April 04, 2013

Roger Ebert Dies at 70
— Ace

He became quite a scourge of anything Not Arch-Liberal in his later years.

Posted by: Ace at 11:47 AM | Comments (683)
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1 Roger Ebert? Thumbs down.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 11:48 AM (UZuc4)

2 When you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

I am silent on this topic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2013 11:49 AM (0zDXv)

3 Ebert dead? Good.

Posted by: cyclown at April 04, 2013 11:49 AM (fBhXl)

4 Well, I can't imagine this post going wrong.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 04, 2013 11:49 AM (bxiXv)

5 Mike Lupica could fill the Ebert know-nothing liberal void without breaking a sweat.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 11:50 AM (UZuc4)

6 His politics were lousy, but his reviews were good.

Posted by: Beverly at April 04, 2013 11:50 AM (qRrOA)

7 That's really uncool, you guys.

Posted by: Brendon Carr at April 04, 2013 11:50 AM (PnHfW)

8 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful. In fact I posted it so I could write a joke in the comments but now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 11:50 AM (LCRYB)

9 Ebert dead? Good. CBD, see? Good is nice.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 11:50 AM (GFM2b)

10 6 Agreed.

Posted by: David at April 04, 2013 11:51 AM (iqtXM)

11 Rest in peace, Ebert. He fought hard for a long time.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 11:51 AM (csi6Y)

12 Just another man done gone. And in this case, one that spent his final years all shriveled up with bitterness and hate, destroying any general goodwill that he'd built up before that.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 04, 2013 11:51 AM (k4bdL)

13 His    last    words    were    'Shallot    lives'.  I    swear.

Posted by: Gene Shallot at April 04, 2013 11:51 AM (wIgpo)

14 I prefer ace movie reviews, anyhow.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (ccXZP)

15 Goodbye and good riddance.  Nasty, hateful man.

Posted by: Chuck at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (1oE9r)

16 Currently on line at the pearly gates. 2 hour wait! If Bush hadn't killed all those Iraqis, I'd be in by now!

Posted by: Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (pfVS8)

17

RIP Roger Ebert.

 

May he find the peace in the next life that he was never able to find in this one.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (/PCJa)

18 Ok, who are the other 2 for the infamous die in 3s thing? I'm taking Lindsey Lohan (od) & Rhianna (Chris brown kills her)

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (A/8Nu)

19 Do not care.  He had become such a liberal douchebag in his later years, far outside his movie review job.

Posted by: EC at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (GQ8sn)

20 One less left wing brainless asshole in the world

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2013 11:52 AM (1Jaio)

21 My jaw hit the floor when I read this a few minutes ago.

Posted by: DangerGirl @deadlyestrogen at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (GrtrJ)

22 That's jaw-droppingly bad news.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (YmPwQ)

23

That said...

 

Does it make me a Bad Person that my first reaction was "Hmmm... I don't know how to react to this.  I'll have to chew on it for a while?"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (/PCJa)

24 I didn't like most of his reviews. He did manage to note a couple of films that were worthy that other critics failed to appreciate, like Knowing or Dark City. But generally he had stubbornly dumb-side-of-middle-brow tastes. Very obvious stuff. Even his gag of noting They Do It Every Time, cataloguing Movie Cliches, was kind of pedestrian and obvious.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (LCRYB)

25 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful. In fact I posted it so I could write a joke in the comments but now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't. Ace, if you stomp it, that's gonna male a lot of people "off-limits" in the future.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (GFM2b)

26 Rest in peace, Roger.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (Ud5vq)

27 I purposely skipped his ludicrous critiques over the years.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 11:53 AM (XYSwB)

28 Mom always said if you have nothing good to say about someone who just died than say nothing.....



NOTHING

Posted by: Vic at April 04, 2013 11:54 AM (53z96)

29 *make. Damn phone.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 11:54 AM (GFM2b)

30

Posted by: cyclown at April 04, 2013 03:49 PM (fBhXl)

 

Not cool.  Seriously.  No one should be happy that he's dead.

 

Ah... I see my first reaction does *not* make me a bad person.  DangerGirl apparently had the same one.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 11:54 AM (/PCJa)

31 The older I get the less seemly it seems to dance on graves. Murderers or rapists, brigands, whatever excepted. Ebert never hurt me so I probably should leave his friends and family alone.

Posted by: Beagle at April 04, 2013 11:54 AM (sOtz/)

32 Too many Goobers.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (XYSwB)

33 Wow.. watched him and Gene Siskell for years.  Siskell hated every movie they reviewed but Ebert wasn't quite as bad.  What a shame.. he looked absolutely wretched when I saw a picture of him the other day.  What happened to his face?

Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (l/N7H)

34 Does Bill Maher get a promotion now?

Posted by: Roy at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (VndSC)

35 I think he also had Counterfeit Taste: He was trying to *predict* what his audience would like, rather than rendering his own actual opinion. Thus, his gushing review of The Phantom Menace, or any film which flattered liberal pieties, no matter how incompetently.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (LCRYB)

36 He was only 70??

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (9XBK2)

37

I won't speak ill of the dead.  Don't want to become the mirror image of all the assholes on Daily Kos, DU etc. etc. etc.

Posted by: MM at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (ZMhO7)

38 I am sorry for the great physical suffering Ebert must have gone through. I assume he has left behind family and friends and I am sorry for them. I am also sorry that buckets of that white global-warming stuff are pouring down on my walkway because Mr. DeVille is out of town and the boy has a big term paper due tomorrow, which means that I am the chump that will have to clear it off.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (C8mVl)

39 The "At The Movies" show started off on PBS. It turned out that if PBS wouldn't do it, a network show would pay to have Siskel and Ebert do it for them. Which struck me as a good rebuttal to PBS's yearly, now bimonthly, Pledge Drive mantra. _ I thought Ebert's reviews were okay ... I was less likely to be mislead by Roger's than by Gene Shallit's take on a film. A bit of a shame that Social Media made him less than what he was.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (19AvL)

40 Anybody seen this from James Hansen? Guess he's decided he doesn't have to pretend anymore.... http://tinyurl.com/bsllu53

Posted by: Body Builder at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (DrC22)

41 Should I react with the same style, panache and joie de vivre characteristic of the left reacting to say, oh, Dick Cheney's heart surgery?

No?

Video et taceo

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (sbV1u)

42 8 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful. In fact I posted it so I could write a joke in the comments but now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't. Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 03:50 PM (LCRYB) _______________ There are certain types of threads that are almost always going to need monitoring. This be it, perhaps...

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (r2PLg)

43 His last words were 'Shallot lives'. I swear. Onion lives? I think you meant Shalit...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (PMGbu)

44

Okay, back to working at work.

 

Later y'all.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (/PCJa)

45 182 Welcome, Mr. Ebert-- your film tonight: Nicholas Cage's HAMLET!!!!! BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Posted by: Satan at April 04, 2013 11:55 AM (GzU1I)

46 I just want to thank him for making Michael Moore a household name.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (iR2Oi)

47 Per the other thread....

Roger Ebert : Both Godfather II and Cop and a Half get 3 Stars.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (4cRnj)

48 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful.
Don't be so down in the mouth, Ace.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (VwC86)

49 8 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 03:50 PM (LCRYB)   Awful? How about truthful? I don't buy the notion that someone who would have crapped on any one of us because of our politics when he was alive now gets some kind of automatic decency gesture just because he's dead. 

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (UZuc4)

50 Sigh. I don't wish cancer on anybody and he showed dignity in dying. So, while he was a dick politically, I'm not going to stick around for the jaw jokes.

Posted by: joncelli, self-denounced for your pleasure at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (RD7QR)

51 Cmon people. Be kind. Seriously you guys.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (gvJDD)

52 This thread insists upon itself.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (QupBk)

53 I remember when he and his side kick gave two thumbs down to Home Alone. They thought it would have been better if it had explored the fears kids have being home alone. I shit you not. Yes, a kid comedy that scares kids. Great thinkgin!

Posted by: Waldo at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (xY6Ip)

54 Yoshi said all that needs to be said; Thanks. Yoshi.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2013 11:56 AM (bddKN)

55 He has been a reliable Democrat voter in the past and will remain so now.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (YmPwQ)

56 Too many Goobers.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 03:55 PM (XYSwB)



George Lindsey: Hey

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (1Jaio)

57 33 Wow.. watched him and Gene Siskell for years. Siskell hated every movie they reviewed but Ebert wasn't quite as bad. What a shame.. he looked absolutely wretched when I saw a picture of him the other day. What happened to his face? Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 03:55 PM (l/N7H) ____________ Cancer of the jaw? Something like that, not sure.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (r2PLg)

58 >>>I thought Ebert's reviews were okay ... I was less likely to be mislead by Roger's than by Gene Shallit's take on a film. I gotta say that I was more on Team Siskell. Gene Siskell had less of the Bullshit gene than Ebert did. Ebert praised a lot of bad movies for having "their hearts in the right place;" Siskell called bullshit and noted he wasn't there to watch hearts in the right place.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (LCRYB)

59 I thought he was write about Video Games != Art.

Posted by: Misophonia Sufferer / Serious Cat at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (UypUQ)

60 Meh.

Posted by: Badger in KC at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (/Mtjv)

61 As a kid I enjoyed watching his reviews and I think he helped me understand and analyze movies better. As an adult Ebert spent the last two decades constantly insulting me and calling me a racist, heartless, right-wing, nazi, piece of shit. Which hurt since he was someone I respected as a kid. The 12 year old me would have wanted the approval of Roger Ebert. The 12 year old me wanted to grow up to be the kind of person Roger Ebert liked. So ... don't know what to say. Cancer sucks. He was a smarty guy who I liked before he became such an angry, vicious left-wing prick. I guess I'm sorry he's dead and sorry he suffered such a disfiguring illness, but I'm glad I don't have to stumble upon any of his viciously cruel insults anymore.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (ZPrif)

62 That's really uncool, you guys.

Posted by: Brendon Carr at April 04, 2013 03:50 PM (PnHfW)



The only good Roger Ebert is a dead Roger Ebert you guys.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (KXm42)

63 The Happening : 3 Stars

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (4cRnj)

64 I grew up in Chicago and I often ask myself what the fuck happened to that city?

Posted by: Waldo at April 04, 2013 11:57 AM (xY6Ip)

65 Finally. Obamacare creates its first job.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (m3PfY)

66 @45 But that was funny.

Posted by: Beagle at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (sOtz/)

67 Two Toes Up

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (m2CN7)

68 FYI, he had cancer of the salivary glands.  Surgery and radiation for that tends to distort the face a bit.

Posted by: MM at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (ZMhO7)

69 This will heavily skew the Tomatometers.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (XYSwB)

70 Oh, please, people. I for one, am very happy that Roger Ebert is dead. Because if, God forbid, I am ever struck with a terminal disease:

I know precisely how NOT to behave in my final years/months/weeks.

Hell, if I have kids, I'll make them read Ebert for the same lesson.

Posted by: Oschisms at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (pfVS8)

71 What happened to his face? Cancer. I'm with the this could spin out of control crowd on this one. He was a thoroughly ugly person, but his friends & family are suffering from the loss.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (A/8Nu)

72

 yeah maybe I shouldn't even have this thread. It's almost daring people, including myself, to be awful.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 03:50 PM (LCRYB)>>>>>

 

Why?  It's not that hard to  find something nice to say about anyone.  Here, I'll go first.  Ahem...

 

He had a  very  sexy mouth,  for a man.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (CJjw5)

73 Ah... I see my first reaction does *not* make me a bad person. DangerGirl apparently had the same one. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 03:54 PM (/PCJa)


This presumes I am a good person.  Bwaaahahahahahaaaa.

In all seriousness though, I wish his family peace and comfort during this difficult time.

Posted by: DangerGirl @deadlyestrogen at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (GrtrJ)

74 Well, I'm not gonna speak ill of the dead. So, RIP.

Posted by: Big T Party at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (WiQr+)

75 I really hope when he gets to the pearly gates, that he answers the 20-question survey correctly.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 11:58 AM (G/r7R)

76 I don't have anything to say

Posted by: hey jack! at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (KHo8t)

77 His last words were 'Shallot lives'.

Nice.

Posted by: that guy that appreciates other's obscure cultural references at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (QupBk)

78 The Untouchables : 2 Stars

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (4cRnj)

79 I heard he could piss up a rope.

Posted by: Buddha at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (8NlUk)

80 Well Ace, the best way to kill the thread is to post a new one.

Posted by: Vic at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (53z96)

81 Cant say anything nice. OT: Carville backing a Hillary super-PAC. Tagline suggestion from me: Hillary 2016: Because we can't nominate Mooch... yet.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (FsUAO)

82 ummm, ace --- I said Shallit, not Siskel. Shallit had the massive Jew-fro and mustache. I thought Siskel's reviews were better considered and constructed than Ebert's - if that makes any sense.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 04, 2013 11:59 AM (19AvL)

83 I grew up in Chicago and I often ask myself what the fuck happened to that city?

Posted by: Waldo at April 04, 2013 03:57 PM (xY6Ip)




The Democrat Party's sole rule for decades

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (1Jaio)

84 Cancer : 2 stars. Decent plot but the performance was tedious.

Posted by: Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (gvJDD)

85 Once they got rid of the little dog for the Dog of the Week, it went downhill.

Posted by: Waldo at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (xY6Ip)

86 Why? It's not that hard to find something nice to say about anyone. Here, I'll go first. Ahem... Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 03:58 PM (CJjw5)

Nice EoJ.  You're very magnanimous.  I should follow suit.

His gunt wasn't so bad, for a man.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (sbV1u)

87 Too soon?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (CJjw5)

88 Well, instead of having to review Oblivion, Roger Ebert apparently opted for the easy way out.

Posted by: @JohnTant at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (tVWQB)

89 The Untouchables 2 stars, The Happening 3 stars, the Phantom Menace three and a half stars yeah sure Roger.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (LCRYB)

90 I gotta say that I was more on Team Siskell. Gene Siskell had less of the Bullshit gene than Ebert did. Ebert praised a lot of bad movies for having "their hearts in the right place;" Siskell called bullshit and noted he wasn't there to watch hearts in the right place. Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 03:57 PM (LCRYB) Yep. We're on the same page. I always thought Ebert was so transparent, but seeing the comments above, maybe not so much.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (XYSwB)

91

He became quite a scourge of anything Not Arch-Liberal in his later years.

Which is why it is *really* hard to mourn.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (ujg0T)

92

“Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 03:55 PM (l/N7H)

34 Does Bill Maher get a promotion now?”


Wonder what 1 rung above scumbag would be?

Snakes belly?

Posted by: Katfish at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (Nx5wc)

93 While his black wife was cashing in as a minority investor.

Posted by: ejo at April 04, 2013 12:00 PM (GXvSO)

94 @ 67 correction: 10 toes up

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 04, 2013 12:01 PM (m3PfY)

95 >>>ummm, ace --- I said Shallit, not Siskel. Shallit had the massive Jew-fro and mustache. I know, I just didn't know why you had to compare him to Shallit when Siskel was right next to him.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:01 PM (LCRYB)

96 An eternity of watching 'Baby Geniuses' over and over seems cruel...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 12:01 PM (AC0lD)

97 I could not stand his politics, but that aside, I pray the Good Lord of All Mercy rests his soul and surrounds him with the Everlasting Peace and Joy that transcends all understanding.

"You have made us for Yourself Oh Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You." - St. Augustine

Posted by: Strife at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (ntNJz)

98

"He has been a reliable Democrat voter in the past and will remain so now."

 

One corpse, one vote.

 

Aw, who am I kidding?  The name "Roger Ebert" will appear on a couple thousand ballots per election until such time as Mrs. O'Leary's cow torches the place again.

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (4I3Uo)

99 He has been a reliable Democrat voter in the past and will remain so now. You think he's only gonna vote once from the grave? I imagine he's gonna disenfranchise my vote at least a couple hundred times.

Posted by: illegally posting anonymously on the internet [/i] at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (feFL6)

100 He was a shrill, angry man who looked like a bipedal FUPA (pre-cancer). Condolences to his family.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (tqLft)

101

 I use to love his show on PBS? years and years ago with that bald guy..... I bought two or three of his movie review books and then, all of a sudden I started to see more and more politics come into his reviews and so much lefty hatefest kind of stuff that I just couldn't stand reading or watching him anymore....

 

...then he got cancer and had his jaw removed.   I don't think this was a coincidence considering the bile coming out of it.  Meh.

 

  R.I.P anyways I guess...

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (EKFzk)

102

What gets me as it probably does a lot of people is that this 'celebrity' ,who was famous for the important life skill of reviewing movies,  will get more wishes of sorrow and sympathy then the most recent KIAs in Afghanistan.

 

Life really is unfair.

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:02 PM (m2CN7)

103 what an artist the world has lost in him.

Posted by: NFJ at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (KHo8t)

104 67 Two Toes Up

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 03:58 PM (m2CN7)


LOL



Posted by: Ackbar at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (Cs2tJ)

105 Well, I'm not gonna speak ill of the dead.

So, RIP.

Posted by: Big T Party


Can you think of a better time to speak ill of someone?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (mN8D3)

106 I thought Siskel's reviews were better considered and constructed than Ebert's - if that makes any sense Ebert was hollywood sycophant, Siskell not so much.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (/gHaE)

107

 Siskel and Ebert never gave good reviews to the Action Movies that I like.

 

They didn't like Die Hard...or even Star Wars, that I recall.

 

I like Ace's Reviews much better.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (5kUwW)

108 67 That was both very mean and very funny.Kudos!

