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Roeper also named The Contender-little more than an unpaid two-hour election ad for the Democrats-one of his favorite flicks of 2000. Whenever some left-wing documentary or docudrama is released, E & R fall all over it, fawning about how it "shows the truth behind" such-and-such issue.

My dislike for Roeper stems from a non-political issue. When discussing the movies Red Planet and Eight-Legged Freaks, he made utterly snide comments about 50s sci-fi flicks that showed he hadn't actually watched a single one of them.

I thumbed through a copy of Ropers' movie reviews at the bookstore when I learned that he was the permanent replacement for Gene Siskel.

Richard Roper said that he doesn't like the Little Rascals/Our Gang films because they are racist and they aren't funny. I think I even saw some sort of comment how he didn't even like watching black and white movies but I may be mistaken there.