How about: I wish Roger had lived long enough to see how fucking wrong he was about video games. 
I agree completely with Roger about video games. Guess I’ll be having cancer wished on me, but there it is.
So everyone who doesn’t share your view of video games should die?
I love those as well.
I didn’t even know that Ebert even HAD an opinion on video games…
Who thought of the idea of asking a movie review about video games? Don’t get me wrong, I love video games and think they’re as cinematic as ever, but they aren’t movies…they’re video games. Who thoughts “oh man the story in this game is good, lets ask a movie review about it”
The jumping-off point was him giving a one-star review to the movie adaptation of Doom (2005). Not content slag the horrible movie, he stated that he didn’t think video games were, nor ever could be, an art form on the same level as film, books, or music.
He wrote a longer follow-up in 2010 (hosted on his site) in which he reiterated that position.
All I can say is, since I started playing Second Life, all books and movies have been just pale shadows by comparison. Perhaps Ebert at some level understood that this might be the case, causing a strong averse reaction.
Yeah, but your idea of an art book is the illustrated version of Slave Girls of Gor.
Not a review, but Ebert’s response to an Answer Man question about John Carpenter’s Vampires:
Moot point. Besides, younger people are largely like me: few have any interest in television or movies or books, they’re into gaming.
This is really off-topic. Let’s stick to Ebert and reviews, please.
I don’t know exactly what point you intended to make here, but yeah, Sheryl Lee’s character is a woman who has been kidnapped by Baldwin’s character (along with James Woods’ character) since getting bitten, and who hasn’t had the chance to bite anyone, so she’s a definite innocent here. That plot point apparently didn’t register with Ebert when he wrote that answer … or he didn’t catch it when he saw the movie.
How about “Pink Flamingos”?
He’s right; how DO you rate a movie like this?
I’m one of the biggest gamers on this board and I have to say, this statement is idiotic. Young are hugely into books, movies, and TV. Or do you think the only people who watch/read Game of Thrones and The Hungers are over 40?
Why do I need a larger point in a thread asking for your favorite Ebert quotes? I like that quote. What more do I need?
And you’re wrong about the movie, Sheryl Lee’s character is clearly infected at that point and Daniel Baldwin only starts smacking her around after she tries to bite his face off. It’s an answer that cuts through all the bullshit.
It seemed that every single Ebert review I read had at least one error. It was astonishing, and I began to assume that he did it deliberately.
I think at this point, we need another thread just for this. I’ll make one.
I always had a particular fondness for his review of Alien Resurrection:
As for his non-movie reviews, I think his critique of Sarah Palin was rather trenchant, but (IMO) quite astute.
I like that review too. I like this bit in particular, and I think it’s an example of Ebert’s eye for science fiction and flair for language:
However, your link didn’t work for me. I found the review at http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/alien-resurrection-1997
He may be dead a year now, but we’re still seeking out films he’s unearthed. Tonight the wife and I watched a little Chinese gem called Postmen in the Mountains that we never would have known about had it not been for Ebert.
That piece sounds like it was written prior to the 2008 election but the dateline is April 2, 2010.