SFist: Mick LaSalle Feeds the Trolls

megang

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:20:10 -0800

"I'm interested in what intelligent nice people have to say." Hilarious! This is exactly why I don't listen to this jerk.

megang

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:09:19 -0800

totally!

tps

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:57:20 -0800

I agree completely with LaSalle. If you sign on and boast about annoying people by being a "...smartass prick..." I think it does say something about the real you. This isn't an old stale idea he's finally discovering. There's definitely an anti-snark wave starting up. It's fun to be the joker in the back of the room pointing out how stupid everybody is, but it gets old after a while.

mjbishop

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:49:53 -0800

Mike LaSalle is a terrible critic and deserves to be harshly criticized. As I recall, I'm pretty sure he gave a good review to "Big Momma's House."

EclipseTuliphead

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:20:37 -0800

What, has Mr. LaSalle never heard of The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory?

RobInSF

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:21:35 -0800

***WARNING: This thread is now approaching epic proportions of LOL***

seamus_furr

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:09:29 -0800

This is also the Mick LaSalle who called Martin Lawrence's Black Knight "a comic tour-de-force."

KatyG

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:52:29 -0800

Oh noes! Mean people! I have only this to say to you, Mr. LaSalle: Invent a time machine, go back to the year 1993, and you could actually be one of the first thousand journalists to break this story.

KatyG

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:14:38 -0800

Dyin'!

Generic

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:47:04 -0800

FTW

wsanders

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:38:05 -0800

Look out Mick, the Internet is all four foot wide vaginas with razor sharp teeth and Quentin Tarantino fanboys with violent fantasies about movie critics who don't agree with them. We white male elitists better just stick to using it for our 401k statements.

dantsea

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:32:16 -0800

Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.

Greg

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:11:03 -0800

waitwaitwaitwaitawait.... we ARE talking about Mick La Salle, right? THE Mick LaSalle? the opinionated "film critic" of the Chronicle for like, a zillion years? the one who coined the opinion of one of the revenge of the nerds films "you may laugh once or twice in the 2 hours this film lasts...but don't you do that anyway?" ok srsly? rilly? Mick La Salle has always been one opinionated dude. Heck, I remember the days when SFist ripped on him (and with cause). Here's what happened. For decades people had their 2 cents about Mick's reviews. Until now, that sh*t was uncorked. Then the Internets and "comments" were made and OMG WTF people are expressing opinions. Oh noes! It's like everything else. Once upon a time people just kept this all bottled in and released it at the appropriate time ("like when daddy hit the referee with the whiskey bottle?" Now, thanks to technology they all get their say. And apparently it makes Mick mad. (this , someone who ripped on me personally because I dared suggest on his non film blog on the Chron that Hillary Clinton was human and therefore less than perfect as a presidential candidate. His fatwas = those of the left any day!)

Generic

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:10:59 -0800

And here I was, a random commenter, defending Mick LaSalle on this very site just yesterday.

Sabacc

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:49:57 -0800

Shocking revelation LaSalle. I also hear people look at porn on the 'Net which they would probably not do in real life.

travin

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:13:54 -0800

Clearly this person is a total n00b. Lecturing folks to take a look at themself? Pushaw. What's the time-span for the average person to finally understand that their computer screen is more like a mirror?

jhatch

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:04:16 -0800

SFGate has a particularly nasty set of trolls. They seem to mostly be right-wing nutjobs attracted to the site by the words "San Francisco." Once there, they promulgate their views on any old article that attracts their attention. Sounds like LaSalle only just learned this fact the other day, hence his surprise. He'll get over it, I'm sure, and learn to ignore them before long.

fizzandpop

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:58:27 -0800

And yes, that last comment is the real me.

fizzandpop

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:57:18 -0800

And another thing...is this feel-bad-for-film-critics year? Yesterday it was the fatty hatty lady getting the hoof. I'm sorry, you're a film critic, you sit and watch films and then write about them. Professionally you've had it pretty good. Here's an idea, go make a film, see how easy it is. Bogdanovich did it, so why don't you?

fizzandpop

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:39 -0800

It's an old, old, old cliche, but what is it with critics hating criticism.

LisaLives

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:19:07 -0800

The most entertaining thing about SFGate is the comments. I take that back. SFGate writers complaining that people on teh internets are mean is very entertaining. Thank you, Brock.

manys

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:17:06 -0800

Poor Mick, reduced to trolling for pageviews. Maybe rumors of Chron layoffs swept the office yesterday so he's trying to sing for his supper.

oskarv

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:12:08 -0800

well the truth is that most of the people on SFGATE are assholes. as a result, commenting on SFGATE can be tons of fun (if bigoted idiots entertain you, as they do me).

KatieD

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:04:46 -0800

Yes, he's that bad.

RobInSF

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:04:33 -0800

So I guess being a smartass prick since my testicles dropped in 6th grade has had a certain cause and effect on those thin of skin. I'll go on record and say that Mick LaSalle sounds like a whiny douche whose testicles will never drop. And I'm fairly certain that if I listened to him whining in some bar or restaurant, I would probably say that to his face. No time for suffering weak kneed fools, Dr Jones.