Wow, I hope he wasn't being serious about the quality of those movies. I wouldn't want to think that Mike was a pretentious jackass in real life.
Bar none, if you don't like Dr. Strangelove, you have absolutely no sense of humor. Being John Malkovich is one of the best films of recent years (it's actually not really a comedy. It's funny, but if you're in the mood some nice huge laughs every five seconds, it's not the film for you) as was Rushmore, and Annie Hall is brilliant, as is Woody Allen (and Soon-Yi was Keaton's adopted daughter, not Woody's).
This piece was simply not funny. I don't know if Mike was trying some kind of reverse-psychology thing, but it didn't work. Sorry. It's sad that Mike would turn in this kind of shoddy work trashing some of the great films (and a movie that I've never seen--Diner). Did Mike really need money that badly? There's nothing snobbish about liking any of these films (except for Diner, which I have no idea about).
Let's mock some real snobs -- how about the nerds who think that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is the three greatest movies of all time? Or people who think that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is actually good?