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (9XBK2)

109 Ebert's worst reviews    http://tinyurl.com/324bqwz

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (4cRnj)

110

SISKEL BEATS EBERT TO DEATH

 

You know you were all thinking it.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (CJjw5)

111 He's still planning to vote for Hillary.  Two or three times.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (lVPtV)

112 Drudge gawd...

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:03 PM (r2PLg)

113 I'll say something good: he named Animal House one of the top ten best of 1978. That's a plus for him.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 04, 2013 12:04 PM (c/58R)

114 I remember a while back when Limbaugh had a health scare, Ebert joined the Left in cheering for his death.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:04 PM (ZPrif)

115 Ooohh. I have nooooo problem speaking ill of the dead. It's the best time.

a) i'm guessing (at least until the last moments) he didn't believe in God, Heaven or Hell. Thus I honor him by treating him just as I would if he was still around.

b) if he's offended or angry, he is free to retaliate any way he can. *snicker*

c) how gentlemanly was he to those that passed on?

ROGER: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANT TO BE YA!

Now generally, I don't APPLAUD someone dying, just the ones with extraordinary influence or particular virulence and stupidity.

Roger qualified for both.

I read the Drudge headline and applauded. Loudly. With a cheer on top.

Berate me or hate me or tell me I'm being disrespectful. I don't care.

He became a vicious and nasty person and was given far more attention than he deserved because he's part of the Infotainment Industrial Complex.

Why respect him for that? As far as I'm concerned he gave up all his rights of humanity when he began denying others theirs.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 12:04 PM (Kpn/z)

116 111 He's still planning to vote for Hillary. Two or three times. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (lVPtV) Thread winner contender right there!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:04 PM (tqLft)

117 112 Drudge gawd...

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Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:04 PM (lVPtV)

118 The only sad part about Ebert's death is that the lying hack Roger Friedman will probably take his place.

Friedman also trolls his own comments section with gems like "movies have never been better, get yourselves to the theaters NOW!"

Movies have never been better?

Better than what, an enema with battery acid?

Posted by: kbdabear at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (mCvL4)

119 They didn't like Die Hard...or even Star Wars, that I recall. Genre bias. If you're looking for Diner with Andre ambiance, you'll not be finding it in Die Hard.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (/gHaE)

120 Watch as I say nothing bad about him at all.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (vHxiM)

121 Obligatory sorry for the family comment...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (lZBBB)

122 What a coincidence; the NY-area Moron Meet-Up is next week!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (tqLft)

123 From the sidebar

A "Tarantula the Size of a Human Face"



http://is.gd/Mfcthb

Posted by: Vic at April 04, 2013 12:05 PM (53z96)

124 Why him............................................... and not McCain or Schumer?!!

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (uhftQ)

125 Drudge gawd...

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (r2PLg

 

~~~~~~~~

 

I look at that picture and see him floating in an aquarium.

 

"We have just folded space  from Ix.  Many new machines on Ix."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (CJjw5)

126 i just read dr. spank's link of Ebert's worst reviews. Bit of lingo in the Butch Cassidy review: Hollywood people refer to movies as "shows." Like "When we were casting this show..." I kind of like knowing insider terminology. What's his name, Goldie Hawn's boyfriend, what the hell is his name? Anyway, that guy kept calling the movie "The Thing" "this show" in the commentary.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (LCRYB)

127 Obligatory sorry for the family comment...

Posted by: Romeo13

 

 

I felt sorry for his family while he was still alive.

Posted by: Roy at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (VndSC)

128 Phantom Menace: 3.5/4 stars Attack of the Clones: 2/4 stars Revenge of the Sith: 3.5/4 stars

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (T0NGe)

129 My mother said if you can't say anything nice about......Yada Yada Yada

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (9Bj8R)

130 I like Ace's Reviews much better. Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (5kUwW) If only they were archived. /le sigh

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (XYSwB)

131 Drudge gawd...

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (r2PLg)


Would not.

Posted by: Sri Lanken Tarantula at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (UypUQ)

132 117 112 Drudge gawd... --------- Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:04 PM (lVPtV) _____________ I'm lazy. I Imbiggin' my screen to enlarge the print. So the visual was HUGE! wow, le bastarde.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (r2PLg)

133 119 They didn't like Die Hard...or even Star Wars, that I recall. Genre bias. If you're looking for Diner with Andre ambiance, you'll not be finding it in Die Hard. Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 04:05 PM (/gHaE) I got a sure fire hit! "My Dinner with Greedo." Ebert would've loved it!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (tqLft)

134 I have to admit that I liked My Dinner with Andre.  Maybe because I know someone like that.  A fascinating talker.

Posted by: toby928© presents another finely crafted comment at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (QupBk)

135 67 Two Toes Up

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 03:58 PM (m2CN7)


***

Lolz bwahahaha...bet you've been waiting years to drop that one.


But I digress...RIP Roger....Really.

Posted by: dananjcon self hating woploc at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (jvd3N)

136 @61: Dittoes to Flatbush Joe's comments.  I liked Sneak Previews way back when with Siskel & Ebert.  But Ebert became the David Letterman of movie reviewers:  old, bitter and not as good as his younger self.

But I also hope he rests in peace now.  Wouldn't wish his suffering on just about anyone...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (wtvvX)

137 Rosebud.

Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at April 04, 2013 12:06 PM (aA2hG)

138 The Happening : 3 Stars

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 03:57 PM (4cRnj)

 

You've got to be fucking kidding me? He gave that steaming pile 3 stars? I was going to avoid this thread, but that is just too much for me. Rest in agony on the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: mugiwara at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (D5hxK)

139 Shallit had the massive Jew-fro and mustache. We shall henceforth call it... the Frew.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (ZgBZU)

140 126 Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:06 PM (LCRYB) Kurt Russell

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (tqLft)

141 Another Korea thread could not hurt. Maybe today the chance of any war is down to .00000001% Smart award-winning military blog and all.

Posted by: Beagle at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (sOtz/)

142

*thump thump thump*

 

Nope, my give-a-shit-ometer hasn't   moved.

 

Movie   critics  are like music critics:   music critics can't play anything but the radio. Movie critics couldn't make a movie if they tried.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (+z4pE)

143 I kind of like knowing insider terminology. What's his name, Goldie Hawn's boyfriend, what the hell is his name? Anyway, that guy kept calling the movie "The Thing" "this show" in the commentary. Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:06 PM (LCRYB ***** Kurt Russell.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (r2PLg)

144 What's his name, Goldie Hawn's boyfriend, what the hell is his name?

------------


Kirk Russell

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (lVPtV)

145 used to like him and paid attention to his movie commentary. then he went into full on liberal retard mode and I had to put him on ignore.

Posted by: exceller at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (ROGMG)

146 Drudge gawd... Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (r2PLg) Good Lord.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:07 PM (XYSwB)

147 Are we talking about the submissive from Men on Film? The douchestone for me has been "Magnolia"--GF made me watch that pretentious, mind-bendingly bad movie--if the critic loved it, I avoided the critic.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (Ec6wH)

148 136 Wouldn't wish his suffering on just about anyone... Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2013 04:06 PM (wtvvX) Oh, I have a list that could fill several NYC phone books.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (tqLft)

149 Well, one more thing. He really did say some wonderful things about films. He said "great films are like prayers.....They're meditations on why we are here.". Like or dislike his politics, he loved films and that came across. I have a son who is interested in films so I thank Roger Ebert for that and wish comfort and strength to his family and friends.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (bddKN)

150 131 Drudge gawd...

Libs...hard to look at. Alive or dead.

Posted by: dananjcon self hating woploc at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (jvd3N)

151
Is it bad that I morn the death of the man less than I morn the death of the jaw-drop joke?


Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (TIIx5)

152 Kurt Russell.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (4cRnj)

153 Wasn't a fan.

Posted by: sTevo at April 04, 2013 12:08 PM (sYewh)

154 If someone spends his life speaking ill of me, I have no problem spending his death speaking ill of him.

Go suck a dick, Roger...if you get your lower jaw back in the afterlife you don't believe in.

Posted by: Oschisms at April 04, 2013 12:09 PM (pfVS8)

155

This is OT, but    I   was late responding to RWC on the last thread.

 

RWC, if you're here, the Barney Frank bitchfest was on WFXT this past Tuesday.  You can watch the    video at MyFoxBoston.    The epic butthurtiness begins around 3:08.

 

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/21859381/2013/04/02/barney-frank-discusses-

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:09 PM (4df7R)

156 Me.

Posted by: Kurt Russell at April 04, 2013 12:09 PM (QupBk)

157 >>>You've got to be fucking kidding me? He gave that steaming pile 3 stars? heart in the right place; It was a parable about global warming Also he was probably giving it Liberal Bonus Points because the director is a minority (although by that point M. Night Shayamalan was so well-established and so successful this last point shouldn't count anymore; it would be like giving Woody Allen bonus points for being a religious minority).

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:09 PM (LCRYB)

158 right Kurt Russell. Could not think of the man's name. I kept thinking there should be a "Jr." at the end of it.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:09 PM (LCRYB)

159 150 131 Drudge gawd... Libs...hard to look at. Alive or dead. Posted by: dananjcon self hating woploc at April 04, 2013 04:08 PM (jvd3N) ******** True. Don't know why but I'm reminded of one of my favorite Liberal commenter handles... He actually called himself-- Death on a Stick.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (r2PLg)

160 As an alumnus, I shout out to Roger I - L - L....!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (Ec6wH)

161

I could somewhat forgive him being a leftist, but his glowing review of The Wife, The Cook, the Thief, and Her Lover tricked me into seeing that garbage.

Well that, and his financial/legal support of a terrorist here in the U.S.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (uhftQ)

162

The Happening : 3 Stars


Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 03:57 PM (4cRnj)

 

Not to speak ill of the dead, but fuck that guy.    As if I didn't already have enough reasons to hate him.

 

Just so y'all know, I waited    A MONTH before I allowed myself to post overtly negative things specifically about Ted Kennedy after he died.   I     blame the MFM for turning me into this cold-hearted bitch you see today.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (4df7R)

163 Didn't like him, it's just his handle that amused me.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (r2PLg)

164 the Frew.
Not ethnic enough: The Jewstache.

Posted by: frank costanza at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (VwC86)

165 He said "great films are like prayers.....They're meditations on why we are here.".

Maybe it's just me, but I hate statements like that.  Pretentious to the maximum.

IT'S A MOVIE.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (QupBk)

166

right Kurt Russell. Could not think of the man's name. I kept thinking there should be a "Jr." at the end of it.

~~~~~~~

 

You're probably  thinking  of the Kirk Douglas / Michael Douglas father-son thing.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:10 PM (CJjw5)

167 >>>ell, one more thing. He really did say some wonderful things about films. He said "great films are like prayers.....They're meditations on why we are here.". claptrap. anyone can write that kind of gassy praise of stuff they like. I could wax eloquent about Busty Lesbian Porn if I had a mind to.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:11 PM (LCRYB)

168 "Hmmm... I don't know how to react to this. I'll have to chew on it for a while?"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2013 03:53 PM (/PCJa)

 

ISWYDT

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:11 PM (4df7R)

169 Kurt Russell,  the only actor to wear an eye patch as two different movie characters.   I guess its one of his acting skills.

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:11 PM (m2CN7)

170 I can only imagine the nightly jokes on Letterman/Daily Show, etc if somebody like Limbaugh or Hannity suffered a similar disfigurement. It would be presented as karmic retribution for the right-wing hate they spewed.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:11 PM (ZPrif)

171 He  was  an  asshole  in  life.  So  maybe  he's  a  lot  more  pleasant  now  that  he's  ready  for  a  dirt  nap.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (rXcBX)

172 Louis Farrakhan given an honorary dinner at the Tuskegee Institute. Claims the US is killing billions. (at Breitbart) That is one person who I'd LOVE to see suffer the way Ebert did, and deservedly so. Milk of human kindness, my ass.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (tqLft)

173 Jane Russell.

Gee. This name game is fun!

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (VwC86)

174 rot in hell, douche-bag--or in Stockton, whichever comes first

Posted by: Rod from Rotterdam at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (Dll6b)

175 If only Obamacare had kicked in, Ebert would be...well, still dead.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (Ec6wH)

176

"great films are like prayers.....They're meditations on why we are here.".

~~~~~~~~~

 

"Prayer" is not a synonym for "meditation."  Jaw-droppingly stupid.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (CJjw5)

177

To quote Marcel Marceau: "   ."

Posted by: RobM1981 at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (FgxCS)

178 Drudge gawd... Has him looking like a muppet.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (GFM2b)

179 Kurt Rusell is the most badass 5'3 movie star ever.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (ZPrif)

180 Kurt Russel says he was raised a Republican but they were too left wing, so he became a Libertarian.

Posted by: Vic at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (53z96)

181 Every movie Michael Morefood was lavished with praise and Oscar talk.

I will not miss him one bit.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (xmcEQ)

182 Also he was probably giving it Liberal Bonus Points because the director is a minority (although by that point M. Night Shayamalan was so well-established and so successful this last point shouldn't count anymore; it would be like giving Woody Allen bonus points for being a religious minority).

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:09 PM (LCRYB)

 

I don't know if you could really call M. Night Shaymalan's post-Sixth Sense career   "successful," unless you were to    add the caveat,   "in a laughably awful and increasingly ridiculous way."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (4df7R)

183 Rosebud!

Posted by: Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (m0le6)

184 should i be upset that i'm not upset?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 12:12 PM (GVxQo)

185 159 right Kurt Russell. Could not think of the man's name. I kept thinking there should be a "Jr." at the end of it. Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:09 PM (LCRYB) __________ I'm sick of all the "juniors" lately. Assad. Kim Jong what's his nuts. Makes me want to crank up that Van Halen song with the lyric... Has anyone seen Junior's grave? I'm probably getting that all kinds of wrong. Off to look it up. and/or crank it up.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (r2PLg)

186 "great cakegirls are like prayers.....They're meditations on why we are here.".

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (FsUAO)

187 Like I said in the last thread.


His ass, satan's barbed cock, some assembly required.

Posted by: Berserker at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (FMbng)

188 A well designed spreadsheet is like an offering to the Almighty.  It defines our relationship to the universe in columnar form. 

Things said by no one ever.  Vol III.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (QupBk)

189 "...Now I believe the Republicans are on the wrong side of another issue, health care. Just as they opposed Social Security and Medicare, they are against universal health care, even though it would be of great value to its increasingly older, blue collar, less affluent, more unemployed, less educated base.

Why did health care become a rigidly partisan issue? The watered-down current proposal would essentially extend Medicare to everyone. Is there a Republican who supports Medicare? Who is happy his parents have it -- or that he does? Then let that lawmaker take a careful look at universal health care. There must be more than one Senator (Olympia Snowe) on her side of the aisle with the guts to vote independently of the pack. Nor would I object if a Democrat voted against it; I remember a time before party-line thinking..."


Roger Ebert
Economic Genius and Healthcare Expert
Oct 1, 2009


Posted by: B at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (5OEha)

190 I could wax eloquent about Busty Lesbian Porn if I had a mind to. ------ How big of a donation do I have to make for you to get a mind to do that?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (TvIko)

191 160 150 131 Drudge gawd... Libs...hard to look at. Alive or dead. Posted by: dananjcon self hating woploc at April 04, 2013 04:08 PM (jvd3N) ******** They're much easier to look at dead. Especially the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers, Dohrn, etc. ad nauseum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (tqLft)

192 Daring you to be awful? Guy, you ARE awful.

Posted by: Dracul The Impailer at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (KqwSL)

193 Only the good die young.

Posted by: Gene Siskal at April 04, 2013 12:13 PM (HqpV0)

194 "Have you seen Junior's grades?"

Posted by: ...And the Cradle Will Rock at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (Ec6wH)

195  I remember a while back when Limbaugh had a health scare, Ebert joined the Left in cheering for his death.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 04:04 PM (ZPrif)

 

 

-------------------------------------------

 

 

I never watched Siskel or Ebert.   As far as I'm concerned, they hold no celebrity status for me.  His death holds no more weight for me than the strangers listed in the daily obituary.

 

However,  seeing many of the things he said about good people, I have the the opinion that while he was alive, he was an evil  and  vile little bitch.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (G/r7R)

196 i love kurt russell

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (GVxQo)

197

119...Genre bias. If you're looking for Diner with Andre ambiance, you'll not be finding it in Die Hard.

 

Yeah, PurpAv....their bias worked in the opposite for me:

 

If Siskel and Ebert hated a movie, then I knew I would probably like it.

If they liked a movie...I knew to wait till it was on tv to watch it.

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (5kUwW)

198 182 Every movie Michael Morefood was lavished with praise and Oscar talk. I will not miss him one bit. Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 04:12 PM (xmcEQ) He was befuddled that Team America: World Police didn't "pick a side" by lambasting both pro-terrorist left and uber-hawks.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (FsUAO)

199 Goodbye Roger. I've been ignoring you for decades anyway, so this doesn't change anything between us.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (yh0zB)

200 Oh gawd damn it. Knew it--but didn't. It's -- Junior's grades. (segues off dans rouge.)

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (r2PLg)

201 174 Jane Russell. Gee. This name game is fun! Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 04:12 PM (VwC86) Keri Russell.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (tqLft)

202 Kurt Russell told one of the funniest true stories I ever heard on Letterman. A pitcher on his minor league baseball team was throwing a no-hitter into the ninth when an umpire called a runner safe, who was out, braking up the no-no. I believe the ump threw him out of the game(the pitcher). The pitcher got back at the ump by contracting VD from a prostitute and then infecting the ump's wife who eventually infected the ump, then telling the ump what he did. Great story, I wish I could find the clip online.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (4cRnj)

203 Actor Jeremy Irons just got himself moved to the top of the target list by the fag brigade.

Asked about same-sex marriage, Irons replied:

ItÂ’s a very interesting one, that, and I donÂ’t really have a strong feeling, but what I see Â… what we had in England, which was not marriage, but it was a union you could make if you were gay and you wanted to make a civil partnership Â… same rights but not the name Â… it seems to me that now theyÂ’re fighting for the name, and I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that. I mean tax-wise itÂ’s an interesting one, because you see, could a father not marry his son?

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2013 12:14 PM (9XBK2)

204 Nipsey Russell.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (VwC86)

205 i just read dr. spank's link of Ebert's worst reviews.

Posted by: ace


Very funny stuff.

Notice every frickin' quotation from Ebert's reviews is in the passive voice.

The dude couldn't write.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (mN8D3)

206 (bad luck to leave you college cheer hanging)....I - N - I!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (Ec6wH)

207 Nipsy Russell

Posted by: Roy at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (VndSC)

208 195 "Have you seen Junior's grades?" Posted by: ...And the Cradle Will Rock at April 04, 2013 04:14 PM (Ec6wH) _________ DAMN IT!

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (r2PLg)

209 I enjoyed the early days of "Sneak Previews" and "At the Movies." I generally found myself more in tune with Ebert's opinions than Siskel's. I couldn't bring myself to read his later stuff. I do have sympathy for his family.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (HJsDx)

210 If Siskel and Ebert hated a movie, then I knew I would probably like it.
If they liked a movie...I knew to wait till it was on tv to watch it.

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:14 PM (5kUwW)



Yep.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (yh0zB)

211 Has anyone seen Junior's grave?>>>>> Grades.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 12:15 PM (UZuc4)

212 "Best Death Ever" - Comic Book Guy - Simpsons

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (AC0lD)

213

Who's this Ebert person?

 

What did he do to make the world better?

Posted by: Ook? at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (OQpzc)

214 Russell Crowe

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (m2CN7)

215 180 Kurt Rusell is the most badass 5'3 movie star ever. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 04:12 PM (ZPrif) Billy Barty with Herve Villechaize as a Master/Blaster combo would be the ultimate 5'3" movie star.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (tqLft)

216 jack russell (terrier)

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (GVxQo)

217

197 i love kurt russell

 

Me too.

He's a good example of a child actor who didn't screw up his life.

Plus...he's hawt.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (5kUwW)

218 It appears Ebert did later apologize for cheering for Limbaugh's heart failure. So ... that's a good thing. But, of course, if you honestly believe somebody is a hitler incarnate -- why would you not wish for their heart to explode?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (ZPrif)

219 >>>I don't know if you could really call M. Night Shaymalan's post-Sixth Sense career "successful," unless you were to add the caveat, "in a laughably awful and increasingly ridiculous way." Eh, well, 1, the Sixth Sense was HUUUUUUGE, 2, the follow-up, Unbreakable, was not bad, though the schtick was beginning to wear thin, 3, The Village seemed good for most of its length until he had to Scooby Doo it... M. Night is considered a joke NOW but only because The Village disappointed, the Happening blew, and that weird one he did, with the Water Fairies and stuff (I forget the name), was really terribly self-indulgent. At the time he did the Happening, he was still riding on the crest of the Sixth Sense and considered one of the most exciting filmmakers in the country. He just had a clunker before it.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (LCRYB)

220 You've got to be fucking kidding me? He gave that steaming pile 3 stars? I was going to avoid this thread, but that is just too much for me.Rest inagony on the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: mugiwara

 

***

 

Even before he outed himself as a flaming leftist, he really loved the "avant garde" films.

The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and Her Lover is a prime example. In fact, the more artsy (aka vile and disgusting) the movie, the more he liked it.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (uhftQ)

221 215 Russell Crowe Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 04:16 PM (m2CN7) Russell "The Professor" Johnson.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (tqLft)

222 a man with no arms & no legs in a pile of leaves.......russell

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (GVxQo)

223 RIP Ebert;  the first victim of Obamacare. 

Posted by: Fritz at April 04, 2013 12:16 PM (WM+rJ)

224 These pretzels are salty as shit.

Posted by: US Tres at April 04, 2013 12:17 PM (VjL9S)

225

ItÂ’s a very interesting one, that,
and I donÂ’t really have a strong feeling, but what I see Â…
what we had in England, which was not marriage, but it was a union you
could make if you were gay and you wanted to make a civil partnership
Â… same rights but not the name Â… it seems to me that now
theyÂ’re fighting for the name, and I worry that it means somehow
we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that. I
mean tax-wise itÂ’s an interesting one, because you see, could a
father not marry his son?


