Product Description

Harry Knowles is the iconoclast founder of the movie newsbuzz Website, "aintitcool.com". Used by over 1.5 million users daily, the site is a resource as to what is and isn't happening in the film industry, sneak previews, hunches, and unreliable gossip."Ain't It Cool?" is the story of how Harry, a college dropout weaned on films and bedridden by an accident, started the Web site from his bedroom in Austin, Texas. In just four years he has crashed the insider world of Hollywood to become one of the most powerful and feared men in show business, with fans such as Bruce Willis and Quentin Tarantino. Spies report to Harry from movie sets and test screenings, he analyzes their comments, lambasts the industry on a regular basis and defends the viewer's right not to be forced to watch trash, but also leads site visitors to films they might never have guessed would be the gems they are.Using his own story as a springboard for his life-long obsession with films and how they're made - the good, the bad, and the ugly - "Ain't It Cool?" is the story of a movie geek getting a place at Hollywood's most exclusive table. The book includes lists of top ten and worst ten movies of all time, and to

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #889919 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Harry Knowles:Movie Genius
Harry Knowles is a celebrity. He may not be as well known as the president, but to his millions of fans, he is just as important. Harry and his legions of spies run aint-it-cool-news.com. This is the best movie site on the net, it has sneak previews of films, on set pictures and much, much more. For everyone who has wanted to know more about the man behind the site this book is for you. It tells of Harry's love for film, his amazing child hood and how he got the site created. It also contains hundreds of pieces of film trivia, views on the people in the business and some truly funny anecdotes. Overall I think Harry has created an amazing book that is structured well and a very interesting read.
I suggest everyone buys it so that he becomes a millionaire and make the site the biggest on the net.

Return of The Grievous Angel
Harry's book is a warm, funny sermon to the geek kinship he's helped nurture over the last 7 years. He writes his book like a long conversation between two old friends, honest, painful and howlingly funny. If you're sick of bad films, then read Aint It Cool. It's the most relevant book on film since Projections 10 years ago.

Is it as good as i thought?
No, it is not as good as i thought. It can drag along at one boring pace after another. Harry Knowles can go on and on, until i just flip a few pages and get to something better. This book is piled with unecerssary rubbish. Yes, i go on his site often and i find that his reviews can be a bit like that. But i expected the book to be a tad more exciting then that.

But!! There is some juicy movie info in there. Some really inventive stuff it's just a shame that it so hidden that i found it hard to find it. But give it some time and you will find it, but then i'm just too tired to bother with it!