Topic: Kevin Smith.

[-Sad Fuck-]

Anyone a fan?

Just watched all the View Askewniverse again, makes me laugh every single time.

Genius 

[rednile]

Smodcast is funny as fuck , havent seen all his films still to see  Mallrats , Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl . Watched Clerks II  last week really funny .

[JohnSullie]

Dogma was fun too.

[Franck Le Poof]

I love the man and his work.
Is he done with the whole Jay and Silent Bob series? I heard there might be a comeback for them

[Henry Chinaski]

Mallrats and Clerks are my favourites.
Chasing Amy was plain horrible.

[MadErik]

Just don't mention Jersey Girl.

[Franck Le Poof]

Mallrats and Clerks are my favourites.
Chasing Amy was plain horrible.

Thought the scene with Silent Bob talking in Chasing Amy was brilliant though

[Henry Chinaski]

Just don't mention Jersey Girl.

Who? What?

[-Sad Fuck-]

I bought myself a mooby's hoody.

go me   o/

[nidgemo]

huge fan of everything he does.

[neilem]

Kevin Smith talks about Superman
Kevin Smith talks about Tim Burton

[Henry Chinaski]

Kevin Smith talks about Superman
Kevin Smith talks about Tim Burton

That is fucking brilliant.

'Polar bears are the fiercest killers of the animal kingdom.'

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

Kevin Smith talks about Superman
Kevin Smith talks about Tim Burton

Those are brilliant. I have to find the full version.

[Rob K]

Those are brilliant. I have to find the full version.

It's on one of these two if i remember correctly, probably the first one.  Still worth getting both though

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evening-Kevin-Smith-NTSC/dp/B0001EYTPC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1217450864&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evening-Kevin-Smith-Harder/dp/B000JU9OK8/ref=pd_bxgy_d_h__text_b?ie=UTF8&qid=1217450864&sr=8-3

[nidgemo]

Aside from making great movies, I really could listen to smith talking for hours (and have done on smodcasts)

[Corkboy]

Kevin Smith talks about Superman

Brilliant.

Spoiler

I checked out that Jon Peters spider story and it's true

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[Bullan]

Genius.

Went off the rails a bit with Jersey Girl, but Clerks and Mallrats had some fantastic dialogue.
He seems to do better in his low budged "indie" movies, I mean Dogma was a great movie and I can always laugh at Affleck and Damon nattering away, but I dunno, its like the stars or bigger budget somehow restricted him.

Still Clerks 2 was kwaaalitee

[gazzalfc]

Hes the type of guy who wants to really tell a story and tell it well.

He's in the Tarentino mould of filming quaility dialogue that the audience can relate to.

He doesn't want a shit load of explosives or an action scene every 10 mins that  every film nowadays has to have.

I like that he steers away from the big budget films as it lets him get his style of filmaking across without studios butting in.

I also like that he is willing to mingle with us 'common folk'.

His Q and A's are almost a stand up routine where it comes from the heart or real life experiences. Not something that has to be thought about in advance to get to a punchline.

Of course Jersey girl bombed and Malrats wasn't that great. But I loved Chasing Amy and Clerks.

I am really interested to see how Zack and Miri Make a Porno turns out. He's got 2 of the best comedic actors of the last few years in Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. Plus its the first step out of the view askewniverse since Jersey girl.

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

I may find myself listening to every single Smodcast. I have a bit of a thing for just listening to people talk (lectures, DVD commentaries, audiobooks, etc) when they're intelligent and interesting and have found an untapped resource in Kevin Smith. Always loved his movies., now I have the evening DVDs and an archive of podcasts. Excellent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith:_Sold_Out_-_A_Threevening_with_Kevin_Smith

His third Q&A DVD is out soonish, too.

Speaking of his films, always thought Dogma was incredible. I love Alan Rickman in that film, the whole thing is excellent. I also love how Kevin Smith joined a protest against the film and ended up being interviewed on the news.

[nidgemo]

I may find myself listening to every single Smodcast. I have a bit of a thing for just listening to people talk (lectures, DVD commentaries, audiobooks, etc) when they're intelligent and interesting and have found an untapped resource in Kevin Smith. Always loved his movies., now I have the evening DVDs and an archive of podcasts. Excellent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith:_Sold_Out_-_A_Threevening_with_Kevin_Smith

His third Q&A DVD is out soonish, too.

Speaking of his films, always thought Dogma was incredible. I love Alan Rickman in that film, the whole thing is excellent. I also love how Kevin Smith joined a protest against the film and ended up being interviewed on the news.

