Posted on 07/19/2006 4:47:51 PM PDT by Deek1969
July 19, 2006 -- DON'T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That's what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving "Good Morning America" film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith's "Clerks II," which opens Friday - an act that's sparked a vicious war of words between the two
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The first Clerks was great. I knew this one was going to stink.
Sounds like a cleaned-up episode of South Park to me.
Wait - Joel Siegel found a movie he didn't like?! Stop the presses!
Gee, what Joel Siegel says is really, really important to me. I follow his every word and suggestion. He's my "go to" guy for all my cultural advice.
Sounds to me like it is going to be good.
I wonder if he would have walked out of Blazing Saddles?
"I don't come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like, ' "Shark Tale" Is a Halibut Good Time' - so don't [bleep] with my stuff while it's still screening . . . What are you, a 12-year-old boy cutting loose with your pals at a Friday night screening of 'Scary Movie' 4' while your parents are in a theater down the hall watching 'The Devil Wears Prada'? Leave the diva-like behavior and drama-queen antics to the movie stars, not the movie reviewer, ya' rude-ass [bleep]."
What a class act Mr. Smith is. He questions Seigel's emotional age but ends up revealing his own.
"...This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For 'Pirates 2,' he made us all titter with 'Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun' . . . He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, 'Wheelie Good Time for "Cars." ' I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy."
And there's more: "I don't need Joel Siegel to [bleep] my [bleep] the way he apparently [bleeps] M. Night Shyamalan's, gushing over his flick ['The Lady in the Water'] before he's even seen it, but [bleep] man, man - how about a little common [bleeping] courtesy? You never, never disrupt a movie, simply because you don't like it. Cardinal rule of moviegoing: Shut your [bleeping] mouth while the movie's playing.
"I don't come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like, ' "Shark Tale" Is a Halibut Good Time' - so don't [bleep] with my stuff while it's still screening . . .
He likes everything (that his masters tell him to like).
Who needs script writers when you have these Shakespears.
Joel Siegel has always been a bit of a publicity hound.
He should have went to Mexico for some 'sensativity'training,prior to the film review.The real deal is coming to a town near you!
Smith's movies have been terrible since "Dogma". And G4 calls him an "icon"?
Movie critics are not opened-minded. They have an acquired taste and an agenda. They're no different from biased news reporters, really.
I can't wait to see it!
Last time I heard about a Kevin Smith movie, "What's the Frequency Kenneth" was skipping in my CD player.
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