Can't say as I agreed with him all that much, but to deny his impact on the world of movie criticism is foolish. Here's a loving obit from the Chicago Sun-Times, his home base.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1732 ... ancer.html
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trackerben wrote:I for one will miss his movie reviews. He was good at explaining how a movie was setup to affect you, and pinpointing where the theme worked or else sucked. Sometimes his reviews would be infested with his political opinions like the anti-Bush rants of the 2000s, but he sure knew how to write.
stmurphey wrote:What a strange topic to make your first post in. (゚、 。`フIts sad to see him pass away I used to watch him as a kid weather he voted a movie thumbs up or down. :(
I didn't even know who he was until there was some minor controversy when he insisted that video games aren't art (an argument I will not abide here, as it has no place), and of course, being an avid gamer, this made me rather incensed. I decided to check out his body of work, and to my dismay, I found that I actually quite enjoyed his literate, informed, and amusingly dry style of writing, which frustrated me because his view on video games seemed so backward and ignorant by comparison.