives, we pick up warnings on that frequency: No! You'll get pregnant! No! He's from the other side of town! No! He's your best friend's boyfriend!" I imagine this as a version of one of those debates where little angels with harps and devils with pitchforks perch on your shoulders.

Much of the film is set in New Mexico, where a band of surviving humans hides inside an "almost" extinct volcano. Using sunlight reflected by walls of mirrors they can crank up and down, they raise crops for their agrarian eco-system.

Melanie and her soul venture forth to find her other Stryder relatives. They are united with Jeb (William Hurt, a bearded patriarch), Maggie (Frances Fisher) and young Jamie (Chandler Canterbury). They hide from soul patrols in search cars and helicopters, allowing "The Host" to get by with a few simple sets, including a tunnel that always looks like the same tunnel. The Souls are determined to track down all evaders, and at the outset I gather they've already enlisted more or less all the humans on Earth, except for members of the Stryder family.

"The Host" was directed by Andrew Niccol, who co-wrote the script with Stephenie Meyer. Niccol is attracted to films about humans living (whether they realize it or not) in artificial societies. He wrote "The Truman Show" (1998), about a man living inside his own reality show and observed on TV by humankind, and directed "Gattaca," about another kind of artificial society. His films' ground rules limit the depth and variety of possible relationships, and "The Host" is top-heavy with profound, sonorous conversations, all tending to sound like farewells. The movie is so consistently pitched at the same note, indeed, that the structure robs it of possibilities for dramatic tension.

[Timber]

man

[Mupepe]

   He could write some truly awesome reviews

[Trent Dole]

All hail the king

[Himu]

I'm fighting The tears now. I never met him, but he's always been a big inspiration for me. Who will I go to for suggestions on good films now? Ebert could always dish out a scathing film review as well. Man was not only a critic but THE critic in my eyes. His passion for film, life, and just general seemingly good nature always rubbed, I found. RIP. We lost someone amazing today.

[Himu]

His twitter was my FAVORITE twitter and I legitimately consider him a brother (as in he's black).

[Cerveza mas fina]

Am i your brother too himu?

[Himu]

No

[ManaByte]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-ebert-hails-human-existence-as-a-triumph,31945/

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-ebert-hails-human-existence-as-a-triumph,31945/

Brilliant.

[Purple Filth]

RIP man  :'(

[CajoleJuice]

RIP, but still no celebrity death has made me care.

To be clear, I don't mean to troll, I just wonder if I'm weird for it not affecting me in the least. Although I didn't all that read much of his stuff or watch his show.

[TakingBackSunday]

wait until david wright dies

[Verdigris Murder]

Uncle Montys recent death affected me more. But rip dude. I enjoyed your Lebowski love.

[CajoleJuice]

wait until david wright dies

I'll probably die first

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I hope so, the pain would be too great

[close]

[Positive Touch]

No

can i be your daddy

[Himu]

No

can i be your daddy (Image removed from quote.)

If you put the word sugar in front of it, yes.

[Phoenix Dark]

I cried when 2pac died, that's it

[Smooth Groove]

cool guy

Not only a great film critic but he also made video games more relevant

RIP

[Dickie Dee]

Probaby the first best thing I ever did on the internet was find the suntimes site and just go through all his old review archives. I would spend hours doing that.

 

[Flannel Boy]

I'm fighting The tears now.

GAF post?

[Beezy]

RIP, but still no celebrity death has made me care.

To be clear, I don't mean to troll, I just wonder if I'm weird for it not affecting me in the least. Although I didn't all that read much of his stuff or watch his show.

I've cared about 3 so far. Guess who. I think only one is obvious.

[Smooth Groove]

RIP, but still no celebrity death has made me care.

To be clear, I don't mean to troll, I just wonder if I'm weird for it not affecting me in the least. Although I didn't all that read much of his stuff or watch his show.

I've cared about 3 so far. Guess who. I think only one is obvious.

Aaliyah, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston

[Beezy]

RIP, but still no celebrity death has made me care.

To be clear, I don't mean to troll, I just wonder if I'm weird for it not affecting me in the least. Although I didn't all that read much of his stuff or watch his show.

I've cared about 3 so far. Guess who. I think only one is obvious.

Aaliyah, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston

What the...? Well, you got the first two right.

[Akala]

sad news.