# Roger Ebert STILL Giving Reviews? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256 "2019-12-22T21:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/1 "2019-12-22T21:00:45Z")
Years after, they’re still using his name to distort and mislead… How can he rate a movie he’s never seen? This world is one big fraud… [https://i.imgur.com/Kjqw8qV.png](https://i.imgur.com/Kjqw8qV.png) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/2 "2019-12-22T21:06:51Z")
I think that rating is from his website which is obviously run by other people now. But it should indicate that or maybe they assume everybody knows he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/3 "2019-12-22T21:10:57Z")
It refers to the website [Rogerebert.com](http://Rogerebert.com), which is still doing reviews. Anyone for whom the review would have any meaning would know this. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/4 "2019-12-22T21:16:47Z")
well some people think Elvis is still alive and he died in 1977 ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/5 "2019-12-22T21:24:44Z")
I hear that he, Tom Clancy and Virginia Andrews all hang out together and proof-read each others’ work. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/6 "2019-12-22T21:28:40Z")
recent Tom Clancy books list his name but also list the actual author of the book: > **[Full Force and Effect (Jack Ryan, #10)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22825382-full-force-and-effect)** > > A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A ve… ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/7 "2019-12-22T21:34:37Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > It refers to the website [Rogerebert.com](http://Rogerebert.com), which is still doing reviews. Anyone for whom the review would have any meaning would know this. I did a search for a movie someone mentioned, and had I not known much about Ebert, I would have thought “Oh, he recommends it”. This is evil marketing. Why not use Matt’s name instead? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/8 "2019-12-22T21:45:00Z")
I don’t get it. If you don’t know enough about Ebert to know that he’s dead, why would you be influenced by his movie reviews? That site seems to contain many movie reviews. Each review is credited to someone who apparently wrote it, right there on the front page of the site. You can’t click the review without seeing the name of the reviewer. In other news, Duncan Hines did not personally prepare the cake mix you bought yesterday, nor did Henry Ford have anything to do with the construction and sale of the automobile parked down the block from me. Neither was King Arthur involved in the creation of the flour on the grocery store shelf. Shocking! Misleading! Someone should DO something! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/9 "2019-12-22T21:57:43Z")
I recently found out Betty Crocker is not a real person!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/10 "2019-12-22T22:10:45Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > I recently found out Betty Crocker is not a real person!! 🙂 [She and Mavis Beacon live together. Very happy, I hear.](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BUtcXTKLL._AC_SX425_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/11 "2019-12-22T22:24:42Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I don’t get it. If you don’t know enough about Ebert to know that he’s dead, why would you be influenced by his movie reviews? > > That site seems to contain many movie reviews. Each review is credited to someone who apparently wrote it, right there on the front page of the site. You can’t click the review without seeing the name of the reviewer. > > In other news, Duncan Hines did not personally prepare the cake mix you bought yesterday, nor did Henry Ford have anything to do with the construction and sale of the automobile parked down the block from me. Neither was King Arthur involved in the creation of the flour on the grocery store shelf. Shocking! Misleading! Someone should DO something! 🙂 I doubt most are going to look at a movie’s date, and then think “Hmmm, I wonder if he was alive” or “I wonder if it was someone else named Matt posting this on his site, even though it doesn’t use his name”… Using “King Arthur” is a silly analogy. It is very misleading, and I pity you for being silly about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/12 "2019-12-22T22:25:44Z")
I have seen it listed as [rogerebert.com](http://rogerebert.com) on other sites ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/13 "2019-12-22T22:29:11Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > I have seen it listed as [rogerebert.com](http://rogerebert.com) on other sites What I did was to simply type the movie title on the address bar, and it automatically used Google, which is the #1 search engine, followed by YouTube, which is owned by Google… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/14 "2019-12-22T22:30:24Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > This is evil marketing. Why not use Matt’s name instead? You have a very low bar for “evil.” > [@MortSahlFan](#): > > I doubt most are going to look at a movie’s date, and then think “Hmmm, I wonder if he was alive” or “I wonder if it was someone else named Matt posting this on his site, even though it doesn’t use his name”… Using “King Arthur” is a silly analogy. > > It is very misleading, and I pity you for being silly about it. Someone’s being silly, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/15 "2019-12-22T23:33:58Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Neither was King Arthur involved in the creation of the flour on the grocery store shelf. Surely you mean Robin Hood? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/16 "2019-12-23T00:43:46Z")
Maybe you should ask Cecil Adams what he thinks about this very important matter. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/17 "2019-12-23T00:54:41Z")
As long as Walter Elias Disney is still hand-drawing every single Mickey Mouse cartoon, I know the world is a safe place. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/18 "2019-12-23T01:03:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Surely you mean Robin Hood? :dubious: 😕 I’ve heard of King Arthur flour, but I’ve never heard of Robin Hood flour. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/19 "2019-12-23T01:33:50Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I’ve heard of King Arthur flour, but I’ve never heard of Robin Hood flour. 😕 There is such a thing, I assure you: [![](https://centralsupercenter.com/wp-content/uploads/1970/01/robin-hood.jpg) ](https://centralsupercenter.com/wp-content/uploads/1970/01/robin-hood.jpg) I, on the other hand, had never heard of King Arthur flour until now! :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ebert-still-giving-reviews/845256/20 "2019-12-23T01:51:10Z")
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