~~~~~~~~~~

 

Roger Ebert was unavailable for comment.

 

BAZINGA!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:17 PM (CJjw5)

226 Since he'll still be voting for Hilary in 2016, he isn't really dead, is he?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 04, 2013 12:17 PM (SO2Q8)

227 His ass, satan's barbed cock, some assembly required.

Posted by: Berserker at April 04, 2013 04:13 PM (FMbng)

Oh, I'm not sure that's fair.

Ebert certainly bit off more than he could chew whenever he commented on politics, but that just makes him a typical stupid leftist.

Shouldn't we reserve Satan's barbed cock for really evil people...like Pelosi and Obama and Reid?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2013 12:17 PM (0zDXv)

228 205 Nipsey Russell.

--------------

True fact:  Was a car-hop at the Varsity in Atlanta.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:17 PM (lVPtV)

229 do so about Hairy Lesbian Midget prOn and I'll be impressed

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (yhYn1)

230 Films are a lot like cancer, they make your drop at times and sometimes kill.

Posted by: Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (4cRnj)

231 Since he'll still be voting for Hilary in 2016, he isn't really dead, is he?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 04, 2013 04:17 PM (SO2Q

 

Thread winna!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (4df7R)

232 Gene must be pretty pissed right about now.
 

Posted by: dananjcon self hating woploc at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (jvd3N)

233 I don't know if you could really call M. Night Shaymalan's post-Sixth Sense career "successful," unless you were to add the caveat, "in a laughably awful and increasingly ridiculous way."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at April 04, 2013 04:12 PM (4df7R)

 

Well, if you define success as coming up with one bomb more shitty than the last yet still landing big money financing to do it, he may be the most successful director of all time, evar

Posted by: mugiwara at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (D5hxK)

234 Eh, I can't bring myself to schadenfreude much less rage.

Either you liked Ebert or you didn't, it didn't really matter to be honest.  He was a commentator, doing what commentators do.
I've seen many across many fields (sports, movies, politics, philosophy, theology, science.)
You didn't necessarily have to agree with him to read him (many cases I read his reviews knowing that if he didn't like something or did, I would probably find the opposite.)  On some issues our opinions synced up.  In that way I got tired of people saying "but Ebert said..." so what? Transformers was a remarkably high grossing series despite Ebert's hatred of it.

He waded into video games briefly, for which I do hold a bit of animosity against him, if only because his commenting on video games was worse than my commenting on wine.  (I at least drink wine, even if I know my tastes are no where near refined.)  Eventually though he backed off.
He was good for a joke, I don't recall him lashing out when Animaniacs did a whole Slappy the Squirrel bit about him (which included pumping his fat to make popcorn topping.)

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (cdwHs)

235

I couldn't stand him but I don't wish that kind of suffering on anybody.  Ok, well maybe a few.

I do wish Drudge would take his picture off the page....disturbing.

Posted by: Cheri at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (G+Wff)

236 Ebert now useful as maggot snack.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (OlN4e)

237 Who is Roger Ebert?  Are we suppose to know anything about him?

Posted by: Heltau at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (Tp2Qu)

238

Movie critics are like music critics: music critics can't play anything but the radio. Movie critics couldn't make a movie if they tried.

He did try.  Wrote the screenplay for Beyond The Valley of The Dolls.  A perfect and clear example of his movie "talent."

A sad, sick, twisted and hateful man.  Good riddance.  May the afterlife in some way make you pay for your earthly transgressions.

Posted by: YouDon'tSay at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (zMLu+)

239 Nipsey Russell. -------------- True fact: Was a car-hop at the Varsity in Atlanta I'm going to agree.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie for the block at April 04, 2013 12:18 PM (Ec6wH)

240 Shut up and sing review!

Posted by: ParisParamus at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (Bm3Lc)

241 Tits up, Thumbs down

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (+I8Mq)

242 William Howard Russell.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (VwC86)

243 Roger Elbert? I always think of Twit when that name comes up, that and having a big dick up his pompous ass.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (wR+pz)

244 Who?

Posted by: Marcus at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (GGCsk)

245 Meh, the next time someone like Breitbart dies, I'm not going to get too caught up with the Twitchy compilations of "bad things leftists said about a dead man." You don't have to be a leftist to do that. Just a jerk.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:19 PM (csi6Y)

246 Drudge needs to remove that picture.  That's horrible.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 12:20 PM (l/N7H)

247 Hope the little shit suffers misery eternally. I despise fake platitudes when someone you hate dies.

Posted by: Chris R at April 04, 2013 12:20 PM (iP8Yi)

248 Dame you cancer.

Guess government buying bullets and studying ducks is more important than steaming new drugs so it does not take 10 years and near 10 billion dollars for one new cancer treatment just to see if it will work or fail . But thanks to Obamacare the little people with cancer will just die and not get treatment when all they have is a medicare card.

Posted by: Trevor (@tjexcite) at April 04, 2013 12:20 PM (jOPzC)

249 Ebert certainly bit off more than he could chew whenever he commented on politics, but that just makes him a typical stupid leftist.

Shouldn't we reserve Satan's barbed cock for really evil people...like Pelosi and Obama and Reid?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2013 04:17 PM


I was being kind. The others get the barbed cock PLUS a sledge hammer to drive it

Posted by: Berserker at April 04, 2013 12:20 PM (FMbng)

250

Eh, well, 1, the Sixth Sense was HUUUUUUGE, 2, the follow-up, Unbreakable, was not bad, though the schtick was beginning to wear thin, 3, The Village seemed good for most of its length until he had to Scooby Doo it...

 

Did "Lady in the Water" come before "The Village?"   I want to say yes, but I can't recall.   I remember that after LitW was a fizzle people started going, "Eh?  Maybe this guy isn't all he's cracked up to be."   

 

"The Happening" was the icing on that cake, though, without a doubt.

 

Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs are all, IMO, good movies;  they're enjoyable to watch and rewatch.   Can't say the same of any of the others.   Well, except that I like to rewatch John Leguizamo's death scene in "The Happening," because could he have BEEN a more annoying character?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:20 PM (4df7R)

251 Two tits up.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (MMC8r)

252 I really liked Unbreakable but the pacing, as with all his movies, is sometimes grating.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (4cRnj)

253 Ebert dead? Four chins down!.....(too soon?)

Posted by: Barry O'Patton at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (vBe2f)

254 I despise fake platitudes when someone you hate dies.

Posted by: Chris R at April 04, 2013 04:20 PM (iP8Yi)



Meh. Didn't care enough about him to hate him. Wastes too much energy. I just went to see the movies he didn't like and avoided the ones he did like.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (yh0zB)

255 Hey Yoshi, feel free to french kiss my ass.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (OlN4e)

256 M. Night Shaymalan's Unbreakable was good. Devil was ok too.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (uhftQ)

257 M. Night Shaymalan. I always wanted to know if this was his real name or did he lose a bet.

Posted by: dantesed at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (++aXo)

258 As Tilikum mentioned, Ebert tried mightily to keep a Kurdish terrorist in the USA because he liked the food at the guy's shish-ka-bob joint.

And as for the 'don't speak ill of the dead' thing, ponder what Ebert would say if he found out one of us NRA member-Obama-nonvoters kicked the bucket. 'Good!' is currently #1.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (DLu2s)

259 235 Ha, Animaniacs was.how I heard of him. Didn't Jon Lovitz's show, The.Critic, mock him pretty hard, too? He seemed to be a good sport. I don't see the point of celebrating.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:21 PM (TvIko)

260 I thought he was write about Video Games != Art.

It is rumored that his last words were "I'm going to finish every side mission and get every achievement in Skyrim even if it kills me!"

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (SY2Kh)

261 Roger Ebert also contributed to science in a big way. He proved that bile doesn't cure cancer.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (T0NGe)

262 229 205
Nipsey Russell.

--------------

True fact: Was a car-hop at the Varsity in Atlanta.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:17 PM
==========

Car hops at the Varsity have all been comedians...
Gimme a chili steak....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (aDwsi)

263 Shouldn't we reserve Satan's barbed cock for really evil people...like Pelosi and Obama and Reid? If they voted for the aforementioned's policies, then no.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (GFM2b)

264 >>>Did "Lady in the Water" come before "The Village?" I want to say yes, but I can't recall. I remember that after LitW was a fizzle people started going, "Eh? Maybe this guy isn't all he's cracked up to be." pretty sure it came after. 99.99% sure. He re-used Ron Howard's daughter, who debuted in The Village. The Lady in the Water was all like, "Whaaa...?" Turns out the whole story was something he made up for his very young nieces and nephews, off the cuff, and then figured it would make a GREAT children's story, like Alice in Wonderland. NOPE!!!!

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (LCRYB)

265 247 Drudge needs to remove that picture. That's horrible. WHY? After the vile things he has said about conservatives, he should be glad we even remember who the little butt fucker was.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at April 04, 2013 12:22 PM (wR+pz)

266 M. Night Shaymalan's Unbreakable was good. I like the movie, but I recently found out it was like 1:40 running time-- I could have sworn it was like 2:30. I think it just moves so slowly it felt like forever.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (MMC8r)

267 @ace,

I would note that most things that gain wide ranging popularity are claptrap.  People like aphorisms that are easy to digest.

Even Nietzsche's book of aphorisms is mostly claptrap, he'd have said as much himself.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (cdwHs)

268 However badly M. Night has tanked, for sheer lack of talent, you can't do worse than Kevin Smith. He couldn't direct his pee into the toilet without hitting the seat. And he's a "sits-pinkler."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (tqLft)

269 I don't give one fucking shit about Roger Ebert, but cancer's a fucking bitch. I'm sorry he had to live with it. I'm sorry he had to die with it.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (JQuNB)

270 Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 04:21 PM (OlN4e) Whatever man, just don't let me catch you getting outrageously outraged over leftist "memorial" talk.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (csi6Y)

271 If I can't say nothin' nice I'll just say:
.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 04, 2013 12:23 PM (QTHTd)

272 The pitcher got back at the ump by contracting VD from a prostitute and then infecting the ump's wife who eventually infected the ump, then telling the ump what he did. Great story, I wish I could find the clip online. Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 04:14 PM (4cRnj) wth?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (XYSwB)

273 I like that thing he said that one time about the stuff. Otherwise...eh.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (g2ldK)

274 Turns out the whole story was something he made up for his very young nieces and nephews, off the cuff, and then figured it would make a GREAT children's story, like Alice in Wonderland.

NOPE!!!!

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:22 PM (LCRYB)

 

*facepalm*

 

Dear Mr. Shaymalan,

 

No.  Just... just no.

 

Sincerely,

Lewis Carroll

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (4df7R)

275

 'Signs' was the only M.Knight Shamylama movie that I enjoyed.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (5kUwW)

276 "claptrap. anyone can write that kind of gassy praise of stuff they like. I could wax eloquent about Busty Lesbian Porn if I had a mind to.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:11 PM (LCRYB)"


Go on...

Posted by: bob in houston at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (fJoZd)

277 Wrote the screenplay for Beyond The Valley of The Dolls. A perfect and clear example of his movie "talent." Posted by: YouDon'tSay at April 04, 2013 04:18 PM (zMLu+) That movie was so bad it was good. Seriously.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 12:24 PM (UZuc4)

278 The ending of Unbreakable was great, but that's what M. does in most/all of his movies : slow pacing with a big finish.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (4cRnj)

279 I don't give one fucking shit about Roger Ebert, but cancer's a fucking bitch. I'm sorry he had to live with it. I'm sorry he had to die with it.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 04, 2013 04:23 PM (JQuNB)



I'll go with this. I hate cancer with a passion bordering on irrationality.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (yh0zB)

280 270 I don't give one fucking shit about Roger Ebert, but cancer's a fucking bitch. I'm sorry he had to live with it. I'm sorry he had to die with it. Nice thought, he never had those thoughts about anyone. Pompous dickhead. FUCK HIM.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (wR+pz)

281 Agreed with Hrothgar that cancer sucks.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (QTHTd)

282 Russell Stover

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (XYSwB)

283 Whatever man, just don't let me catch you getting outrageously outraged over leftist "memorial" talk.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 04:23 PM (csi6Y)

 

 

Sure dude, whatever.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (OlN4e)

284 'Signs' was the only M.Knight Shamylama movie that I enjoyed.

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:24 PM (5kUwW)

 

it was also the only M Night cameo that I    found interesting.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (4df7R)

285 I thought Siskel's reviews were better considered and constructed than Ebert's - if that makes any sense

That's because Siskel could watch a movie and, at the end, know what he just saw. Ebert was a drooling goon. ... More so later, I mean, but always. I've been pissed at the guy since the '80s for trying to drag Hollywood's artistic bar down low enough for him to grasp it. And I suspect he succeeded.

--

In fact I posted it so I could write a joke in the comments but now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't.

Dude, dead assholes are assholes. And zombie Ebert can't bite you. Do the damn joke.

Also, Dark City sucks. Not because it has to (good idea, nice design, right actors, etc.), but because it explains itself endlessly (even in the director's cut). And you know it sucks. If it had been done right, Ebert would have been outraged by it, like he was by everything good that came out in the last thirty years.

Posted by: oblig. at April 04, 2013 12:25 PM (cePv8)

286 I'm gonna have to go out and rent that big-tit movie that he wrote the script for. You know, to honor his memory and all.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (29vnO)

287 227 Since he'll still be voting for Hilary in 2016, he isn't really dead, is he? Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 04, 2013 04:17 PM (SO2Q





Does an assault rifle magazine refill itstelf??

Posted by: Diana DeGette at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (jvd3N)

288 Russell potatos.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (G/r7R)

289 I liked M. Night Shyamalan's  movie about  the aliens who decided to run around naked on a planet  that is not  only  mostly covered with a substance that is deadly to them.  Rain?  I'm sure it won't be a problem.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (CJjw5)

290 Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs are all, IMO, good movies; they're enjoyable to watch and rewatch. Can't say the same of any of the others. Well, except that I like to rewatch John Leguizamo's death scene in "The Happening," because could he have BEEN a more annoying character?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit

***

 

Have to diagree with you about signs.

