Random Review of the Week(7/03)
Clerks. directed by Kevin Smith
Clerks is a love it or hate type of movie. I personally, love it, and am a pretty huge fan of Kevin Smith's films. The first time I saw Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I was rolling on the floor laughing at every single joke throughout. And I'd like to say that Clerks started it all for me, but I was only 12 when it came out, so needless to say, it flew under my radar. Mallrats was my introduction to Kevin Smith and I was about 15 when I saw that and I instantly fell in love with the hilarity in that movie. Then I saw Clerks and I was floored. Now granted, I never had, and still really haven't faced a lot of the issues that the characters in the movie deal with, but I connect with Dante and Randall regardless. They are geeks, stuck in a world that doesn't give a shit about their geekiness. Kevin Smith is truly one of the great geeky directors out there working today, whose geekiness isn't cinephile geekiness-it's comics and Star Wars geekiness. He embraces his love of all things geeky and puts it out there for all the rest of us geeks to worship. He makes movies for the action figure collecting, video game playing, comic book reading, Star Wars worshipping people. It gives a voice to people like me, who generally are pretty ignored. I think he has helped pave the way for the mass acceptance of video games, and comic book culture. The OC wouldn't have nerdy Seth Cohen without having the nerdy clerks. That 70's Show wouldn't have nerdy Eric Foreman without having the nerdy clerks. Would comic book movies be the majority of movies hitting the movie theater today? Kevin Smith made it cool to be a geek, and it all started with Clerks. Clerks today is still as funny as it has ever been. Sucking 37 dicks, possibly in a row, is still hilarious. Showing a jizz mopper a close up of a vagins is still hilarious. Manually masturbating animals for artificial insemination is comic gold. For as little expectations that the actors had for the movie, they fill it with passion. They believe the words they are saying-and they are those characters. Unfortunately for Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran, they will probably never live down their characters, regardless of where their careers take them. They are Dante and Randall. Clerks is an important film, a hilarious film, and a film that I can't imagine being without. Kevin Smith has had a pretty long and interesting career, and I look forward to Clerks 2. The expectations are through the roof for that movie, and I for one have nothing but confidence in the man because you can tell he loves these characters just as much as the rest of us do. Here's to you Mr. Smith.
Clerks is a love it or hate type of movie. I personally, love it, and am a pretty huge fan of Kevin Smith's films. The first time I saw Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I was rolling on the floor laughing at every single joke throughout. And I'd like to say that Clerks started it all for me, but I was only 12 when it came out, so needless to say, it flew under my radar. Mallrats was my introduction to Kevin Smith and I was about 15 when I saw that and I instantly fell in love with the hilarity in that movie. Then I saw Clerks and I was floored. Now granted, I never had, and still really haven't faced a lot of the issues that the characters in the movie deal with, but I connect with Dante and Randall regardless. They are geeks, stuck in a world that doesn't give a shit about their geekiness. Kevin Smith is truly one of the great geeky directors out there working today, whose geekiness isn't cinephile geekiness-it's comics and Star Wars geekiness. He embraces his love of all things geeky and puts it out there for all the rest of us geeks to worship. He makes movies for the action figure collecting, video game playing, comic book reading, Star Wars worshipping people. It gives a voice to people like me, who generally are pretty ignored. I think he has helped pave the way for the mass acceptance of video games, and comic book culture. The OC wouldn't have nerdy Seth Cohen without having the nerdy clerks. That 70's Show wouldn't have nerdy Eric Foreman without having the nerdy clerks. Would comic book movies be the majority of movies hitting the movie theater today? Kevin Smith made it cool to be a geek, and it all started with Clerks. Clerks today is still as funny as it has ever been. Sucking 37 dicks, possibly in a row, is still hilarious. Showing a jizz mopper a close up of a vagins is still hilarious. Manually masturbating animals for artificial insemination is comic gold. For as little expectations that the actors had for the movie, they fill it with passion. They believe the words they are saying-and they are those characters. Unfortunately for Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran, they will probably never live down their characters, regardless of where their careers take them. They are Dante and Randall. Clerks is an important film, a hilarious film, and a film that I can't imagine being without. Kevin Smith has had a pretty long and interesting career, and I look forward to Clerks 2. The expectations are through the roof for that movie, and I for one have nothing but confidence in the man because you can tell he loves these characters just as much as the rest of us do. Here's to you Mr. Smith.
posted by Matt Lemos @ 8:36 PM
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