Bummer. I used to be really stoked on his part in the Western Edition video.

id love to poo on alex klein's face

You guys are so dumb. Why don't you get that it wasn't serious? He was only making jokes....with actions that had real consequences. Eliminating people from high stakes contests through pointless challenges is the ultimate joke. The judges weren't even serious. They still weren't serious when Nieratko interviewed them for ESPN. They're just really good at sticking to character and are meta as fuck. On some Andy Kaufman shit. 747s guys.

Someone set up a SLAP PALS questions for Alex Klein, there is some questions about OIAM that needs to be answered.

This, and that even a random quote, I mean, nothing even special, kids write bullshit like that on the facebook everyday, yet he's trying to shine as a smart fuck writing even the author..Bad move for sure, I laughed the whole time, I can see how he tried to fill the bullshit he was saying in this itw with some "omg sick metaphors", sounding like a pedantic 15 year old kid
you suck man

The thing that really irks me in all these ass-covering interviews is the "they signed up for this" line everyone seems to take. The kids couldn't possibly have known that a contest which used to be judged pretty much just on skate ability (and "character" I guess, see: Forrest Edwards) was about to become a shittily directed, ultra depressing, absurdist rip-off of daytime reality tv which they would be subjected to for hours every morning - even if it was supposed to rain later that day or everybody was too hung over to even think about sitting in the interview room for  an hour with Alex Klein and his film school buddies pointing cameras in their face, asking them how bummed they were about the latest pointless elimination challenge.

The fact is that he produced a bad show. He totally alienated the prior "core" audience of OIAM (skateboarders) by making this piece of shit, and in the process alienated the participants to such a degree that he couldn't even finish it, which pretty much guaranteed that there wouldn't be enough new viewers to justify the change to the new 'inane, over-produced reality gameshow' format.

And this motherfucker has the gall to claim that it failed because the kids weren't going to bed early enough and got cranky? It seems like a lot of these "adults" are looking for ways blame the kids, mostly because they made them look bad for being involved in such a steaming turd of a production.

Exactly, Forrest wasn't some awesome reality show casting director's dream come true.

Plenty of great footage without his Jersey Shore style antics.

It just proves how out of touch Alex Klein is.

 Uhh i knew i shoudnt have read that...

 I think this is his email, found it on his site http://alexanderklein.tv/... jus sayin..

 hialexklein@gmail.com

what a piece of work this guy is. could you imagine working with this prick? fucks everything up and then blames everyone for his mistakes. the worst kind of asshole right there.

but hey at least he got the back of the film school dorks

"This year I knew it was highly unlikely we?d have Forrest part 2, so the big question was: how do you make a show about 11 very normal dudes somewhat interesting? Eliminations seemed like the obvious choice just because it creates some inherent suspense at the end of each day."

I enjoyed all the guys for who they were - not what Klein was trying to make them out to be, and surely not from some lame elimination contest.

With Madible's edits - I got a better feel for the environment and the kid's personalities. It just felt more raw and true to what was actually going on at the time.

This line just got to me...i feel it epitomizes the whole thing.

If the joke goes 36,000 feet over the entire skateboard community collective heads, then it's a really bad joke.

I feel bad for everyone involved in this, except for Klein - everything he says is the exact opposite of what the rest of those involved say went down.

Don't blame me and my people for this fucking mess. No, he's a breeder and you fuckers can keep him.

Yea, 2001.

Moral of the story don't eat grapes around Alex Klein and don't leave a message on Alex's family's phone talking shit about something Alex wrote in Skateboarder about weed that you think might be about you or related to you somehow or you might get sucker punched by Alex Klein.

Henry should never be punched unless it is some Ricky Oyola pounding on your hotel room door in the middle of the night thinking Sean Sheffey or someone in his room just pissed on you off the balcony.

What I read:
"What?s with the ridiculous judging?
If you took the judges seriously then the joke went approximately 36,000 feet over your head. Imagine your head where it is now, then imagine a 757 flying through the stratosphere, because that is where the joke is. If all you want to see is raw skating, there are approximately one million free video parts online for you to watch. One in a Million is the only show of it?s kind. Does it have its flaws? Sure. But at the same time I don?t think it?s heresy to experiment and try new ideas. People beat on OIAM like it owes them money. The problem with that is that if sponsors decide that innovative skate shows are too volatile to produce they?ll stop supporting them. If that happens we might never find the next Forrest Edwards. Just typing that sentence sent a salty tear down my cheek."



How I interpreted:

What a piece of shit.
Someone needs to mock up some Fuck Alex Klien shirts