Aliens fly millions of miles using advanced tech, then don't use any of it!

Water is like acid to the aliens, so they invade a planet that is 2/3 water, where it rains, and even collects on the ground as dew!

We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers!

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (uhftQ)

291 As I said in the last thread RE: Ebert's passing,   may he RIP and may his memory never darken my doorstep again.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:26 PM (4df7R)

292 MPPP did a piece a week or so ago about a disastrous film that Ebert wrote the script to. Was it VOTD?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (tqLft)

293 Has anyone seen Junior's grave?>>>>>


Grades.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 04:15 PM (UZuc4)



I've been sitting here thinking about that stupid commercial where the guy is singing the wrong lyrics to everything laughing at that.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (xmcEQ)

294 Posted by: Empire of Jeff


Now your just being picky.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (4cRnj)

295 286 'Signs' was the only M.Knight Shamylama movie that I enjoyed.
Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:24 PM (5kUwW



Same here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (lVPtV)

296 One time Siskel and Ebert showed up in D.C. to speak in front of the National Press Club, and even by the D.C. standards they were snooty and condescending.
When Ebert opined on the day's events he was pretty much your garden variety drooling moonbat.  His reviews were much more detached and objective.   He liked "Michael Moore Hates America" and he gave good reviews of "Waco: The Rules of Engagement", a damning indictment of the federal government.  

Posted by: Mr. Peabody at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (Hq48F)

297 I'm gonna have to go out and rent that big-tit movie that he wrote the script for. You know, to honor his memory and all. ____________________ Russ(ell) Meyers! (.)(.)

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (Ec6wH)

298 271 Fuck. Roger. Ebert. No.

Posted by: Chris R at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (iP8Yi)

299 I just think it's in bad taste that's all BB.  The guy is dead.  I think a picture of before he was deformed would have been better.. Just my worthless opinion.   Just think it's mean spirited.  Maybe I'm just in a weird mood today.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (l/N7H)

300 Yeah, Signs was pretty f'n stupid when you think about it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:27 PM (yh0zB)

301 HOW DARE YOU WINGERS TALK ABOUT ROGGER EBBERT LIKE THAT HE WAS AGREAT PROGRESSIVE HE WOULDN'T TALK LIKE YOU IF YOU DIED WHICH WOULD BE GOOD IF YOU DID ANYWAY HE WOULDNT TALK LIKE THAT EVEN IF HE HAD HIS JAW OH GEEZ I DID IT.

*SPIT*

Posted by: KAY IN MAINE TWO THUMMBS UP SOMETHING I DONT KNOW! at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (DLu2s)

302 Aliens fly millions of miles using advanced tech, then don't use any of it!
Water is like acid to the aliens, so they invade a planet that is 2/3 water, where it rains, and even collects on the ground as dew!
We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers!

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 04:26 PM (uhftQ)

 

lol!   Well, yes.   But it wasn't really the alien thing that I liked about Signs so much as the story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith.  The alien thing was just an interesting side story that was laughably silly    in retrospect.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (4df7R)

303 284 Russell Stover Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 04:25 PM (XYSwB) Yossele ben Maimon

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (tqLft)

304 291 That movie was retarded.I don't get why people think it is any good.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (9XBK2)

305 I do have sympathy for his family.

They can collect royalties off his work for the next 125 years.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (/kI1Q)

306 Cancer is horrible. Cancer of the mouth and throat even more horrible. May he RIP.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (baL2B)

307 I thought The Sixth Sense was his best movie followed by Unbreakable.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (4cRnj)

308 We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers!
Or pee on them if they were trying to rape you.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 12:28 PM (VwC86)

309 Hmmm. Chavez dies of ass cancer shortly before Ebert dies of mouth cancer.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (MMC8r)

310 Have to diagree with you about signs. Aliens fly millions of miles using advanced tech, then don't use any of it! Water is like acid to the aliens, so they invade a planet that is 2/3 water, where it rains, and even collects on the ground as dew! We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers! Ban super-soakers with high-capacity tanks!

Posted by: B'rak Ob'ma, galactic overlord at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (T0NGe)

311

Whatever man, just don't let me catch you getting outrageously outraged over leftist "memorial" talk. Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 04:23 PM (csi6Y)

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Don't forget to bookmark this page, okay?  That way,  the next time this happens, you can remind us how much  of a better person you are.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (CJjw5)

312 @81 : Hillary 2016: Because we can't nominate Mooch... yet. Why is everybody talking about her running for Pres? It doesn't seem like something she would go for, too much work for one thing. Isn't she the type who would rather retire to her lobster and mansion in Hawaii with an occasional Oprah interview? Considering the fact that she has never run for anything, and never shown any interest, I don't get it.

Posted by: stephie at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (xG0vx)

313 MPPP did a piece a week or so ago about a disastrous film that Ebert wrote the script to.

Was it VOTD?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 04:27 PM (tqLft)

 

Ebert wrote the script for 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls', I believe. I think it was a Russ Meyer flick. Lots of boobs.

Posted by: troyriser at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (vtiE6)

314 Yay, Stevie Johnson got Buffalo mentioned on Drudge!

Posted by: Pyrocles at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (cv5Iw)

315 But it wasn't really the alien thing that I liked about Signs so much as the story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith.

It wasn't really that so much as gazing at Joaquin Phoenix.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 12:29 PM (/kI1Q)

316 311 Well I just fell right off my high horse. That was funny.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (TvIko)

317 308 Cancer is horrible. Cancer of the mouth and throat even more horrible. May he RIP.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 04, 2013 04:28 PM (baL2B



Yep.  Had a great uncle I barely remember who died of throat cancer.  I heard it was beyond horrible.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (lVPtV)

318 292 We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers! Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 04:26 PM (uhftQ) A class of kindergarteners with SuperSoakers. Hell, just pee on them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (tqLft)

319 It wasn't really that so much as gazing at Joaquin Phoenix.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 04:29 PM (/kI1Q)

 

He was quite dishy in that movie, I must admit.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (4df7R)

320 M. Night Shaymalan could have been a contender if he'd kicked Bruce Willis to the curb and cast Bill Shatner in his stead.

Posted by: Fritz at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (WM+rJ)

321

286 'Signs' was the only M.Knight Shamylama movie that I enjoyed.
Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:24 PM (5kUwW)

 

 

it was also the only M Night cameo that I found interesting.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at April 04, 2013 04:25 PM (4df7R)

 

---------

 

Yep. He did a good job as the 'tortured veterinarian'.

It was a pretty long cameo.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (5kUwW)

322

Rustler's Rhapsody.

Posted by: Ook? at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (OQpzc)

323 May he rest in peace.  I think his reviews were great when they agreed with my opinions.  Otherwise, not so much.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (P7hip)

324 Yeah cancer is horrible. My Grandmother and Mother died from it. I wish it on ALL leftards.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (OlN4e)

325 Breitbart died of a heart condition.  Took one of the good guys.

Cancer is the equalizer.

Where Ebert wasn't have the influence of Andrew, he was a hateful man that helped the cancer grow in his body daily with his rants and lies about the right, so I pitty him not, but pray for his family.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:30 PM (xmcEQ)

326 All M. Night needs for a comeback is to cast Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:31 PM (tqLft)

327 Ok, big respect to Femen for the Topless Jihad they pulled. That takes some giant fucking balls. They went out topless with Fuck Islamism painted on their tits in front of the Great Mosque in Paris and a half dozen other countries. That's a big deal. There are lots of jihadis in Europe who will probably try to track down and hurt these women now. That's 1000x braver than the normal topless protest. Hope they are safe.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:31 PM (ZPrif)

328 Did George Bush kill Roger Ebert, too? "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." -- John Edwards October 11, 2004 (the day after Reeve died)

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:31 PM (KeJAW)

329 I forgot Signs. That was... okay, if a little... contrived. I never could get over the aliens running around naked on planet whose surface was covered 70% with the the most toxic substance in the universe-- water. I just kept wondering, "What were they planning to do if it rained?"

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:31 PM (LCRYB)

330

my Dad used to say if you don't have something nice to say ...

be sure you don't hold back ...

I hope it was painful in the end ... really, really painful and I hope he regretted his actions of the last few years and asked forgiveness ...  and was denied that forgiveness ...

I wouldn't let my dog piss on his grave ...  my dog deserves better than that ...

Posted by: JeffC at April 04, 2013 12:31 PM (A3tpD)

331 I don't give one fucking shit about Roger Ebert, but cancer's a fucking bitch. I'm sorry he had to live with it. I'm sorry he had to die with it. Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 04, 2013 04:23 PM (JQuNB) I'll go with this. I hate cancer with a passion bordering on irrationality. Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 04:25 PM (yh0zB) yea. Read the "goodbye" letter from Ian Banks that someone posted the other day. http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-iain-banks/ very horrible disease.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (XYSwB)

332 Joaquin Phoenix is a talented actor but hasn't he gone off his rocker?

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (9XBK2)

333 I liked M. Night Shyamalan's movie about the aliens who decided to run around naked on a planet that is not only mostly covered with a substance that is deadly to them. Rain? I'm sure it won't be a problem.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff


It would be the equivalent of humans venturing to a planet whose surface is 70% lava and all flora and fauna are on fucking fire.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (mN8D3)

334 dead liberal = good liberal In the last twenty years if you had two monkeys that gave every movie two thumbs down they would be right 99% of the time.

Posted by: rikthedik at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (ZhQmo)

335 I just kept wondering, "What were they planning to do if it rained?"

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:31 PM (LCRYB)

 

Get government subsidized umbrellas?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (4df7R)

336 Creepiest scene in "Signs" was Gibson sliding the knife under the door to try to see the alien. 




Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (lVPtV)

337 Why Didn't Obama's Stem Cells Save Roger Ebert?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (vyPsz)

338 looks like I said almost the exact same thing as someone else.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (LCRYB)

339 134 I have to admit that I liked My Dinner with Andre. That's because DwA was actually a good movie.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (/gHaE)

340 I don't really get that objection to Signs - it's easy to imagine that the aliens were beyond the point of no return, and had to land somewhere, anywhere, even if it was pretty dangerous.

It's a lot less stupid than the computer virus in ID4, anyway.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (rzNdC)

341 I like the movie reviewer- Mick LaSalle. San Francisco Chronicle Only goes lib-bot if a movie hits on one subject. (hint it's the San Fran)

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:32 PM (r2PLg)

342 Breaking News: Certain NORK Internet Security Specialists have been converted to pig fodder slops. Un orders barbecue grill fired up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (aDwsi)

343 ace what did Ebert give Wickerman?  That should be the basis for whether you like him or not.

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (m2CN7)

344 That movie was so bad it was good. Seriously.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 04:24 PM (UZuc4)

 

The best "Good" bad movie of all time is The Oscar with Stephen Boyd.

Posted by: YouDon'tSay at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (zMLu+)

345
What I read,and hear is that the Republican Party is abandoning its hopes of speaking for a majority of Americans. It will still win elections. It controls the House. Perhaps it will elect the next President. But steadily and fatally it is moving out of history.

Roger Ebert






Well, at it least outlasted you....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (kdS6q)

346 UMBRELLAS MOTHERFUCKERS!!

Posted by: M. Knight Shamylamadingdong at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (4cRnj)

347 Rustler's Rhapsody.

Posted by: Ook? at April 04, 2013 04:30 PM (OQpzc)

 

When Tom Berringer announced to the world that his A-list career was over. Funny movie, though.

Posted by: troyriser at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (vtiE6)

348 It would be the equivalent of humans venturing to a planet whose surface is 70% lava and all flora and fauna are on fucking fire.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2013 04:32 PM (mN8D3)

