PREVIEW - #192 - Why We Love the World's Worst Film Critic

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44978933 In one of our wildest and wooliest episodes yet, we introduce the Michael & Us community to one of our longest-standing obsessions: Pittsburgh-based right-wing movie critic Fiore Mastracci. Join us as we relish the inimitable prose of the man who no less than the Guardian newspaper called "the world's worst movie critic." PLUS: rambling, free-flowing shit-shooting about everything from Obama's memoir to British comedy to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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0:00.0	Folks, there's no right way or wrong way to watch a movie, but there is a right critic.
0:04.5	His name is Fior Mastrachi.
0:06.7	Cinematic class is in session.
0:08.7	The professor is in.
0:12.4	Are audiences becoming so dumbed down that they will accept a juvenile movie as enjoyable entertainment?
0:24.5	I am so excited to talk about this. I don't know how it's taken us this long to introduce Fior Mastrachi to all of you, to make him a character in the
0:30.9	twinkling cosmos that makes up the Michael and Us universe. I first became aware of Fior Mastrachi
0:37.1	because in the late 2000s, early 2010s,
0:40.3	all of his reviews were on Rotten Tomatoes. And I think I first became aware of him because he was
0:45.4	one of the negative reviews on the page for the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. And he called it excrement on
0:52.5	celluloid. And I remember he gave it zero out of ten. Right. And I remember seeing excrement on celluloid. And I remember...
0:54.5	He gave it zero out of ten.
0:55.8	Right.
0:56.3	And I remember saying excrement on cellulide.
0:58.3	That seems a little harsh for that movie.
1:00.9	Yeah, that's good.
1:01.7	Yeah, it's good.
1:02.2	And like, even if you don't like it, like what's to be angry about?
1:06.4	It's fucking fantastic Mr. Fox.
1:08.7	But anyway, I checked out his page and, you know, it was like opening
1:12.4	King Tut's tomb. There were just so many, like, insane judgments. He's, he's a guy who's based
1:17.5	out of Pittsburgh. And I think to really get the full effect of him, like, you need to, you need to see
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