Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert is my favorite film reviewer and probably my favorite pop culture writer of any kind. I've been reading his reviews for about six year now and always find them extremely stimulating. Because of his awesome website (rogerebert.com) I've also been able to go into his archives and read his old reviews of my favorite films. He is probably the best at discussing movies out of anyone I know of. Even if I disagree with his opinion, I can usually tell if I'd want to see a movie based on his description of it. I just have huge respect for anyone who loves something enough to do it for fifty years, and does it so well.

Also on his site is a bi-weekly question/answer segment called "The Answer Man", in which you can ask Roger Ebert any film question you want and he will answer some of them online. I've sent him a few questions and had one of them answered once. I've read almost all of these segments over the last six years I've been reading Ebert. There are a lot of entertaining ones.

He recieved the following question on Friday. It is one of the most ridiculous ones I've seen.



Question: Y o dude, u missed out on "Disaster Movie," a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?
S.J. Stanczak, Chicago




Roger Ebert: Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?



I sincerely hope this corespondence continues.