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I am fairly new to all this but I have decided that THE GUY IS A DUDE:

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/fyi/teachers.offcampus/11/30/richard.roeper/story.roeper.jpg

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Like last night, when Ebert said that the first 30 seconds of D.E.B.S. is funny, and he said "that's like saying you enjoyed the napkin at a bad restaurant"!

haha!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

adam, please.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

no seriously!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd...kind of still like to see D.E.B.S. anyway.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

To see how it compares with Sugar & Spice.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~moha0117/sonatine.JPG

― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes Ade I like Sonatine.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd trust a napkin at a restaurant to review movies before I trust that fuckhead!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

i like him!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

You think the ending of HEAT is good!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

He's pretty annoying but I see what he's trying to do.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

ME or ROEPER?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I like him, he seems very reasonable and occasionally drops a pretty good zinger.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

He is admirably un-liberal with his upward-pointing thumb. So he's a little smug, who isn't?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

He HAS some of the worst taste known to mankind! He's also an idiot!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

adam, this time you've gone too far!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I saw Ebert in SF last week. Doing a talk at Stacey's.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Ebert looks pretty crappy lately. All of the color seems to be bleached out of his face.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Ebert's taste also seems to have gotten worse since hanging out with Roeper.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Who or what are we comparing him to? He's a smarter dresser than Ebert. Probably has less cowlicks than Rosenbaum. Might be able to do the sliding thumb-removal trick better than Sarris...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm basically comparing him to any other popular tv movie critic. I think that's fair.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

That would pretty much be Ebert, then... and using the word "critic" fairly loosely.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

That's not much of a comparison (I can't name another TV critic right now.) I also dispute that Roeper is popular with anyone. But either way he's significantly worse than Siskel was and not even half as good as most of the people they had sitting in for Siskel after he died. He is better than Michael Medved, but that's not saying much.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.herzbube-mit-zwei-damen.de/spinoff/ropers.jpg

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

TS: Roeper vs Medved

(IOW, FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

but my favorite tv film critic is this guy

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/elsewhere/images/2003/feb4/rosen.jpg

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Minneapolis TV critics repazent!

http://images.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_1695215447/lg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Medved might be a reactionary twerp, but at least his approach to discussing films makes sense compared to Roeper, who I still can't even get a read on (mostly because there's not much to read).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

He's also an idiot!

No, he's criticism for people who don't 'get' criticism. He's pretty clearly smarter than he acts.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't buy that for a minute.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

No, he's criticism for people who don't 'get' criticism.

No, that's:

http://www.angrysimon.com/pictures/1.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ROEPER IS GODAWFUL and if any of you fools ever had to read his stuff in the Sun-Times you'd agree with me. What's even worse than his film "criticism"? HIS GODAWFUL POLITICS/SOCIETY COLUMNS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thesimpsons.stopklatka.pl/bohaterowie/img/miastowi_smithers.gif

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Interesting. Neither Ebert nor Roeper are members of the BFCA.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

He's pretty clearly smarter than he acts.

No, and Hstencil is right about his Sun-Times columns. You'd think that if he was really smart, and was just flexing for the TV show, that his columns would be totally illuminating. Guess what? It's USA Today bullshit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

hstencil beat me to it

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

actually i've read much better journalism/criticism in USA TODAY. Roeper isn't fit to be a middle school paper's lead writer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I love ilx CONDEMNATION, it's like he's turned into hitler or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

If most people on ILX would like to consider themselves social critics, and Roeper is committing what could be considered the mass genocide of critical perception on a weekly basis, the hyperbole isn't misplaced, I guess.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm pleased you all like Roeper like I do.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

But I prefer bitching about Armond or Medved or people who have an angle.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

spencer, at least hitler didn't murder the english language.

KIDDING.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Hitler!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Where?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

under the bed!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

get the broom!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

D.E.B.S.!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

i actually do think he's smarter than he appears, but he's pretty devoted to his just-a-regular-guy schtick and i'm not sure that speaks any better for him than if he really were just a knucklehead.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

look, get this straight: one of these days justice will be done. and on that day Roeper will be pulled from his home, tied to the back of a horse and dragged through the streets where we can spit on him and kick stones at his naked body, and he will be ripped asunder for our enjoyment.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

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A friend and I nearly peed ourselves watching Roeper splutter over the Oshima film "Taboo." Roeper was in classic gay-panic mode re its homoerotic samurai content, and Ebert was failing to calm him down.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Was Ebert trying to calm him down with a tender, but masculine, back rub?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

ha roeper + oshima = good times

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

So he's a little smug, who isn't?

