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Harry Knowles Allegedly Assaulted Woman and Drafthouse Owners Didn’t take action.

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Cohsae

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I for one am SHOCKED that this man turned out to be a gross creeper.
 
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StrangeRoboMemory

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The Kree said:
Here's a fun drinking game: Pick any random Harry Knowles movie review and take a shot for every paragraph that has nothing to do with the fucking movie he's reviewing.
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Every single review is marked by his self-absorption, arrogance, and pathological need to lie about clearly impossible shit. Half of his reviews are completely unrelated anecdotes, name-drops, and bragging.

It was always some shit like:

"Harry goes WILD for JOHN WICK!!!

I saw a movie...IT WAS EPIC!! *giggle* But you know what a really epic movie is...the 1989 film PUPPET MASTER!

We all know the true hero that movie...BLADE THE PUPPET.

Actually, when I was 6, my dad aka PAPA GEEK convinced the entire puppetry crew of PUPPET MASTER to show up at my birthday and magically bring those awesome puppets to life.

*giggle*

-- Incomprehensible gibberish follows ---

Oh, and the movie I saw was JOHN WICK. Pretty good movie but I fell asleep near the end."

Every review is like this. I just went on the site for the first time in 5 or 6 years, picked one of his most recent write-ups, and like clockwork, here are some perfect examples of his awful brand of verbal diarrhea. From his "review" of IT:

The basement is an excellent place for a child eating monster, like closets and underneath the bed... and storm drains... let's not forget fucking gutters.

It was funny, Moriarty posted an image to the ol John Sayles ALLIGATOR movie. Alligator in the sewers vs Robert Forster – and I was terrified of taking the trash out at night, because right by where we left our trash at my house was a gutter – and after that movie, I knew a giant Alligator was going to get me.

Jeremy Ray Taylor's Ben Hanscom... LOVE. When I was his age, I was the New Kid in Seymour, Texas... a town far smaller than Derry. Seymour felt more like the town in FOOTLOOSE, honestly. At the time it was a dry county, no condoms for sale... and oddly our school had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state. Fun. But being the stocky, full-figured kid that he is, he instantly attracts bullies – and his interactions with Beverly represent a lot of my Junior High years, but High School I was far past the fear stage. I was always a library hound. When I finished class work, I'd ask for a pass to the library, because there's nothing worse than being idle and bored in class. Libraries are magic – and the source for the zillion stories that could earn you friends and the respect of others. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – Electric Company ruled.

Now, before I get into Pennywise – let's talk – Henry Bowers. This kid thrives on sadism and being an Alpha Prick Loser of the highest level. He has his own gang of fuckarrific asshats. But – this kid had nothing on the kid I knew. Josh Burnham. The first day he transferred into my second grade class, Mrs. Moseley asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Almost everyone was wanting to be astronauts in the wake of STAR WARS. Josh stood up and declared, ”I want to be Darth Vader so I could have a light saber to cut your fat tits off with!" The next year, he threw a desk at the 174 year old Mrs Sparkman, my third grade teacher. I lost track with him after 7th grade when I moved away, but he had two stints in Juvenile Hall – and each time he came back, I swear his fists tripled in size. Of course – he never did anything to my friends, we were the squad at school meant to catch him and drag him to the principal's office. I've always been the good kid. This Henry Bowers would skin the Mini-series Henry Bowers alive. Both Josh and him had really smart looking mullets (sarcasm).

Now... for Pennywise.
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The fuck is he on about?

Everything is ultimately about him and how great he is, knowledgeable he is, he was turned on to everything in pop culture since the moment he was a fetus, etc.
 
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kevin1025

Banned
StrangeRoboMemory said:
Every single review is marked by his self-absorption, arrogance, and pathological need to lie about clearly impossible shit. Half of his reviews are completely unrelated anecdotes, name-drops, and bragging.

It was always some shit like:

"Harry goes WILD for JOHN WICK!!!

I saw a movie...IT WAS EPIC!! *giggle* But you know what a really epic movie is...the 1989 film PUPPET MASTER!

We all know the true hero that movie...BLADE THE PUPPET.