 

~~~~~~~~~~

 

That is a perfect analogy.  Thank  you.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (CJjw5)

349 Signs? It lost me when Billy Bob runs into the ministers wife, pins her to a tree, then doesn't back up. I mean, I don't give a shit what story line they made up, you don't pin a person to a tree and walk away from the car/truck/whatever. Yeah, she can stay there with my bumper through her kidneys while I call the police. It made me retch.

Posted by: illegally posting anonymously on the internet [/i] at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (feFL6)

350 I give this thread a thumb's down.

Posted by: john edwards chaneling roger ebert at April 04, 2013 12:33 PM (VwC86)

351 also there's a lot of water vapor in our air... does that mean it would be like choking cyanide gas to them?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (LCRYB)

352 lol! Well, yes. But it wasn't really the alien thing that I liked about Signs so much as the story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith. The alien thing was just an interesting side story that was laughably silly in retrospect.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit

***

 

I alwys got the feeling that his script got shredded by Hollywood idiots trying to "improve" it.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (uhftQ)

353 Why is everybody talking about her running for Pres? It doesn't seem like something she would go for, too much work for one thing. Isn't she the type who would rather retire to her lobster and mansion in Hawaii with an occasional Oprah interview? Considering the fact that she has never run for anything, and never shown any interest, I don't get it.

Posted by: stephie at April 04, 2013 04:29 PM (xG0vx)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

Is that a french-fry in your mouth?

Posted by: Mooch (who shaves her cooch) at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (G/r7R)

354 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 04:29 PM (CJjw5) Yeah, of course you'd try to make it about me. It's about standards that have been repeatedly expressed, and living up to them.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (csi6Y)

355 Signs had a huge glaring hole.in the writing but it was very well directed. And made very effective use of Joaquin Phoenix. Yummy.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (TvIko)

356 Joaquin Phoenix.I'll be in my bunk. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 04:29 PM (/kI1Q) He was quite dishy in that movie, I must admit. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at April 04, 2013 04:30 PM (4df7R) slurp

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (XYSwB)

357 Got a family acquaintance who recently died of tongue cancer. Life is rough without a tongue. No prosthetics for that. And constant reminder every time you eat, drink, or talk. His talking was horrible sounding. Mainly sounded like an anguished moan but his wife and daughter learned how to mostly understand him. He lasted a few years after losing his tongue.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:34 PM (ZPrif)

358 very horrible disease.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 04:32 PM (XYSwB)



The worst part about it is watching it progress and not being able to do a damn thing about it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:35 PM (yh0zB)

359 339 Creepiest scene in "Signs" was Gibson sliding the knife under the door to try to see the alien.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:32 PM
================

I found the scene with his wife's guts being maintained by a car bumper somewhat unsettling...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:35 PM (aDwsi)

360

Oh yeah...the story line in 'Signs' was pretty laughable.

 

But like MWR said, the "story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith" was a good story.

 

And let's face it...most SciFi movies don't stand up to very much scrutiny.

I still like to watch them.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:35 PM (5kUwW)

361 ::: I don't really get that objection to Signs - it's easy to imagine that the aliens were beyond the point of no return, and had to land somewhere, anywhere, even if it was pretty dangerous. ::: Well, I'm not sure what they thought they were accomplishing by gallivanting around Mel Gibson's house.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:35 PM (csi6Y)

362 It would be the equivalent of humans venturing to a planet whose surface is 70% lava and all flora and fauna are on fucking fire.

1) Invade Lava Planet
2) ???
3) Profit!

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (QupBk)

363 361 Got a family acquaintance who recently died of tongue cancer.

Life is rough without a tongue. No prosthetics for that. And constant reminder every time you eat, drink, or talk.

His talking was horrible sounding. Mainly sounded like an anguished moan but his wife and daughter learned how to mostly understand him. He lasted a few years after losing his tongue. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 04:34 PM
====================

Hammer pauses with cigarette halfway to lips....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (aDwsi)

364 I found the scene with his wife's guts being maintained by a car bumper somewhat unsettling...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 04:35 PM (aDwsi



That was tragic (and gross as all hell), but not scary-creepy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (lVPtV)

365 To be fair, the top half of his wife could still blow him.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (Ec6wH)

366 307 I do have sympathy for his family. They can collect royalties off his work for the next 125 years. ------------------------------------- Yes, that's true. But no amount of money can make up for the loss of a loved one. I'd give up everything I have to get my mom back.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (CyP2Z)

367 Gosford Park got great reviews... ...fucking movie literally put me to sleep within 20min. The usher had to wake me up after the theater had emptied out.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (/gHaE)

368 From Dr. Ben Carson's FB page:



Dr. Ben Carson


Just finished 4 surgeries today, and am on the train for another engagement. Inspired by the courage of the patients and their families.





I haven't even made my bed yet......

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 04, 2013 12:36 PM (X6akg)

369 Well, I'm not sure what they thought they were accomplishing by gallivanting around Mel Gibson's house.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 04:35 PM (csi6Y)

 

Was it in his house or his neighbor's house where he cut off the one alien's fingers   when it tried to reach him under the door?

 

That was scary as hell. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (4df7R)

370 We really need reasonable assault super soaker control.

Posted by: Aliens from Signs at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (M8CBy)

371 signs was dumb. The Naked Aliens only makes sense in an Alien *Infiltration* movie. But this was an Alien *Invasion* movie. You don't go naked to an invasion. Infliltration, maybe. Invasion, no.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (LCRYB)

372 I find some of M Knight's movies too lispy.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (4cRnj)

373 I got nothing on this topic

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (8sCoq)

374
Thread winner was out of the gate at #1.

Generally, if Ebert liked a film, I was leery.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (IY7Ir)

375 Best part of Signs was when Mel Gibson told the alien  "you will blow me!"

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (m2CN7)

376

Not my standards,  Yoshi.  Therefore I give a rat's ass about living up to them. 

 

The only one who can level a charge of hypocrisy against me and make it stick is me.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:37 PM (CJjw5)

377 ::: Creepiest scene in "Signs" was Gibson sliding the knife under the door to try to see the alien. ::: I'm having trouble even remembering whether Signs was supposed to be scary or not. The water thing kind of does that. Maybe I should watch it again sometime.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (csi6Y)

378 That's awful flatbush joe.  I hate cancer.  Fucking hate it.  Almost got my mom twice.. God bless her.. she is one tough broad.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (l/N7H)

379 Whatever man, just don't let me catch you getting outrageously outraged over leftist "memorial" talk.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 04:23 PM (csi6Y)

 

 

 

 

Standards? Fool. They are my enemy. I hate them. My standards are for people who respect my freedom. You are an ass.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (OlN4e)

380

355 also there's a lot of water vapor in our air... does that mean it would be like choking cyanide gas to them?

 

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:34 PM (LCRYB)

 

-------

 

I had the same thought, Ace.

Fog would be like an acid bath...even a 60% Humidity day would've fucked em up.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (5kUwW)

381 Hammer pauses with cigarette halfway to lips....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 04:36 PM (aDwsi)



Yeah. I quit 2 1/2 years ago.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (yh0zB)

382 365 Silly. They were restoring the minister's faith and giving Joaquin a reason to swing a baseball bat around and flex.his muscles all sexy-like. That's what they were achieving.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:38 PM (TvIko)

383 373
Was it in his house or his neighbor's house where he cut off the one alien's fingers when it tried to reach him under the door?

That was scary as hell.
========
Neighbor's, I think...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:39 PM (aDwsi)

384 why would the aliens even want Earth, when mars is so close, and has no water? The aliens' version of a "Class M" planet (a planet which is homeworld-like to them) would be one without water. So why did they invade our planet, the suckiest planet in the solar system, for their purposes? Why did they come in 2s and 3s? What the shit kind of invasion is that? Who invades in squads of 2?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:39 PM (LCRYB)

385 I am fascinated to see what Ace has to say about the Topless Jihad. These chicks are the tits.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:39 PM (ZPrif)

386 And didn't the aliens in Signs have a plant-like aspect to them?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:39 PM (4cRnj)

387 I would just like to say something on the passing of that great film critic, a man who's show I watched constantly in Chicago, the great Robert Emmertt. Hey, Robert, wherever you are, 'two hands up!' Now you're back with my other absolute favorite film reviewer, Jane Siskrow. Miss you both!

(looks expectantly out at audience)

Posted by: Barack Obama, Sooperjenius at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (DLu2s)

388 This is quite the tragedy, but on the bright side, we never have to hear about Roger Ebert again. Hopefully.

Posted by: JDTAY at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (a0nis)

389 I preferred Siskel

Posted by: Avi at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (Gx3Fe)

390 I liked Signs because I have always been one of those people that believe everything happens for a reason.  That movie certainly took it to a new level.  My favorite M Night movie.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (l/N7H)

391 384 355 also there's a lot of water vapor in our air... does that mean it would be like choking cyanide gas to them?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:34 PM (LCRYB)

-------

I had the same thought, Ace.
Fog would be like an acid bath...even a 60% Humidity day would've fucked em up.
Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:38 PM
============

You guys DO know that this was a movie..,right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (aDwsi)

392 Scariest part of Signs was when he looked out the window and there was an alien standing on his barn roof. And Joaquin Phoenix woke up with a harelip.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (c/58R)

393 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 04:37 PM (CJjw5) Fair enough. I'm not rounding up hashes from the Breitbart threads, so suit yourself.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (csi6Y)

394

FWIW,    I    agree with Yoshi that   venomous    comments about   the recently deceased are   in poor taste.        I've been trying (very hard) to keep a lid on my own reaction to this man's death    for precisely that reason.

 

But I also think that, if it's going to happen -- and it will, and maybe it should -- then posting them here on a "friendly" board should be the accepted option.   I would never go on Twitter, for example, to excoriate the man in   such a public venue.   THAT is truly disgusting.  

 

I'll not mourn his passing one tiny bit, but my sympathies go out to his family.  Losing a loved one -- even a loved one who was in most respects hateful -- is never easy, especially after a long, destructive illness.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (4df7R)

395 340 Why Didn't Obama's Stem Cells Save Roger Ebert? Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 04:32 PM Obama stem only shoots bullets 2 out of 22 times.

Posted by: rikthedik at April 04, 2013 12:40 PM (ZhQmo)

396 Why did they come in 2s and 3s? What the shit kind of invasion is that?
Who invades in squads of 2?
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:39 PM (LCRYB)


And hang out in corn fields while chatting via FM radio.

Maybe these were the aliens from the short space ship.

Posted by: Mætenloch at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (pAlYe)

397 Who invades in squads of 2? We use base2, earth-Tard They're squads of 10.

Posted by: Aliens at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (19AvL)

398


>>>Who invades in squads of 2?

 

Who throws a shoe?! You fight like a woman!

Posted by: Bigby's Fisting uh.. Fist at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (3ZtZW)

399 That's what he gets for making fun of "Mask". I'll take of my mask when you take yours off, you son of a bitch! Make yourself well, bitch.

Posted by: Rocky Dennis at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (RZ1au)

400 Like I should give a shit?

Doesn't even register on my give-a-shit-o'meter.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (iYbLN)

401 Why did they come in 2s and 3s? What the shit kind of invasion is that?


Maybe they were coming to do the jobs Americans won't do.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (8ZskC)

402 And let's face it...most SciFi movies don't stand up to very much scrutiny.

I never did figure out where Mulder rented that Sno-Cat in Antarctica.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 12:41 PM (/kI1Q)

403 The worst part about it is watching it progress and not being able to do a damn thing about it.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 04:35 PM (yh0zB)

 

My dad was a tough old guy. By the time he went in and got diagnosed, he lasted two weeks. I got there the day before he died. At least they gave him lots of pain drugs. He was so shrunken. They guy who used to be able to throw me across a yard was just tiny and frail. I don't think I will ever get over that.

Posted by: Ook? at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (OQpzc)

404 Who invades in squads of 2?

Posted by: ace


I believe they invaded in squads of millions but a light mist thinned the herd.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (4cRnj)

405 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at April 04, 2013 04:37 PM (4df7R) I really do need to watch that again. I forgot all about the Christian angle too. 386 lol

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (csi6Y)

406 Don't be dicks, people.  Ebert was one of the all-time great film critics.  So what if he was a liberal?  WHO FUCKING CARES STOP POLITICIZING EVERY FUCKING THING IN THE FUCKING WORLD.

Also, he was right about Ben Stein's unforgivably stupid Intelligent Design movie -- dishonest, embarrassing bullshit.  I sure don't hold that against him.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (bcLhD)

407 Am I supposed to pretend to be sad?

Posted by: 'Ette in training at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (zvxqj)

408 Signs freaked me out. Stupidly saw it with my father 6 months after my mom died (of cancer). Really couldn't take the wife crushed by the car scene. That's the last gory/freaky movie like that I've seen in a theater. I'll watch them at home when I can pause it and stop it if I get too freaked out. Can't do it in a theater and unable to control it anymore. Too intense for me.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (ZPrif)

409 You don't go naked to an invasion. Infliltration, maybe. Invasion, no.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:37 PM (LCRYB) 

**

And never invade while wearing white, especially after Labor Day unless of course your invading the Arctic Circle.

Posted by: dananjcon at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (jvd3N)

410 Who invades in squads of 2?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:39 PM (LCRYB)

 

Naked aliens apparently.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:42 PM (4df7R)

411 Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:34 PM (LCRYB)

Not as quick.

More like breathing chlorine.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (Kpn/z)

412 Hey. Whoa. Master inter-planetary travel and then start you're second guessing. Buncha fucking water-bags. I hope the Xsill!ons anal probe you all to within an inch of your Earth bound lives.

Posted by: Aliens at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (19AvL)

413 Well, the people at WTTW here in Chicago said the only way my ratings would climb back out of the dumper is if I got back together with Gene Siskel! No. 1 here we come!

Posted by: Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (DLu2s)

414 And Joaquin Phoenix his char in Gladiators was mesmerizing

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (XYSwB)

415 >>>I believe they invaded in squads of millions but a light mist thinned the herd. Signs was a pro-global-warming movie?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (LCRYB)

416

So.....

 

Post as an actor responding to this sad, sad news. Go!

Posted by: Bigby's Fisting uh.. Fist at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (3ZtZW)

417 Signs did give up the screencap of Joaquin and the others wearing tinfoil. It allowed us to mock the libs paranoia.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (uhftQ)

418  To be fair, the top half of his wife could still blow him.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 04:36 PM (Ec6wH)

 

 

----------------------------------------------------

 

 

This is true.  All she wanted to do was talk talk talk. 

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (G/r7R)

419 EVERYTHING in the world is politics. Get used to it. I have.

Posted by: maddogg at April 04, 2013 12:43 PM (OlN4e)

420 I never did figure out where Mulder rented that Sno-Cat in Antarctica.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 04:41 PM (/kI1Q)



It was in the script.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (yh0zB)

421

It was M. Knight's house where Mel Gibson found the Alien-in-the-Cupboard.

 

Remember...M.Knight told him not to mess with it.

So, of course, he had to mess with it.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (5kUwW)

422 and then Jaoquin Phoenix made GLADIATORS... how sexy was he in that, girls? heh

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (8dspl)

423 ~~~~~Why did they come in 2s and 3s? What the shit kind of invasion is that? Who invades in squads of 2? Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:39 PM (LCRYB) ~~~~~~ And doesn't bring any weapons other than a tube that skides out of your wrist and sprays sleep-gas. So you can collect humans and eat them. Humans which are made up mostly of water.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (P98o1)

424

This is such a Meh! moment for me.

 I'm not a huge cinephile to begin with and Iv'e always seen movies because I have an interest in the topic or by word-of-mouth reviews.

His life, even as a far left kookball, meant little to me. His death even less so.

Posted by: Albie Damned at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (Yhu4q)

425

After leaving and coming back to the thread, Ebert's death doesn't improve on second viewing.

 

If only there was a special ray where Hollywood people would keep passing away, one an hour or so, until I felt something.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (AC0lD)

426 Did the guy cure any awful diseases? No. He reviewed movies.

Therefore, I don't give a shit.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (iYbLN)

427 390 And didn't the aliens in Signs have a plant-like aspect to them?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 04:39 PM (4cRnj



I thought they were more "reptilian."  The alien who tried to kill Gibson's character's son changed its skin coloring to match the son's shirt.



I just rescued a lizard from a kitteh, and it blended into the fabric of the ottoman it was hiding under.  Little thankless f*cker.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (lVPtV)

428 Maybe the water vapor in the air melted away the aliens' clothes and killed the other aliens?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (TvIko)

429 WTTW...oh, man. Is Marty Robinson still trying to hit up the viewers?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (Ec6wH)

430 And never invade while wearing white, especially after Labor Day unless of course your invading the Arctic Circle.


Or Abyssissa

Posted by: dananjcon at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (jvd3N)

431 364 Oh yeah...the story line in 'Signs' was pretty laughable. But like MWR said, the "story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith" was a good story. And let's face it...most SciFi movies don't stand up to very much scrutiny. I still like to watch them. Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 04:35 PM (5kUwW) ___________ Agree. If you already accept the concept that there is an alien invasion and it's not central to the story....

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:44 PM (r2PLg)

432 So I wonder if they will publish Eberts unfinished review of The Bible.

Posted by: robtr at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (rTgOf)

433

Siskel was magnitudes better, and used to mock this doughy turd regularly and to great effect.

When Ebert kept his fat face outta politics he was mildly entertaining and could write fairly coherently, but whenever he bent his tiny mind toward said politics the result was an embarrassment to functioning human minds everywhere.

Plus the tongue bathing he gave to whatever dreck Spike Lee burped up was beyond embarrassing.

On balance- sorry he had to go the way he did because noone deserves that, but as a person the guy was an awful awful example of humanity.

 

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (mm+xE)

434 The aliens' plan was really to go house-to-house and murder everyone in hand-to-hand combat, using the element of surprise, which, btw, you lose after the first few murders? That was their plan? That's what they brought to the party?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (LCRYB)

435 Hey. Whoa.

Master inter-planetary travel and then start you're second guessing.

Buncha fucking water-bags. I hope the Xsill!ons anal probe you all to within an inch of your Earth bound lives.

Posted by: Aliens

***

 

Don't make me pee on you.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (uhftQ)

436 I haven't even made my bed yet...... Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2013 04:36 PM (X6akg) Ha! I lol'd out loud at that one...

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (UZuc4)

437 370 307 I do have sympathy for his family.

They can collect royalties off his work for the next 125 years.

-------------------------------------

Yes, that's true. But no amount of money can make up for the loss of a loved one. I'd give up everything I have to get my mom back. Posted by: Farmer Joe at April 04, 2013 04:36 PM
=========

One of the better commercials I recall, was by Bear Bryant. Was a Southern Bell commercial encouraging people to make long-distance calls, and was run over Mother's Day weekend.. Bryant ad-libbed an extra line to what was supposed to be a folksy commercial that ended "Call you mother."  Bryant added, "... I wish I could call mine."

 Damn..., I get teared up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (aDwsi)

438

Actually it does not really bother me when the other side rags on the death or health of some partisan on our side.  You cannot be outspoken and then expect respect in death from your opponents.  It goes with the territory.

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (m2CN7)

439 Holy hell Jeff B...you had to mention ID too? Talk about trolling

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:45 PM (csi6Y)

440 This discussion reminds me of an email I got after Independence Day came out.  http://is.gd/5AQSSX


From: CERT Bulletin <cert-advisory@cert.org> Date: 26 Jun 1996 15:43:18 GMT Subject: CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability Organization: CERT(sm) Coordination Center - +1 412-268-7090 Approved: cert-advisory@cert.org Reply-To: cert-advisory-request@cert.org Keywords: security CERT Originator: cert-advisory@cert.org

============================================================================= CERT(sm) Advisory CA-96.13
July 4, 1996

Topic: ID4 virus, Alien/OS Vulnerability

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The CERT Coordination Center has received reports of weaknesses in Alien/OS that can allow species with primitive information sciences technology to initiate denial-of-service attacks against MotherShip(tm) hosts. One report of exploitation of this bug has been received.

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (QupBk)

441 I miss Gene Shalit.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (xmcEQ)

442 I never did figure out where Mulder rented that Sno-Cat in Antarctica. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 04, 2013 04:41 PM (/kI1Q) Scott's hut. Where the chocolate was.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (XYSwB)

443

Don't be dicks, people. Ebert was one of the all-time great film critics.

 

~~~~~~~~

 

All time great?  According to whom?  No one whose opinion I respect, so fucking Game On.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (CJjw5)

444 “You know, if I was living out on a farm in Iowa, I’d probably want a gun, too. When somebody just drives up into your driveway and YOU'RE NOT HOME, you don’t know who these people are, you don’t know how long it’s going to take for the sheriffs to respond, I can see what you’d want some guns for protection.” TFG is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of an enigma.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (fWAjv)

445 oops.  yeah.  barrel.

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (QupBk)

446 If you are interested in hand-picked films to view, Cher is on TCM every Friday night this month with her favorites.

Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (J3IzX)

447 When water balloons can devastate your army you want to consider some kind of protective suit, maybe even a trash bag or something.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:46 PM (4cRnj)

448 Personally I like the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson show "UFO." Cool models, groovy music, aliens that breathed liquid and hit British crumpet with colored wigs.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (tqLft)

449 Or a fucking idiot.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (fWAjv)

450

and then Jaoquin Phoenix made GLADIATORS...

how sexy was he in that, girls?

 

I'll admit it.     I hate "Gladiator" with a passion.   The only good thing about that movie is the subject matter and the music.   Joaquin was about the only character who interested me, and it sealed my dislike of Russell Crowe.

 

But... YMMV.

 

And with that, I must head off, y'all.   Don't break the blog!   And    when I return     I expect a clearly thought out explanation for the aliens' decision to invade water-dense Earth in "Signs."    Discuss.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (4df7R)

451 heh snafu

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (XYSwB)

452 410 Don't be dicks, people. Ebert was one of the all-time great film critics. So what if he was a liberal? WHO FUCKING CARES STOP POLITICIZING EVERY FUCKING THING IN THE FUCKING WORLD.>>>>>> Why? Ebert didn't....

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (UZuc4)

453 There's nothing wrong with mocking the leftard dead. They do it to us. And nothing I've read here is close to what they said about Breitbart. An eye for an eye may leave the whole world bliind. But that's better than just me being blind while the leftards laugh.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (ZPrif)

454 Bold italians

Posted by: robtr at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (rTgOf)

455

Agree.



If you already accept the concept that there is an alien invasion and it's not central to the story....

 

 

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:44 PM (r2PLg)

 

 

Yes.... keep thinking that... subcreature....

Posted by: Blantu the Body Snatcher from Planet Gorgonzolla at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (lZBBB)

456 452 I meant HOT British crumpet...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (tqLft)

457
That was their plan?

That's what they brought to the party?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:45 PM (LCRYB




They couldn't operate door knobs, either.  That was a WTF? for me.  You can design and fly space ships, and you can't turn a fucking door knob?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (lVPtV)

458 Oooh.......WIDESCREEN!

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (xmcEQ)

459

I always thought about how the goa'uld would respond to, "You are technologically superior, why do you have stone buildings" And they'd say, "Because we like it that way."

Posted by: Ook? at April 04, 2013 12:47 PM (OQpzc)

460 And doesn't bring any weapons other than a tube that skides out of your wrist and sprays sleep-gas.

So you can collect humans and eat them. Humans which are made up mostly of water.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff

***

 

Wouldn't that be like eating a sulfuric acid filled watermellon?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:48 PM (uhftQ)

461 Posted by: Jeff B. Do you even realize that you are our version of Kay In Maine?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:48 PM (052zE)

462 Are you telling me we have to be nice when Stephen King croaks, too? I don't know who you people are any more.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 12:48 PM (MMC8r)

463 462 Oooh.......WIDESCREEN!

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 04:47 PM (xmcEQ)


In honor of Roger.


