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[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ Roger Ebert] (1942-2013) was [[Film]] reviewer-in-chief at the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' since [[The Sixties|1967]]. In itself, that would make him important as the elder statesman of film criticism.
In 1975, Ebert teamed up with [[Gene Siskel]], reviewer-in-chief at the ''Chicago Tribune'', to present a film review program called ''Sneak Previews'' on the local PBS station. The program went to national syndication in 1978; in 1982 [[Siskel and Ebert]] moved to a new network and a new but very similar program called ''At The Movies with Siskel and Ebert'' (or vice versa). Unexpectedly, this made him one of the two most important movie critics in America. Because the show was televised, [[Rule of Perception|many more Americans saw it]] than read the reviews in the newspapers; because Ebert and Siskel had credentials in real newspapers in a major city first, and didn't review every movie favorably, they could be taken more seriously than most other movie reviewers on television. Siskel and Ebert's passive-aggressive chemistry was the stuff of legend. It was often thought that due their occasionally hostile on-screen presence when they disagreed, that the two hated each other. However, both considered the other a close friend, even if their relationship was competitive by nature. In fact, on the tenth anniversary of Siskel's death in 2009, Ebert posted a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207203819/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/i_remember_gene.html touching remembrance] of his friend on his blog.
When Siskel [[Author Existence Failure|died in 1999]], Ebert kept on the show with guest hosts until it was settled that it would be ''At The Movies with Ebert and Roeper'', with Richard Roeper, another ''Chicago Sun-Times'' critic. This made him the most important living movie critic in America. The show ended in 2008 partially because his throat cancer was preventing him from doing most of the episodes for over a year and a half. (To do film reviews on television, you have to be able to speak). Sadly, due to a few surgeries that successfully eradicated his cancer, Ebert had lost the ability to speak entirely and part of his lower jaw had been removed. By the end he "spoke" via handwritten notes and a computer text-to-speech program. In 2010, a Scottish company had created a voice similar to Ebert's own for him to use as his new "voice", using his DVD commentaries (and not his tv show, since there was always background movie noise and Gene Siskel/Richard Roeper interrupting him) and other similar recordings. Furthermore, his last treatments were so tough going with so much physical cost, he had vowed that if the cancer reemerges, he would let it take its course unto death.
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He was one of the major opponents to Colorization. He often likes [[Deliberately Monochrome]] films, and ones that were monochrome because of when they were made, because of the light and shadow effects. He also protested censorship in the name of [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]] or avoiding the dreaded X/NC-17 rating. While he advocated for years for a properly copyrighted '''A''' rating to replace X since that sound more respectable, he had hoped NC-17 would become a respectable alternative, and was disappointed when it didn't. He was critical of what he sees as an overuse of 3D technology in recent movies.
He was screenwriter for a notoriously bad film, ''[[Beyond the Valley of
Gained a bit of flak from the gamer community when [https://web.archive.org/web/20111010001841/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html he commented video games not being an art form], but [https://web.archive.org/web/20100811003526/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/07/okay_kids_play_on_my_lawn.html he eventually came around] and at least decided he was not in a position to judge them. Despite that episode, he was considered as the most [[One of Us]] of major critics, as he admired [[Anime|Japanese animated film]] and had an incredible knowledge of science fiction, which was among his favorite genres. While he claims ignorance to a lot of TV shows due to his heavy schedule of writing and watching films, he's found time to become a fan of the WWE, ''[[South Park]]'', and ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
Also a master at uncovering the [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]] -- for years, he would spend a week at the University of Colorado's World Affairs Conference dissecting a film frame-by-frame with an audience's help to reveal small details.
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Now we have his [[Roger Ebert Great Movies List|great movies list]] and his list of [[Roger Ebert Most Hated Film List|his least favorite movies]].
Incidentally, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011143706/http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm described several tropes decades before TV Tropes even came into existance].
The website of his last show can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022043219/http://www.ebertpresents.com/ here] and there's an archive of the old ''Siskel & Ebert'' episodes [http://siskelandebert.org/ here].
After a long fight with cancer, he died on April 4, 2013.
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* [[Fruit Cart]]
* [[Idiot Plot]]
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=== Ebert had supplied us with quotes for the following: ===▼
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
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