Actually, when I was 6, my dad aka PAPA GEEK convinced the entire puppetry crew of PUPPET MASTER to show up at my birthday and magically bring those awesome puppets to life.

*giggle*

-- Incomprehensible gibberish follows ---

Oh, and the movie I saw was JOHN WICK. Pretty good movie but I fell asleep near the end."

Every review is like this. I just went on the site for the first time in 5 or 6 years, picked one of his most recent write-ups, and like clockwork, here are some perfect examples of his awful brand of verbal diarrhea. From his "review" of IT:



The fuck is he on about?

Everything is ultimately about him and how great he is, knowledgeable he is, he was turned on to everything in pop culture since the moment he was a fetus, etc.
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Having only ever visited AICN when there had been some big scoop back in the day, I thought your John Wick one was maybe hyperbole. Then I read the IT one you included.

Good god.

I guess when someone's ego reaches a certain point, all movies are about them somehow. I can understand trying to relate to things, but why does the review have to be about the relating and less about the movie? Just say "It meant a lot, and hit home personally."

All of the bits and pieces of his writing in this thread is real bad, man.

In terms of the assault, for me it's unforgivable.
 
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killroy87

Member
StrangeRoboMemory said:
Every single review is marked by his self-absorption, arrogance, and pathological need to lie about clearly impossible shit. Half of his reviews are completely unrelated anecdotes, name-drops, and bragging.

It was always some shit like:

"Harry goes WILD for JOHN WICK!!!

I saw a movie...IT WAS EPIC!! *giggle* But you know what a really epic movie is...the 1989 film PUPPET MASTER!

We all know the true hero that movie...BLADE THE PUPPET.

Actually, when I was 6, my dad aka PAPA GEEK convinced the entire puppetry crew of PUPPET MASTER to show up at my birthday and magically bring those awesome puppets to life.

*giggle*

-- Incomprehensible gibberish follows ---

Oh, and the movie I saw was JOHN WICK. Pretty good movie but I fell asleep near the end."
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God, I forgot about his dumb fucking habit to write out *giggle*. Just makes it even creepier now.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

Banned
Sectorseven said:
While technically not a review, there's his reaction to the Speed Racer trailer.


http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34951
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the Wachowski's SPEED RACER trailer. I predict that there will be two reactions to this trailer. There's mine... which is HOLY FUCKING AWESOME DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE COATED PUSSY JUICE
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That's your boy Speed Racer fans.
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That sounds like embarrassing geek critic talk from 10 years ago.
 
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Shiv47

Member
My abiding memory of AICN is the parody version Something Awful did about it, which featured a corner animation of Knowles sucking off a Hollywood exec who then blew his load on Knowles' face.
 
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collige

Banned
the Wachowski's SPEED RACER trailer. I predict that there will be two reactions to this trailer. There's mine... which is HOLY FUCKING AWESOME DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE COATED PUSSY JUICE
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I can't believe this was written in the year of our lord 2008. Also, how the fuck would one even make chocolate coated pussy juice? You can't coat a volume of a liquid in another liquid, that's not how fucking fluids work.

Cohsae said:
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I for one am SHOCKED that this man turned out to be a gross creeper.
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This post is just shitty stereotyping tho
 
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HerbertBirdsfoot

Member
Entourage did an episode where Rainn Wilson played a character based on Harry. They sent porn stars or hookers or something up to his hotel room at comic con to get positive aquaman buzz.
 
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killroy87

Member
It's utterly bizarre and hilarious that this dude is still just tweeting away about movies and shit while women in the industry (well known women, no less) are calling him out as being a major creep.
 
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SteveWD40

Member
AICN still exists? Knowles hasn't died of massive heart failure yet?

...wow.

I remember reading about X Men casting rumours on there, back when they were talking Russell Crowe for Wolverine (just after Gladiator).
 
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gamz

Member
killroy87 said:
It's utterly bizarre and hilarious that this dude is still just tweeting away about movies and shit while women in the industry (well known women, no less) are calling him out as being a major creep.
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I know! It's so fucking odd.

Even he's old AICN writers denounced him and he's typing along like nothing is going on.
 
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Za-Neen-Jya

Member
gamz said:
I know! It's so fucking odd.

