A Thank You to Roger Ebert
Apr. 2nd, 2010 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thetatianaDear Roger,
Thank you for a lifetime of great movie reviews. I woke up this morning for some reason realizing I needed to thank you for all the years you've been sharing with us your passion for movies. Some of my best family memories are of us all sitting around discussing movies after watching your show. You introduced us through the years to so many great films we would never have watched without your "thumbs up".
From the very beginning your enthusiasm always came through. What I loved about you is you never became jaded and satiated as so many movie reviewers do. It's apparent that being forced to see movies they don't want to watch and wouldn't have chosen on their own gets to them after a while and they gradually sink into bitter misery and only live for the joy of excoriating and disemboweling the unfortunate artists whose work they happen to encounter. =D You've never been like that.
You always show enthusiasm in the original Greek sense of being filled with God, with life and liveliness. I trust your opinion because even if we disagree, you're able to articulate your view so well that you end up converting me over to it. I love how you find something to love about so many movies. Other reviewers seem to turn up their noses at 90% of what they review and only approve of a tiny subset. Your infectious love of so many movies spreads the wonder, the appreciation, and the joy of movie-watching to your listeners and readers. Thank you so much for that!
Unlike most television personalities, you never come across as slick and packaged, either. You always give the impression of being a real person, like a friend, like someone we can identify with. I read that fantastic article about you that was on the web lately, from a source I've forgotten (sorry). I thought, yeah he's such a great guy, and then went on to read the next thing on my screen. But this morning I woke thinking I should totally write you and tell you how much your work has meant to me my whole life.
Recently I joined Netflix and I realize that over half the movies in my queue I knew I wanted to watch mainly because you introduced me to them and got me interested in seeing them. So I know this letter doesn't fit your criteria of the answer man question, but I just wanted to let you know, and I hope you won't mind. Neither of us is in the greatest shape lately, and there are never any guarantees how much longer we have to express appreciation to the people who've mattered in our lives. But here's hoping you get another few decades of sharing your love of movies with your viewers and readers, and that I'll be around to see you do it.
Sincerely,
Tatiana
Thank you for a lifetime of great movie reviews. I woke up this morning for some reason realizing I needed to thank you for all the years you've been sharing with us your passion for movies. Some of my best family memories are of us all sitting around discussing movies after watching your show. You introduced us through the years to so many great films we would never have watched without your "thumbs up".
From the very beginning your enthusiasm always came through. What I loved about you is you never became jaded and satiated as so many movie reviewers do. It's apparent that being forced to see movies they don't want to watch and wouldn't have chosen on their own gets to them after a while and they gradually sink into bitter misery and only live for the joy of excoriating and disemboweling the unfortunate artists whose work they happen to encounter. =D You've never been like that.
You always show enthusiasm in the original Greek sense of being filled with God, with life and liveliness. I trust your opinion because even if we disagree, you're able to articulate your view so well that you end up converting me over to it. I love how you find something to love about so many movies. Other reviewers seem to turn up their noses at 90% of what they review and only approve of a tiny subset. Your infectious love of so many movies spreads the wonder, the appreciation, and the joy of movie-watching to your listeners and readers. Thank you so much for that!
Unlike most television personalities, you never come across as slick and packaged, either. You always give the impression of being a real person, like a friend, like someone we can identify with. I read that fantastic article about you that was on the web lately, from a source I've forgotten (sorry). I thought, yeah he's such a great guy, and then went on to read the next thing on my screen. But this morning I woke thinking I should totally write you and tell you how much your work has meant to me my whole life.
Recently I joined Netflix and I realize that over half the movies in my queue I knew I wanted to watch mainly because you introduced me to them and got me interested in seeing them. So I know this letter doesn't fit your criteria of the answer man question, but I just wanted to let you know, and I hope you won't mind. Neither of us is in the greatest shape lately, and there are never any guarantees how much longer we have to express appreciation to the people who've mattered in our lives. But here's hoping you get another few decades of sharing your love of movies with your viewers and readers, and that I'll be around to see you do it.
Sincerely,
Tatiana
