Ugh. Guys like these are the reason people get drunk at cocktail parties. Roger Ebert and his peers fulfill a perfectly useful role: telling most people whethe

Ugh. Guys like these are the reason people get drunk at cocktail parties. Roger Ebert and his peers fulfill a perfectly useful role: telling most people whether a Friday night movie is worth their limited time and money. He is not Plato. People will not be reading about him in 800 years. Nobody has ever suggested as much. If you want to sit around in the dark, drinking expensive wine and trying to pick the deepest meaning out of obscure indie films while secretly enjoying your pervasive superiority, that's fine. But pretending that Roger Ebert has single handedly destroyed your precious little past-time is utter bunk.