This Movie is ‘Brilliant,’ ‘Mind-blowing’ Not

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Our long time buddy Tony Pierce, now writing over at the LAist, has caught yet another studio in yet another fake quote promotional stunt. This time, it’s for the movie Accepted and the critic in question is Paul Fischer. Who? Exactly. These positive quote manufacturers do their thing to hype horrible movies because no respectable film critic would bother touching these movies. You can check out Tony’s stop motion TiVo analysis of the whole thing here.

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