Film Clerks III

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Clerks and Mallrats are a couple of 90s staples for me. Clerks II was great too. Hoping this one lives up to the legacy.
 
The first Clerks was alright. It was a decent little social commentary on that period and was one of the first films to get big on nerd-culture.
Clerks ll on the other hand felt flat and, frankly, dated.

And talking about dated, boy, Mall-rats has not aged well at all. Felt embarrassed watching it.
 
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FrankDrebin said:
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It’s going to be comedy where the main joke is about how everything these days is a remake including this very movie! Because irony and self aware = funny.

I’m sure Smith is a nice guy but everything after the first Clerks has been very stupid and his recent films are just lazy cash grabs. We can see the makeup on the actors faces ffs.


FrankDrebin said:
And talking about dated, boy, Mall-rats has not aged well at all. Felt embarrassed watching it.
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Chasing Amy is another one that looks like the ramblings of a bigoted insane person
 
Sweet Square said:
It’s going to be comedy where the main joke is about how everything these days is a remake including this very movie! Because irony and self aware = funny.

I’m sure Smith is a nice guy but everything after the first Clerks has been very stupid and his recent films are just lazy cash grabs. We can see the makeup on the actors faces ffs.



Chasing Amy is another one that looks like the ramblings of a bigoted insane person
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I've listened to many of his interviews and he comes across well and informed but his films just don't do it for me. Too many referential inside jokes and he really bangs the drum for nerd culture in his films, so much so that it gets really nauseating even for a nerd like me.
 
Can't see it working. Clerks drew towards a specific part of 90s culture when being a nerd was a sign you were an altlord and didn't care about other people's opinion. Nerd Culture today is very different
 
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WTF Sarah Michelle Gellar doing there ?

Silently hoping it will be just as bad as some of the RedLetterMedia movies. So bad, you laugh at actors and the producer.
 
Clerks was great, didn’t like clerks 2 all that much. I’ll watch this but I’m not expecting a lot seeing as smith hasn’t made a good film since the nineties.
 
All of Kevin Smith’s movies have dated horrendously. Possibly worse than anything else from that period of 90s slacker Americana (and most of that has dated)

He’s a great public speaker though. Way more interesting than his films, where he doesn’t need to fit these long unwieldy anecdotes about his life and stuff he likes into a believable conversation or coherent story
 
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Nice to see Ricky Gervais get a role in this.
 
Mockney said:
All of Kevin Smith’s movies have dated horrendously. Possibly worse than anything else from that period of 90s slacker Americana (and most of that has dated badly)

He’s a great public speaker though. Way more interesting than his films, where he doesn’t need to fit these long unwieldy anecdotes about his life and stuff he likes into a believable conversation or coherent story
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I had to unfollow him on twitter a while ago because he couldn't stop banging on about "oh I'm vegan, I used to be soooo fat! Everyone should listen to me over and over about that!".

Also, does he really have to wear the same fatman clothes now he's a lot thinner? He looks like a turtle wandered into Primark with that scrawny pink neck sticking out of that oversized t-shirt/jacket combo that a man of his age has no business wearing.
 
I loved the View Askewniverse as a kid in college. Thought Clerks 2 was ok at best.

Then he did a bunch of weird films about walruses and Canada, and that Jay and Silent Bob sequel which…just…ugh.

I’m not confident in this one.
 
Clerks is still an interesting film. Chasing Amy was weirdly highly praised but has dated terribly, not least in terms of its sexual politics. A film like Dogma holds up better.

Clerks 2 ended by framing its characters' refusal to move on as a positive, with them instead just taking charge of the same dead-end place they used to work. And that "why do what other people think you should when you could just hang out with your friends?" ethos kinda sums Smith's film career up. Any sense of ambition or desire to actually make films that appeal to people who aren't Kevin Smith fans has long since been abandoned. He's a hack really.

Which, fine I guess? He seems a nice and funny man and if he and his fans are happy with that schtick that lets him spiel money hanging around with his friends and family then go them I guess. I can't imagine Clerks III appealing to anyone who isn't a die-hard fan, particularly as the trailer makes it look like a fan-made sequel already.
 
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Watched this more out of curiosity than anticipation. The last few (most?) view askew films have been forgettable. Some unexpected twists and turns story wise that draw from Smiths last 10 years but it’s hard to square off the attempted emotional beats with cameos by Impractical Jokers. Slightly better than expected but still not great.
 
Really enjoyed it, if a bit more sad and emotional than I was expecting. I'm just a fan of the whole universe though and most films within it have been about what I expected. Sometimes I'd rather watch something not quite so serious.

Apparently the next Mallrats is still happening, so I'll watch that too.
 
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