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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
The thing about growing up near Chicago is that you don't always appreciate how remarkable it IS a world class city. It's just normal, it's what's there. Museums and sports and a great lake and great food and cultural events packing every calendar - it's all here, but what do you mean it isn't necessarily like this everywhere? Such was my experience growing up with Siskel & Ebert. I distinctly remember the opening credits - the upbeat music, two dueling newspaper delivery trucks dropping off copies of the Tribune and the Sun Times, and eventually showing the two stars of the show. For the next half hour, I would be transfixed by the tv as these two men squabbled about who was correct in their assessment of the week's new movies. It was verbal sparring, and it was often over my head, but they really seemed to know what they were talking about and they were so excited about it. That kind of passion left an impression. Then when I went to college in Urbana, Illinois, Ebert's hometown as well as his alma mater, and I really started to realize how special this duo was.
Opposable Thumbs gives a well-researched, thoughtful look at a relationship that spanned almost 23 years and fundamentally changed the way the American public came to view and think about the movies. Each of these men had remarkably different backgrounds both in terms of upbringing, education, and taste, and just when they each felt they were at the top of their game independently, the Chicago PBS station had an idea - why not see what happens when you put these two diametrically opposed men in the same room? I very much enjoyed this look at a slice of media history and an era gone by, and deeply respect the amount of care that went into this work for even though it may have just looked like a bunch of yelling to an audience, it was absolutely a labor of love. I give this book two thumbs up.
Opposable Thumbs gives a well-researched, thoughtful look at a relationship that spanned almost 23 years and fundamentally changed the way the American public came to view and think about the movies. Each of these men had remarkably different backgrounds both in terms of upbringing, education, and taste, and just when they each felt they were at the top of their game independently, the Chicago PBS station had an idea - why not see what happens when you put these two diametrically opposed men in the same room? I very much enjoyed this look at a slice of media history and an era gone by, and deeply respect the amount of care that went into this work for even though it may have just looked like a bunch of yelling to an audience, it was absolutely a labor of love. I give this book two thumbs up.
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I wrote a whole review of this and my app crashed. Neat. Anyway. I loved this and it made me want to watch movies and I’m too lazy to rewrite it all again. Matt Singer is great and Siskel and Ebert were the best and I wish film criticism was still central to pop culture and this smart and I miss The Dissolve. The end.
Amiable but overlong chronicle of Roger and Gene. Fun for those of is who were fans, but would have been fine as a long magazine article or one of those old Kindle singles.
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As a regular viewer of the various movie review programs starring Siskel and Ebert, this book was an enjoyable read. The chapter focused on the David Letterman appearances is especially fun to read. The book is well written and researched .
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