I love Roger Ebert and am so sad about his illness and that he can no longer do the show — in addition to the impact he's had on film critique, he's amazingly intelligent and thoughtful. Even his most straightforward movie reviews were well thought out.

At the very least, I'm glad he's still able to write, as his written reviews for the Sun-Times used to be the first thing I looked up online after I saw a movie!

Ebert is a great critic, one of my go-to people for honest film reviews. Like Geek, I'm sad about his illness, but happy that he'll be continuing to write.

One of the great pioneers of television film critiquing. He will be greatly missed on the small screen.

But Ebert will continue to be an insightful and entertaining reviewer, in print.

Cheers~ Grantz

I loved him so much on TV. Yeah, at least he'll still be writing...

I actually felt devastated when I heard about Roger Ebert's illness originally, and he was hospitalized. My entire life, he's been doing movie reviews that I've read and watched, and I have always enjoyed them.

However, the number one thing I will always remember is that when I was in college, I was working on a project that in part involved researching/hunting down the answers to some very difficult film "trivia" questions. It wasn't so much a trivia quiz as a test of our research skills. The professor explained that he knew no one would get them all, but we should document our research efforts and try any means we could think of. He said "If anyone gets the correct answer to all of them, they've got an A for the whole semester automatically", sort of as a joke because clearly that was impossible.

As the deadline quickly approached, I only had a single question left, and I had looked everywhere I could think of. This was in 1995, when the internet was very limited. I had an AOL account, and somewhere in my searches I came across an email address for Roger Ebert at Prodigy. I figured it wasn't real, but I figured, what the heck, I'll try it!!

Turns out it was his real email, he said he was very impressed with my initiative, and he knew the answer!

The professor was shocked. I got the A.

Thanks Roger!

Aww. :[

I had the pleasure of meeting him and hearing his opinions firsthand over breakfast in Mexico a couple of years ago. He is a wonderfully kind, intelligent person and I'm so sorry he won't be on the air anymore.

I hope he gets better soon!

posey - what a sweet story! I love Roger Ebert, and I admire his intelligence and his bravery when after his first surgeries he still wanted to come on the air and show people that this is what he looked like but he could still do his job.

I find this show very irritating, but I hope Ebert will be well soon. He's a nice guy.

I really respect Roger Ebert for getting back into the saddle so quickly; he was watching films and writing reviews after such a short recovery time. On a self-centered level, I especially appreciate his clear passion for movies, because I love to hear his take on them! I always appreciate his direct, analytical and often thought-provoking discussion of films. When he was out of commission, I found myself re-reading old reviews off his website just to get my Ebert fix! I'm a huge fan of that man.

I'll miss him on TV, but I'm so glad he'll be able to continue writing. He's such an articulate, intelligent man and his passion and enthusiasm for film is contagious. I hope he keeps that positivity and enthusiasm through all of this.

I never actually watched the show, so I won't miss it. But I have seen him in interviews lately, he has so much spirit and I'm glad he is going to continue to write reviews. You can tell he loves what he does so much, he's not ready to give it up.

Ebert is a better writer than an on-air personality, and I'm happy that he will return to writing on rogerebert.com. However, that doesn't make me any less sad that a critic has literally lost his voice. He's a man who makes his livelihood speaking and voicing opinions, so its truly tragic that the thing that is his livlihood has been lost. It is comforting, though, that Ebert will never truly be silenced so long as he can type.

Ebert is a great movie reviewer... But, I feel that Roeper is a better critic and more fun to watch. I hope the Roeper will continue the show.

I can't stand the Roep; he just seems like that loud, obnoxious guy who won't stop yapping about stuff he doesn't know about.

But I've always been impressed by Ebert's knowledge, even if his reviews are a little more populist than I'd like. (I know that sounds snobby, but I mean, come on, he's overly generous to poop films at times.) And having lived in Chicago for seven years, I never heard a bad word spoken about him. Saw him at a vegan restaurant with his wife, and they seemed really happy together. Glad he'll still be writing!

Although I don't always agree with his reviews, I agreed with the fact that he wasn't afraid of getting bashed by actors or directors for voicing his opinions

I love Roget Ebert! I have been subscribed to his website for a while now, I love his reviews. Will really miss him on the show.