Alternate universe indicated in set dressing by Kevin Smith Pulp Fiction and Quentin Tarantino Mallrats posters

You know, the fact that his home town of Red Hook, New Jersey has a fairly nice commercial downtown

probably informs how Kevin Smith’s first two movies were set at a strip mall and a shopping mall, respectively (and a “dirt mall”)

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Clerks III a powerful “the 90s are back!” moment

This is, by a wide margin, the most wretched “I have to stop learning things this way” moment I’ve had in all my years on Tumblr.

Who’s directing? Oh my god Kevin Smith is directing! How can that be?

Reminder the theatrical release of the original Clerks he owes his reputation to was, like so much other acclaimed American cinema of the 1990s, the Harvey Weinstein cut

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Clerks III a powerful “the 90s are back!” moment

This is, by a wide margin, the most wretched “I have to stop learning things this way” moment I’ve had in all my years on Tumblr.

Who’s directing? Oh my god Kevin Smith is directing! How can that be?

Clerks III a powerful “the 90s are back!” moment

You know, Chasing Amy might best be thought of as coming out of the early ‘90s period where we developed a mature account of “homosexual” before we did of “bisexual”. If you understand Alyssa as a bisexual whose lesbian self-conception is important to her '90s “alternative” identity positioning, the possibility of involvement with a man has comprehensible and interesting stakes.

>Kevin Smith restarts his career off the ‘20s bi m moment with a Chasing Amy remake about a girl getting with a guy who identified as gay

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Okay, I don’t really have a dog in this race, but watching how a certain species of fanboy has reacted to the Kevin Smith He-Man sequel pulling a bait and switch, plastering Prince Adam all over the promotional media, then blowing him up in the first episode and making Teela and Evil-Lyn the co-protagonists of the front half of season one has honestly been funny as hell.

Like, my bro, my dude, I understand the feeling of not getting what you paid for, but the part where the fact that the substitute lead is a girl bothers you more than the fact that you got baited in the first place? You’re not supposed to say that part out loud.

I mean, you’ve gotta know you’re ruining it for everybody else, right? That every valid criticism of the show – of which there are doubtless many – is going to get completely drowned out by a handful of greasy weirdos screaming at the top of their lungs about a feminist conspiracy to emasculate our beloved media icons, and that’s all everybody outside the fandom is going to hear about it, right?

(And frankly, the idea that Kevin Smith is part of this putative conspiracy is probably the funniest part. Like, have you seen the guy’s body of work?)

At the point you’re doing a female-led reboot of a show called He-Man, you either have to have something interesting to say about the whole female-led reboot phenomenon or else you’re it jumping the shark.

Also like “oh, it’s got Kevin Smith” like have you witnessed any of Kevin Smith’s creative decisions in the literally last quarter of a century?

He best comes up with interesting things to say sitting around bullshitting and Clerks was just that and adding to it isn’t really his strength. The mall setting worked for Mallrats, and the “fallen angel” concept for Dogma was neat, but everything else is stock plotting and forgettableness. So his current specialization in like, reality show commentating and podcasting makes sense.

Thinking about Clerks and Mallrats

Thought the reputed fall-off in quality was overrated but at this distance I actually remember the character arc of Clerks – Dante has a dead-end life but has an earnestly caring girlfriend promoting his self-improvement… into what, the normie morons who populate his store as customers and remember her from high school as an orgasm dispenser?

Whereas Mallrats, uh, his girlfriend’s pissed he plays NHL on Genesis instead of making an effort so he… goes to the mall… then goes to the dirt mall… then Silent Bob Batmans in to expose Ben Affleck fucking a high schooler? I have no memory what the lesson was, what wisdom Silent Bob, Stan Lee OR the topless fortune teller passed on

Also from Clerks, Dante the iconic loser has

• his own place
• a job
• a car
• a girlfriend
• work friends
• a crew of guys to play hockey games with

Just saying

Uhh from Mallrats a lot of the good guy/bad guy gradient comes from Ben Affleck being into painal. If in that elevator scene he’s like “yeah, I keep up a good appearance, and then I find girls who’ve been disappointed by their men, and then, I stick my penis in their vaginas”? Like yeah dude, that’s heterosexuality, “being better than the other guy” is the move by which the protagonist wins here

Thinking about how counter to the then-current French-influenced stereotype, it was Mallrats, where Kevin Smith moved on from black & white independent filmmaking, that had the gratuitous tits

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwv39eWMws

How is that tiny man Kevin Smith, when did that happen?

He has a daughter and he had a heart attack last year, so he pulled a Penn Jillette and started to take care of himself for once.

That’s in a year? Good Lord.

Man I remember when he was on a college speaking tour in like ‘04 and he was a little slimmed down from where he’d been (and also just had the daughter he named after Harley Quinn)

But this was the Olestra age where the breakthrough in weight loss (fen-phen either just fell through or was about to) was just not digesting fats

So he had this bit on how he’d lost weight on Xenical but it was terrible and if in the future we ever saw him in a restaurant eating cake or something we should go up to him and remind him of fatty grease shits

If Dogma were made today, that priest having blessed his golf clubs would be played as a humanizing moment.