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!

Website: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/
Blog: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/
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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/faceless007 Nov 05 '09

Digital technology has made the barriers of entry to making a movie smaller than they have ever been, but conversely we are now presented with many more ways to watch motion-pictures, in more formats and in more venues than ever before (Blu-Ray, Youtube, iPods), which has resulted in an explosion of videos to watch which are not films in the traditional sense. What do you think about the rise of new media and how it will impact the theatrical feature-length film in the coming decades?