Well folks, seems like the second half of the gruesome twosome has chimed in with LIES about me and SCOOBY DOO... interesting spin technique that these two have come up with. Here's what Lillard had to say:
Lillard also had a thought on Internet critics and Ain't It Cool News's
Harry Knowles, who has been a vocal critic of the production. "We got bad
buzz off the Internet ... [because of] the cast photo. And as powerful as
the Internet can be, it can also be ... painful. So Warner Brothers and
Scooby-Doo [stepped] in to try to alleviate some of the tension from that. A
lot of it was generated by this Harry Knowles guy. And this guy, for some
reason, is starting to run Hollywood. It's ridiculous. ... I don't know how
you can judge a movie if you've never even read the script. I don't know how
you can crush a film if you're Harry Knowles, if you have no f-cking idea
what you're talking about. The guy is a mook out in the middle of Texas or
something who's somehow got power. ... They flew him to Pearl Harbor to get
[in] his good graces, and then he turns around and says Pearl Harbor is one
of the best movies ever made." CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST!!!
Well, though Lillard is certainly a far better actor than Freddie Prinze Jr, he seems to LIE just as badly! First off, I agree Matthew, I don't know how anyone could prejudge SCOOBY DOO without having read the script for the film... Guess What? I have! Not only that, but I've read 5 different drafts which got progressively worse, with each rewrite. Want proof? BEWARE OF HUGE SPOILERS!!! Highlight the below:
SCRAPPY DOO did it!!!!
As for PEARL HARBOR? They never flew me anywhere... they offered and I TURNED THEM DOWN, just like I would've done on your film. As for my review of PEARL HARBOR (Click Here To Read!) I enjoyed the film with great reservations... and went on for about 1200 words about what was wrong and needed to be cut out before I got to what I liked, which wasn't a whole bunch.
Now while Jason Lee was about a 1000 times better for the part of Shaggy than Lillard, our report on footage the other day says he's nailing it, while Prinze is again his typical non-entity. And while this film certainly seems to be the biggest pile of dung this side of SUMMER CATCH, like just about all films... I end up seeing them to cast a final fair opinion. And with SCOOBY DOO, I would love to believe that Freddie and Matthew were highly talented actors, I would love to believe that the script I have read was a thing of make-believe, and I would love nothing more than to go to the cinema next summer and love a movie called SCOOBY DOO, but frankly... that doesn't seem to be the reality of the situation.
