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mkuller

In Reply to: RE: "Life Itself:" bio of super-critic Roger Ebert. SPOILER posted by tinear on July 25, 2014 at 09:00:17

...including The Daily Beast disagree with you - they ranked ranked the 11th best film so far in 2014.

Gave it 2 enthusiastic thumbs up.
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I think it's safe to say few critics will pan a film about the guy who pretty much made their careers. It's - tinear 13:11:17 07/25/14 (2)
a depressing, semi-exploitive film about death, dying, suffering.
A far better title would have been "Death Itself."
This was a celebration of slow-mo death, not life.
Unless, of course, one thinks eating out of a tube and lying in a bed, immobilized, for seven years is "living."
In other words, it's a film that's supposed to be ennobling because it shows a human being wasting away yet soldiering on.
Nothing very unusual in that; most people wait till the bitter end, suffering just like Roger.
Watching a famous person undergo such misery TO ME isn't any more interesting than watching anyone else's death throes.
Mind, I have always been a huge fan of Ebert's reviews, his "Everyman" approach; I also thought that this film would have been better served by having it center on both Ebert and Siskel and that relationship. To me, that was the story that was unusual and needed more illumination.
- I don't agree... - mkuller 13:35:23 07/25/14 (1)
  ...critics won't pan it because he was an important colleague.
  
  But since I haven't seen it, I don't have an opinion about the film.
  
  Ebert was always my favorite since his days on PBS.
  - Ebert was the best at selling his review, his words were so convincing, but I often disagreed with him - PhilJ 14:19:41 07/25/14 (0)
    the PBS days were the best
    
    Ebert and Siskel were so new and fresh
    
    RIP both
RE: Most critics... - Chris from Lafayette 10:32:57 07/25/14 (0)
Although my wife and I generally had a favorable impression of the film, we did think that the director spent way too much time with the shots in the hospital, even though a lot of the other personal stuff in the film was interesting (e.g., his foibles and petty jealousies). And tin does make a good point that much more of the time could profitably have been spent discussing Roger's aesthetics and criticism overall.
97% on the tomatometer. (nt) - Jack G 09:41:34 07/25/14 (0)
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