Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Roger Ebert's Blog
Roger Ebert became world famous for his "Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down" TV show with Gene Siskel back in the 1980s. I kind of hate that model of film criticism, but his writing has much more depth. He has been engaged for almost a decade with a battle with cancer. In the last few years, he has been more productive than ever, more than a little due to his blog. He covers all sorts of material on it, and it's really compelling stuff. I'm posting a link to his "Best movies of the 2000s". Number 1, Synechdoche, NY.
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I found Ebert’s explanation of the movie interesting especially the part about insight. His comparison of Caden to how some choose to act in reality using different personas made me think about the movie in a different way. However, as interesting as Ebert makes it sound, I stand by my original statements about Synecdoche, New York and how much I disliked it. Ebert says “Those who felt the film was disorganized or incoherent might benefit from seeing it again”. I disagree, like I said this summer, “I have no desire to ever see that movie again even if it tells me the meaning of life the second time around”. I do agree with his choices of The Hurt Locker, Almost Famous and definitely City of God which everyone should see.
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