January 16, 200619 yr comment_4321677 I mean, I could see his point with his first argument, and at least he was trying to make something intelligent. Now he's degraded to the petty bickering you'd see in elementry.
January 16, 200619 yr comment_4321693 Ebert pulling out the cliched "gamers are losers who spend all their time in the basement" line just proves what I suspected: He doesn't want something he understands (movies) to be lumped in with something he doesn't (games).
January 16, 200619 yr comment_4326718 spending too much time in the basement with a joy stick.Like Ben Stein's son?
January 17, 200619 yr comment_4326892 I'm still interested in authorian control. What about Choose Your Own Adventure Books or interactive forms of literature for children?
January 17, 200619 yr comment_4327036 Ebert does reply to a lot of the mail he gets, so asking him flat out might not hurt any.
January 17, 200619 yr comment_4327135 I'm still interested in authorian control. What about Choose Your Own Adventure Books or interactive forms of literature for children? i'd say no. the person reading makes decisions that have a direct impact on what the book is and does, even if the options are limited. any kind of audience "control" in literature is generally limited to interpretation. you can make the character of the nameless youth in 'the red badge of courage' MEAN whatever you want, but you can't make him run away in the final battle.
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