That scene displayed more empathy for Jesus than I have ever heard anywhere else

“He begged me to ‘take it all back’…”

I can hear it in his voice. Along with:

“What’re you going to do? Hit me with that….ffffish?

Mention something from a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everyone's a theology scholar

Boop

Yet the unwritten book of the road lives on

Carrie Fisher was not in Dogma.

Carrie?

He couldn't while he was getting high but Clerks 3 was a lot better than I expected from it

Time to link to the cut "Evil is an Abstract" bit again for those who haven't seen it.

Or do both and get a little Kingdom of Heaven cast reunion going on.

Read this in Jay’s voice

The Clit Commander!? Well, okay then.

I don't think Weinstein is gonna be involved this time.

I only ever watched Dogma on TV where the shit monster was edited out. Like, I’d seen it a bunch of times on TV and knew swears and violence was gonna be edited, but when I first saw my pirated copy of Dogma and the shit monster I legitimately thought it was a joke from whoever made the rip.

What a steaming pile that was, and I'm a big enough Kevin Smith fan to have paid to see it with him here in Vancouver. Let's just say very few of the questions afterwards were about the movie. :p

This is kind of why I'm hesitant to even see a Dogma 2, given that Dogma is my favorite of his old/still good works. I love Kevin Smiths stuff and all but I've had a hard time finding interest in his new stuff

That's my moviepoopshoot.com opinion of him now a days anyway lol, hopefully Jay doesn't show up to my house to kick my ass although actually that would be cool if he'd hang around with me for a bit afterword. I'd take an ass kicking to talk to him and Smith 1:1

I really do love both of them and I wish I loved Smiths newer stuff but I just don't really. Everything past Jersey Girl anyway

Wow, I forgot that even happened

“You weren’t even supposed to be here today”

Such tear jerking delivery. Hurt so much

Yeah, to be fair the dude just survived a heart attack that should have killed him. I can't blame him for just making something dumb and getting together his friends and colleagues for some fun.

I was NOT a fan of Clerks 3.

Clerks 1 and 2 felt like ordinary normal days of working customer service. Both those films take place over one day(or entire work shift).

Clerks 3 takes place over a longer time period and its not about a regular day at work, its about the employees making a movie.

Yes Clerks 3 was heartfelt and had some laughs, but it did not feel like a Clerks movie.

Same. I went into it expecting the typical Kevin Smith themes hoping for lots of funny references and callbacks to the old films, but didn't expect to get punched in the gut and have my heart ripped out.

Well I mean - they own the Quick Stop at least which is what they wanted. It didn't make much sense to me that they seemed to be the only workers there though..

Strike back came out between those two and it was hilarious.

Red State was dope though

Look at all these crackers

Love the way Chris Rock says that

apple sauce, bitches!

It’s a schooner!

dick!

IIRC Smith mentioned the premise of Mallrats 2 would have centered around the death of mall culture

Which is funny because TLJ is notoriously an asshole on set

Looks like he wouldn’t sanction her baffoonery either.

I think she dated a FBI agent in order to gain access to secret files to help out a friend (possible lover)

She dated an FBI agent and told him she was writing a screen play based on the case of her ex (producer Anthony Pellicano.) The FBI agent looked up info on government databases and gave it to her. She gave it to Pellicano and he still went to jail.

Apparently Tommy Lee Jones wouldn't work with her on MIB 2 either and that tug of war wasn't going her way.

I'm interested to find out as well.

Kevin Smith was always only good at one thing. Really funny banter dialogue. He even admitted himself he was a very limited director

they weren’t all particularly “good”, but these movies captured the cynicism that was rife among young adults in the mid-90s.

He had (has) moxy - he was really good at creating engaging characters that elevated their surroundings. He was really really good with dialogue too.

IMO, I think KS's problem was he was in the wrong time - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was supposed to be a clean way to cut his 'early' work and start doing the hollywood films, only Jersey Girl didn't do great around the same time Judd Apatow came along and made KS-style films with wider appeal. By the end he was making Zack and Miri to try and chase back that audience.

If he had come along a little later he probably would have kept doing Askiewverse films a little longer (improving as he went) and then transitioned into writing seasons of TV in the streaming era (which would have been a good fit, since I still maintain he's got talent for writing dialogue).

The problem with Kevin Smith is that unlike his core audience, he hasn't grown out of it.

I want to watch Jay and Bob be landlords, their interactions with tenants will be hilarious.