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"Kevin Smith has slammed critics of his latest movie Cop Out. The director complained that members of the public should be allowed to review movies instead of professional writers. &amp;quot;I gotta say that every day I hate film theory &amp;amp; film students &amp;amp; critics more &amp;amp; more,&amp;quot; he wrote on his Twitter page. &amp;quot;Film fandom&amp;#039;s become a nasty bloodsport where cartoonishly rooting for failure gets the hit count up. Watching them beat the s**t out of it was sad. Like, it&amp;#039;s called Cop Out; that sound like a very ambitious title to you? You REALLY wanna s**t in the mouth of a flick that so OBVIOUSLY strived for nothing more than laughs. Was it called Schindler&amp;#039;s Cop Out?&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;Writing a nasty review for Cop Out is akin to bullying a retarded kid. All you&amp;#039;ve done is make fun of something that wasn&amp;#039;t doing you any harm and wanted only to give some cats some fun laughs.&amp;quot; Smith added that he will make critics pay to see his movies in the future. &amp;quot;Realised whole system&amp;#039;s upside down: so we let a bunch of people see it for free &amp;amp; they s**t all over it?&amp;quot; he posted. &amp;quot;Meanwhile, people who&amp;#039;d REALLY like to see the flick for free are made to pay? Bulls**t: from now on, any flick I&amp;#039;m ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: you wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week. &amp;quot;Why am I giving an arbitrary 500 people power over what I do at all, let alone for free? Next flick, I&amp;#039;d rather pick 500 randoms from Twitter &amp;amp; let THEM see it for free in advance, then post THEIR opinions, good AND bad. Same difference. Why&amp;#039;s their opinion more valid? It&amp;#039;s a backwards system.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Kevin Smith &amp;#039;hits back at Cop Out critics&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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