Roger Ebert is dead...
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Be a man and bring it to TNZ. Otherwise, stick to the topic and if you can't, shut the hell up.
Might I suggest considering keeping track through letterboxd? The list has been bannered at the top of the main page since Ebert's death was announced.
One of my favorite writers. I wanted to write something about him for my column at Drunk Monkeys, and this was the best I could come up with:
http://www.drunkmonkeys.onimpression.com/film/captain-canadas-movie-rodeo-4/
I still feel like we lost a great writer and proponent of film.
http://www.drunkmonkeys.onimpression.com/film/captain-canadas-movie-rodeo-4/
I still feel like we lost a great writer and proponent of film.
To be fair, Morrisette didn't understand it either. Which ends up being the only thing ironic about her song. All her examples were merely unfortunate 
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Ooh, nice! Thank you!
Yeah, it was a running joke between myself and a couple of friends back in 1995 and 1996 that the Alanis song wasn't actually about irony, just unfortunate timing and bad luck. Jagged Little Pill was a pretty great little album that we all enjoyed, but we couldn't pass up making fun of the video when it played on TV.
But that's where the scary liberals live. They may defeat conservative ideals with facts and reality, he can't go there.
I need to start collecting all of Ebert's bad reviews. He could really tear into a movie if he hated it enough. His review of North is just amazing.
Which is, of course, the real reason for objecting to someone like Ebert writing about politics: his wit and effectiveness. The kind of folks who object generally prefer fixed fights.
You'd think that after a while if you keep getting easily beaten by smart people you'd at least try to change things a little.
He published three collections of his negative reviews: I Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie; Your Movie Sucks; and last year's A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length. Yeah, they're all up on his website for free, but there's something about having them in print.
I might have to buy them. I want something to read when society collapses and be reminded of the internet.
Yes because nobody but me has ever brought up politics outside of TNZ
I did not moan about Eberts liberal politics.
I discussed the hypocrisy of some posters who seemed to defend inserting politics in writing when it was a liberal viewpoint but not a conservative viewpoint.
Never in this thread have I attacked either the man or his politics.
The worst thing I said about Ebert on this thread was that hypothetically some people could take issue with some of his positions as strongly as some of the posters here took issue with Orson Scott Card.
Disagree with me if you want. reasonable people can do that, but at least disagree with what I actually wrote.
Your zipper's down.
True. Some douchebags do it in memorial threads.
Wait. I've got it.
G-man is actually paying tribute to Roger by offering us his own written-post version of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
G-man is actually paying tribute to Roger by offering us his own written-post version of Plan 9 From Outer Space.