This was once the most influential man in the film journalism industry. He had the studios bending to his every demand.
>>220996422>Gets run over by his own cart loaded with 1000 lbs of movie junk he bought at a conLol
>>220996422He's a big guy
Who's this gentleman?
>>220996422Never heard of him.Is this the guy who inspired "The Whale"? Haven't seen it
He got cancelled for being a woman abuser and people who knew him from his movie usenet days were not surprised.
If you want to understand AICN then the only way to do so is to actually read the old shit on the site from all the way back in the 90s and early 2000s.
>>220996929Harry Knowles
>>220996995how does he abuse anything? just walk away at a regular pace and he's fucked
>>220996995Of course he's a creep, look at him. He's fucking grotesque. Generally speaking, ugly people are ugly inside and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.
>>220996995The entire old convention scene before nerd shit went mainstream was incredibly degenerate. Ed Kramer, the guy who founded Dragon Con, used to go around convention floors with a retinue of pre-pubescent boys in tow like some kind of Roman hedonist. Everyone knew he was a pederast but nothing was said or done about it until well into the 2000s. I have zero doubt a faggot like Knowles had some skeletons in his closet.
I'm about to watch fanboys
>>220996995The fat fuck would have trouble taking the 10 steps needed to slap a bitch in the first place. He got women because his shitty website got a ton of traffic so he got money. He was "abusive" because he's an ugly and unlovable obese turd. Which was of course fine as long as the checks came in. But at some point they want to cash out and then they can be victims as well and get another check.
>>220997213He was in a wheelchair for years, he claimed he was partially paralyzed.
>>220996422Rollerball is fucking sick, I loved that movie. I still need to watch the 2000's remake that has Limp Bizkit playing during the trailer.
>>220997308is this why Hayden was crying the other day?
>>220997126>Generally speaking, ugly people are ugly inside and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.I don't think anyone disagrees with you here, retard. Did you think this was a hot take or something?
>>220996422>https://youtu.be/9vePR-euOxo?t=153
>>220997126Counterpoint: Elijah Wood went to his wedding and he married a normal looking woman, so how bad could he truly be?
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>>220997491I thought he was married to Margaret Cho.
>>220996422He moved around in a motorized wheelchair, I think? Movie "geeks" on his site had to suck his dick as if exclusive info only came from him and his bros.
>>220997308So when a fat guy says that he's treated like a creep but when Tarantino says it he's lauded as a genius. Skinny privilege.
>>220997491haha yeah Elijah Wood would never associate with anyone seedy or unwholesome, only G rated friends for Frodo
>>220997126Hygiene and gluttony are even better indicators.
>>220996422I remember using dial-up in the computer lounges in my college to slooooooowly download the first official footage of Spider-Man and LOTR off Aint it Cool. Which came out as a pixelated postage stamp in that piece of fucking shit quicktime. I miss those days but things have improved in a lot of ways
>>220996422He was on one ebert show
>Filmmaker Uwe Boll has long feuded with Knowles, calling him a "retard" in response to his criticisms, and accusing him of being "played" by film studios that "kissed his ass" with set visits and fake interest in producing movies for him, and suggesting to Knowles that the reason he hates him is because "I never kissed your ass, Harry."[16]Based Uwe does it again
>>220996929an old /tv/ trip from back in the early days and yes that really was himhttps://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/username/autistic/tripcode/%2185%2FxGZrzYc/
>>220997937This was a case of both people involved in a dispute being wrong. Harry was a paid shill but Boll made shit movies. No one liked anything he made so singling out Harry seemed kind of weird. Guess he figure shitting on Ebert wasn't going to get him anywhere
>>220997937He should have challenged Knowles to a boxing match.
>>220997974It's one thing to be dunked on by a legitimate critic, quite another to be criticized by a paid shill
>>220998699Maybe he should have made better movies, then. Or at least paid the shill to shill for them
>>220999316What was on that cart that ran you over anyway?
>>220997297I'm 37 and also never heard of him.>Ain't it Cool NewsI simply have never given a fuck about online blog sites. I've never cared about let's play or ecelebs. I do not give a fuck about streamers. I do not pay for Onlyfans or Patreon.
>>220998694Didn't he stop doing that after Seanbaby took the challenge and Boll pussed out upon learning Seanbaby had MMA training?
>>220999446I only know him because Penny Arcade used to shit on him every now and then
>>220999380TOP MEN
>>220999533Ok now that I see >>220997308 it was THAT fucking guy? Lol. LMAO
>>220996422I thought he was holding his gut in the thumbnail kek
>>220997297I'm 41 and have no idea who this fat piece of shit is. Looks like Jerry Garcia fucked Little Pete, then ate Big Pete, then ate Chris Farley.
