The rave review that wasn't

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Lovable Weekly contributor Greg Stacey, er, Stacy just sent us the following...

Last week I was at the local Fatburger, paging through the latest LA Weekly, when I read the blurb featured at the top of an ad for the new indie picture Ten 'til Noon and damn near spit out my turkeyburger:

"Best movie since Pulp Fiction" - Greg Stacey, OC Weekly.

Talk about mixed feelings. I've always wanted to see myself quoted in a movie ad, like I was Roger freaking Ebert or something. But unfortunately that quote was taken completely out of context, giving the impression that I consider Ten 'til Noon to be the very best movie, of any kind, since Pulp Fiction. Well, I absolutely do not. I saw this Tarantino knock-off at the 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival and quite enjoyed it, jokingly suggesting in my review that Tarantino himself secretly directed it and that this was his best film since Pulp Fiction. In other words, I thought Ten 'til Noon was better than, say, Jackie Brown... which is a long way from calling it the best movie made since Pulp Fiction in 1994. The really nutty thing is that there were plenty of legit quotes they could have pulled from my original review, the thing was basically a rave. Whoever put this ad together is a sleaze or an idiot... or maybe both.

Oh, and they spelled my name wrong.

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