Kevin Smith rips Joe Siegel a new one for being a turd at Clerks 2 screening

Grimmlok · July 19th, 2006, 12:36 PM

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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]."

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

buttmunch · July 19th, 2006, 12:50 PM

Wow. Nice comeback from Kevin Smith. But who listens to critics anyway? Certainly not me. I loved Clerks and will see the second, knowing that I will probably be offended, grossed out and laughing my ass off. Joel Speigal...give me a break.

GoldDust77 · July 19th, 2006, 01:09 PM

I am not a Kevin Smith fan (i think his movies suck bigtime & i don't blame Joel Siegel for getting up & walking out of one of those trying-to-be-funny-but-ultimately-boring snoozefests) but i have to admit, his put-downs of Joel Siegel had me chuckling.

Those ARE some majorly cheesey lines that Siegel wrote in his movie reviews!

buttmunch · July 19th, 2006, 01:49 PM

What did he expect, Shakespeare? This is Kevin Smith we're talking about, the man who joked about farting during blowjobs, necrophelia and gave us the excellent insult 'cocksmoker'. Fuck Siegal.

pacific breeze · July 19th, 2006, 01:54 PM

Nobody fights dirtier than directors and film critics. Siegel's an idiot, but I gotta agree with him -- there's funny, and then there's just plain gross. Smith is an asshole who gets off on fighting with people, and he crossed the line with the donkey stuff.

equallydivided · July 19th, 2006, 02:02 PM

I like the long winded reply. THIS is how I get when pissed off, so I can totally understand.

Cursing and total trash talk come spewing out.....I can string 10-12 curse words together and make a whole UNDERSTANDABLE sentence. Poor Kevin...Haaaaaaaaaaaa!

ang · July 19th, 2006, 02:38 PM

Kevin Smith fucking rules...I'm off to myspace to become his friend.

Grimmlok · July 19th, 2006, 02:48 PM

If the subject matter isn't to your taste, you don't act like a princess, make a HUGE scene and storm off DURING the screening.. that's being a retard. You write a scathing review of it like a professional.

Plus something tells me Siegel has a huge pole up his ass, and judging by his idiot word-game antics he seems the type to be easily offended.

He probably also didn't get the humor in it.

So fuck Siegel, and yay Kevin Smith!

buttmunch · July 19th, 2006, 02:57 PM

All I can say is I am absolutely gagging to see me some Randall again. Something about that guy just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh...and then want to bed the little shit.

equallydivided · July 19th, 2006, 03:02 PM

How about Siegel Review of Clerks 2;

"Clerks 2, I almost 'fallatio-ed' out of my chair!"

buttmunch · July 19th, 2006, 03:06 PM

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How about Siegel Review of Clerks 2;

"Clerks 2, I almost 'fallatio-ed' out of my chair!"

pacific breeze · July 19th, 2006, 03:09 PM

I liked the original Clerks, but I still don't think bestiality is funny. And I'm no prude.

I won't be going to see this based on a) the abovementioned and b) Smith's relentless obnoxious behavior and misogyny.

MrsDark · July 19th, 2006, 03:19 PM

If anyone can make bestiality funny, Kevin Smith can!

pacific breeze · July 19th, 2006, 03:20 PM

Not convinced.

buttmunch · July 19th, 2006, 03:20 PM

I'm with Mrs. Dark. Bestiality doesn't have to be wrong.