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Amph At The Movies (film discussion thread)

Discussion in 'Community' started by DarthMane2, May 23, 2015.

  1. Bor Mullet

    Bor Mullet Force Ghost star 7

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    My massively and suspiciously overstuffed pockets never got that memo.
     
  2. Django211

    Django211 Force Ghost star 4

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    Maybe it was a trade off. We'll let you watch and you promise to not make any more films.
     
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  3. gezvader28

    gezvader28 Chosen One star 6

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    I'm waiting for 16K before I buy any more media.
     
  4. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Didn't work, he announced Clerks 3 a bit ago.
     
  5. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    Rip people's last shred of sanity and dignity..
     
  6. Django211

    Django211 Force Ghost star 4

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    Clerks 3 in 4D, where you feel absolutely nothing!
     
  7. christophero30

    christophero30 Chosen One star 10

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    Kevin Smith hasn't been funny since Clerks. Maybe Chasing Amy. But I still have to see him everywhere, whether I want to or not.
     
  8. Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid

    Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid Force Ghost star 6

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    If we paid him enough, we could get Kevin Smith to participate on these forums. That’s where he is at this point in his career. I think he uses that money towards his own projects. He’s hocking 4DXL and Netflix Masters of the Universe the same way Orson Welles hocked wine and voiced the Death Star Transformer in Transformers The Movie. Nothing wrong with that. Regardless my opinion of Smith’s movies, I respect his hustle. Being the human embodiment of ComicCon 24/7 must be exhausting
     
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  9. Django211

    Django211 Force Ghost star 4

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    The funny thing about Smith is he actually has something to say, he just doesn't have the balls to say it in a film. He can be very funny when he's in front of an audience dishing about his adventures in Hollywood. If he took those stories and that attitude and made a film (writing a script and let someone else direct would be better) he would probably have a good satire from an insiders view of Hollywood. However I don't think he would ever put himself out there in that way. He'd rather shoot at low hanging fruit and have his ever diminishing fandom keep searching where to find his next project.

    I enjoyed Clerks for what it was, a guy got lucky and his student quality film got up on the big screen. After 30 years he really hasn't gotten any better and he's worked with a ton of talented people. By all accounts he's a good guy and he can be quite good in interviews but the fact that he is so bad at his chosen profession is astounding.
     
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  10. BigAl6ft6

    BigAl6ft6 Chosen One star 8

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    I thought Red State was an interesting diversion for Smith that actually paid off really well. Tusk was where it got dicey, he tried to do serious horror but then it just got stupid as the whole thing was born from his podcast with Scott Mosier (who is actually kind of hilarious). Yoga Hosers and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot were him just basically going through the motions (there was about a 5 minute Chasing Amy sequel that was pretty well done with Affleck's Holden showing up again). Red State was really dope though, there's a thriller horror filmmaker in there somewhere. I am looking forward to Clerks 3 though as he has a particular spark with those characters and actors. Although "the making of Clerks, the movie" was basically the story of "Zack and Mirir Make a Porno". And it's not as if he's making a lot of movies he'd down to like 2 every 10 years by now. Nowhere near his 90s/early 2000s output. I really like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, it's a very stupid live action cartoon.

    Smiths' podcasts are good for some yuks whenever Mosier can show up who I think has been back exactly twice in the last 2 years. Fatman Beyond has some interesting insights from Marc Bernardin.
     
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  11. Thena

    Thena Chosen One star 7

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    Anne Heche in critical condition
     
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  12. Ahsoka's Tano

    Ahsoka's Tano Force Ghost star 7

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    Jeez. Hope she pulls through that.
     
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  13. christophero30

    christophero30 Chosen One star 10

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    Not good for Heche; I like her. Even if she lives, there's gonna be a huge bill for all that damage. And she destroyed someone's house. Lucky she didn't kill the person in the house. She's probably looking at jail time and a civil suit. Hopefully her burns are not severe. Prayers for her; she clearly needs help.
     
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  14. The2ndQuest

    The2ndQuest Tri-Mod With a Mouth star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Comes out next month, actually.

    Keep in mind that he's eschewed the studio distribution process (starting with his Red State stunt at Sundance a few years back) and work-for-hire (following Cop Out), so he's mostly restricted to self-funded, smaller films with limited release engagements. Without that funding and system backing him, he's not going to be able to pump things out as fast as he did back then (he just gets the benefit of retaining ownership as the trade-off). Closest he's had was the proposed Mallrats sequel series that Universal has had in the works for a few years now.
     
  15. Rogue1-and-a-half

    Rogue1-and-a-half Manager Emeritus who is writing his masterpiece star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I'm a fan of Clerks, Chasing Amy & Dogma from Smith's classic stuff. I also really love Red State, which is flawed, but that Michael Parks performance is just really amazing and I think their low-budget inability to pull off the ending Smith originally wanted actually worked out for the best. I think the ending the movie has is better than the one Smith wanted.

    And, look, I'll say it, I'm a big fan of Clerks II. I think it's superior to the first one actually. Clerks II is really about what happens when the burnouts hit middle age and are just still burnouts. I think Jeff Anderson's performance in Clerks II is absolutely brilliant; there's just this raw hurt underneath all of the silliness; it's so much more layered than his performance in the first movie. Yeah, I could live without the donkey subplot and some of the comedy is not great, but I think it's one of his more emotionally interesting films, more like Chasing Amy than the original Clerks in terms of it actually trying to say something about life changes and self-sabotage. And then Trevor Fehrman is really fantastic as Elias. Genuinely hilarious.

    I don't know that I want or need a Clerks III, especially not after the last eleven years of movies. I mean, when he made Clerks II, he'd done Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, which is a pretty awful movie, and Jersey Girl which I never even saw but heard was dreadful. So, he was like only a few years from doing really good work. His last good movie was Red State which was eleven years ago. I just don't trust him to make a decent movie at this point in his career. And Clerks II actually had a really moving and beautiful ending. Like that's how I want to remember Randall & Dante, the way they were at the end of Clerks II.
     
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  16. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    I mean, if she does she belongs in prison. Clearly Extremely reckless driving and probably drunk driving. She crashed once, left the scene, then went and crashed again and burned down a family home. Thank God the people all got out of
     
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  17. Todd the Jedi

    Todd the Jedi Mod and Loving Tyrant of SWTV, Lit, & Collecting star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    Ooo, yeah, just saw the video of her driving before one of the crashes. Gonna be hard to generate sympathy there.
     
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  18. christophero30

    christophero30 Chosen One star 10

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    Not sure how badly she is injured, but she is really, really lucky she didn't kill someone. Looked like she was doing 80 down that residential street. Plus driving through the house. I don't know how you ever get a driver's license after that. She could be in legal trouble. Sounds like she is out of critical condition, not sure how badly she is burned.
     
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  19. Adam of Nuchtern

    Adam of Nuchtern Force Ghost star 6

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  20. Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid

    Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid Force Ghost star 6

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    GTFO.

    Is that true?
     
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  21. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  22. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    Famously anyone can release a version of NOTLD because of this yes.
     
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  23. Thena

    Thena Chosen One star 7

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    This is just bananas
     
  24. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    No, those are Minions(TM). Common mistake.
     
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  25. Thena

    Thena Chosen One star 7

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    Minions understood that reference.
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