Harry Knowles
Harry Knowles
Harry Jay Knowlesis a film critic and writer known for his website called Ain't It Cool News. Knowles is a member of the Austin Film Critics Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 December 1971
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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When you have so many summer films coming at once, the visual effects companies literally don't have enough people delivering the work. Work is being delivered very slowly, at the last minute.
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The big, massive campaigns are going to be unloaded in the three weeks prior to release.
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What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside 'Star Wars' and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
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I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
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That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.
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I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
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I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
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My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'
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One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.
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My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who have never read or heard of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland.' The site will not be written in a scholarly fashion. It will be written in a playful, 'Hey, check this out!' kind of way.
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Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.
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The movies are fine. It's George W. Bush's failed energy policy that is eating away at the family entertainment budget because that extra $70 a month in gas is the money that they would have spent on frivolous things like movies.
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I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.
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Film for me became how I related to everything else.