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Roger Ebert's Review

posted 9 years ago by krispykremes
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SPOILERS

Did anyone else make the mistake of reading Roger Ebert's review before watching Super? I don't if it was deliberate or accidental but he spoils Ellen Page's death blatantly right near the beginning of his review. What a joke.

"Maybe writer-director James Gunn intended it as a joke, but after the camera lingers on the young heroine with a third of her face blown off, it's hard to laugh."

I quite understand that this could all be seen as an ironic commentary on audience expectations; when Ellen Page of "Juno" stars in a movie, we don't much expect to see her brains dripping."

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/super-2011

Why would he reveal that in his review yet not tagging it with a Spoiler tag.

[–] fluffchop 9 years ago

He sounds like a dick.

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[–] GorillazButter 9 years ago

He did the same exact thing with Kick-Ass and sure it was a character you could predict dieing but he even wrote how it happened. He didn't understand these types of movies so he didn't mind spoiling them.

Very childish. I don't understand why so many looked up to him or cared for his opinion. He often confused character names, motivations, plots lines, etc.

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[–] Smokey_T 8 years ago

Ebert was usually miles off, and phoned in his reviews.

[–] therefdotcom 9 years ago

"Did anyone else make the mistake of reading Roger Ebert's review before watching Super?"

nah, i hated ebert. never understood the appeal he had on some people.

[–] micirisi 9 years ago

I didn't make that mistake. Early on I felt that Ebert had too many Hollywood "friends" and that his reviews were often partial thus unreliable. I did however really enjoy the TV show with Siskel and the bantering amongst the two regarding films.

I don't fault him for this egregious spoiler since Ebert was terminally ill at that time. Who knows, maybe someone else wrote the review? Spoilers are also relative. I have a friend who loves movies but is loathe to know anything at all about the film prior to viewing. Don't ask me how he selects a film to watch. Myself, a major spoiler makes no difference since I have CRS. (Can't Remember S@#t)

RIP, Roger Ebert.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[–] solmaquina 9 years ago

I did as it was the summarisation quote they used on Rotten Tomatoes (though, it has since been swapped for another).

I've never forgiven the guy.

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[–] ac_rulz_mf 9 years ago

See, the irony is that this thread has now spoiled the movie for me. It's okay, it's what I get for going on a message board to a movie that is 5 years old.