So here we are. The end of the Ben Lyons Quote of the Week in spinoff form. Criticwatch will always have an eye out when he crosses our field of vision, but no longer will he have a major network venue to inch film criticism closer to the world of Idiocracy. It’s a glorious time. Proof that the written word can make a difference after all the talk from the powers that be and Mankiewicz who said, “this is a TV show and the notion that only people who qualify to talk about film criticism are people who have written for a newspaper seems silly." Disney never wanted to cop to sagging ratings on the show, so maybe the constant criticism by this column and Scott Johnson over at StopBenLyons.com really did have a hand in the change.
That is Erik Childress from Criticwatch giving his final Ben Lyons Quote of the Week. He continues with a top ten list of Ben Lyons' worst quotes of the past year:
10. "And it seems like this is going to be the one film we’re gonna see of this franchise. It wasn’t like Zack Snyder was trying to setup the sequel. I really appreciate that.”
9. “I like Splinter too, I just don’t have the stomach for horror movies. Life is too short. I have to say rent it.”
8. “If someone said to you and told you this was the same directing team that did No Country for Old Men, I wouldn’t believe you unless you said it was the Coen Bros.”
7. “It helps me improve my movie knowledge, and it's a lot of fun to play either alone or with some of the homies when they come over.”
6. “It’s really important to tell people to go out and see W. so they can talk about it and have an opinion about it and this freedom of speech of course that allows us to go and talk about a film about a current sitting president.”
That's five, you can click here to read the rest.
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No update this week? Are you done?
I listened to the Lyons interview on Radio Dan Show. It was not as bad as you might think. Certainly entertaining.
I still cannot get over how semi-retarded that Watchmen comment was. Did he even research a little of the source material to realize there was no sequel and the film itself was merged from the serialized versions?
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