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[unclematt]

Ebert is from Chicago. I love my city

 

[Ziffel]

That's cool unclematt. I love it here in Philly too.

And Richard Roeper is also from Chicago, as was Gene Siskel (although Siskel wrote for the Chicago Tribune, not the Sun-Times). I used to love that show when it was Siskel and Ebert. They are both fine critics and have likable personalities. And their debates and arguments had a delicious chemistry! Sad that Gene died so young (only 53, I think). I'm sure Rog misses him quite a lot.

 

[unclematt]

What do you think of Richard Roeper?

 

[Ziffel]

He's okay. I liked Siskel much better. Also, I think Roeper tends to be too lenient on films and gives too many a "thumbs up". But he's intelligent and makes some good points. I like Ebert a lot better also. The show itself is a fun show and I was taping it every week but for some reason they haven't been airing it here for the last two months or so.
I thought Siskel and Ebert was so fun that if they came out with a dvd for, say, the complete season of 1988, I'd probably purchase it!

 

[Ziffel]

The show itself is a fun show and I was taping it every week but for some reason they haven't been airing it here for the last two months or so.

Well I just visited the Ebert and Roeper site and found out two cool things:
(1) You can play their tv reviews of any movie (I played the ones for "Flight Plan" and "Elizabethtown" just now).
(2) You can search for where the show airs in your city. I put in Philadelphia and it says it's on midnight on Sundays. It had been on at 11am. I didn't realize it was now available at midnight. So I'll be able to tape the shows on a weekly basis again.

 

[erniebert1234ss]

I saw W & G Friday nite...

Here's my (early) review:

Wallace and Gromit are some of the funniest claymation characters in a "series" ever--Aardman is doing a swell job with them. The Curse of the Wererabbit, their latest movie, is WELL worth the wait! THis sucker's been in the making since before planning and production started on 2000's Chicken Run. Nick Park has pulled off the impossible with a panache only found in a Briton.

Wallace and Gromit have founded their newest enterprise: Anti-Pesto, a humane pest-control unit. They're doing a fantastic job. However, they're coming up onto a storage problem. So, Wallace decides to "rehabilitate" them--with predictably disastrous results. SO, without giving any kind of spoilers away, let's just say that Lady Tottingham's Gaston-like suitor, Victor (played so brilliantly by Ralph Fiennes), decides to kill this were-rabbit. So, Totty (played by Helena Bonham Carter) decides to let him. However, Totty cannot know what disastrous results would come of this. OK, so I cannot spoil the ending, but let's say that Victor is put in his place (rightfully) and that Totty has put her estate up as a bunny sanctuary. At the very end, a familiar voice (put into a rabbit of course), comes out, screaming "CHEESE!". Roll credits.

5 hunks of Swiss cheese out of 5.

Sorry for the "appropriate" rating system. I like to do that...

BJ

 

[unclematt]

Well I just visited the Ebert and Roeper site and found out two cool things:
(1) You can play their tv reviews of any movie (I played the ones for "Flight Plan" and "Elizabethtown" just now).
(2) You can search for where the show airs in your city. I put in Philadelphia and it says it's on midnight on Sundays. It had been on at 11am. I didn't realize it was now available at midnight. So I'll be able to tape the shows on a weekly basis again.

Glad to hear you will be getting you weekly dose of Ebert and Roeper

 

[ryhoyarbie]

Anybody hear that Garfield 2 comes out in the summer? As if the first one was bad enough......

ryan

 

[Skeeter Muppet]

Anyone here besides me looking forward to RENT coming out in a week?

-Kim

 

[JaniceFerSure]

Anyone here besides me looking forward to RENT coming out in a week?

-Kim

I am,should be good.

I also want to see: 'Walk the Line','Chronicles of Narnia','Harry Potter...','April's Shower','Memoirs of a Geisha'.