OTM

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

It is indeed the Eisenstein Ivan. The accompanying chapter comes with the requisite swipes at the "swishy" male characters.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

that is indeed the same Ivan the Terrible (xpost)

Eric brings up something I only noticed recently, re-reading those Medved Bros. books--they're homophobic as all fuck.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

If Roeper was just "a little smug" he wouldn't provoke this level of ire. The man is a complete nitwit.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Yep. Ed Wood gets more flack for wearing ladies' sweaters than any of his directorial choices. It's been so long since I looked at the book, I can't remember what his objections to Three on a Couch (of all Jerry Lewis films) were, but I wonder if it has anything to do with Lewis' extended drag sequences, as opposed to the mere "drag cameos" in other Lewis films.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

You OWN Medved's books, Matos?!!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Also, I still want to see Losey's Assassination of Trotsky.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

of course! they were HUGE influences on me in high school. (The 50 Worst Movies of All Time, Hollywood Hall of Shame and Golden Turkey Awards, not the later craptastic shield-our-children-from-the-shame ones.) my paper did a good profile of Michael Medved a couple years ago, between my stints here: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0320/film-medved.php

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I wish more film critics were actually like Jay Sherman.

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

note Medved Bros., not Medved. the three I have (well, two--still missing HHoS, still looking) are co-written w/his brother Harry.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I will admit I actually liked Medved when he did the "Golden Turkeys" on Sneak Previews on PBS (not enough to buy his books though-esp. after realizing what a right-wing kook he was.) As soon as he replaced Neil Gabler though WOAH boy was he terrible. He needed to focus his "talents" on tearing apart goofy b-movies and stay away from everything else.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://cache.eonline.com/Gossip/Answer/Images/210.ebert.roeper.081104.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

It's great that Judi Dench has finally found someone.

― the black hand, Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Roeper sometimes reminds me of Jonathan Franzen:

http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/art/franzen_j.05-01-03.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

somebody's got a cruuuuUUUUUUUUUuuuuuush!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

he sort of reminds me of loudon wainwright iii, or will ferrell.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Am, I think that's the first time anyone's ever typed that sentence.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

The real best tv movie critic
http://www.novatocommunity.sutterhealth.org/images/wahl_jan.jpg

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell is that, Bella Abzug?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jan Wahl.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

His defense of Crash makes Roger Ebert look like André Bazin.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I dressed as Roeper for Halloween last year and my friend put flour in his hair and went as Ebert. Least recognizable halloween costumes ever...

Mario and Luigi won the costume contest ;(

― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

jan wahl needs her hat stuffed up her ass

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i hardly even know her

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

There was a woman who did movie reviews on the ABC overnight news who I quite liked.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Their video picks of the week:

Ebert: The 400 Blows, Munich
Roeper: A Day without a Mexican, Rumor Has It

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see his girlfriend at the howard stern film fest? shes like 19 and hot.

― city of gyros (chaki), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, you are a roffle-matic this weekend.

― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

god, roeper is so hot.

also, DEBS was such an awesome movie

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guessed the plot of A Day without a Mexican before I imdb'd it (and you will too).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

wait, which thread has miccio's hilarious ebert/burns-roeper/smithers dialogue if not this one??

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Roeper once did a frame-by-frame analysis of As Good As it Gets at a local high school.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

did he point out todd solondz on the bus

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

the roeper/ebert dialogue was on the Ebert hates rollerball! thread.

The poster for Terence Malick's The New World at our store has a solitary pull quote.

"The Best Romantic Epic Since Titanic"
--Richard Roeper

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

A Chicago film critic was ego-surfing and discovered that I'd said he was a dick at a party we were both at a couple years ago:

"I wonder what party I was such a dick at... Thanks for the words."

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...)

― and what (ooo), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc rolls with a rough crowd

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think its fair to say youre no longer bi-curious when youve had roepers dick in your party

― and what (ooo), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. It wasn't Roeper. Actually, Gear, I think you know who it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

r853nb@um? pr1de??

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

The latter.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

i hate that guy

― gear (gear), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't David Cross say Scott Stapp told him "thanks for the words" in some bit?

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you know Rosenbaum. Always dicking up parties.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Could happen.

http://www.cinemaparallel.com/rosenbaum.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like what might happen if Christgau let himself go.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

the last 30 months have been the stupidest in human history & this is the stupid nadir https://t.co/7wyqHwk5my
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 30, 2018

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:47 (seven years ago)

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