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#326 Post by knives » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:43 pm

Location seems a thing. If you're living in LA, don't know where Wells lives, UT is a lot more confident than the rest.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#327 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:47 pm

Merely talking about the quality/cultural relevance of the films, I am certain Wells isn't flying to the middle of Utah if he can't write blog post on what movies he sees and people he schmoozes with.

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#328 Post by Gregory » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:51 pm

I don't think it's fundamentally about him not being able to see and review the films or even report on whom he schmoozed with, judging from his entitled, martyr-complex, self-victimizing, grandstanding post about how unfair this is. After all, he admits that he may simply attend anyway. Lots of people don't get the press credentials they want or have received in the past, but this seems to be mainly about his overblown ego more than anything else. Case in point, he calls this an "instructive moment" for all of us, and a setback that is "fairly historic on some level."
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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#329 Post by med » Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:02 pm

willoneill wrote:
Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:35 pm
mfunk9786 wrote:
Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:19 pm
I sort of feel bad for him. I can't believe I'm saying this.
The issue is that Sundance's reason isn't public. If it's because he's been critical of them, then it's a little censorshippy; if it's because he's an ass who's made very crass critical comments about female actresses (let alone the whole Vinessa Shaw thing), then I actually applaud them on their stand.
I don't have it in me to search the HE site for the post(s?) discussed in this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/sanjmovies/status/1 ... 5524580352

Here's a screenshot of the relevant section. He's written/bragged in the past of how shitty he is to festival volunteers:

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#330 Post by willoneill » Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:31 pm

Oh yeah, the TIFF incident. As someone with a few friends who’ve been TIFF volunteers over the years ... fuck Wells.

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#331 Post by Skrmng Skll Th Thd » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:34 pm

knives wrote:
Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:43 pm
Location seems a thing. If you're living in LA, don't know where Wells lives, UT is a lot more confident than the rest.
Wells lives in L.A. -- Amazingly, he has in the past posted his residential address on his site! Even without that, a search of his name takes about three minutes to find his address... and realtor pictures of the inside of his apartment... and all sorts of interesting info (nothing about his relation to Mary & Joseph, though). You'd think someone in the public eye would be a little more savvy about releasing that info. But then this is a guy who trumpets his Eastern-Bloc neck-twaddle-reduction surgery every chance he gets and rides a scooter with a literal fox tail attached to it like some kind of flapper boyfriend. Weird dude.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#332 Post by Perkins Cobb » Sat Dec 08, 2018 4:22 am

Honestly the schadenfreude here seems unduly muted.


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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#334 Post by Big Ben » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:34 am

Check the dude in the comments trolling Wells with his "Color version of Schindler's List."

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#335 Post by tenia » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:02 am

Always fascinating to see how the very simple answer (color photo of a B&W image) gets totally overlooked and it ends up like this instead.

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#336 Post by DarkImbecile » Sun May 05, 2019 10:59 am

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#337 Post by tenia » Sun May 05, 2019 11:43 am

The Lonely Island could do a new version of their song that'd be No Offense.

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The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#338 Post by Brian C » Sun May 05, 2019 12:08 pm

There must have been some women sitting near him in the theater that were laughing too loud.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#339 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 05, 2019 12:24 pm

I can’t tell if him calling out something for being crude in the same sentence as using the term “sucks donkey balls” is a self-aware joke or just classic Wells

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#340 Post by yoloswegmaster » Sun May 05, 2019 12:50 pm

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#341 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 05, 2019 12:54 pm

Oh cool this is Wells’ first mistake my bad

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#342 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun May 05, 2019 2:53 pm

How old is this joker?

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#343 Post by Brian C » Sun May 05, 2019 5:26 pm

domino harvey wrote:I can’t tell if him calling out something for being crude in the same sentence as using the term “sucks donkey balls” is a self-aware joke or just classic Wells
We may never know for sure! But lack of self-awareness is basically Wells’s stock in trade.

Michael, I believe he’s in his 70s.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#344 Post by Red Screamer » Sat Sep 21, 2019 2:37 pm

Tom Scharpling and Jeffrey Wells had a bizarre & hilarious exchange on Twitter over Uncut Gems, in which Scharpling essentially goads Wells into making fun of himself:
Jeffrey Wells wrote:“Creepy” connotes dark, hidden, slithery innards. I am the opposite of that, “son.” I am an open book. Every day I stand naked in the wind. Let the sunshine in. Into the mystic. Thou art an easy lay when it comes to the hyper, super-frenzied Safdies.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#345 Post by senseabove » Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:00 pm

He’s really got it out for UG. It provoked this earlier in the month:

“In other words not one person so far feels as I do. And I’m telling you the truth, mon freres. Which is why you can’t trust “critics”, per se. Because they’re all living in their own little fickle cubbyholes while Hollywood Elsewhere is standing tall and firm with its feet planted on the sidewalk and looking dead smack at cosmic reality each and every minute of every day…no let-up.”

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#346 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:45 am

These days I just like thinking of Jeffrey Wells as the Neil Breen of film criticism.

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#347 Post by DarkImbecile » Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:10 pm

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#348 Post by jedgeco » Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:12 pm

Anybody call him yet?

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#349 Post by domino harvey » Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:46 pm

This just makes me kind of sad. Grandpa's losing it

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Re: The Jeffrey Wells Thread

#350 Post by Gregory » Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:47 pm

Is that his license number in the highlighted box?
"Someone please steal my identity! ... Anyone?"

And he liked Knives Out but still had to yell at Rian Johnson about "HIPSTER PANTS":
“Incidentally, I HATED the cut of her pants cuffs, riding three or four inches above the sneaker line. Only hipster assholes wear pants that are cut like that. Are you telling me that Ana’s character, a Paraguayan woman who lives on a modest salary with her family in a grubby, smallish apartment, is going to wear HIGH-CUFF HIPSTER PANTS? I don’t think so!”

Johnson reply: “So happy you dug it, man. Though there goes our shot at a BEST PANTS nom.”

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