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It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310
I had no idea. I find the whole thing completely humbling.
That really sucks. I still enjoy his reviews even if I don't agree with them.
Yeah, I don't find I agree with him all too often, but he's a great writer and more often than not a really good read.
Wow, has it really been four years? It seems fairly recent in my mind.
Wow, this really gets me...
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I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled "Go Gently into That Good Night." I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
Ebert is a great man. Seriously.
One of the best film essayists of all time. Maybe the best.
Ebert is a great film reviewer and my cultural side would be much poorer were it not for his reviews and essays online. I really am glad he is still fighting the good fight and I hope he can still do it for as long as possible.
I dunno how I missed the news about him losing his lower jaw. Jesus. I'll reiterate that I didn't always agree, but he was damn good at what he did. He looks terrible.
The word you're looking for is "is". He's still moving and still writing, and the only thing that's changed is he can't talk about it on tv. It won't last forever, but at this point there still seems to be a plenty of time left.
That was a really good article, much longer than I normally have the patience to read online but I read every word, but too much like a eulogy.
James
god damn, i never knew...all this time reading his reviews, i thought he was still active in front of the camera.
Yeah, I've known about this for a while. Ebert's a great man who is intelligent and passionate about movies and you really have to admire the courage he's displaying here.
For some reason I thought he lost only half of his lower jaw, guess not. I'm with Yeller and Diff on this one, he's easily the most engaging film writer. If you haven't heard them before, he gives great commentary tracks, I'd like to hear more actually, I know he's done them for Citizen Kane, Dark City and Crumb. There are others as well.
Let's not forget that he wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls either.
I had no idea.
I love Ebert. His blog is consistently one of the best places on the internet.
I like Ebert a lot. He's actually the only movie reviewer I read regularly. And his retorts to disgruntled directors are always hilarious.
But 7 pages? TLDR
I love Ebert, he is fantastic.
This is the Internet Problem of stretching two pages of material for pageviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Reading the first and last page of the article is the same as going through all 7.
I liked the article a lot and I didn't feel the need to bitch about clicking Next Page a few times. I guess I still have a lot to learn from you guys!
What's this "you guys" shit, junior?
epmode admits he's half the man I am: the thread.
Doesn't look like he is winning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thread Title
On the contrary, he is winning by not being dead.
Add me to the "I never knew" list. What a great writer and a great man.
all a matter of perspective. For somebody who just lost his jaw and is dying, he's handling it really well. By his views I guess he's ruled out the possibility of one final review with Siskel after he passes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destin
Nobody beats death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destin
Never mind the fact that Siskel's been dead for 11 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason
You know, I've never read a Gene Siskel review, I can't find any.
what's it matter how long Siskel's been worm food, time does not matter in Heaven.
... Roger Ebert is an atheist, why wouldn't her rule something like that out?
Update: Ebert Responds (Positively). Although he wanted to clear up that he's not actually dying.
Robert Ebert: Fuck cancer, I won bitches.
Yeah. I think he was trying to say due to Ebert's atheist beliefs he won't be reuniting with Siskel in Heaven to review movies together. Since there is no heaven.Quote:
Originally Posted by BerringerX
Dude. Spoiler that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
How can we know for sure though?!
The article's a good read and I do like Ebert. However, this is some seriously pretentious shit:
I was surprised to hear how close he was with Siskel. They really came off as mortal enemies when they appeared together on Leno. Siskel's constant cracks about Ebert's then fatness were always just over the line into mean-spirited territory. Guess there was no bad blood.Quote:
Ebert scribbles constantly, his pen digging into page after page, and then he tears the pages out of his notebook and drops them to the floor around him. Maybe twenty or thirty times, the sound of paper being torn from a spiral rises from the aisle seat in the last row.
That's just an act.
Can we as a nation move past our need to all act like Joe Cool and the Fonze?Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
A little bit of intellectualism is ok. A little bit of pretentiousness is ok.
We are becoming a nation of stupid bland boring people because we all want to be "cool" 24 hours a day.
I love seeing Compass mark out about something being pretentious. It's adorable. :portalhug:
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Ebert has crossed the line with his antics and I'll be goddamned if I'm going to let it slide.
maybe you should go beat him up
Punch him in the jaw imo.
IMPOSSIBLE!
He could suck a mean dick with all those lips.
James
I wonder who put that video there.
It's a mystery.
Siskel had a potty mouth.
Siskel's cough = foreshadowing
He would have appreciated the observation.
I'm just really glad he can still do what he loves without being able to speak, I'm sure that helps.
Here he is using CereProc, it's sad seeing him like this, but it makes him happy!
Get that man a bandana!