Posted by: dananjcon at April 04, 2013 12:48 PM (jvd3N)

464 I miss Gene Shalit.
Posted by: © Sponge

That dud had a wicked fro.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (iYbLN)

465 M Night Shaymalan make J J Abrams look like Cecille B DeMille.

Posted by: NFJ at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (KHo8t)

466 Joaquin is hawt in Gladiator, but the movie vexes me. It makes me very vexed.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (TvIko)

467 I can't wait for Michael Moore to pull a Cass Elliot.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (tqLft)

468 If they had made "Signs" part of the Home Alone franchise, where Kevin booby traps the family farm  with these  Rube Goldberg traps that hurl aliens down a Slip N' Slide, or fires a water-balloon  slingshot into their nuts, I would own it on Blu-Ray.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (CJjw5)

469 I like how the Ebert died thread became the M. Night's Career died thread.

Posted by: mugiwara at April 04, 2013 12:49 PM (M8CBy)

470 widescreen is 10x the asshole the fruity italics is.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (ZPrif)

471 Joaquin was hot in Gladiator, except for that wanting to fuck his sister thingy.  Ugh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (lVPtV)

472 459 Agree. If you already accept the concept that there is an alien invasion and it's not central to the story.... Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:44 PM (r2PLg) Yes.... keep thinking that... subcreature.... Posted by: Blantu the Body Snatcher from Planet Gorgonzolla at April 04, 2013 04:47 PM (lZBBB) ________________ LOL! Maybe I have low standards. For M Knight Shama lama ding dong movie--Signs wasn't that bad of a movie. I guess maybe I was just too surprised to the upside.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (r2PLg)

473

Agree.

 


If you already accept the concept that there is an alien invasion and it's not central to the story....

 




Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:44 PM (r2PLg)

 

 

Ah Hell. Z.... you already got this one???? daummmmm...

Posted by: Agent R... taking off his Shades at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (lZBBB)

474 468 I miss Gene Shalit. Posted by: © Sponge That dud had a wicked fro. Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 04:49 PM (iYbLN) He had to share it with Roseanne Roseannadanna. NBC was in last place back then.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (tqLft)

475 Actually, uber-pissy-lib that Ebert was, I wouldn't wish his manner of death on anyone.

Except Michael Moore. I'd keep mailing him cheeseburgers he couldn't eat.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (DLu2s)

476

"The aliens' plan was really to go house-to-house and murder everyone in hand-to-hand combat, using the element of surprise, which, btw, you lose after the first few murders?"

--------

 

After first lauching recon missions on Brazilian birthday parties.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (c/58R)

477 I meant HOT British crumpet...
Get the butter...

Posted by: zombie marlon brando at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (VwC86)

478 Don't be dicks, people. Ebert was one of the all-time great film critics. So what if he was a liberal? WHO FUCKING CARES STOP POLITICIZING EVERY FUCKING THING IN THE FUCKING WORLD.

Also, he was right about Ben Stein's unforgivably stupid Intelligent Design movie -- dishonest, embarrassing bullshit. I sure don't hold that against him.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 04:42 PM (bcLhD)



One, he politicized everything, dipshit.  Read his quotes from earlier in the thread. 

Two, he was a hateful man that told people like us that we were vile, inhumane, heartless assholes constantly.

Were he just a movie reviewer, then he would NOT be such a disliked man.


He brought this shit on himself.  ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (xmcEQ)

479

466 Are you telling me we have to be nice when Stephen King croaks, too?

 

Jimmy Carter is going to be hell too then, if the evil ever stops sustaining him.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (AC0lD)

480 The aliens' plan was really to go house-to-house and murder everyone in hand-to-hand combat, using the element of surprise, which, btw, you lose after the first few murders?

That was their plan?

That's what they brought to the party?

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:45 PM (LCRYB)

 

 

------------------------------------------------

 

 

They actually  had a better plan, but it was cut by the sequester.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:50 PM (G/r7R)

481 Maybe water was like uranium   is to us.   Deadly but valuable.   By the way , is uranium harmful to us in its raw form?

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (m2CN7)

482 We really should take a shit on The Happening, that thing was terrible.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (4cRnj)

483 dud = dude

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (iYbLN)

484 Eh, great film critic? Successful, definitely. His opinions kinda sucked though, which is the most important part of his job. Especially on video games, though I guess if Bioshock is what passes for art, maybe he was right.

Posted by: JDTAY at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (a0nis)

485

"I never did figure out where Mulder rented that Sno-Cat in Antarctica."

 

A city-sized subterreanean  UFO buried under the ice,  chock full of  abducted human/alien hybrids and under the supervision of The Smoking Man and his "FEMA" toadies and you're  wondering if the  McMurdo Avis counter rents snowcats?

8^)

 

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (4I3Uo)

486 Posted by: toby928©

Get in mah belleh!

Posted by: The Barrel [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (mN8D3)

487 He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?

Posted by: Marlene Dietrich at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (dY+4R)

488 and then Jaoquin Phoenix made GLADIATORS... how sexy was he in that, girls? heh Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 04:44 PM (8dspl) as sexy as bojan krkic http://tinyurl.com/cxj8lsv oh, hells yea

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (XYSwB)

489

438 The aliens' plan was really to go house-to-house and murder everyone in hand-to-hand combat, using the element of surprise, which, btw, you lose after the first few murders?

 

That was their plan?

 

That's what they brought to the party?

 

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:45 PM (LCRYB) 

 

--------

 

They were hungry, Ace.

Remember what that guy said on the radio..."They are here to harvest us".

 

So they were hunger-crazed Aliens.

 

And they had those built in  poison-nozzles in their wrists, to knock us out with.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:51 PM (5kUwW)

490 479 Actually, uber-pissy-lib that Ebert was, I wouldn't wish his manner of death on anyone. Except Michael Moore. I'd keep mailing him cheeseburgers he couldn't eat. Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at April 04, 2013 04:50 PM (DLu2s) Farrakhan has been dying of the same fucking tumor for like 15 years already. He should go that way, as well as Wright, Ayers, Sharpton and everyone on David Horowitz's list over at Front Page Mag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (tqLft)

491 Hmmm. If there were holes in "Signs," could it not also be said that there were signs in "Holes?"

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (C8mVl)

492 you mean wicked frew

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (Fely/)

493 Jessica  Chastain  stole  my career!  'The  Lady  in  the  Water'?  'The  Village'?  Total  crap!  I'm  Opie's   daughter   dammit!

Posted by: Bryce Dallas Howard at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (wIgpo)

494 >>>After first lauching recon missions on Brazilian birthday parties. right. I wonder what their plan was there. Why, it's almost as if they had no plan and were just walking around scaring people.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (LCRYB)

495 I miss Gene Shalit.


Posted by: © Sponge

That dud had a wicked fro.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 04:49 PM (iYbLN)


Pfft..he was a piker. And couldn't paint worth a shit.



Posted by: Bobb Ross at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (jvd3N)

496 May he rest in peace. This article about him, from yesterday, takes on a whole new meaning. www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/apr/03/roger-ebert-leave-of-presence-cancer

Posted by: Frank Underwood, D-South Carolina at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (fscec)

497 All I'm saying is, if you wanna criticize Ebert, then do it on the terms Ace did: some of his ratings are ridiculous (although that's a bit unfair too, because Ebert was famous for rating movies by assessing how close they came to meeting their own goals and genres, rather than insisting on an objective scale which places Citizen Kane, Aliens, and There's Something About Mary on the same continuum). 

I dunno...I really loved Ebert.  It's true he became more annoying in letting his liberal tics show through near the end of his life, but shit the guy lost his fucking jaw to cancer, I'll cut him some slack.  Otherwise, he was a very generous-spirited reviewer, the polar opposite of a condescending scold like Pauline Kael. 

And he turned me onto Dark City.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 12:52 PM (bcLhD)

498

The ads on Ace's site are displaying pitches for Mickey's Big Mouths. 

 

Weird.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:53 PM (CJjw5)

499 I can't wait for Michael Moore to pull a Cass Elliot Roger Ebert.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 04:49 PM (tqLft)



Corrected for accuracy.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:53 PM (xmcEQ)

500


>>>They couldn't operate door knobs, either. That was a WTF? for me. You can design and fly space ships, and you can't turn a fucking door knob?

 

 

You know how in Star Trek all the aliens are just like North American Humans except for one dumb thing like pointy ears? These ones had no thumbs.

Posted by: Bigby's Fisting uh.. Fist at April 04, 2013 12:53 PM (3ZtZW)

501 481 I meant HOT British crumpet... Get the butter... Posted by: zombie marlon brando at April 04, 2013 04:50 PM (VwC86) "If I was a pig, would you..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:53 PM (tqLft)

502 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 04:46 PM Agreed! If you're on the tube some people think that means everything. So he was a critic during the dark ages of film. SFW. Why anyone would buy a ticket to the crap that hollywood puts out now IBM. Just wait til it comes out on cable so you can switch it off and go to sleep.

Posted by: rikthedik at April 04, 2013 12:53 PM (ZhQmo)

503 The ads on Ace's site are displaying pitches for Mickey's Big Mouths.

Weird.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 04:53 PM (CJjw5)



I believe the ads are catered to the cookies available on your computer. 

I'm just sayin......

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (xmcEQ)

504 Was anyone else super pissed off that Gibson's family left the poor dog outside for the aliens to kill?  That was awful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (lVPtV)

505 "I don't think they like water...."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (aDwsi)

506 He liked the movie "Babe", so there is that.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (l3vZN)

507

 It's true he became more annoying in letting his liberal tics show through near the end of his life, but shit the guy lost his fucking jaw to cancer, I'll cut him some slack.

