You know what really won me over with Smith? The little warning at the begining of Dogma that explains it’s all a joke, ending with: "And even God has a sense of humor. . .
. . . look at the platypus."
It still makes me laugh
One wonders–did Siegel see the original Clerks? A major plot point was a woman having sex with a stranger who had died on the toilet several hours earlier.
Walking out of a Kevin Smith movie because of offensive subject matter is like walking out of a Michael Bay movie because shit kept blowing up.
Cool, now I understand where you are coming from. Kevin Smith happens to hit a certain right harmony with me. He acts like people I grew up with and writes dialogue that is very true to life. I grew up in the same area as Kevin and around the same time, he is a few years younger. I feel like I knew some of the people in Mall Rats, the references to many 70’s and 80’s movies hit a key with me. I wish I knew how to describe it in better detail; maybe it is because I have friends that were still slackers in the 90’s and friends that were burnouts like Jay and Silent Bob.
BTW: Jersey Girl was a terrible movie by any standard.
Jim
That he walked out on it, that’s not much of a problem to me. I agree, being a movie reviewer he should’ve known what was coming. However, being loud and obnoxious about it is just not done. The guys been in theatres before, he knows how annoying it is.
Funny, I spent my teens in the same area Rosie O’Donnell grew up in (she’s a few years older), but she doesn’t hit a harmony or familiarity with me. 
Having said that, I’ve spent far too much time around people (while never being involved with them) in Long Island and Queens for whom The Sopranos could be a documentary.
Misread as: ABC’s film critic walks out of Clerks II screaming.
Makes just as much sense, actually.
Not only does he take ages before he realizes he’s talking to Smith, but he denies writing all the terrible puns that are on his own ABC website, and he gives non-apology after non-apology for his behavior (which he’s unwilling to admit was thoroughly unprofessional). He also claims that he would’ve done the same thing for a Spielberg film, and that if Smith interrupted his TV show in the same way, he’d just “play off” the behavior–which makes him, based on these two claims, an enormous liar to boot.
He’s always been a terrible critic, but this demonstrates he’s also a huge tool.
Do we have a year-end awards ceremony here? 'Cause I’d like to throw that a nod for “One-Liner Of The Year”.
Oh, I seriously disagree. He’s a professional, he gets paid to watch and critique movies. The rest of the movie might have been Potemkin and Siegel would never know. Of course, he probably still wouldn’t know because he’s Joel Siegel, but…
Am I the only one here who’s seen the donkey show mentioned in promo spots for the movie? Granted, they might be exclusive to a specific channel that Joel Spiegel never watches (I can’t remember much about them - the donkey show is what got my attention), but it clearly isn’t a state secret. I’m surprised he didn’t know about it before he ever got to the screening. Granted, that would have spoiled his big screaming drama queen moment, which is possibly why he agreed to review it in the first place…
It’s Page Six’s error, not Joel Siegel’s. But then again, Page Six never appears on page six of the Post, so they presumably have a bad fact-checking department.
I wonder, did Siegel also walk out on The 40-Year-Old Virgin?
Yes, once he discovered it wasn’t about him!
To be fair to JS, I belive that the majority of newspaper columnists do not write their own headlines. That job belongs to the editors.
Pash (Kevin Smith fan)
There are people in this world who don’t just watch garbage on the screen, but have to handle actual literal garbage in landfills, cans, and trucks. Do they get to walk off the job if it smells too bad?
Joel Seigel has the easiest job in the world. If watching an occaisional disgusting (in his opinion) movie is the worst thing that his job entails, he should thank the God of his religion for his good fortune. A paying customer can and should walk out of a movie s/he dislikes. A critic should suck it up. Seigel should get fired, just like any blue collar worker who walked off the job would. He’s a terrible writer and critic anyway.
I hear Shark Tale is good.
Bravo, sir. This deserves to go in someone’s sig. I’d ask for it for mine, but I always forget to post with it.
But ultimately, his name is on these quotes, and it’s these cutesy quotes that are used in blurbs for print ads and TV commercials. And he was constantly punning and using word play in his reviews when I was growing up watching GMA, so even if what you said was true, he shouldn’t be excused for disowning something out there with his name on it.
I will never understand how people base movie choices on what a critic says. No offense to anyone that will surely link to 50 good reviewers, but the main reason you know these people is because of the catchy phrases and cutesy wordplay. It just isn’t all that difficult to watch a movie and then write what you thought of it. I generally tend to watch movies that critics hate, knowing there’s a good chance I’ll like it.
I find those two statements to be somewhat at odds with each other.