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"There he goes. Homeboy fucked a Martian once." Clerks 2 (2006) Dir: Kevin Smith

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Happy Birthday Kevin Smith!

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W A T C H I N G

Goddamn it.

I never thought it would hit me that hard. A really good Clerks movie. But I never imagined the direction of story.

Very Comical, clever, but fuck. So somber and sad too.

I didn't know that going into it. I thought there was going to be meaningfulness mixed in with the funny, but it really hit my gut with grief.

I mean I've been in a consistent flow of grief and turmoil and existential threat for 7 years. But man, with some things hitting certain notes, it felt pretty sad.

Damn good movie. But I need a Xanax now.

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Clerks II (2006, dir. Kevin Smith) - review by Rookie-Critic

Clerks II was a serviceable successor to the original. Going directly from the original film, which was made for a little over $27.5K, directly into this one gave me a bit of tonal and stylistic whiplash. Maybe that would be different if I had watched the 4 View Askewniverse films between the two, but that wasn't the case, so it was jarring. Simply put, this one isn't anywhere near as good as the original; the acting is ok at best (save for Rosario Dawson, who really brings it), there's still some of that wild homophobia as well as a scene containing an intensely uncomfortable amount of racial slurs that then turns into a running gag for the rest of the film, and that sense of purpose that the original film had is scarcely found here. Randall, who was far and away my absolute favorite character in the original, feels different. The young guy who made the most of his situation and thought the world was stupid and laughed at it seems bitter and and angry at the world around him here. Don't get it twisted, a lot of the jokes Randall makes in the film still land effectively, and maybe that's part of the point of the film, but it just made me sad.

What worked, and it worked really well, was Jay & Silent Bob. These 2 characters are significantly more hilarious than in the original Clerks. Jason Mewes had about 12 years under his belt playing this character by the time Clerks II was made, so he'd more than gotten it down by that point. Also, the friendship between Dante and Randall still works very well. Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson still had it here and they effortlessly fall back into their respective rolls to boost the film up. Lastly, there's a specific sentimentality that Kevin Smith likes to inject into his films, and man is it infectious. I won't say too much about it here, because I'm also going to mention it more in depth in my review for Clerks III and it is way more pertinent to that movie than this one, but just know that sentimentality and a genuine love that you can tell Kevin Smith feels for Dante and Randall helped save this movie for me.

Score: 6/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and on DVD & Blu-ray through Lionsgate Films.

Also, I feel like I ragged on the film a lot in this review and just wanted to say that I didn't dislike it that much. It's still genuinely funny and has way more heart than a movie like this should ever have.

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Clerks III

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Kevin Smith saca provecho de la nostalgia

Kevin Smith saca provecho de la nostalgia

(desde la izquierda) Randal (Jeff Anderson) y Dante (Brian O’Halloran) en Kevin Smith’s Oficiales III.Foto: Lionsgate Hay una película visible de 90 minutos escondida en las casi dos horas de duración del programa. Oficiales III. Es una pena que el escritor y director Kevin Smith no tenga la visión clara que una vez tuvo para refinar las ideas lo suficientemente bien como para dejar que su…

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Ali Larter, Eliza Dushku & Jennifer Schwalbach Smith // Behind the Scenes on Jay & SIlent Bob Strike Back

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CLERK (2021)

Featuring Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Brian O’Halloran, Joey Lauren Adams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill, Justin Long, Penn Jillette, Richard Linklater, Judd Nelson, Jason Reitman, Michael Rooker, Scott Mosier, Grace Smith, Donald Smith, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Harley Quinn Smith, Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, Vincent Pereira, John Pierson, Janet Pierson, Trevor Groth, Betty Aberlin, Brian Quinn, Joe Quesada, Mark Bernardin, Raquel Castro and Lily-Rose Depp.

Directed by Malcolm Ingram.

Distributed by Mercantile Instinct. 115 minutes. Not Rated.

“When we made Clerks, I didn't even dream about going to a film festival,” Kevin Smith told me a couple of years ago on the red carpet at the Philadelphia Film Festival screening of the documentary on his life called Clerk. “We were dreaming about going to the independent feature film marketplace. I didn't think the film was festival-worthy, let alone Sundance. While we were making that film I never once thought, ‘Oh my God, what if somebody makes a documentary about me one day?’ That’s mind bending.”

Yes, Kevin Smith has had a long, strange trip in the last thirty or so years. This film, directed by former film journalist turned documentarian and Smith’s long-time friend Malcolm Ingram, gives a pretty good overview of the life of the head of the View Askewniverse.

As noted above, this film has been making the rounds of film festivals for a couple of years (which explains why Clerk ends on Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, not Smith’s more current film Clerks 3), but now it is being released on video. (For hard copy fans, VHS and Blu-Ray copies of Clerk will only be available for purchase via Mercantile Instinct's website – www.mercantileinstinct.com.)

