Fox 4 movie critic Shawn Edwards gets called a quote whore for his bombastic proclamations that end up on movie posters. So he can sympathize with his friend and fellow critic Ben Lyons, who now co-hosts "At the Movies," giving his reviews from balcony seats once reserved for Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.
The Los Angeles Times recently wondered if Lyons is the most hated movie critic in America. The criticisms against Lyons mirror those against Edwards: no film knowledge,
celebrity ass kisser and shill. Edwards says the Times story was "tremendously unfair."
"My man, he knows a lot about movies," Edwards says. "He's
knowledgeable but it may not come through in his delivery. For goodness
sake, he works for E!. You can't come with the hard-core cinematic knowledge on E!. That's not what that audience is looking for on that network."
What
they're looking for, Edwards says, is someone from the "iPod
generation" with an "MTV approach." But Edwards says Lyons could do the
"hard-core, serious, film criticism delivery if he wanted to."
Edwards preaches patience with Lyons.
"You
can't slam him right out the gate," Edwards says. "There's no one that
Disney could hire to fill the shoes of Siskel and Ebert. There's nobody
that could sit in that balcony and make that show happen immediately.
It's going to take time.
"I wouldn't want that job," Edwards
says. "I wouldn't want to follow Roger Ebert. Hell no. ... Sure I would
love to have that job, but it would be tough for any working critic
today. It would be impossible."
-- Justin Kendall
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Hey Shawn, you hate white America because we are mostly successful. Most of us have great jobs while the majority of black are pathetic morons. Who lives in most ghettos? BLACKS. Who lives in must crime free areas? Whites. Sorry, but if a movie doesn't have a black person in it, it's still can be a good movie. Any movie that doesn't have a black person in it EDWARDS claims it's horrible. EVERY TIME. I am sorry that there are so few successful black people compared to whites that everytime a black person actually does something with their lives sacks of shit like Edwards makes a big deal about it. News flash, morons like Edwards and his favorite director, Spike Lee, hope racism thrives because they think it makes themselves more relevant in the world. They are praying that nobody realizes they are a bunch of fucking morons. Racist sacks of shit.
Shawn Edwards is a racist. I do not understand why Channel 4 continues to allow him to spew his kill whitey hatred every morning.
The guy wouldn't know a good movie if Clint Eastwood was sitting in his living room.
He's a dumbass, dump him Channel 4!
Both Edwards and his �man� work very hard sitting at private screenings and interviewing celebrities. Surely such effort requires a PhD from an accredited university so you learn how to properly fill in the blanks of, �____ movie of the ____�. I hear he does this without a thesaurus even (yeah, THAT�S bad ass). Further, they must employ incredibly complex mathematical models to determine the difference betwixt a 3 popcorn bag movie and a 4 popcorn bag movie.
I for one think that Shawn Edwards has accomplished so much more than Barack Obama. Let�s face it, all Obama had to do was repeat what his handlers told him was the popular opinion. Shawn Edwards�he got where he is through his own efforts, dedication, and moxie to developing his OWN opinion�well as long as his opinion are words that fill in the blanks.
Put it this way, if Shawn Edwards sucks cock, then sucking cock is cool.
Give the guy a break,Edwards is someone who seems to love movies and likes to share his opinions with people who are interested to hear them. If someone wanted to put one of my quotes on a the front of a movie or a poster I wouldn't mind at all. Also, calling him a cock smoker is just uncalled for. Really whats the point?
Shawn Edwards is close to being the worst movie
critic. I generally watch channel 4 news in the morning but whenever the movie segment comes on
I have to change the channel because of how
embarrassingly retarded the two of them are. He
must be related to someone at the sation or an
outstanding cock smoker.
Also why would you interview him for an opinion
about another shitty critic when you acknowledge in the article that you know that he is worthless. Whats the point of this article other than to fill space
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