I'm not getting to go out to the movies a lot these days, and by not a lot I mean not at all. So anything I see is going to be on DVD.
I finally got to see the new Kevin Smith movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, this week.
After watching it, I couldn't help but wonder if Kevin Smith purposely made a movie even more fucking boring than Jersey Girl to try to make that one look better.
Holy crap was this movie boring and really unfunny. It was also proof that Jason Mewes should never play any character other than Jay. Someone also needs to tell Kevin Smith that his 37-year-old wife does not look like someone attending their 10-year high school reunion.
I just want to tell Kevin Smith that we've already got a guy that makes unfunny, boring "comedies" with simplistic, After School Special-type, gooberistic messages. We don't need another Judd Apetow, the most overrated filmmaker since Tarantino. Hell, we didn't need the first one as far as I'm concerned. Please just be Kevin Smith. The Chasing Amy, Clerks and Dogma version, not the Jersey Girl one.
It wasn't a total loss on the Kevin Smith rental front. I also picked up Sold Out - A Threevening with Kevin Smith, the latest of his live Q & A shows where he dishes on his life and his Hollywood experiences. Fun stuff as always. Though his unwavering defense of the Star Wars prequels is baffling, these shows are always a lot of fun. I laughed more in the first five minutes of that than I did the entire Zack and Miri film.
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Amen brudda!
As much as I like Kevin Smith himself, there's never been one of his movies that bowled me over. I liked Dogma well enough, but that's pretty much it. Well, except Clerks II wasn't bad. With most everything else I've been unimpressed. Wait, why do I like him?
I saw him host an evening with the cast and director of SPACED last year at the Cineramadome. Really nice guy and a good interviewer.
Haven't seen Zack & Miri yet due to the kid factor at home.
-Erik
re: Kevin Smith, I'm with Joe...I like the guy, his movies don't really bother me.
With Apatow, it's something similar...Not that impressed with the movies coming out under his moniker, but I wouldn't go as far as you do (there's a shocker). Overrated? Hmmm, not so sure. Besides, both Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared buy him a certain amount of leeway with me.
And then you lose me completely with calling Tarantino overrated...
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