>>220999446It was a movie news site that existed before all the places we go for movie news now
>>220999446>I simply have never given a fuck about online blog sitesSerious question, how old were you in like 1999/2000? Because I don't give a fuck about that shit now either but at the time I did. The online environment was very different
>>220997959Really? Was it proven? The posting style and repetition borders on bot behavior kek
You can't have an AICN thread without the Blade 2 review.http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/11793>Ok, maybe I take the metaphor too far… maybe… But I had two girls around me, Patch black and blued my right forearm with slaps and rabbit punches as though Guillermo was pounding the short hairs, and Saffron (not Vegas’) gripping my shoulder from behind like frickin Spock, leaning up to my ear to say, "You didn’t tell me this was pornography!!!!" To which I grab her hand, sniffed her fingers and said, "MMMm you’re fingers are wet… enjoy!"
Creepy thin man from this very thread was a commenter on AICN back in the day, which I believe is a FACT!
>>220999603https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvasLHsEGw0
>>220999446I'm your age and have heard of him, but was not aware of him while he was relevant. I get the feeling that a lot of his relevancy was just due to being one of the first young people to formally establish a professional-looking independent movie news and reviews website.
>Knowles: when I was a kid, the entire cast and crew of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre attended my birthday party, gave me prop body parts, and Gunnar Hansen, in full Leatherface costume, cut the cake with the actual chainsaw used in the film>Hansen: yeah, that never happened
>>220999603I remember reading that one the day it was posted and I knew then it would haunt him forever.
>>220997308She can still get pregnant. The hymen is not a pregnancy shield. But is not like it matter on the pretentious shit that was Heroes.Is this what /pol/ aspires to be?
>>220999727>professional-lookingIt really wasn't though. It was pretty fucking janky. A lot of the appeal was the comments section, with stupid movie autists anonymously shitting on things, complaining about Star Wars, getting hyped over upcoming projects or just flaming each other. It was very juvenile and amateurish, but also fairly open and populated by actual fans for the most part. It wasn't that heavily moderated or commercial. Sure, Harry was getting paid but the users were just speaking their minds and actually gave him shit when they thought he was being too much of a shill. It was kind of like /tv before /tv. I spent way too much time there but between the Prequels, Spider-Man and LOTR we had a lot to shitpost about
>>220999895Really hard to get people to understand that intense prequel hype and speculation was a big part of the internet for years before Ep 1 was released. We'll never see excitement for anything like that againPersonally I didn't follow it, but I remember seeing forum posts about it a lot of different places beyond dedicated movie sites.
Infamously FETID. Legendary STENCH, as chronicled by numerous people close to him, and journalists who came across him at festivals. He even commented on it, saying it was INTENTIONAL to "keep people away from him."He now seethes at Drumpf 24/7 on a twitter account with 3 subscribers. Total persona non grata. He will die just as AI filmmakers start taking off in a year or two, he will be denied the Great Kino Leap Forward, he might even die while watching an AI-rendered biopic about him.
>>221000000
Looks like zac amico
>>221000017>He now seethes at Drumpf 24/7 on a twitter accountHe and Bob should link up. Two big fat guys seething and reviewing movies would be kino
>>220997452Yes
>>220999573Well I'm 37 now so you can look it up. I just never clicked with any of those sites. Even Kotaku for video games. I browsed it for about a few months and then realized every article is just some opinion piece by some person that hates videos games, and this was years before gamer gate. Never used IMDB for the articles. Strictly to find movie info before Wikipedia was big. Never read Gamespot or IGN but would get my info from GameFAQs. I always felt like interacting with forums was a better source of news and info than actual "journalism" sites. That's just me. I know back then the RSS feed was a big thing. I don't know what it is that happened in my childhood that just made me ignore reviewers. Right now the only thing I watch is RLM and it's just for the the wacky shit they sometimes say about movies. Like I don't care about Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes and I find it weird when they use that as some kind of metric. Maybe it's because I realized news could be manipulated and fabricated so there's nothing stoping a big studio form just buying a review. And by some posts here apparantley this guy was a paid shill. Years later I felt vindicated when gamergate happened. I didn't even find what they did as corrupt, because they were not a real journalism site. It was just paid opinions but it took that circus to get people to pay attention.
>>221000557>movies>music>video gamesNone of these are worth obsessing over and the people who do are very mentally ill
>>220999519I don't know. I just remember that he gave Lowtax brain damage that probably indirectly led to his death 20 years later.
>>220997308Before 2012 you could just post shit like this on the internet, as part of a professional career, and nobody would really care. I miss that kind of looseness honestly
Harry was trash, but his talkbacks were great. He was roasted without mercy daily and left the posts up. He's old internet, not this snowflake reddit janny powertripping mod hellhole we live in. we didn't know how good we had it
>>220996929Really fat fuck who at one point had cultural influence by virtue of the fact he had one of the first popular websites for tv/movies/pop culture.I only knew he existed because he is referenced on Sealab 2021 and I had to look him up to figure out what the fuck was going on.
