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Kevin Smith set for Clerks sequel
bckrispi writes "Director Kevin Smith has announced an official sequel to his indie cult classic, Clerks. Currently titled "The Passion of the Clerks", the film will pick up with Dante and Randal ten years after the original as our two heroes trudge through the malaise of their thirties. Jason Mewes, now out of rehab, is back on deck to play Jay across Smith's Silent Bob."
i'm astonished to find a contrary voice to all this kevin smith worship that didn't get modded down to tar, but i'm also thrilled to see it.
... it has been said that he uses his characters merely as "mouthpieces", and there is much truth to that. there is a special place in hell for fraudulent geniuses like him and tarantino, and there are only spiders there.
smith has always been a self-serving, self-satisfied fat man whose aspirations to fap onscreen to his own genius have always been interpreted mistakenly as either "genius" or "eagerness to entertain". did anyone ever see the comic he made -- about his own life -- that he got published in the NYT Magazine? should have gone into the latest issue of Fat Hack Review.
every single character in smith's movies has the same personality, the same type of humor, and same voice overall
If I could make this sig kill you, I would.
"Jay and Silent Bob are terrible, one-note jokes that only stoners laugh at. They're fucking clown shoes. If they were real, I'd beat the shit out of them for being so stupid. I can't believe Miramax would have anything to do with this shit. I, for one, will be boycotting this movie. Who's with me?"
As a Kevin Smith fan, perhaps you could explain why you are a Kevin Smith fan in the first place? I'm not a hater or anything, I like a couple of his movies. He just seems so ... sophomoric. Like a guy who's learning how to write screenplays and make movies, and has learned enough to actually make them, but isn't terribly talented or inspired or anything; more like he's just got a couple of stock characters he made up in high school and now he makes movies with them. What's the real attraction to him as a fan?
I ain't catholic, or even particularly religious, but I think cast her as God was blasphemous. God as a woman? Fine. God as Alanis Morisette? Puh-LEEZ!
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
If he wanted to die young, he should have done it before Jersey Girl. Now we all know that he's just a second rate hack with nothing to bring to the party but dick and fart jokes, and a strong line in self loathing.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.