HollywoodChicago.com Podcast, Episode 2: ‘WALL-E,’ ‘Wanted,’ ‘The Love Guru,’ ‘Get Smart,’ Top 100 List

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CHICAGO – In episode two of the HollywoodChicago.com podcast, our staffers discuss the blockbusters “WALL-E” and “Wanted,” which both open on Friday. In this 32-minute podcast, staffers Adam Fendelman, Dustin Levell, Patrick McDonald and Lauren Fendelman also debate why moviegoers had such an irate reaction to last week’s “The Love Guru” from Mike Myers.

In addition to discussing “WALL-E” (review here), “Wanted” and “The Love Guru” (review here), the critics also discuss the recently released “Get Smart” (review here) film along with the newly published Entertainment Weekly list of the top 100 “new classics”.

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Clockwise from left to right: HollywoodChicago.com staffers Adam Fendelman, Lauren Fendelman, Patrick McDonald and Dustin Levell discuss 2008's summer blockbuster films in episode one of the HollywoodChicago.com podcast
Clockwise from left to right: HollywoodChicago.com staffers Adam Fendelman, Lauren Fendelman, Patrick McDonald and Dustin Levell discuss “WALL-E,” “Wanted,” “The Love Guru” and the recent Entertainment Weekly list of the top 100 “new classics” in episode two of the HollywoodChicago.com podcast.
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HollywoodChicago.com editor-in-chief Adam Fendelman

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com

© 2008 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com

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There are more comments about your Love Guru review on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Yeah. Here are a few.

Yeah. Along with many on my review on HollywoodChicago.com, here are a few from the Rotten Tomatoes entry about my review (a continued pattern of people very angry with this film and my review):

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What an asinine, presumptuous windbag. I loathe idiots like this who take up the mantle of guardians against pretension. Sure, if I don’t profess to like crude, poorly crafted schlock, I’m really just putting on airs because it’s actually impossible to resist the charm of crass, derivative slime masquerading as wit.
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Adam, please proofread your prose before posting your reviews. You sound like an idiot.
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Your polysyllabic riposte does little to quash accusations of pretension directed towards dissidents. On the other hand, the “you like it and you’re lying if you say otherwise” comment is pretty smug. The title of the review alone contains enough hyperbole to sound like a quotewhore—i.e., someone who give gushingly positive praise in order get some sort of positive attention, like getting their blurb in a commercial or on the DVD box.

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