 

~~~~~~~~

 

So you're  saying he was slack-jawed, and you had something to do with it?  How do you live with  yourself?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (CJjw5)

508 If they had made "Signs" part of the Home Alone franchise, where Kevin booby traps the family farm with these Rube Goldberg traps that hurl aliens down a Slip N' Slide, or fires a water-balloon slingshot into their nuts, I would own it on Blu-Ray.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff

***

 

I would buy a Blu-Ray player just to play it on Blu-Ray.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (uhftQ)

509 Oh, good.  JeffB is here.  My hate is absolved.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (G/r7R)

510 >>>So you can collect humans and eat them. Humans which are made up mostly of water.

Humans are like the jalapenos of the Milky Way;  you'll love'em now, but you'll pay for it later.

Posted by: Fritz at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (WM+rJ)

511 The Happening sucked major bollocks, and I'm a big fan of EOW movies.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (c/58R)

512 @375 signs was dumb. The Naked Aliens only makes sense in an Alien *Infiltration* movie. But this was an Alien *Invasion* movie. You don't go naked to an invasion. Infliltration, maybe. Invasion, no. Posted by: ace at April 04, 2013 04:37 PM (LCRYB) True, but only if the plan wasn't to invade your squeaker.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (j2lYi)

513 ::: 486 We really should take a shit on The Happening, that thing was terrible. ::: Was that the movie where plant zombies tried to perpetrate a genocide on us? Or was that Day of the Triffids...

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:54 PM (csi6Y)

514 quin was hot in Gladiator, except for that wanting to fuck his sister thingy. Ugh. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:50 PM (lVPtV) I think it's the best acting he's ever done, and he fully expected to get an award for it. I remember seeing the disappointment on his face, after realizing he hit a peak in his potential. that flow thing like kanye west like joan osborne

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (XYSwB)

515 "arch-liberal" He reasonably evaluated great films. So, of course he was not a fucking dumbass knucklehead, like you. You'll always have Michael Medved.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (nSbZO)

516 hey Roger I wonder if you're right about God work got going to be right about you buddy?

Posted by: Harlekwin15-I'd buy that for a dollra at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (x/Krx)

517 501

Jeff B.

It appears you are easily amused and distracted by small, shiny objects.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (iYbLN)

518 Hmmm. Number of fucks given unexpectedly remains zero.

Posted by: [/i]akula51 at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (Vgn84)

519
Roger Ebert ‏@ebertchicago

The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2013 12:55 PM (kdS6q)

520 The plants in The Happening had a better attack plan than the aliens in Signs.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (4cRnj)

521 And erg's got nothing.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (DLu2s)

522 511 It's true he became more annoying in letting his liberal tics show through near the end of his life, but shit the guy lost his fucking jaw to cancer, I'll cut him some slack. ~~~~~~~~ So you're saying he was slack-jawed, and you had something to do with it? How do you live with yourself? Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 04:54 PM (CJjw5) There are plenty of brave, wonderful people who are terminally ill that would never have praise and love for the country and fellow countrymen. He gets no slack from me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (tqLft)

523 I believe the ads are catered to the cookies available on your computer. I'm just sayin...... Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 04:54 PM (xmcEQ) your ip region

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (XYSwB)

524 Except Michael Moore. I'd keep mailing him cheeseburgers he couldn't eat.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at April 04, 2013 04:50 PM (DLu2s)



Ha. Dick. I laughed like a moron at that. Well done.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (yh0zB)

525 >>>He brought this shit on himself. ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

Huh?  Are you saying he brought a long, agonizing death by throat and mouth cancer upon himself because he was a left-winger?  Because that's obscenely stupid.

Or are you saying he brought on people saying nasty things about him now that he's dead because he was an increasingly curmudgeonly liberal?  That's a little more recognizable as human logic, but...well I guess I'm old-fashioned.  Just because awful people on the internet -- that great destroyer of taste and class -- say bad things when someone 'on the right' dies doesn't mean we should indulge in tu quoque as an excuse for similar rhetoric.

Hey, I'll stop scolding though. 

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (bcLhD)

526 Ebert understood volcanic symbolism.

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (QupBk)

527 Humans are like the jalapenos of the Milky Way; you'll love'em now, but you'll pay for it later.
Tell me about it. I've been JeffB-ing all morning!

Posted by: signs alien survivor at April 04, 2013 12:56 PM (VwC86)

528 517 ::: 486 We really should take a shit on The Happening, that thing was terrible. ::: Was that the movie where plant zombies tried to perpetrate a genocide on us? Or was that Day of the Triffids... Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 04:54 PM (csi6Y) ____________ IIRC that's the one that's really unbelievable because you are suppose to accept Mark Wahlberg as an intellectual. As soon as he said--"whom" I was incredulous. Just take of your shirt and shut it-poseur.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (r2PLg)

529 Someone mentioned the bible miniseries- that is a total, total embarrassment. Angels as ninjas? Oh god, how terrible the acting, pacing, and story. Total suck.

Posted by: The Drizzle at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (ysCLj)

530 Signs is like Outbreak...if it's on, I'll watch it. Except I absolutely despise every character in Outbreak. Except for the monkey.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (Ec6wH)

531 There was a movie out recently where... eh, dammit. Remembered it. Argo.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (fWAjv)

532 Ebert and mean obits ... meh ... live by the sword, die by the sword. If you take up the partisan sword then here's what's going to happen when you die -- 1) The people on your side are gonna talk about how amazing, awesome of a lightbringer you are. 2) Your enemies are gonna say you were a sack of rancid shit and they're glad you're dead. Most people choose to be quiet. When they die nobody outside a small circle of friends and family has anything to say, good or bad, cause they didn't know you were ever alive. Ebert chose to be a hyper-partisan left-wing asshole. He dug his own grave, made his own bed. And not, I don't have to be consistent when the Left cheers the death of Breitbart. I am large, I contain multitudes. Tribalism for the win, baby!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (ZPrif)

533 There are plenty of brave, wonderful people who are terminally ill that would never have ANYTHING BUT praise and love for the country and fellow countrymen. He gets no slack from me. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (tqLft) SHEESH!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (tqLft)

534 Just take *off* your shirt and shut it-poseur. oy.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (r2PLg)

535

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (bcLhD)

 

I am sure you  e-mailed Ebert when he wished ill on Rush Limbaugh and scolded him too.   Right?

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 12:57 PM (m2CN7)

536
I dunno..... a big thumbs up to any movie where the invading alien get his head bashed in by a baseball bat.


"Swing Away!!"

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (nELVU)

537 He reasonably evaluated great films. Phantom Menace: 3.5/4 stars

Posted by: AmishDude at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (T0NGe)

538 Was anyone else super pissed off that Gibson's family left the poor dog outside for the aliens to kill? That was awful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 04:54 PM (lVPtV)

 

 

----------------------------------------

 

 

I didn't like that either.  And it did change my attitude  from liking the family to a more neutral setting.  After that, it really didn't matter if one or two of them got offed.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (G/r7R)

539 Volcano-boy returns!

Hey, pop-top, you're on fire today! Just like everyday. Please add some gasoline, would'ja Sparky?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (mN8D3)

540

>>some of his ratings are ridiculous (although that's a bit unfair too, because Ebert was famous for rating movies by assessing how close they came to meeting their own goals and genres, rather than insisting on an objective scale which places Citizen Kane, Aliens, and There's Something About Mary on the same continuum). <<

 

Maybe a yummy fruit-flavored vinaigrette would go great with this word salad

Posted by: Albie Damned at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (Yhu4q)

541 Film Critic Derp is here. Volcanos, super-ego and all.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 12:58 PM (MMC8r)

542 Posted by: Jeff B.

If Ebert got struck by lightening, ran over by a car or was attacked and killed by water hating alien retards, we'd still be mocking him.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (4cRnj)

543 This seems like a good time to be "punching down"

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (epxV4)

544 Okay, this thread is now as dead as its subject. NEXT....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (tqLft)

545 535 There was a movie out recently where... eh, dammit. Remembered it. Argo. Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 04:57 PM (fWAjv) ___________ Do.not. get.me. started. Ace thinks Argo was "pretty good".

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (r2PLg)

546

It hurts my eyes to see volcano boy using Breitbart's name.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (5kUwW)

547 Signs is like Outbreak...if it's on, I'll watch it. Except I absolutely despise every character in Outbreak. Except for the monkey. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Same for me but I loved the St. Bernards.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (iYbLN)

548

Or are you saying he brought on people saying nasty things about him now that he's dead because he was an increasingly curmudgeonly liberal?

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I said nasty things about Roger Ebert when he was alive.  Would it  not make me a hypocrite to praise his character or accomplishments now that he's dead?

 

Same with Christopher Hitchens.  Fuck that guy, too.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (CJjw5)

549 ::: All I'm saying is, if you wanna criticize Ebert, then do it on the terms Ace did ::: As long as we're talking about that, in all honesty I don't see a place for Ebert in the annals of movie reviewing history. A large part of that is the terrible state of movie criticism in the mainstream press. Why should AO Scott or Richard Corliss be revered as men of erudition when I can get far better, more specific, more relevant takes from the AV Club or Pajiba? Ebert may have been a standout among his brethren, but that doesn't really say much for me. Perhaps measuring him against today's standards is unfair. The Internet didn't exist when he made his name.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 12:59 PM (csi6Y)

550

>>>Aliens fly millions of miles using advanced tech, then don't use any of it! Water is like acid to the aliens, so they invade a planet that is 2/3 water, where it rains, and even collects on the ground as dew! We could repel their invasions simply by turning on our sprinklers!
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 04:26 PM (uhftQ)

lol! Well, yes. But it wasn't really the alien thing that I liked about Signs so much as the story of Mel Gibson's character regaining his faith. The alien thing was just an interesting side story that was laughably silly in retrospect.

 

Now that I think of it they had trouble opening doors too, which puts them on a plane with my beagles. But then again, my beagles can't build rocket ships  and fly through space.

 

Which means I really don't have much of a point to make.

 

*shrug*

 

Posted by: LGoPs at April 04, 2013 01:00 PM (4x8W0)

551 It's too bad Ebert didn't experience being a cancer patient under ObamaCare.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 01:00 PM (MMC8r)

552 Has anyone brought up the faced-sized tarantula yet?

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 01:00 PM (QupBk)

553
Shut up, we don't have water where we come from, we have aho9ewhuiopahuiheoiaheiouhetapniuyeh.  So there.

Posted by: Signs Alien at April 04, 2013 01:00 PM (IY7Ir)

554 IIRC that's the one that's really unbelievable because you are suppose to accept Mark Wahlberg as an intellectual.

As soon as he said--"whom" I was incredulous.

Just take of your shirt and shut it-poseur.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:57 PM (r2PLg)

 

Don't disagree but Wahlberg is one of the smartest people in Hollywood right now.  Probably street smarts but all the same, he has a business sense better than 90% in Hollywood.  But yeah, not an intellectual.

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 01:00 PM (m2CN7)

555 Now that JeffB has promised to drop it, I'm out of here.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (VwC86)

556 Do.not. get.me. started. Ace thinks Argo was "pretty good". Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:59 PM (r2PLg) I liked the beginning of it with the animation, and they did a good job with makeup/making them look like the original hostages.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (fWAjv)

557 The plants in The Happening had a better attack plan than the aliens in Signs.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (4cRnj)


----


Reminds me of Steven Kings "Tommyknockers".


127 thousand words to find out in the end the aliens they are so stupid they couldn't convert AC power to DC.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (nELVU)

558
your ip region

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (XYSwB)



He's in Minnesota and I'm in Texas.  I can get Mickey's down here.

I was attempting to make a joke about how he's getting ads according to his recent web browsing, but I guess I failed.

thank you, I will be leaving the internet now.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (xmcEQ)

559 It hurts my eyes to see volcano boy using Breitbart's name. Breitbart would think it's hilarious. Because it proves Breitbart's point. Derp doesn't get the irony, though.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (MMC8r)

560 Hey, Ebert liked that Volcano movie.

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (+I8Mq)

561 Oh my.  The Five is talking about Maya Angelou, gun-lover. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (lVPtV)

562 @554....Beagles make for pretty good fighter pilots.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (Ec6wH)

563 Does every child go through a phase where they get into the full band aid box and put a bunch of them on all over their body and dump the rest out onto the floor? sigh.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (qPCAa)

564 I don't understand how Reagan's childhood home wasn't protected by some historical law...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 01:01 PM (XYSwB)

565 To be fair, Roger Ebert wasn't born a slack-jawed moron. It took him a lifetime of praising shitty movies to get that look.

Posted by: Oschisms at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (pfVS8)

566 Despicable human being. Hopefully he found peace and redemption at the end

Posted by: NCKate at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (J/Yaf)

567 Shut up, we don't have water where we come from, we have aho9ewhuiopahuiheoiaheiouhetapniuyeh. So there.

Posted by: Signs Alien

***

 

Go home...before I turn the hose on you.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (uhftQ)

568 Someone mentioned the bible miniseries- that is a total, total embarrassment. Angels as ninjas? Oh god, how terrible the acting, pacing, and story. Total suck.


I hear Obama did a great cameo as Satan.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (z9HTb)

569 ....Beagles make for pretty good fighter pilots.

SQUIRREL!

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (QupBk)

570 Ace thinks Argo was "pretty good". **** I wanted to taze the screenwriter bro.

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (+I8Mq)

571 Now that I think of it they had trouble opening doors too, which puts them on a plane with my beagles. But then again, my beagles can't build rocket ships and fly through space. Which means I really don't have much of a point to make. *shrug* Posted by: LGoPs at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (4x8W0) I'd keep a close eye on the raptors. Collusion and all.

Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 01:02 PM (fWAjv)

572 Breitbart would think it's hilarious. Because it proves Breitbart's point. Derp doesn't get the irony, though. Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (MMC8r) Yes, he is keeping Andrew's name and legacy alive.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (XYSwB)

573 I liked Siskel better.

Posted by: Iblis at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (+rX3w)

574 556 Has anyone brought up the faced-sized tarantula yet?



*paging alexthechick*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (lVPtV)

575 Has anyone brought up the faced-sized tarantula yet?

Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (QupBk)


-----


What has Pelosi done now????

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (nELVU)

576 I like Mark Wahlberg, pseudo-intellectual or not. Even though he was in that AWFUL WASTE OF TALENT "The Campaign." And that's saying a lot.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (csi6Y)

577 Reminds me of Steven Kings "Tommyknockers". 127 thousand words to find out in the end the aliens they are so stupid they couldn't convert AC power to DC. Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (nELVU) (Almost) all of Stephen King's books are like that. Great set up, weak resolution. Just like an 80s pop song where the intro is a thousand times cooler than the chorus.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (qPCAa)

578 Watch  for  Roger  &  Me  on  'The  Walking  Dead'!

Posted by: Zombie Pauline Kael at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (wIgpo)

579 523 Roger Ebert ‏@ebertchicago The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2013 04:55 PM (kdS6q) This. I don't care about his movie reviews. Whether he was good or bad, that was his expertise, and I have no business judging him on any of that. But, when he posted the political stuff, he put himself on the same level as the rest of us, and his opinions became fair game. Though, like most libs, I honestly believe he thought that what he expressed politically was beyond reproach. If so, he was wrong.

Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 01:03 PM (UZuc4)

580 Well, I'm off to surf internet porn for a while. Later roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (yh0zB)

581 Has anyone brought up the faced-sized tarantula yet?


Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (QupBk)


Repeatedly, in every thread, several times.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (X6akg)

582 Reminds me of Steven Kings "Tommyknockers".
127 thousand words to find out in the end the aliens they are so stupid they couldn't convert AC power to DC.

Posted by: fixerupper

***

 

His book "It" was inspired by a short story by another writer featured in Playboy.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (uhftQ)

583 Huh? Are you saying he brought a long, agonizing death by throat and mouth cancer upon himself because he was a left-winger? Because that's obscenely stupid.

Or are you saying he brought on people saying nasty things about him now that he's dead because he was an increasingly curmudgeonly liberal? That's a little more recognizable as human logic, but...well I guess I'm old-fashioned. Just because awful people on the internet -- that great destroyer of taste and class -- say bad things when someone 'on the right' dies doesn't mean we should indulge in tu quoque as an excuse for similar rhetoric.

Hey, I'll stop scolding though.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (bcLhD)



No, Mensa candidate.

I'm saying that we're sitting here moderately pissing on his grave because he pissed on us while he was alive.


But, like ALL liberals, you fail to see the forest through the trees and turn a simple concept into a bloated retardation that no one can fathom.

Well done.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (xmcEQ)

584 After I watched Argo, all I could think was 'Best Picture...? Really...?'

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (MMC8r)

585 The ads on Ace's site are displaying pitches for Mickey's Big Mouths. I'm getting lobster. And steak. Surf n turf. Which for some reason makes me want to leave Ace and surf lesbian pr0n site, with a little three-way action.

Posted by: illegally posting anonymously on the internet [/i] at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (feFL6)

586 Ebert's last words were recorded. 

It was something like this:  klhsrgkjhiuqwepwryvn mWK

Too soon?

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (iYbLN)

587 574 Ace thinks Argo was "pretty good". **** I wanted to taze the screenwriter bro. Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 05:02 PM (+I8Mq) Jimmy Carter was a great president, the Shah was evil and Hollywood is cool. They must have used the Stalin airbrush tool in their version of Final Draft.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 01:04 PM (tqLft)

588 >>>I am sure you e-mailed Ebert when he wished ill on Rush Limbaugh and scolded him too. Right?

To be perfectly honest I have no idea what shit he said over the past decade outside of his film reviews.  That's all I've ever read.  For example, that Twitter quote someone reprinted above, about the 2nd Amendment being ratified to preserve slavery?  If authentic, that's incredibly insulting, douchebaggery to the Nth degree. 

But I guess my greater point is so what?  The guy had political opinions.  They were very, very different than mine.  Sometimes (who knows, perhaps ALL the time) he expressed those views in insulting terms.  I don't care.  I just don't care anymore.  I really get tired of the constant insistence that both sides of hardcore believer have that we have to judge someone's ability or contributions in a certain field, or value overall as a person, exclusively through the lens of their political views and the political statements they've made.  It's just such a...tiresome way of viewing the world. 

Why is it so hard to say: Ebert had moronic politics and was often a right twat when expressing those views late in his life, but he was still a good movie critic (assuming you believe this, of course) and it's a shame when anyone dies of cancer? 

I know it's funny for me to be saying this, because I can be a really negative person at times, but there's just too much negativity in our public discourse right now, and it's stuff like this that makes it build even more IMO.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 01:05 PM (bcLhD)

589 ::: 542 Was anyone else super pissed off that Gibson's family left the poor dog outside for the aliens to kill? That was awful. ::: Did they have a choice? I don't remember.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:05 PM (csi6Y)

590 Well, I'm off to surf internet porn for a while. Later roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde at April 04, 2013 05:04 PM (yh0zB)




Summary and links or it didn't happen.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 01:05 PM (xmcEQ)

591 Has anyone brought up the faced-sized tarantula yet? Posted by: toby928© beating memes to death since 2006 at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (QupBk) ----- What has Pelosi done now???? Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 05:03 PM (nELVU) Giant spider sub-thread winner!

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 01:05 PM (qPCAa)

592 560 Do.not. get.me. started. Ace thinks Argo was "pretty good". Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:59 PM (r2PLg) I liked the beginning of it with the animation, and they did a good job with makeup/making them look like the original hostages. Posted by: RWC at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (fWAjv) ___________ You forgot the Jimmy Carter narration while the credits were rolling about how all the hostages were freed without the use of violence, plus no one was killed! (Yes, he forgot all about his failed attempt and the military that died in Operation Eagle Claw.)

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 01:06 PM (r2PLg)

593 567 Does every child go through a phase where they get into the full band aid box and put a bunch of them on all over their body and dump the rest out onto the floor?

sigh. Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM


========

Only on days when they aren't sold to passing gypsies. I have already explained this....., it is win-win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 01:06 PM (aDwsi)

594
Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (qPCAa)

heh, heh, not too many years ago for mine.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2013 01:06 PM (IY7Ir)

595

@586

Is it just me or is Stephen King one of the most overrated writers ever?

 

Some of his stuff is good, most of it incredibly lame. The later stuff undeniably lame.

Posted by: Jollyroger at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (t06LC)

596

"Tribalism for the win, baby!"

 

Yup.  Being the better person, not stooping to their level, and staying above the fray has gotten us exactly jack shit.  It is therefore unsurprising that our betters in the Republican party will contunue on that path.  They'll ride their gentle Christian ways all the way to oblivion.  Fuck them too.

 

It's way past time to get ugly.

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (4I3Uo)

597
Ebert in 2010 weighed in on a news story involving five teenagers at one California high school who were sent home for wearing shirts depicting the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Taking to his Twitter account, Ebert wrote, "Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (kdS6q)

598 I have no idea what shit he said over the past decade outside of his film reviews. Hitler wasn't just a painter. So y'know.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (MMC8r)

599 Does every child go through a phase where they get into the full band aid box and put a bunch of them on all over their body and dump the rest out onto the floor?

