Film: Clerks 2 (merged super-de-duper thread!)

[tathra]

Negative tells me he knows a guy with a tshirt for the Fuck Your Naked Blue Jeans Tour. \m/

Clerks 2 was big dissapointment, but that could be because i'm stuck comparing it to the first one, and not appreciating it in its own right.

 

[knight_marshall]

^^ you don't compare art, you compare farts.
art is reserved for analysis.

wanderlust, yeah the second time is damn close to being better than the first time. The third, forth and fifth times have been good also. Thankyou internet downloads.

 

[L2R]

a mate had free tickets so i gave it a go

and damn, i laughed quite a lot. I actually enjoyed C2 much more than expected.
3/5

 

[DarthMom]

gotta say, pretty goddamned funny.

definite recommendation if you know you are a fan of smith's humor.

and i can't wait to see the movie fanboys, that was in the previews.

 

[Belisarius]

I think Roger Ebert put it best: Kevin Smith's movies are either for you, or they aren't. Here's what he had to say in his review of JSBSB:

"Jay and Silent Bob" will be seen as a self-indulgence by Kevin Smith to those outside the circle of his films--and by those within it as Kevin Smith's indulgence to them.

And don't get me started on whether it's plenary or temporal. This is one of those movies where the inmates take over the asylum, by which I mean that the director was obviously unrestrained by any timid notions of "reaching the biggest possible audience," and allowed to make an in-joke of epic proportions. Like the Monty Python movies, it depends for full enjoyment on your encyclopedia knowledge of the world that generated it."

In short, you have to be Kevin Smith fan to be a Kevin Smith fan.

I'm a Kevin Smith fan. :D

This is my first time reading the whole thread, and I have to say that I'm surprised that everyone has their own idea of what his best film has been (though it seems like everyone disliked "Jersey Girl"). For the record, "Chasing Amy" is by far my favorite Kevin Smith film, while I also thought JSBSB was hilarious. Even "Mallrats" wasn't the turd every critic said it was at the time.

Re Clerks II:
I actually liked this better than the original. True, it isn't as raw as the first one, nor does it have its free-form insouciance, and it certainly isn't as quotable. But I really liked the heart in this one, the revelation of sides of character never even guessed at in the original. And the "porch monkey" and donkey scenes had me in stitches. :D

 

[lurkerguy]

Can he speak English?
Yes, but he can not speak it good like we do.
Show her your metal face!
He's in a band?
Yeah!
What's it called?
I don't know I think it's called 'Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans' or something right Olof?

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What part of Russia?

.....Moscooooow......

 

[wanderlust]

berzerker!

 

[L2R]

Like the Monty Python movies, it depends for full enjoyment on your encyclopedia knowledge of the world that generated it.[/i]"

rubbish!

All of the monty python films are great without such "encyclopedic knowledge".

this comparison is like apples and worms

 

[wanderlust]

^true
monty python can be appreciated all on its own... the enjoyment is exacerbated by the number of time you watch the film.

more respect is earned for smith films when you live in jersey, or another small shit east coast town where you still see (ten years later) the hottest girl in high school at the pizza joint.... but now she is pulling around her two kids and the extra thirty pounds stuck around her middle and ass. she trolls around in her supermarket work apron, sweat pants and has a cigarette hanging out of her mouth that she doesn't even remove to kiss her fatherless kids goodnight.