Two days ago, Roger Ebert, just put up a blog at the Chicago Sun Times, announcing that he is stepping down from reviewing movies for a while because his cancer came back. Two days later, Roger, sadly passed away all of a sudden. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think that Roger knew that death was coming for him, this was just his way of preparing for it. In his blog post, “Leave of Presence”, you can tell that he was very careful with his writing so the people wouldn’t be suspicious of what is about to come. He tried his best in that blog post, not to upset people.
Like I said before, love him or hate him, he is an influential movie critic, and legend. I used to watch his show, “At the Movies”, with Gene Siskel, all the time, when I was younger. I’ve read his reviews in the papers daily, and I would still follow him on a regular basis, until now. Like I said before, there will be nobody else like him. I didn’t agree with all his movie reviews. He gave some negative reviews of some of the movies that I liked, and he said a lot of stuff I disagreed with, but that’s why he always got my respect. He was honest, intelligent, and he wrote the best reviews better than anybody out there. Nobody will be able to top what he did.
From this point on, every time I do a review on a new film, I’m going to give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down. In honor of Roger. Roger is survived by his wife, Chaz Hammelsmith. Roger Ebert was 70 years old.
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