Hell, TrekBBS was running banner ads for The Fourth Kind with a quote from Larry King. Yeah, CNN's Larry King. Compared to him, Harry Knowles is Pauline Kael.
Since when is Harry Knowles a "mainstream" reviewer?
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Movie ads have blurbed Knowles for years. I don't have a problem with his reviews, although I do have a big problem with the fact that he openly accepts and solicits bribes from studios (he calls them, I kid you not, "pwesents," and has written many times on his site about the great "pwesents" he's gotten from various studios on his birthday, etc.)
And you have cases where, for example, the studio that made Armegadden (forget which one) flew him first class to Florida for the premiere, paid his five-star hotel, etc., and surprise surprise, he was about the only reviewer in America that gave it a positive review.
Or the case in which he posted a negative review of the SW: Clone Wars movie, then took it down after LucasFilm complained.
So he basically has no credibility at all, IMO, as a reviewer. Now, all that said, I do read his reviews because he sometimes has interesting, different insights into various films. But I take his actual recommendations with a pretty giant grain of salt.
And you have cases where, for example, the studio that made Armegadden (forget which one) flew him first class to Florida for the premiere, paid his five-star hotel, etc., and surprise surprise, he was about the only reviewer in America that gave it a positive review.
Or the case in which he posted a negative review of the SW: Clone Wars movie, then took it down after LucasFilm complained.
So he basically has no credibility at all, IMO, as a reviewer. Now, all that said, I do read his reviews because he sometimes has interesting, different insights into various films. But I take his actual recommendations with a pretty giant grain of salt.
QuasarVM said:
As "Hot and Fluffy" Gabriel Iglesias would say, he's reached "Level 5" on the Fat Scale:
1 Big
2 Fat
3 Fluffy
4 Damn!
5 Oh, hell no! (said when the person want to get on the elevator with you)
Sorry.
Gabe was on Comedy Channel last night. I was studying when he was in town. Gonna catch him next time.
I remember reading an article by a Scottish movie critic, whose name I forget right now. In about 1995, there was some dreadful Scottish wannabe Braveheart-type movie called Chasing The Deer. The critic wrote 'if this is the best Scotland can make, then God help us.' Next thing, his review is quoted on the movie as 'the best Scotland can make.'! He took out an injunction to prevent them using it, IIRC.
QuasarVM said:
As "Hot and Fluffy" Gabriel Iglesias would say, he's reached "Level 5" on the Fat Scale:
1 Big
2 Fat
3 Fluffy
4 Damn!
5 Oh, hell no! (said when the person want to get on the elevator with you)
Sorry.
Knowles is a two-plane ticket kind of guy. Wouldn't you hate to have to sit next to him on a flight?
I hate sittin' near him in a movie theater...
First screenin' I ever went to where Knowles was present (that I knew of, anyway, not like I looked for him or anything), and it was Clint Eastwood's Blood Work.
Prior to the film, he's talkin' to someone about how he thought the script for Space Cowboys was better than the actual movie.
Durin' the film, he's bein' obnoxious about how much he's enjoyin' the filmin' - guffawin' long after the joke was done and applaudin' at a particular good line or twist. God, what a pain in the ass it was to be sittin' near him, he ruined the whole damn movie throughout...
Three days later, he wrote a negative review for it. WTF??!
First screenin' I ever went to where Knowles was present (that I knew of, anyway, not like I looked for him or anything), and it was Clint Eastwood's Blood Work.
Prior to the film, he's talkin' to someone about how he thought the script for Space Cowboys was better than the actual movie.
Durin' the film, he's bein' obnoxious about how much he's enjoyin' the filmin' - guffawin' long after the joke was done and applaudin' at a particular good line or twist. God, what a pain in the ass it was to be sittin' near him, he ruined the whole damn movie throughout...
Three days later, he wrote a negative review for it. WTF??!
What the hell does a "mainstream reviewer" know about GI Joe anyway, I'd rather know what the geeks think.
I'm not sure what makes one a mainstream reviewer anyway, because they got a job at some rag nobody is buying?
I'm not sure what makes one a mainstream reviewer anyway, because they got a job at some rag nobody is buying?
And you know this, how?
I think I'd re-schedule...there are not enough seats for that lard ass.
Are there?
I know your post wasn't meant in all seriousness, but I hate articles that bring it up and I call people out on it when I read something like this. I hated it when they did it with Halo, I hate it that they're doing it with CoD. Games cost 5-6 times as much as a movie ticket. Data shows that big game launches don't impact movie releases, and game buying patterns don't mirror films. There's no point in comparing them. CoD
RotK sold 61 million tickets, 12 million of those opening weekend, which is more tickets than Activision is expecting CoD2 to sell copies of worldwide for the entire quarter. So by number purchased or revenue generated big movies still heartily outweigh even the biggest video games. Not even going to bring the kind of wide demo that a film like RotK brings in compared to a game like CoD2.
Sorry to derail, continue bashing Harry Know-Nothing Knowles.
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