'Gone With The Pope' box hilariously misquotes Metro Times review

If you snagged the DVD and Blu-ray release of the '70s low-budget exploitation flick Gone with the Pope (we know there were so many of you out there clamoring for it), you might have noticed a seemingly glowing endorsement from MT's own Jeff Meyers on the cover, crowning the film "A glorious masterpiece!"

Of course, that's not the full quote. Meyers' original review continues: "...of moviehouse craptitude."

Other quotes from Meyers' original MT review they could have used instead:

"It's the cinematic equivalent of putting lipstick on a sexist, racist pig."

"... set in a world where logic has no place, actors can’t act and everyone has bad hair, lurid ’70s outfits (love those jumpsuits!) and a cigarette addiction."

"Connoisseurs of crap will love every idiotically sordid frame."

Check out Meyers' blurb — immortalized in all of its misleadingly inaccurate glory — below, or over at Amazon:


About The Author

Lee DeVito

Leyland “Lee” DeVito is the editor in chief of Detroit Metro Times since 2016. His writing has also been published in CREEM, VICE, In These Times, and New City. He once asked porn star Stormy Daniels to spank him with an issue of Metro Times. She obliged.

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