So the backstory is, you all know Kevin Smith and Clerks 2, right? I never saw it, don't really care, whatever. The issue is that, during a screening of Clerks 2 to a ROOM FULL OF CRITICS, Joel Siegel--a famous movie critic who's been in the business for decades and is known for titling his reviews with really cheesy puns (but then is there any other kind?)--hit the 40 minute mark, at which point he left the theater in a show of disgust. But not only did he leave, he stomped, muttered and bitched his way out, even shouting out his disgust for the whole theater to hear. That might be okay if you're an idiotic juvenile critic for a community college review section, but when you're an 'aged professional' who does it for quite a fine salary, you don't throw fits in the middle of a movie to show your disdain.

Anyway, the rant in Kevin Smith's blog explains the scene a bit better, and then if you scroll down to the link, or if you want to skip the blog, here is an MP3 of a radio show calling Siegel to discuss his behavior during the screening.

I don't even care about this particular sort of thing usually, I just found this -that crazy- that I felt compelled to share. A thousand apologies if you don't find it as entertaining or listen-worthy.

Good work!

Of course, once you get to a certain level of being a critic, you can't lose either way. Movie you panned does bad? Well you were right. Did well? Well...you set it up by getting peoples' morbid sense of humor interested.

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There was much rejoicing when Gadani said this:
Didn't this happen awhile ago? Like, when the movie was first arriving in theaters?

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id say that is a resounding yes

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Gadani had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Didn't this happen awhile ago? Like, when the movie was first arriving in theaters?

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Yes, yes it did. It happened a few days before release IIRC.

I don't hate the movie, I just haven't seen it yet, I'll rent it on Netflix some time or something. Is it anything like Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny? I thought that movie was pretty amusing, unfortunately I saw it with my, um, father, for his birthday, because I had no idea how dirty it was x.x Woops, eheh.