I didn’t realize it was “screening” till your post.
I can read! Really! :smack:
Is that any worse than Bachelor Party, with Tom Hanks?
Does any one remember, “Max, the magical sexual mule”? The boys hire a prostitute and a donkey, and she has sex with it for the crowd. Lots of donkey sex jokes. They even show the hooker crawling all over the donkey suggestively. Then there’s a disturbance, and while everyone is distracted the donkey snorts up all the drugs on the table (coke, etc. Lots of drugs in the movie), has a heart attack, and dies. Then plenty of donkey corpose gags.
Really, Siegel must not get out much. Bachelor party didn’t get too many panties in a bunch, and it was over 20 years ago.
It has taken me years to find a reviewer that I like. I listen to Nick D on radio 720 in Chicago. The reason I listen to him rather than the others is after a lot of years listen to him review moves I’ve already seen I know we have the same taste in movies. It’s like listen to a friend recomend a flick. I know if my wife says it is the best movie ever made I should pass. But if one of my gaming buddies thinks it’s cool than i’m golden. I don’t understand people who base their movies on what critics they don’t know think.
(ps. I hope this post comes out ok, i’m posting for the first time using my blackberry internet browsers and I can’t see everything I type. )
And the stripper in Bachelor Party was HOT! She had some moves, above and beyond the donkey.
And the chain saw!
Fuckin’ A. Myra Breckinridge was on FMC just the other night and damn that’s a flick.
I was going to mention Bachelor Party also. I wonder if Siegel has refused to watch every Tom Hanks movie made since 1984?
I had the same thoughts. I mean, it’s not like this is Smith’s first movie - or even his first highish-profile movie. After the accidental necrophilia, demon made of shit, and creative use of ‘fingercuffs’, you’d think JS would have a slight idea of what he’s getting into.
Walking out is one thing. Walking out and being a dick about it is another. Walking out of a movie that you are being paid to review while being a dick is a whole other pile of stupid.
I didn’t even think of that, obvious as it is. :smack: Thanks for pointing it out. What I should have said, for the most part is, when a film gets a bad review, chances are I’ll like it. For that, I like critics.
Sorry for any confusion. And thanks again for pointing that out. 
I keep lumping together film/food/wine/etc “critics”. People that leave their homes each day, to earn a living, sampling free stuff to either rave about or tear down. And it doesn’t matter the competence of the “critic”, if they can write well, they get the ink.
New post for an idea unrelated to this quote.
Did he not get the donkeysex reference in Godfather II?
Here’s what I propose.
Film critics are required to watch Animal House, Office Space, Sleepless in Seattle, Braveheart, GoodFellas, The English Patient, Chariots of Fire, Gone With the Wind, 6th Sense, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Devil’s Rejects, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gigli, The Wedding Planner, and The Net. They are then judged on the rankings of each film they give, and beaten accordingly. Or forced to watch Gilgi in Swahili subtitles sitting on burning coals. That’s up for a vote.
Wine critics are required to drink everything from MD2020 to Cristal. and everything in between, including everything nastier then MD2020. We need a baseline in these categories to base our opinions on. Plus, we all drink boxed wine while watching the fun in all 3 events.
Food critics are regired to sample Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Jank in the Box, Burger King and White Castle.
And the one that gives the highest ranking to Gigli has to wash down 8 boxes of Sliders with the bottle of Mad Dog.
Yeah, I’m feeling evil. 
Now that sounds like an interesting movie.
I was going to ask “Which one?” when I saw the title, since I can’t imagine either Margaret or David walking out of a movie- especially one which hasn’t been released here yet!
Then, of course, I realised that the OP was talking about the US ABC, and it made more sense…
Yet another reminder that film critics are completely unnecessary. A.O. Scott pretty much made that point in an article this week, and he’s the lead critic for the New York Times. I talk about movies a lot, good and bad, and I agree with the critical consensus more often than not. But between word of mouth and trailers/commercials, I know everything I want to know about an upcoming movie months before the critics see it.
So the hell with Joel Siegel. I’ll be paying about $10 to see this movie on Friday, but he couldn’t be paid to watch it? Hah. Let him get a real job in journalism. I know what would happen to me if I walked out of an interview because I disagreed with (say) the politics of my subject.
:smack: I had Joel Siegel mixed up with Joel Stein from I Love the 70s/80s/90s and I guess Newsweek?? and thought this was one big whoosh. After all, that guy makes snarky comments about gross things all the time. :smack:
Sounds interesting. Out of curiousity, can you come up with the headline for that article? (Or better yet, a link?)
Here’s the article in question.
Sorry to bring up Ebert again, but I remember reading in one of his columns that someone had written him regarding a bizarre blurb on the back of the video box of Hoosiers reading, “Hip Hoop Hooray! Four stars- Roger Ebert, New York Post.” Ebert commented that he doesn’t write his own headlines, and he never would have written something as bad as “Hip Hoop Hooray.” Presumably, his Tribune column was reprinted in the Post with this headline.
Thanks very much. An interesting read.
And a very appropriate comment. My friend’s review: “Surprisingly boring considering it features Raquel Welch doing some guy with a strap-on.”