Why not Siskel?


It seems to be me he was the one with more intelligence and taste. He died relatively young, so Ebert had a longer career but I would personally be more interested in a documentary about Siskel. Just my two cents.

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Ebert ultimately had a greater impact than Siskel. Perhaps if Siskel had lived longer into the DVD and Internet era, but with Roger's great social media presence, the fact that he maintained a highly active blog (that he always interacted with readers on), and his numerous books, it seems obvious why he's the more impacting of the two (although I liked Siskel as well).

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Good question. I think it's been too long for Gene ... he died so young. Roger was the "bigger" sellout though as well. I really got to dislike him and disrespected his reviews for the last 10 years or more of his life.

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YES!

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I think Roger did more schmoozing and drinking, whoring, whatever with all these connected people.
I liked Gene too, probably better as a person. In the early Sneak Previews I agreed more with Roger,
but I grew to not really like him and in the last decade or so I thought he was on the take or working
for the film studios he was so tolerant of crap movies.






1) UnWatchable 2)Watchable,ButBad 3)Decent,SeeOnce 4)Good,Repeat&Recommend 5)Great,Classic

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