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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77
When I was growing up and my friends and I or my family and I would watch Siskel & Ebert we would always laugh about how wrong they were. Times have changed.
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I didn't laugh at Roger and Gene's opinions, but I felt that I knew them so well, that I could discount or enhance their biases and tailor their review to my own opinion. There were things I knew they wouldn't like that I could be fairly sure would appeal to me and vice versa. Also, their divergences were such that how they stood in relation to one another told me more about the film than their words could.
The opposition was very informative. I still read Roger's reviews now, but without someone there whom I'm familiar with to go up against, I can't tell how closely his views will align with mine, the way I once could.
Michele