As someone with the same listening habit (which is why I love kermode / fry / dave gorman etc) I've been on to smodcast since very early.

Smodcasts are just a superb listen and I look forward to them every week.

I've actually never seen the "evening with" but got all 4 hours of the first one, so will start watching it tonight!

[rednich85]

Love Kevin Smith and most of his work

Clerks II is unbelievable

Dogma, Mallrats etc are class.

I love the dialogue in his films

Top class

" Pillow Pants "

[IrishDave]

I am the Clit Commander.

Love Kevin Smith. Gave Jersey Girl a wide berth mind you.

The scene in Clerks 2 where the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is boiled down to "three films about walking" nearly led to an unfortunate piss-related accident for everyone sitting near me in the cinema.

[davidg]

Hit and miss.

Best summed up with Chasing Amy, absolutely hilarious in parts, fucking tragically bad in others.

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

As someone with the same listening habit (which is why I love kermode / fry / dave gorman etc) I've been on to smodcast since very early.

Smodcasts are just a superb listen and I look forward to them every week.

I've actually never seen the "evening with" but got all 4 hours of the first one, so will start watching it tonight!

Where did you get it? The one torrent I can find with the full version has no seeders and thus isn't complete. Found it in 3 seperate files though, but no extras until I can afford the DVD.

[sabbathfan]

Is it just me or are his Introductions that he puts on practically every dvd, utterly shit? Its just him and Mewes and Mosier standing in front of the camera looking like they have no idea what to say.

Love his movies though. I'm a big Askewniverse fan.

[sabbathfan]

Speaking of his films, always thought Dogma was incredible. I love Alan Rickman in that film, the whole thing is excellent. I also love how Kevin Smith joined a protest against the film and ended up being interviewed on the news.

I never knew that happened until I read your post. I went and watched it on youtube. Fucking genius! Talk about emabarrassing! Imagine you were spending hours of your time to protest against a man, and the man stood right next to you and you didn't know it was him! Shows the level of ignorance. What a clever clever man.

[The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society]

Brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLQSOPWwV5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDoIBgiUAQ

[Bob Loblaw]

Love the story of when he was supposed to do Superman i think it was, and the huge Spider, than a few months or years later watching Wild Wild West.

And the run-ins with Prince and Tim Burton. Superb.

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

4 hours later. That was marvellous. Although I feel somewhat guilty for spending four hours doing fuck all.

[Corkboy]

4 hours later. That was marvellous. Although I feel somewhat guilty for spending four hours doing fuck all.

I'm doing a similar thing but have taken the necessary precaution of spending a couple of hours in the outside world.

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

I'm doing a similar thing but have taken the necessary precaution of spending a couple of hours in the outside world.

I spent at least 14 minutes in the front garden earlier watching the other people having fun outside.

Anyway, I'm not well, I'm allowed to wallow here on my own.

[Corkboy]

I spent at least 14 minutes in the front garden earlier watching the other people having fun outside.

Anyway, I'm not well, I'm allowed to wallow here on my own.

Wassamattawitchoo?

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

Wassamattawitchoo?

Severe lack of a social life.

Oh, and glandular fever.

[Corkboy]

Severe lack of a social life.

Oh, and glandular fever.

Neither of which are fatal.

Which is nice.

[nidgemo]

Where did you get it? The one torrent I can find with the full version has no seeders and thus isn't complete. Found it in 3 seperate files though, but no extras until I can afford the DVD.

Same one - just stitched the parts and burned a dvd from them myself.

Watched the whole thing tonight - and it's good - very good in parts - but not as good as the smodcasts.

Do you have them all Rob?

[Rob Jones Maybe?]

Same one - just stitched the parts and burned a dvd from them myself.

Watched the whole thing tonight - and it's good - very good in parts - but not as good as the smodcasts.

Do you have them all Rob?

I got the 4 hour one and it only missed 3 sections about 30 seconds long when played in VLC.

700mb file but the video was tiny. Which is fair enough. Some genius moments, I love Jason Mewes.

[hooded claw]

His stuff is just John Hughes films with swearing, isn't it?

[nidgemo]

His stuff is just John Hughes films with swearing, isn't it?

I see what you're saying.






No.

[The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society]

His stuff is just John Hughes films with swearing, isn't it?

I think he's quite obviously influenced by John Hughes, especially evident in Chasing Amy and Mallrats. I don't think you can say Clerks, Clerks II, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back are particularly John Hughes-y

[JohnSullie]

I visited the town he's from in NJ, Redbank a few years back just to purchase some merchandise from the Comic book store he has open there,great shop but what a hole of a town!.