My very brief encounter with Roger Ebert went like this. I was in high school and my dad and I were in an airport in Ohio (can't recall which one now) and we saw him walk by us. I remarked, loud enough for him to hear me, "Hey dad, that's Ebert!" He looked directly at me and gave me an almost nod and smile. It was simply a . . . yepp, without being cocky about anything.

When I got Limacher involved with iratefilms and he told me the Harry Brown story I was floored! I was jealous too, because while I didn't always agree with Ebert on a lot of films, I always admired his ability to say what he liked and stick to that, whether you liked it or not. He also taught me that tenacity really matters in this industry.

I'm gonna miss him on twitter and elsewhere. He was a real Icon, as Limacher said. Film just lost a large thumb.

MUCH better, H-Man. Incidentally, here is my review on NerdSpan. http://www.nerdspan.com/movie-review-oz-the-great...

I have heard people knocking Franco for "looking out of place and lost" in his scenes . . . uhm, that is EXACTLY how he should be in a magical land filled with strange creatures. I think his aloofness was by choice not by mistake.

Yepp, I saw it before the creators were forced to take it down . . . bunch of wimps, can't even swallow their medicine! It was well edited too, for something so ad-hoc'd. Fuck 'em, they are just painted clowns, here to amuse us, and they best never forget it!

He's a Hollywood hypocrite - tired of his double-standards on gun control. A movie called Bullet to the Head . . . seriously? Strike one, Sly, strike one.

You must admit the entrance of Daryl Gates was an interesting detail. I won't touch the accuracy issue of many films these days . . . because Hollywood rarely gets it right anyway.

Finally caught this myself! It's on NF Instant Watch, and I highly recommend checking it out tonight! Or wait til you can get a bunch of your gamer friends to watch it . . . even funnier! Really loved the characters, got immersed in the zany story and the acting was better than you might think for an indy film. David Limacher got this review right!

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Interesting stuff, Ryan, thank you for sharing. What I think is fascinating as a film critic is that Day-Lewis played a character in another film that was directly involved in the Draft Riots in NYC. Did people forget that?

Ask the hundreds of thousands of people currently signing secession petitions with the White House today. I wager a few of them, disregarding the slavery issue, might consider Lincoln a tyrant.

Not a problem, Ryan, and thank you for sharing your comment. Hope to hear what you thought after you see it too! :)