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I was bowled over by Ebert's fascination with Dark City and I really liked it the first time I watched. However, many years later, I watched it again and it le
by webwanderings 14y ago
I was bowled over by Ebert's fascination with Dark City and I really liked it the first time I watched. However, many years later, I watched it again and it left me bewildered as to why I liked this movie in the first. As much as I like and respect Roger Ebert, I think he was dead wrong on his fascination with this movie. Great movies do not fall off of the imaginative pedestal, only the bad one does.
As a professional movie critic, he earned respect through his craft, but I think world of cinema is better off without any movie critic.
Rest in peace. One of my favorite quote of his:
“I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.”
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/
- bcgraham 14y ago>As a professional movie critic, he earned respect through his craft, but I think world of cinema is better off without any movie critic. Totally disagree - the critic, at his best, spotlights movies you would have missed, unlocks movies you would have found confusing, and rescues movies you would have hated. They facilitate love of cinema.
- webwanderings 14y agoI don't disagree with what you're saying, but you missed my context. The professional movie critic is not necessarily a good idea for moviegoers who are themselves fond of the craft of movies and are critics in themselves.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoMany of the great directors since the late 50's/60's have come from a background in film criticism. Analysis can help a lot. Criticism isn't exclusively about making value judgments.