I tweeted this query last week when the movie came out and no review from the vocal game hating movie critic appeared, and now a second week's presented itself, his new reviews show up online on Thursdays, and there's still no Scott Pilgrim review to be seen.Am I missing something? He's certainly not the type these days to leave any opinion unspoken (untweeted at least), so if he's not reviewing it for some reason it'd seem like he'd have made that reason public already. I'm curious what the take would be from someone who's made such a ruckus as of late about how video-games can't be art, et cetera. I wanna hear what he'd have to say on this movie, be it positive or negative, I don't care. Just something, man!
And yet, silence persists. What's the deal? Anybody got a guess?
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I don't think he reviews every new release anymore, at least not promptly. I think he really only reviews movies he attends small critic screenings for, just because it's harder for him.
Didn't review Expendables either.
I hadn't even noticed there being no Expendables review; good point RJ. I hope he eventually gets to see the film then if he indeed hasn't; I'm (obviously) chomping at the bit to hear what he thinks of it. Knowing his reaction to nearly every horror film I've ever loved - head-shaking hatred - I think he'll probably come down on the side baffled by the film, but I usually enjoy his baffled reviews most of all.
It's kind of hilarious to think that Universal screened this movie for pretty much every single person on Earth, including holding some screenings directly up the assholes of online opinion leaders, and yet maybe didn't screen it for Roger Ebert.
I wondered the same thing. Turns out he's not full time right now -- he's on leave to write his memoirs (see the bottom of his latest Answer Man column), and so has cut back his reviews. Still, it's sad that he found time to review Eat Pray Love, but not Scott Pilgrim.
Yeah he has mostly reviewed smaller pics. The most recent mainstream movie he reviewed was eat, pray, love. He even skipped dinner for Schmucks and The Other Guys.
A Ebert review of Scott Pilgrim would be oh so cool. I value his opinion bunches. At The Movies recentley ended and Ebert is the only original thing we have left of it. If it's any consolation, ATM gave it a "see it"!
I found a cached twitter reponse from Ebert that gave it 2 thumbs up.
I doubt 'Anonymous' found any such review on Twitter from a verified Roger Ebert. But boy howdy, you Scott Pilgrim fans just won't shut the hell up about your precious little friggin' fanboy fantasy film, willya? One infatuated nebbish facing what should be certain death is dumb enough. That he doesn't die makes it dumber. That the whole movie's just a tie-in to comic book culture completely solidifies it as an hour and 45 minutes of crap that a guy like Roger Ebert doesn't want to lose out of his life. Ooh, the onscreen version of you fights off all the big bad bullies by his own true-hearted self - video-game style - and (surprise) gets the girl. You'd swear Kubrick was still alive.
Seeing as how this post's reaching a year old at this point, I don't think we've had much trouble shutting up about it, reverandflash. You're the one still talking about it.
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