Again, Roger Ebert gets me to buy a film from beyond the grave.

[onehandle]

The Director's Cut of Watchmen is on sale on iTunes in HD, along with a number of other 'Sci-Fi' titles. Somehow, I missed it years ago. I bought the graphic novels back in the day.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 64%, so I wasn't sure.

Then I read Ebert's review, who gave it four out of four stars.

Sold.


I miss him so.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I miss him too, my dear onehandle...

He was such a great movie reviewer, and I also loved his political ideas.

Damn.

[Locut0s]

2. He was a great man...

Liberal, gentle to a fault, willing to share and communicate with his fans. He was of course a great writer too with insight into the movies that many reviewers lacked. I prefer his reviews from his earlier years as I feel he rather mellowed in his later years and started giving films too easy a pass but then it's in those years that we really got to see the amazing character this man had. I am speaking of course about the courageous and touching way he handled the cancer that first took his voice, then 1/2 his face, then his life. He was strong and courageous and HAPPY right to the end. Someone we can all learn a lot from!

[olddots]

3. He loved film so much

he constructively critiqued .