{"id":87,"date":"2005-02-20T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/20\/goodbye-roger-ebert\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T03:41:59","slug":"goodbye-roger-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/20\/goodbye-roger-ebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Roger Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago I used to trust Roger Ebert&#8217;s movie reviews. I&#8217;ve Tivo&#8217;ed Ebert and Siskel and then Ebert and Roeper for as long as I&#8217;ve had a Tivo. Well, with his review of Spiderman 2, I&#8217;m done. The Jacuzzi he got for saying what he did about the movie had better be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/tvplex.go.com\/buenavista\/ebertandroeper\/050103.html\">EBERT AND ROEPER&#8217;S TOP TEN OF 2004<\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s some exurpts from his review (this is an audio clip from the TV show)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number 4 film on my list is Spider-Man 2&#8230; I&#8217;m as amazed as you are that spidey made my top 10 list. This was a really good film. <strong>The best super hero movie ever made<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on! VC and I watched it and and we&#8217;ve got different movie tastes but had the same problems with the movie. Comments like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Ok, so you spend your evenings dangling from the tops of buildings from ropes. You have a rope failure that nearly kills you. What do you do? Dangle some more! Oh no! Another rope failure! Dooph!\n<\/li>\n<li>Oh man, when she opens up that pizza box, the one that Spidey has been tossing around for the last 10 minutes, it is gonna be GROSS! That&#8217;s gonna be pretty funny! Wait, hey&#8230;. we didn&#8217;t get to see the pizza!\n<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t conducting nuclear fusion tests in a downtown manhattan apartment just a little&#8230; unwise?\n<\/li>\n<li>Ok, so, you built these really friggin cool, giant mechanical octopus arms that would gleefully take control of your brain if proper safeguards weren&#8217;t taken&#8230; And you&#8217;re telling me that the only thing between you and oblivion is&#8230;. a little blue light on the back of your neck?!?!?!?  Dude, you&#8217;re asking for it!\n<\/li>\n<li>The entire movie was all about how Peter was totally broke, failing school, and couldn&#8217;t keep a job because he was busy being a vigilante&#8230; Now that MJ and Peter are going to live happily ever after, how are they pay the rent?\n<\/li>\n<li>A new Green Goblin? That&#8217;s coo. Wait, the movie&#8217;s over. Ughf. A sequel.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, enough with the critisisms&#8230; you get the idea. The important thing here is that this was not, by <strong>any<\/strong> stretch of the imagination &#8220;the best super hero movie ever made.&#8221; A legitimate review would have been something like, &#8220;A fun ride. Peter is shown to be a real hero with real-life problems. Social elements are stressed over super-powers. Fairly true to the comic, though a lot of details are skipped over for brevity. Very nice effects, ok story, mediocre execution, somehow, it dragged a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking Ebert and Roeper off my Tivo Season Pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago I used to trust Roger Ebert&#8217;s movie reviews. I&#8217;ve Tivo&#8217;ed Ebert and Siskel and then Ebert and Roeper for as long as I&#8217;ve had a Tivo. Well, with his review of Spiderman 2, I&#8217;m done. The Jacuzzi he got for saying what he did about the movie had better be worth it. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}