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Come on, ban together, let's overthrow the country. >> protestants, people who sort of want a religion. >> we're real. we get down and get dirty. >> i was here when you were only a gleam in your mother's eye. >> i go back 6,000 years. somebody that has some god damn passion coursing through their veins. >> clase closed. >> anything. >> right. >> steve martin's new comedy roxanne. >> this week on siskel & ebert at the movies. >> you said it a little too fast. the holiday season is here, which means it's time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you coul...

Roger sees it in a much more positive way. it's a renaissance. it's a renaissance in film appreciation and film criticism. the roving reporters that he uses like on his blog, for example, and giving a critical birth to lots of other points of view. >> the passionate fan culture, or movie geek culture that exists on the internet, when people get really, really worked up, is something that the "siskel & ebert" show helped to seed. it follows from roger's understanding of criticism, which is a mode of conversation. it's the public square. >> again, it's allowing the fans to access the database of...

Cockpit have noticed you are on our flight, frankly, we both agree with you more than your partner, and we would be so honored if you would join us in the cockpit for a bit of the flight. gene knows that roger was really excited. he gets into the aisle and roger was a big guy then, he just kind of bounds down the aisle and gets ready to knock on the door of the cabin and you know, the flight attendants and people are horrified, and gene says, dear mr. ebert, we in the cockpit -- gotcha. >> and he finally tells gene siskel, you just hate me, you just don't like me. i mean, that relationship was...

>> i thought this movie was awful, dreadful, terrible, idiotic, unfunny, labored, forced, hateful. >> roger? what happened to your sense of humor? >> i don't think roger was by nature a fighter. but if you have a brother who likes to fight all the time, so then you learn how to fight. >> and gene had his number. gene knew the buttons to push and everything else. >> they're in a first-class cabin. gene's in one of the front rows. roger's behind him. and gene hears the same old stories over and over again. he writes a little note and he gives it to the flight attendant, said, would you pass this...

Vulgarizing film criticism. >> will anyone read this story? it has too many words and not enough pictures. does anyone read this magazine? every article in it wants to be a meal, not a mcnugget. is anyone reading film criticism? it lacks punch, the clips, the thumbs. i simply don't want people to think that what they have to do on tv is what i am supposed to do in print. i don't want junk food to be the only cuisine at the banquet. et cetera. i really did sound angry there, but it seemed to me the siskel-ebert effect was that a film was either good or bad, and the rest didn't matter so much. >...