Even he's old AICN writers denounced him and he's typing along like nothing is going on.
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Harry is perpetually stuck in the 90's. Back when people actually gave a shit about what he said about anything. He's like a time capsule, tweeting from the past.
 
IlGialloMondadori

IlGialloMondadori

Member
I remember when he reviewed a pirated workprint of Drive that had the temp score by Angelo Badalamenti, and I was the first poster and called him out on reviewing pirated work prints. He altered the review but didn't admit a thing.
Good times.
 
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collige

Banned
vordhosbn said:
It's the uncomfortable truth though.
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What truth? That fat dudes are more likely to be creepers? All this attitude does is provide cover to predators that are more traditionally attractive while shitting on a bunch of people for nothing more than their appearance.
 
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Zaphrynn

Member
collige said:
What truth? That fat dudes are more likely to be creepers? All this attitude does is provide cover to predators that are more traditionally attractive while shitting on a bunch of people for nothing more than their appearance.
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Yep, true. I wish "it's only creepy if he's unattractive" was a bannable offense. Way to downplay the harassment women receive, GAF. It's always wonderful reading that shit in creeper threads.
 
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DeathyBoy

Banned
collige said:
What truth? That fat dudes are more likely to be creepers? All this attitude does is provide cover to predators that are more traditionally attractive while shitting on a bunch of people for nothing more than their appearance.
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I agree with you.

But it doesn't change the fact that he is creepy on the inside and outside.
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Cohsae said:
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I for one am SHOCKED that this man turned out to be a gross creeper.
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I had an assistant who was a handsome fashion hound and he was a serial rapist.
 
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Big_Al

Unconfirmed Member
HyperZone<3 said:
Yeah, AICN was always embarrasingly purile, and often I'd read their stuff and suffer through it because at the time they really were one of the only sites that were semi-comprehensively looking at lower end genre film.

Vern broke off many years ago now, haven't been back since his direct-to-video Steven Seagal reviews migrated to his own site.

http://www.outlawvern.com

There, its the best stuff AICN ever produced without having to support a creep. Just a guy on his own who's got a passion and a talent for writing about B-movies. If he turned out to be a monster too I'd be utterly crushed, bit I'm pretty sure he's decent (he's able to get a few good social justice points in a Scott Adkins review, somehow).
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Vern was by far and away the best writer on Aint It Cool News. His Seagalogy book is amazing and laugh out loud funny whilst giving all of Seagals crappy DTV films a chance. Not bought any updated versions though in recent years. I seriously hope he never turns out to be a piece of shit but he's always come across as a cool dude. Never been a fan of Harry and damn you fuckers for reminding me of that Blade 2 review! I had (sortof) forgotten about that.
 
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border

Member
So will this be the end of Butt Numb A Thon?

Kinda weird how I always wanted to go to that, when I used to read AICN back in the day.
 
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Zaphrynn

Member
Puck Beaverton said:
that would be nice but it will never happen
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Just because other people suck at it and are assholes doesn't mean I'm not going to try, and it doesn't mean people shouldn't be called out on it. Lots of things will never happen on a large scale, but I can at least try to alter my own thoughts and behaviors to have one less asshole in the world.
 
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killroy87

Member
border said:
So will this be the end of Butt Numb A Thon?

Kinda weird how I always wanted to go to that, when I used to read AICN back in the day.
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I was thinking that too, I assume so. Even if he was dumb enough to go forward with it (and considering he's spent the weekend going on like nothing has happened, he might be), he'll have a complete fucker of a time getting worthwhile content now.
 
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The Albatross

Member
Cohsae said:
HarrySurvives5Bullets.jpg

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I for one am SHOCKED that this man turned out to be a gross creeper.
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This guy is a piece of shit but this is a shitty post.

Sexual assaulters come in all shapes, sizes, and looks. A suave, well dressed clean shaven fit person is just as likely to sexually assault someone as an overweight unkept nerd.
 
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Shadowhelper

Banned
He is now posting articles pretending to be his sister. Even writing personal anecdotes on her behalf like he does, writing about how she used to steal his toys. And she magically is interested in all the same things and writes the exact same.

Anyway, me made a mistake, when posting as her.

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