>>220996929>>220996908>>220996422>>220996952He's the literal inspiration of one of the Simpsons most beloved characters
>>221001229Other way around. Knowles stole his look and personality from comic book guy.
I've actually come across him at Alamo theater. Extremely fat and unpleasant. He knew how to sweet talk industry ppl. The whole 90s video store clerk/nerd thing as some pipeline to Hollywood was the train he rode.
>>221002299I've read that the staff at the Alamo theater hated him because he'd leave his diapers on the men's room floor next to the toilet.
MAN IN SUIT! MAN IN SUIT! MAN IN SUIT! MAN IN SUIT! MAN IN SUIT!
>>220997859>things have improved in a lot of waysHave they?
>>220996929Orson Welles
>On January 24, 1996, Knowles tripped on a hose at a memorabilia show and injured his back, partially paralyzing his legslmao how
>>220997491m8 elijah wood is 5'6, thats the next best indicator. once hes dead we will probably start finding tiny graves under his flooring
>Watch his ‘HOUSE OF PAIN’ sequence in BLADE 2. BLADE 2 is the tongue, mouth, fingers and lips of a lover. The Audience is the clit. Watch your audience. This is where Guillermo Del Toro goes down on the audience. It starts with long licks with a nose bump on the joy button slowly. He smiles as he does this… Watching the audience begin to squirm, then he takes the audiences’ clit in his mouth and just licks it like crazy, the audience is ready, on that precipice, then calm. He backs off… long licks again, brings in a finger to massage a bit, licks from the bottom to the top… The audience is cooing… He has them, they want release. He acts like he’s going to give it to you, takes you right to the edge, the audiences’ backs arched, ready to cum…. Backs off pinching the nipples just so, his head bobbing up to say, "You like?" The audience shifts around needing release, he builds again… The pressure at a near boiling point… Each stroke and moment a hypersensitive place… Two fingers to the sweet spot, the audience is there… right there at that point… suddenly he’s relentless taking the audience through a rampage of orgasms… trying to get away, trying to escape… back back back, but he has you, and he’s never going to let you forget this moment, the audience was electric… Frenetically frothing… Guillermo hears them begging no more, when he decides to stop for a moment, there is that relaxed calm… The audience relaxes… labored breathing… a sated smile, WHEN SUDDENLY THE RELENTLESS BASTARD IS AT IT AGAIN!!!! You begin laughing, trying to push him away, but no… more pleasure, more joy, more fun… You can’t handle it, you start giggling and screaming… And it goes like this for quite some time, till at the end… The credits roll, the theater lights come up… You look at the screen, you realize you want that tongue again… You want that feeling again, and you watch it again and again, because damn he respects the clit!
>>220997308Yes, this was the selling point of the show, your point about him making a valid point?
>>220997755She aged like wine. Never really appealed to me as a pornstar but she looks awesome now. Really sort of surprising.
>>221001071Who the fuck was the audience for this tho
>>221002590Still the undisputed GOAT movie review. People this unhinged are genuinely entertaining to me.
>>220996422>overly-descriptive lusting over actresses>terrible spelling and grammar, likely due to one-handed typing>rambling diatribes, probably involving bragging about meeting celebrities>boasting about all of the "pwesents" (bribes) he got from producersHarry Jay Knowles is what happens when the average /tv/ user somehow attains power over Hollywood.
>>220997308Based>>221001071It's actually wild how much things have changed in such a short amount of time.
>CreepyThinMan enters the chatOf course
>>220996422He's one of the teachers in The Faculty
>>221003647That fat old boomer needs to kill himself I just imagine his 80 year old parents he continues to leech off of are just praying death takes them away
I really liked him, in the late 90s. But when he gushed glittering puke out of his ass over "The Green Mile," "Gone In 60 Seconds" and "Hustle & Flow," and Robert Rodriguez slop, I had enough. I saw all them pieces of shit, after he steered me good toward The Blair Witch Project (he was a huge reason that became a hit) and A Simple Plan. Then he scammed his remaining fans over a kickstarter TV show that blew ass and he was dunzo even before the metoo shit.
>>221002442yeah. those texts dont cost 15 cents a piece and its via a phone that lets you google "how is the current time better then fucking dial up"
*giggles*
Does he really have a sister or is that him after ozempic and trooning?
>>220996422what happens if he gets an injury that requires him to be in a neckbrace? are there fat people neckbraces?
>>220999380Uwe Boll's artistic aspirations.
>>221005144they take a kfc bucket to the ceiling so they just keep looking up
One of his main correspondents was dating Quentin Tarantino for a while, that's how tight his crew was with Hollywood during it's peak.
And for comparison Asmongold is the most influential man in politics. Nothing has changed. The real world cannot control what is happening with the internet.
>>221002645Random nerds on the internet.
