Reviews - Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer

4.07 AVERAGE

karkarwitch's review against another edition

3.75

informative inspiring medium-paced

I really enjoyed this book and how informative it was. The hidden gems section at the end was also great as a film lover myself.

rhoelle's review against another edition

5.0

I watched virtually every Siskel and Ebert program from the beginning, have re-watched almost all of them since on YouTube, seen nearly all their outside appearances, heard them on radio, and read nearly everything written about them, and yet this author still found new things to reveal about them and their show. Hats off to Matt Singer!

One error, though. He states that the only time one of them changed their minds was the time Ebert got Siskel to reverse on the movie Broken Arrow. But that's not true. Ebert also changed his mind once, on The World According to Garp. I was so astonished when that happened that I have always remembered it.

The only possible complaint one could have about this book is that there isn't more, more, more. What all that might be I'm not sure exactly, but I would have liked to have seen at least one of their famous crosstalks (debates) in full, just so that readers who haven't seen the show could read an example of what it was like.