Clerk takes a good look at Smith’s life – an aspect which fraught right off the top because his professional career is so wide-ranging, in subjects, in different mediums and even in quality. (After all, this is the guy who wrote and directed Yoga Hosers and Tusk.)

The most interesting part of the film, somewhat naturally, looks at Smith’s early filmmaking career, and how he was learning as he went on making such classics as Clerks and Chasing Amy (as well as some more problematic films like Mallrats and Dogma).

Looking at his halting steps towards film stardom – as shared by Smith and members of his regular troupe like Brian O’Halloran and Jason Mewes (surprisingly there is no appearance by Jeff Anderson) as well as some of the then-unknown actors Smith helped to break (including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Joey Lauren Adams) – makes for some intriguing looks behind the scenes.

However, while his career as a writer/director (and sometime actor) pretty much peaked in those early years, he has worked in an interesting if sometimes disappointing group of films ever since. (He briefly retired from filmmaking after a traumatizing experience working with Bruce Willis in Cop Out.)

However, in the mid-late period of his career, Smith has branched out and reinvented himself as the ultimate fan boy creator, taking on such diverse interests as comic books (creating and selling), opening and running stores (including reopening the original Clerks store), social media, podcasting and finding what seems to be his true calling as a public speaker, doing long lectures and Q&As on his passions and his career.

Of course, one of the great dramas of his life happened after one of those appearances, when Smith had a major heart attack and came close to ending. It has led to many changes in Smith’s lifestyle – a great loss of weight, a new seriousness of purpose and a decision to throw himself more fully back into filmmaking. (In Clerk, Smith acknowledges that he did not want to die and have Yoga Hosers be his last film.)

Still, in the long run, Smith is happy with the path his life has taken.

“I'm sure if I go back in time and tell the young me like, ‘Hey, keep this up. They're going to make a documentary about you,’ he’d be like, ‘What did we do? Who did we kill? Why did that happen?’” Smith laughed to me when I spoke with him at that red carpet interview. “Just you live long enough and fucking they make a documentary about you. But yeah, there's a lot of things I would love to tell that kid. I wouldn't change a fucking thing, because all of his choices led to this moment for me, which absolutely rocks.”

Clerk shows many of the moments which absolutely rocked him.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: September 26, 2023.

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07: What did you last eat?

19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?

26: What are you craving right now?

53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night?

Please and thank you 🥰

7. Last night while we were watching Ms. Marvel I was eating Mini Nilla Wafers (with Milk to drink!), I haven't had anything yet today

19. If it were to observe then yes i'd love to, but to change anything? Absolutely not. Everything I've ever done in my life has led me to where I am now 💕

26. Things I'm craving... You 💜, for my back to stop hurting, a Cherry Coke and some Reese's Sticks, and to win the lottery 🤣

Also maybe pizza for dinner 🍕

53. Last night I

Texted you goodnight ❤️

Turned on a podcast to listen to (Plus One, Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach)

Promptly fell asleep 1 minute later 😆

Thank you for asking Handsome 🥰💖

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Kevin Smith's Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History: Limited Edition

Making the leap from convenience store worker to international film icon, Kevin Smith has spent over twenty-five years at the forefront of pop culture. In this hilariously candid treasure trove of artifacts and anecdotes.

Snoochie boochies! Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History: Limited Edition is now available for pre-order! This is an extremely limited collector’s edition of Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash featuring one-of-a-kind collectors’ items, limited to nine hundred and fifty units personally signed and numbered by Kevin Smith. This edition is packaged in a deluxe Mooby’s-themed slipcase,…

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Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

This is a Movie Health Community warning. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies, and does not reflect the quality of the film itself.

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot has a few brief sequences where patterned lights at a convention cause a strobe effect, then in a superhero sequence the strobe effects get more severe.

Some of this film takes place inside moving vehicles, but there is no shaky camera work, no extreme speeds or heights, and no unnatural or disorienting angles.

Flashing Lights: 8/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

ADDITIONAL NOTE:There is some mild racial humor in this film.

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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) HD SCREENCAPS Gallery Here: [X] size: 1920x816 2907 caps

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WATCHED

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Clerks II (2006)

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"Clerk"

“Clerk”

Fans of Kevin Smith are a diehard bunch, and the documentary “Clerk” celebrates the life and career of the filmmaker, podcaster, comic book writer, and pop culture icon. Devotees of the View Askewniverse should mark this as a must-see, but newbies would find it helpful to be at least a little familiar with Smith’s resume before diving in. The film, directed by Smith’s longtime friend Malcolm…

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Bad movie I have Yoga Hosers 2016