Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi- ... 2338.story

Sad, but not altogether unexpected, news.

I know around here he wasn't liked for his negative Godzilla reviews in the past. However I can't say G'84 wasn't deserving of it's ass ripping. He did like Gamera and the Mighty Peking Man. =)

Anywho, he was the only critic I would read. I grew up watching him on TV and I have a lot of memories of that.

He was also a firm defender of movie content and how it wasn't the cause for mass shootings in the US.

I will miss him. I hope when we all take a dirt nap we can still watch movies in the afterlife.

^Exactly. Certain critics I read knowing that they tend to prioritize the same things I do, others I read knowing that their priorities are completely different from my own. As long as their reasoning makes sense, I am interested in it. One has to look beyond the thumbs up or thumbs down.

Of course, his views on why video games cannot be art never made the slightlest bit of sense to me, and I'm not even a video-game-playing-type-person (which I believe is the phrase by which they self-identify).

I'll miss his caption contest attempts at the New Yorker. This was his last one, a couple of days ago... http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/374th-n ... tion-.html

Grew up with him and Gene... I'll miss him.

He was able to bring a lot of movies to the mainstream back before most reviewers would. If you look back at the early 80s, this guy changed movies by reviewing everything from independent films, slasher films and major studio films. He brought a lot of attention to directors that normally would have slipped through the cracks. Whether you agreed with him or film critics in general you can't deny their contribution to the film industry and we're so much better for it today.