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Joel Siegel walks out of Clerks 2 screening

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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.
"Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.

In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey. Siegel told Page Six: "It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn't ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn't make any more movies."

An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: "Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. 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 . . . 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]."
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My question is...has Siegel not seen Clerks or any of the other Smith movies? This is pretty par for the course.
 
My expectations for Clerks II are pretty low, but Siegel should have been aware of the movie's context before seeing it.
 
What the hell did he expect?

That's like watching a Gus Van Sant and expecting not to see Matt Damon or Ben Affleck (or one of his relatives, God damn Gerry).
 
this thread is very enlightening.

judging by some of the responses, i would guess that this movie is perfect for some ppl here.

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Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Who is Joel Siegel?
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I went down the whole thread wondering who else is thinking the same thing i am.
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Movie critic/reporter for ABC's Good Morning America. Wiki

On July 18, 2006, Siegel was contacted via telephone by the Opie and Anthony comedy radio program, which had Smith in studio. Siegel apologized for creating a disturbance, although he seems to believe Smith overreacted to it, but that he was proud of walking out of a movie he felt disgusted with. Confronted with the "punny" headlines on Siegel's website , Siegel maintained that he in fact did not write those headlines, leading to more ribbing by the hosts.
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American culture is such garbage now though. Imagine living in the times of the great classical music composers and shakespeare etc.
 
The only positive thing is eventually it will be impossible to go any lower and things should improve at that time.
 
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