# Roger Ebert: A Hero In Every Sense Of The Word

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**Created:** [January 22, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-a-hero-in-every-sense-of-the-word/568538 "2011-01-22T04:06:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-a-hero-in-every-sense-of-the-word/568538/41 "2011-01-25T02:28:00Z")

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Ebert is a mixed bag for me.

I really enjoy reading his movie reviews. He’s probably one of the best “popular” movie critics in that he can be honest about a movie, draw on and reference a properly expert knowledge of film history and still be fun to read.

That said as he’s gotten older I think his standards have fallen a bit. It’d be interesting to plot his “star rating” vs year of release. My impression is that he’s a bit easier on movies these days, but I’d need some research to prove it.

He had a really horrific disease and recovery, but God bless him for refusing to withdraw from the public spotlight. Good for him.

He properly hates 3d. I agree with him 100%, and I’m a youngish guy. It’s a gimmick to inflate ticket prices. 60% of the time it adds nothing, 30% of the time it actually harms the film.

I don’t like his rather harsh (and old-fogey sounding) dismissal of video games as an art form. Yeah, gamers tend to oversell a lot of games as “works of art”. But there is art there, and it’s a new medium, and to dismiss it outright smacks of “old guy uncomfortable with new media”.

A hero? No. But he is a good critic, a good writer, and (seems to me) a good guy.

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