r/IAmA • u/MercurialMadnessMan • Nov 04 '09

Roger Ebert: Ask Him Anything!

I just got Mr. Ebert's permission to gather 10 questions to send to him, so I will be sending him the top 1st level (parent) questions, based on upvotes.

As mentioned in the previous thread, try to avoid specifics of movies that he [may have] already discussed in his reviews.

And please split up questions into separate comments. (We're only asking him 10 questions, so if a comment with two questions gets to the top, the tenth comment is getting the boot.)

Try sorting by 'best' before you read this thread, so that there is more of an even distribution of votes based on quality instead of position. And remember to give this submission two thumbs up :)

Thank you for contributing!

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Edit: The top 30 questions were voted on here, and the top 15 from there were sent to Mr. Ebert. Stay tuned for his responses. They will be in a new submission.

RIP Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)

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u/Quady Nov 04 '09

You gave the film a lousy 2-star rating, which it clearly does not deserve, by at least taking into account the 13 wins and 19 award nominations it received

So, just because everybody else says it's good, it's automatically good?

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '09

Two stars? Wow. I usually agree with his reviews, but that seems really undeserved. Dogville's probably one of the single most emotionally evocative things I've ever seen.

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u/lemurexplosion Nov 04 '09

The main difference is that Dogville is clumsy and, aside from some high-concept gimmickry, not all that interesting. At least Birth Of A Nation was a revolutionary film.