Kevin Smith - Director

yeah it's 'clerks'

Mallrats by a nose over Clerks. Everything else, when actually thought about, pretty much blows.

he gets worse with each movie, tho i've not seen 'jersey girl', and 'clerks II' was actually not too bad (tho i have such a thing for rosario dawson my opinion here is not to be trusted, and i saw it on a plane). clerks, then, tho i love mallrats too. chasing amy has moments, but is seriously flawed, while dogma is seriously flawed, but has moments. jay and silent bob is just dogshit.

I mean, I suppose Clerks II could have been alot worse, but it was pretty awful, even given Rosario.

it was very poor.

it can only be clerks.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - too corny (loved the meta at the time tho)
Dogma (1999) - too alanis
Chasing Amy (1997) - too emo
Mallrats (1995) - too goofy
Clerks. (1994) - winner

J&SB has some decent lols.

almost all of them stem from the cameos tho

yep.

I'm reading his book at the moment (the diaries) and he really loves Clerks II, unsurprisingly. He has a very touching relationship with Jason Mewes irl it seems.

I really don't think CII is that bad, I chuckled throughout. The 8 minute ovation at Cannes is mystifying though given that Cannes audiences will just as likely boo.

haven't seen Clerks 2 yet. but who will own up to having seen Jersey Girl?

not even.

no hate for J&SB. any movie ALL about J&SB rocks.

dogma was forced and unfunny, chasing amy and mallrats were whiny annoying teen movies. clerks, while obviously appealling massively to ILX, is good but overrated. clerks II is funnier, but without randall neither would workd at all.

whole lotta wrong there.

Clerks=Blue Album
Mallrats=Pinkerton

clerks II seems to succeed or fail on whether or not you find a man fucking a donkey to be the height of comedy.

again, my tolerance is based upon my love of rosario.

I was an extra in Mallrats -- I'm wearing a yellow winter coat in the background in the scene where the two main guys are talking about the physics of Superman having sex. I never saw the movie, but a year ago late at night I happened to flip channels onto that very scene.

Hey, that's me (in 1995) at 0:04!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLewb-_JtPo

"Dogma" is awesome.

My favorite of his is either Dogma or Mallrats. Clerks is OK but overrated, never understood how it could be by far his best, unless you initially hoped he'd become some great B&W indie auteur and not a grown up fanboy making screwball comedies. never saw the sequel, actually did catch Jersey Girl on cable and it was far more enjoyable than it was made out to be. kind of ambivalent toward Chasing Amy.

oh and Strike Back was a hoot, almost as funny as Mallrats.

Dogma was funnier than Catholic school.

Clerks.

I kinda liked Mallrats and I didn't hate Dogma. The rest can hang.

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Rosario Dawson was the only remotely good thing about Clerks II.

Mallrats! I still totally love it. Dogma and Chasing Amy are so, so bad.

I haven't seen Dogma in a long time but I enjoyed it. Only saw Chasing Amy once and enjoyed it until Ben Affleck discovers she slept around in high school, and then the whole thing went batshit. Haven't seen Jersey Girl, but I'm curious, as the clips I saw in This Film Is Not Yet Rated looked decently shot (the outdoors scenes had extras!), something that could not be said for Clerks II. What little I saw of Jay & Silent Bob was crap, always thought Mallrats was crap. Voting for Clerks, at this point I probably like him more as an actor in shit like Live Free Or Die Hard and as an interview subject than as a writer/director. Though it must be hard to mature and improve your craft when you have Aint It Cool News living inside your asshole.

this can only be clerks but i'm not giving dude a vote on anything

LFoDH just proved he should keep his trap shut whenever he appears on camera.

oh he was a fine stock techie

if only he was, that scene was dire. tbh the film had plenty of other problems. but it was still kinda fun!

olyphant...i remember when he was this charismatic badass. maybe i remember wrong. nowadays he's stuck in deadwood mode. i like deadwood but that's not a good thing outside of the show.

there was nothing wrong with his performance a bad dye job wouldn't fix.

him or smith

I object to the premise of this thread.

smith used to be my favorite director, back in middle school/high school. when i worked at a video store in NJ, clerks hit home in a huge way... i think mallrats and chasing amy are pretty OK; dogma and everything since are... meh. sometimes funny, sometimes totally irritating. the "theology" segments of dogma are so middle-of-the-road "spiritual" that i fast-forward through them.

What premise? xp

If Kevin Smith is a director, we need a new word for people like Spielberg, Coen, shit, even Oliver Stone.

"William Hung - Singer"

Well I was differentiating from his work as a writer but I get your point. Even if I disagree with it profoundly.

It's okay, I'm done pooping in this thread. As you were.

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surprise.