Roger Ebert is dead

[Acton Hank]

He sat through and reviewed more bad movies than most people will see in their entire lives.

His influence on film criticism has always been an inspiration for me, teaching me to think more about not just movies but things in general.

And his last review was for The Host; today is a sad, sad day.

Rest In Peace and see you at the movies.

 

[knight steel]

I didn't agree with him that often,and I would get really really angry with him when he talked about video games but..........he had passion-real honest the goodness passion-and he revolutionized critic reviews so his death is sad.

On the other hand many good/great people die and we don't blink an eye people are dying every 5 min somewhere in the world yet we don't care-and yet when it's a celebrity we all mourn,that seems unfair,just because they are popular doesn't make them better..

On the other hand it's impossible to mourn every single person,besides being physically impossible,we would never have time to stop-plus as a public figure he was closer/known to a lot more people than your average joe so.......I don't know how to feel.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Swell guy, Ebert. I'm glad that despite the fact some of us in the video game community didn't agree with his views that we can still agree that the man had an big impact on culture, and that he deserves our respect. After all, he ha-

Oh bloody hell.

Regardless, rest in peace Ebert, you were one hell of a critic,

OK, I am all for snark, and I can go with dark humor. But seriously, Cliffy B? What the fuck is wrong with you?

 

[Freaky Lou]

That sucks.

Although he was still pretty close-minded and pretentious.

He gave positive reviews to Real Steel and Transformers; that is not something a pretentious individual does.

Even aside from the tastelessness, Bioshock Infinite is a decidedly mediocre game.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I think I was disappointed that he didn't think much of video games because I wanted him to like them, and write reviews of them that were as full of snark and passion as his movie reviews.

He's a hell of an act to follow, but is anyone out there doing for video games what he did for movies? I think he convinced a lot of people to include movies in their lives (myself included). I don't think I've ever seen a compendium review of games like he had of movies.

That's probably because a movie takes 2 hours to watch, while a game takes at least 8 to complete and usually a lot more.

Aside from reviewing them, just watching as many movies as he did is something. Ebert was probably the person who was closest to watching all the movies that ever existed. While there are a lot less games, it would still be some achievement to do the same thing with games.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I'll shed no tears for that ass-backwards codger. Why? Well, someone summed it up nicely:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

I just...God, the man didn't know the first thing about video games but...he's dead? I'm having a hard time believing it, it feels like a late April Fools joke...a moment of silence please.

Why? The Old Man touted that Movies were an art form, yet denounced games as being nothing more than child's playthings.


He was a hippocrite of the highest order and the only thing I regret is not slapping him.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Swell guy, Ebert. I'm glad that despite the fact some of us in the video game community didn't agree with his views that we can still agree that the man had an big impact on culture, and that he deserves our respect. After all, he ha-

Oh bloody hell.

Regardless, rest in peace Ebert, you were one hell of a critic,

OK, I am all for snark, and I can go with dark humor. But seriously, Cliffy B? What the fuck is wrong with you?

What is wrong with that comment? I don't get it. I found that to be fuckin' hilarious.

While I don't agree with Cliffy B with the "True game of Art" as we have had quite a few recently: To The Moon and Journey to be the most commonly known.

Nothing wrong with it. I misunderstood. I thought Cliffy B was saying that a "game as art" coming out was what killed Roger Ebert, basically saying that Roger Ebert was so set in his ways than evidence against him literally killed Roger Ebert. Basically, I read it as an attack on Roger Ebert's character, which would have been a bit too far. I was wrong, though.