It turns out Kevin Smith only hates critics when they say mean things about his movies
Kevin Smith has announced that he’s ending his feud with the mean people—i.e., critics—who say mean things about his movies, now that some of those mean people have said nice things about one of them instead. Smith originally made his proclamation that he wouldn’t be listening to mean people anymore after they said mean things about Cop Out, his 2010 buddy cop homage that was brutally panned by the majority of meanies. He kept it up for 2011’s Red State, pointing out in a Q&A at Comic-Con that most mean people are just failed moviemakers, who only say mean things about his movies because they wish they got to make them, too.