sigh.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (qPCAa)

 

 

--------------------------------------------

 

 

Cheap entertainment.  Wait until they start demanding xbox's and Wii's.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (G/r7R)

600 After I watched Argo, all I could think was 'Best Picture...? Really...?

I've now watched three of the Best Picture nominees, and had the exact same reaction.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (rzNdC)

601 582 Though, like most libs, I honestly believe he thought that what he expressed politically was beyond reproach. If so, he was wrong. Posted by: joejm65 at April 04, 2013 05:03 PM (UZuc4) There's wrong and then there is dangerous and incendiary. While tit-for-tatting with the other side about one's dead heroes is not exactly the most productive thing one can do, we are very much in a war of ideas that are in diametric opposition. One will lead to the destruction of our way of life and ultimately of us. Too soon to criticize or ridicule Ebert? I don't think so.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (tqLft)

602 >>>>>>Hey, I'll stop scolding though.<<<<<<<<<<

Liar.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (gh4OI)

603

 I will miss Roger Ebert. He was a great man. 

 

He had the intelligence to see the brilliance in all my performances.

Posted by: Susan Sarandumb at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (5kUwW)

604 I didn't know Alaska was a forced union state. Saw it over at the gateway pundit. There's a map, there. sucks for Alaska.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 01:07 PM (XYSwB)

605 Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM (qPCAa)


I did this same thing last night.  What?  I don't see a problem.

Posted by: mpfs, exhausted assault fishstick at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (iYbLN)

606 @586 Is it just me or is Stephen King one of the most overrated writers ever? *** Something about ghost writers comes to mind

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (+I8Mq)

607

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 05:01 PM

 

Yes, and they, all at one time or another, cut their own hair.

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (O/fK8)

608 I know it's funny for me to be saying this, because I can be a really negative person at times, but there's just too much negativity in our public discourse right now, and it's stuff like this that makes it build even more IMO.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 05:05 PM (bcLhD)

 

You do realize that if Siskel had died that there would not have been a thread and no one ragging on his death.  Think about why that would be. 

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (m2CN7)

609 599 @586
Is it just me or is Stephen King one of the most overrated writers ever?

Some of his stuff is good, most of it incredibly lame. The later stuff undeniably lame. Posted by: Jollyroger at April 04, 2013 05:07 PM
=========

I'm calling Cudjo the peak..., if only because it was plausible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (aDwsi)

610 His book "It" was inspired by a short story by another writer featured in Playboy.

-----

So..... who'e idea was it that all the main characters were going to "take turns" on the one girl to bind them all while the two turtles humping monster comes back to haunt everyone as Homey the Clown????

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (nELVU)

611 558 IIRC that's the one that's really unbelievable because you are suppose to accept Mark Wahlberg as an intellectual. As soon as he said--"whom" I was incredulous. Just take of your shirt and shut it-poseur. Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 04:57 PM (r2PLg) Don't disagree but Wahlberg is one of the smartest people in Hollywood right now. Probably street smarts but all the same, he has a business sense better than 90% in Hollywood. But yeah, not an intellectual. Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (m2CN7) **************** The street smarts, good point. It is really undervalued.

Posted by: tasker at April 04, 2013 01:08 PM (r2PLg)

612 It's too bad Ebert didn't experience being a cancer patient under ObamaCare. Missed it by this much!

Posted by: Zombie Roger Ebert at April 04, 2013 01:09 PM (eyJh9)

613 So..... who'e idea was it that all the main characters were going to "take turns" on the one girl to bind them all while the two turtles humping monster comes back to haunt everyone as Homey the Clown???? Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 05:08 PM (nELVU) F'IN SPOILER ALERT PLEASE!

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 01:09 PM (qPCAa)

614 Ebert was a budding film producer in the 60's who hung around Russ Meyer and his big breasted film stars. When his director ambitions failed, he became a film critic.

Posted by: dri at April 04, 2013 01:09 PM (dHKAh)

615 ::: It's way past time to get ugly. ::: Crapping on dead people doesn't help the left win.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:10 PM (csi6Y)

616 He had the intelligence to see the brilliance in all my performances. Posted by: Susan Sarandumb He liked anything with tits. Any film with nudity got a positive review from him. It wasn't his thumb that was up when he watched them.

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:10 PM (+I8Mq)

617 Well that was messed up, don't post and talk on the phone.

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2013 01:10 PM (O/fK8)

618 Crapping on dead people doesn't help the left win. *** Seems to be working so far

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:10 PM (+I8Mq)

619 After I watched Argo, all I could think was 'Best Picture...? Really...?' Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 05:04 PM (MMC8r) A politico-hollywood you scratch my back, and you scratch my back, and I'll scratch both of yours with more subsidies.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2013 01:11 PM (XYSwB)

620 When I was alive I slandered the living. Now the living slander me. I'm so really fucking dead.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at April 04, 2013 01:11 PM (nSbZO)

621 Hey, I'll stop scolding though.
If only that were true.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2013 01:11 PM (VwC86)

622 Only on days when they aren't sold to passing gypsies. I have already explained this....., it is win-win. Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 05:06 PM (aDwsi) Can you get gypsies to take them on like a boarding system and bring them back on weekends? Cause I would miss mine after about 5 days.

Posted by: elizabethe at April 04, 2013 01:11 PM (qPCAa)

623 Why is it so hard to say: Ebert had moronic politics and was often a right twat when expressing those views late in his life, but he was still a good movie critic (assuming you believe this, of course) and it's a shame when anyone dies of cancer?

I know it's funny for me to be saying this, because I can be a really negative person at times, but there's just too much negativity in our public discourse right now, and it's stuff like this that makes it build even more IMO.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 05:05 PM (bcLhD)



One.  He wasn't a good movie critic.  Maybe in his early years, but not for decades.

Two.  There are several people that have said that Cancer's a bitch and I don't wish that on anyone. 

He got it, hated people and hate grows hate.  Were he just a movie reviewer, things would be VERY different here right now.  He WASN'T.  Much like the hosts at MSNBC degrading me and calling me a racist that wants to kill my grandma and all that shit gets you EXACTLY what is being said here when they die.

Accept that fact and MOVE the fuck ON.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 04, 2013 01:11 PM (xmcEQ)

624 ::: Seems to be working so far ::: Well, no. Just because conservatives have only recently woken up to the use of activism doesn't have anything to do with that.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:13 PM (csi6Y)

625 So..... who'e idea was it that all the main characters were going to "take turns" on the one girl to bind them all while the two turtles humping monster comes back to haunt everyone as Homey the Clown????

Posted by: fixerupper

***

 

That was all Stephen "Sicko" King.

The "inspiration" just had a short clown that killed kids, but only one kid could see.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 01:13 PM (uhftQ)

626 >>>Posted by: andrew breitbart at April 04, 2013 05:11 PM (nSbZO)

Hey, just so you know, I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with hoping you get a double dose of CANCERAIDS, fuckstick.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 01:14 PM (bcLhD)

627 If ebert had only been a film critic we wouldn't be parsing his words in this thread. However, he injected politics into his work. So in my mind, flame on.

Posted by: NCKate at April 04, 2013 01:14 PM (J/Yaf)

628 Fun Fact: Stephen King does not remember writing Tommyknockers. He was drinking a case of pounders A NIGHT.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 04, 2013 01:14 PM (c/58R)

629 Hey, I'll stop scolding though.
Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 04:56 PM (bcLhD)

You can only be a scold to those who value your opinion.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 01:15 PM (Kpn/z)

630 Jeff B, where do you read your reviews these days? Please tell me it isn't in the pages of the legacy media.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:15 PM (csi6Y)

631 WTF! I've been hangin' around waitin' for him all these months. Watin' so we could get back together. And he shoots straight off to hell without me! What the fuck, people! I mean, what. the. fuck.

Posted by: The Ghost of Ebert's Jaw at April 04, 2013 01:15 PM (j2lYi)

632 So..... who'e idea was it that all the main characters were going to "take turns" on the one girl to bind them all while the two turtles humping monster comes back to haunt everyone as Homey the Clown????
Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2013 05:08 PM (nELVU)

F'IN SPOILER ALERT PLEASE!

Posted by: elizabethe

***

 

So telling you about the turtle and giant spider fighting to the death would be bad?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 04, 2013 01:15 PM (uhftQ)

633 I'm calling Cudjo the peak..., if only because it was plausible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 05:08 PM (aDwsi)

 

 

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Hmmmm.  I think  "Salem's Lot" was his best in horror.   "Misery" was scary only because I knew some women like that.

Posted by: Soona at April 04, 2013 01:16 PM (G/r7R)

634 628 What does one thing have to do with the other. The left is a hate machine. It worships death for everyone but their own.(infants don't count)

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:17 PM (+I8Mq)

635

"Crapping on dead people doesn't help the left win. "

 

Living, dead,  somewhere in between  - it matters not at all to the left.  When they attack they define the narrative.  When they define the narrative,  they invariably become the lead horse in the eyes of the LIV independents.  When they own the LIVs, they win elections. 

 

Nice guys get fucked.  I don't like that reality, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2013 01:17 PM (4I3Uo)

636 ::: 632 Fun Fact: Stephen King does not remember writing Tommyknockers. He was drinking a case of pounders A NIGHT. ::: That kind of writing productivity is just beyond parody...

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:17 PM (csi6Y)

637 >>>>I don't know if you could really call M. Night Shaymalan's post-Sixth Sense career "successful," unless you were to add the caveat, "in a laughably awful and increasingly ridiculous way." Did you know that he claims Unbreakable as being the jumping off point for the successful comic book/super hero movies

Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2013 01:17 PM (pFfhO)

638

@629

 

An aside, I've totally used the "hey we need to have sex right now because the giant turtle said to or we'll be killed by a huge evil magic spider thing that only I can see" pick up line before.

 

It didn't go as planned. Needless to say the mandatory therapy sessions went good though.

Posted by: Jollyroger at April 04, 2013 01:17 PM (t06LC)

639 When his director ambitions failed, he became a film critic. "Those who cannot do, teach. Those who cannot teach, teach gym. Those who cannot teach gym, criticize." -- Shih Tzu

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 04, 2013 01:18 PM (xIzGn)

640 >>>Jeff B, where do you read your reviews these days? Please tell me it isn't in the pages of the legacy media.

Usually it's the gf who suggests movie ideas, not me, so the most common resource is Rotten Tomatoes.  Never use Metacritic.  I'll often check out the AV Club as well.

One thing the AV Club is absolutely incredible about is their coverage of both current and classic television shows.  For example, their reviews of The X-Files and Twin Peaks are just great stuff to page through.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 01:20 PM (bcLhD)

641 As a critic, Ebert was little more than every movie-maker's mother-in-law.

Posted by: zsasz at April 04, 2013 01:20 PM (MMC8r)

642 ::: When they attack they define the narrative. When they define the narrative, they invariably become the lead horse in the eyes of the LIV independents. When they own the LIVs, they win elections. ::: You're just saying the left is more aggressive. No surprise. They've had FIFTY YEARS to figure out what works and what doesn't vis-a-vis activism. It's an unfortunate side effect of conservative culture being The Man - you miss out on the tactics of the next generation.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:20 PM (csi6Y)

643
"Crapping on dead people doesn't help the left win."






What did you say?  Can't hear you! Engine's too loud!

Posted by: Guy on a Caterpillar Bulldozing Reagan's Boyhood Home

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2013 01:21 PM (kdS6q)

644 >>>Living, dead, somewhere in between - it matters not at all to the left. When they attack they define the narrative. When they define the narrative, they invariably become the lead horse in the eyes of the LIV independents. When they own the LIVs, they win elections.

If you have a popgun and the other guy has a Howitzer plus can call in an air-strike, who wins the battle?

My point is, the Left "wins" those narrative-defining wars not because we conservatives are just too timid to play by their nasty rules, but rather because they're leveraging their numbers, critical mass, and control over the valves of culture.  Playing their game, the same way they play it, is a loser's move: you need to try a different angle.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 01:22 PM (bcLhD)

645

Won't miss him a bit . . . buh bye, lefty

 

 

Posted by: KR1 at April 04, 2013 01:23 PM (oEfom)

646 Posted by: Jeff B. at April 04, 2013 05:20 PM (bcLhD) They have episodal coverage of the X-Files? Wow, I did not know that. I got a bad taste from RT, but only because I only find myself checking them for older movies, and thus half the links are dead.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at April 04, 2013 01:24 PM (csi6Y)

647 Ebert's last words (sort of)


gobble gobble blah blah bobble gobble URK!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 04, 2013 01:25 PM (Kpn/z)

648 Watching a real epic now, 'Hell: Welcome to the Seventh Circle". Real blockbuster cast; Hitler, Stalin, Mao Ze Dung, Pol Pot, Tojo, Mussolini, Genghis Khan. Very absorbing, except the sound is way too loud in here and somebody has the heat cranked so high my Sno-Caps have melted. I'd leave, but the Italian guy that seated me told me this is the only showing ever, so I guess I'll stay.

Posted by: Roger Ebert, via Twitter at April 04, 2013 01:26 PM (DLu2s)

649 Tommy, what does your Dad do for a living? My Daddy's dead. Oh, I'm so sorry, what did your Dad do before he died? He grabbed his chest and turned purple.

Posted by: The Generic, Award Winning Moron at April 04, 2013 01:28 PM (+I8Mq)

650 ...but..but...he told me what movies I should like. Doesn't that mean anything to you people?

Posted by: Beff G. at April 04, 2013 01:29 PM (Yhu4q)

651

You just keep on trying that Reaganesque sunshine optimism and  long-form  Friedman-style  economic theory on the drooling masses.    Let's see how that plays out on a population that has become  unaware, unworthy, and downright hostile  of its past history of personal liberty.

 

They can't hear you over the sound of their SNAP cards cashing in your tax dollars to buy another case of Hot Pockets to drag back to their Section 8 crib.

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2013 01:31 PM (4I3Uo)

652 It's hard not to knock Ebert for some of the shallow and hateful things he wrote over the last 15 years. But I wouldn't wish his nasty health problems on anybody except a jihadi. He said he got those old-timey shoe store foot X-rays when he was a kid, and he thought that might have had something to do with his cancer. I'll still check his website on Fridays for movie pick ideas.

Posted by: gp at April 04, 2013 01:33 PM (mk9aG)

653 One of the better commercials I recall, was by Bear Bryant. Was a Southern Bell commercial encouraging people to make long-distance calls, and was run over Mother's Day weekend.. Bryant ad-libbed an extra line to what was supposed to be a folksy commercial that ended "Call you mother." Bryant added, "... I wish I could call mine." Damn..., I get teared up. Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 04, 2013 04:45 PM (aDwsi) The world will never see another Paul Bryant.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at April 04, 2013 01:35 PM (JQuNB)

654 See you in Hell, my friend.

Posted by: Grim Reaper at April 04, 2013 01:39 PM (+iA5G)

655 No, prayers are not meditations. That's why there were ellipses between the sentences.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2013 01:41 PM (bddKN)

656

>>>I really get tired of the constant insistence that both sides of hardcore believer have that we have to judge someone's ability or contributions in a certain field, or value overall as a person, exclusively through the lens of their political views and the political statements they've made. It's just such a...tiresome way of viewing the world.

 

It is the fucking left that has made it this way!  Ever hear of Hillary Clinton's "the personal is political"?

Posted by: LGoPs at April 04, 2013 01:46 PM (BJVEF)

657 Nope. Still nuthin'.

Posted by: My give a damn's busted at April 04, 2013 01:47 PM (iObsb)

658 658 >>>I really get tired of the constant insistence that both sides of hardcore believer have that we have to judge someone's ability or contributions in a certain field, or value overall as a person, exclusively through the lens of their political views and the political statements they've made. It's just such a...tiresome way of viewing the world.

It is the fucking left that has made it this way! Ever hear of Hillary Clinton's "the personal is political"?

Posted by: LGoPs at April 04, 2013 05:46 PM (BJVEF)


--It was not Ebert's politics per se; it was the nasty, mean-spirited way he condescended to conservatives (or indeed, normal Americans).

Posted by: logprof at April 04, 2013 01:48 PM (+iA5G)

659 Ebert's screenplay for "Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens" was sheer genius. and by "genius" I mean, "it had Kitten Natividad's awesome rack in it".

Posted by: MLCross at April 04, 2013 01:52 PM (taib7)

660 Satan called to say his barbed cock would be enjoying Roger's ministrations this weekend.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at April 04, 2013 01:54 PM (1hM1d)

661 Ebert's commentary on the "Citizen Kane" DVD is quite good - informative, thoughtful.

On politics, though, the man was demented. There's no better word for it. The bile that he spewed, and the nonsense that he believed, were unworthy of a child, let alone an influential writer.

As for his passing, I wouldn't wish esophageal cancer on my worst enemy. It's a hard, hard way to die, and the man fought it every inch of the way. I hope he is at peace.


Posted by: Brown Line at April 04, 2013 01:57 PM (VrNoa)

662 Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's award-winning solid gold diaphragm at April 04, 2013 01:58 PM (7xeJQ)

663

Roger Ebert took to Twitter Monday to express opinion on the tragic death of Jackass star Ryan Dunn.

"Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive," the iconic film critic tweeted.

RIP Roger you were a class act.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 04, 2013 02:05 PM (3likN)

664 I enjoyed the old Siskel and Ebert TV show, the thumbs up and down, the previews of upcoming movies and their takes on them. That was before he revealed himself to be a left-wing hack. RIP.

Posted by: waelse1 at April 04, 2013 02:12 PM (uQail)

665 OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FACE????

Posted by: Ashley Judd at April 04, 2013 02:23 PM (/AHDz)

666 "On politics, though, the man was demented. There's no better word for it. The bile that he spewed, and the nonsense that he believed, were unworthy of a child, let alone an influential writer."
===============

My presumption was that he desperately wanted to be Frank Rich.

Posted by: Kensington at April 04, 2013 02:25 PM (/AHDz)

667 The fact that he suffered bravely does not excuse his prior behavior.  He'll have to explain all that to The Judge pretty soon.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at April 04, 2013 02:49 PM (cxumr)

668

-

That's all I got.

Posted by: Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 at April 04, 2013 03:09 PM (Ph479)

669 Whenever I heard of Ebert's more recent afflictions, the first thing that came to mind was that he gave Schindler's List the same number of stars as he gave Farenheit 911. That being said, my sympathies are with those that loved him as a family member and individual, not a movie critic.

Posted by: chester.simms at April 04, 2013 03:11 PM (gFrFn)

670 Fuck Roger Ebert. He was a leftwingnut and a bilious crank who vented his spleen with epithets and venomous comments toward people he didn't like---mostly Republicans---so good riddance to bad rubbish.

Posted by: SFC MAC at April 04, 2013 03:18 PM (TLbgU)

671 If you've never read the Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, you should. (I promise, this is germane to the topic).

In one book Nero says something unflattering about a dead person, who happened to be his friend. This surprises people but his response floored me the first time I read it. Paraphrased, 'I show him respect by thinking of him in death as I did in life'.

We all die; suddenly trying to canonise someone simply because they have died doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps there is no need for invective, or dancing gaily while those who knew him mourn, but I won't censor my opinion on his conduct simply because he's completed his journey.

I think Ebert's politics were bullshit and he was a bit of an ass, but I'm sorry for the pain his passing has caused in the lives of those who knew and cared about him.

Posted by: Linlithgow at April 04, 2013 03:21 PM (Gim9y)

672 671

That being said, my sympathies are with those that loved him as a family member and individual, not a movie critic.

Posted by: chester.simms at April 04, 2013 07:11 PM (gFrFn)

Meh. I'm sure they're all extreme left-wing twatmuffins too.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke's award-winning solid gold diaphragm at April 04, 2013 03:58 PM (7xeJQ)

673 ET kept calling him "beloved." I had no bad thoughts about him till recently, when he let the leftist hate spew wildly. I hope he found peace. I am sorry he suffered so. I feel badly for his family.

Posted by: Baldy at April 04, 2013 04:03 PM (opS9C)

674

Meh, he was a critic, and not a very good one because of his biases.

 

That said, I have no love lost for cancer of any kind having had personal experiences with it in my family and I feal bad that he suffered in his final years as he tried to continue doing what he loved.

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting for the revolution at April 04, 2013 04:52 PM (IanLz)

675 585 His book "It" was inspired by a short story by another writer featured in Playboy. ==================== I don't know, there may have been multiple inspirations for "It," but August Derleth's 1948 story "The Lonesome Place" (available here: http://tinyurl.com/bltan7z) is clearly one of them (and one I don't think King has ever acknowledged, just as he's never acknowledged the very obvious influence, verging on plagiarism/copyright infringement, of the One Step Beyond episode "The Burning Girl" on "Carrie").

Posted by: shoeless hunter at April 04, 2013 05:00 PM (dY+4R)

676

Rot in hell, fucker.

Figured I'd throw my piss on his grave.

 

675 ET kept calling him "beloved." I had no bad thoughts about him till recently, when he let the leftist hate spew wildly. I hope he found peace. I am sorry he suffered so. I feel badly for his family.

Posted by: Baldy at April 04, 2013 08:03 PM (opS9C)

 

Why? He wished each and every one of us would suffer. Have no pity for these leftists. Hopefully each and every one meets a horrible, pain-filled death, because it is EXACTLY what they would impose on us, given the chance. Just ask the 100+ million killed by Stalin, Mao, and other leftists in the 20th century.

I have no sympathy for these scum. They are lower than the dog shit I have to wash off of my shoes.

Posted by: blindside at April 04, 2013 05:39 PM (ajjwb)

677 finally. rot in hell.

Posted by: By Any Means Necessary at April 04, 2013 06:04 PM (U+nBy)

678 Christ teaches us to love our enemies, from which we can quite easily infer that we have enemies.

We are to love Ebert and pray that he found salvation, but I don't think we should pretend that he wasn't, politically, an enemy.  He hated our liberties and hated us for defending our liberties.  We should pray that the Father forgave him, even though I suspect that many on the left know exactly what they're doing.

Posted by: Bubba at April 04, 2013 06:12 PM (mEopI)

679 When Gene Siskel died, Ebert gave a very touching tribute about him.  With that I'm all tapped out on nice things to say about him.  His review of "Blue Velvet" was one of the most witless excuses for criticism I've ever experienced and I pretty much stopped paying attention to him at that point.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 04, 2013 06:45 PM (Qc1kb)

680 Welcome home, rog! It's wonderful down here!

Posted by: Siskel, Lady Di, JFK at April 05, 2013 11:21 AM (Kxz3Y)

681 21   22    You  guys  are  just  SO  wrong...

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at April 05, 2013 11:26 AM (g+Cz1)

682 For a different pov on Ebert coming from a Tea Party conservative named Randy Masters who became friends with the man via arguing with him on Ebert's blog: http://tinyurl.com/ctrozav

Posted by: shoeless hunter at April 10, 2013 07:50 AM (dY+4R)

683 I surf therefore I post. This story has two funny punchlines: Wapo: "A story that could make Roger Ebert look bad" Link: http://tinyurl.com/czsooqb

Posted by: shoeless hunter at April 11, 2013 08:11 PM (dY+4R)

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