Comments on: Jeffrey Lyons Gets Fired

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:03:57 +0000

I was unfortunately a regular viewer of “Reel Talk”, not due to scintillating reviews, but out of desperation to find any TV based movie reviews before picking a movie of the week to see. Unfortunately searching the net blogs etc. is too difficult and time consuming for me besides not knowing who provides them (i.e. unreliable wikis). It would be helpful if someone would post alternatives for review criticism to be “helpful” instead of the “classless” rants we see on so many blogs!

By: walter

walter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:48:25 +0000

OK, so it’s been months since someone pulled the plug on this idiot, but I just heard his rantings about “Where the Wild Things Are” on the BBC (could someone please inform them that Lyons is a washed-up douche bage over here?).

Even if I could have agreed with him about anything he said, he was so loud (seemed as though he were yelling at the interviewer/host), and so over the top in his criticism, that I wanted to throttle him. And the icing on the cake was when he pointed out that his son was a movie critic, but had liked the movie. The host suggested that was a “shameless plug.”

I think I’m going to make a donation to NBC for their humanitarian action in booting this guy…

By: Thought for food « Notchweiner is

Thought for food « Notchweiner is — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:36:22 +0000

[...] As mentioned a few days ago, our network was treated to a private screening of Food, Inc. at local Moxie Cinema. We thought it’d be interesting to post a few reactions from our unwashed masses. It’s like our own version of that Rotten Tomatoes critics feed thing. Except ours eliminates any chance of you accidentally reading something written by Jeffrey Lyons. [...]

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:06:33 +0000

The funny part is that the last episode gave Transformers 2 a bad review.

By: Andrei Kurosawa

Andrei Kurosawa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:14:16 +0000

Admittedly the only reason I would tune in was to see what rockin’ legwear Bailes was sporting that week. As I’m no fan fan of formulaic McMovies there was absolutely nothing in actual content for me to glean. Though it was awfully funny to catch the one time when Lyons remarked “and evvvrrry boooody siiiings liiiike thiiiiiis” when High School Musical was up for review.

By: FilmBuffRich

FilmBuffRich — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:46:47 +0000

I remember sitting two rows in from of Lyons senior at a screening in NYC a few years back and before it started he was having a (very loud) conversation with someone, running down certain other nationally known critics. Very classless.

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:36:37 +0000

Maybe the word film critic is a term as dead as the practice itself. A film analyst might be more appropriate for the thinking person’s reflection on what a film is about and why it does or doesn’t resonate. But as far as film criticism goes–that thing that is supposed to tell me whether to pay to see the movie or not–it has proved so unreliable, vexing and unimportant these days that I simply refer to the Comments sections of various blogs to see what viewers think. Again, I don’t expect the masses to give me what a film theorist or analyst could give me. But when I’m trying to determine whether to see Terminator Salvation, I don’t need that. I just need to know if it sucks or not. (Oh, and yes it does.)

By: Me

Me — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:50:53 +0000

Alison and smart Ben need to team up and do a show.

By: BJ Kahn

BJ Kahn — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:49:10 +0000

Dear Karina,

“At the Movies” will not fall in the face of total consumer “disinterest.” It might fail if the public shows a “lack of intererst.” “Disinterested” means impartial. Put that in your zeitgast.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:28:36 +0000

Who’s next ,or more directly, when will the $$$ coming in not justify this site and Ms. Longworth has to set up her own site? (again)

Jerry

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:26:53 +0000

Who’s next ,or more directly, when will the $$$ coming in not justify this site and Ms. Longworth will have to set up her own site? (again)

Jerry

By: Yasmin

Yasmin — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:28:03 +0000

Jeffrey Lyons always struck me as being a pretty useless critic, and I’m glad he’s finally gotten the axe.

But given WNBC’s recent high profile firings (ie Len Berman), I can’t help but think this is less about trying to improve the quality of film criticism and more about trying to shrink the budget by replacing senior faces at the network with cheap, disposable “talent”. If history is any indicator he will probably just end up on Ch. 2 anyway.

By: Steven Flores

Steven Flores — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:14:13 +0000

I just feel sorry for Alison Bailes. I enjoyed watching her on IFC’s At the Angelika a few years ago and then it became At the IFC for a while.

At Reel Talk, she was OK though it was kind of excruciating to watch her with that putz.

Now there’s the Bens to watch. Jeez.

By: Glenn Kenny

Glenn Kenny — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:35:25 +0000

I first met Lyons in the mid-80s when I was a lowly associate editor at Video Review, where he freelanced. Not only was the copy he turned in uniformly sub-literate (worse, in fact, than the work of certain individuals whose scribblings I’ve railed against in Spout’s comment threads), but he was a rude, high-handed prick in person as well. So mazel tov to the guy. “Old putz” indeed.

By: Delbert Grady

Delbert Grady — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:14:54 +0000

Who’s the old putz now?… http://defamer.gawker.com/5098345/what-loudmouth-movie-critic-bashed-the-old-putz-his-son-was-hired-to-replace