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the comedies are the ONLY silent movies I dislike
I actually preferred Jersey Girl to some of his "comedies" where the humor always felt forced, focusing on vulgar rather than funny. Vulgar is fine, as long as it's mixed with comedy.. I hate seth rogan.
Say what you want about the acting, screenplay and direction in Cop Out, but getting Harold Faltermeyer out of retirement to create a new movie score in the style of his 80's output, like Fletch and Beverly Hills Cop (his first score since the mid-90s) was straight-up one of the best things to come out of it.
Fuck Kevin Smith. Dude was always a hack who caught lightning in a bottle and built a career off it. Very few of his movies are even watchable.
Kevin Smith should’ve stuck to writing, which is what he was good at.
A good video but was confused by the way Dogma, one of his better, more interesting films, was totally skipped over.
Kevin Smith is a midrange talent who had funny friends. When he alienated and abandoned those friends, he stopped having anything meaningful to say because they were gone from his life. You can see all the pieces over the course of his and their podcasts. It's sad in a way but also a reminder that no man is an island.
Nah jersey girl was gaaaaaay! Dumb movie.
Let's be real, Kevin Smith's last good movie was Clerks 2. That was a long long time ago.
F Smith, this "man" will rot in hell
Kevin Smith turned into an absolute Hollywood hack.
If I had to describe Never Say Never Again, it’s this … a cinematic oddity of wrights disputes and waisted potential
8:17 He became a little girl? I think the issue with his later movies is just the lack of producer notes, cinematography, and horrible dialogue. I couldn't make it through his past few movies mainly because the dialogue felt so forced.
In the original GF III, there's the scene in the chapel where Neri and Connie give Vincent the order to take Zasa out. Why isn't said scene in GF III CODA?
what is 13:57 from? I've never seen this before. Is it from Zack and Miri?
Its called 'bread sop' and is a literal staple food in most commonwealth countries. Milk, or water, usually warmed, with chunks of old bread and covered in sugar. This is not strange at all, this is poor food. He was clearly illustrating Travis background, NOT his state of mind, you're way, way off track here. He doesn't know what normal food is because he's poor, which is inherently unhealthy, he knows it's unhealthy, but he doesn't know what the normal, healthy alternative is.
I actually remember liking Red State. But if it had had that proposed supernatural ending…..damn. That would’ve been amazing. I refused to watch Tusk but ended up eventually doing so. But wished I hadn’t. 😂
Old movies aren’t the problem modern thinking is. Anyone who lacks the ability to peer into another time without selfishly projecting thier biases is showing naivety and should grow up.
First disappointment was Chasing Amy. I just felt bad after that movie. It wasn’t funny and was a terrible let down. Dogma was unfunny and blasphemous. Only of Smiths movies that were any good were Clerks, Mallrats, and Clerks II.
Kevin Smith seemed like a good filmmaker when I was young. I personally don’t think any of his movies hold up with the possible exception of Clerks…..maybe.
Thanks for this video. I'd call it a love letter to us 90s kids. As a 30+ year clerk, Clerks was me and my buddies go to movie for describing our lives at work. Then Clerks 2 felt like they had all grown up to be better guys, and more successful in life, but Clerks 3 was kind of a slap in the face. I know we've gotten old but seeing Dante and Randle go out like that was depressing. I lost track of Kevin during the bug, when his podcast finally went dark. It was a time when I could have used a few laughs, but I don't think he has it in him anymore. I'll always appreciate his films hitting me at the right time in my life, and wish him all the best.
I thought Kevin Smith was so cool when I first saw Clerks. Mall Rats exposed him as a mediocre talent. I felt embarrassed at myself for seeing that film in the cinema.
If you watch the Brownlow documentary series, Hollywood, from 1980, with interviews from those involved in the silent film era, you get a lot of background understanding of how the films were made. With that, the art of watching becomes easier or understandable because you have a background on the films that assist in viewing them. The documentary is on KZread.
A whole comment section full of people that do nothing but b****😂
It’s sad that something like this even has to be analyzed. There are elitists and snobs in every medium, every one is a critic. The reality is that different people have different tastes. My mom for instance loved Goodfellas, we watched it together. My dad loved Pulp Fiction. I will take these so called film bro movies over any of the modern crap Hollywood is releasing today because they passion put into them. Many of these types of movies are Dark Comedies. If they take themselves too seriously, they lack charm. To me. I couldn’t finish watching Clockwork Orange, maybe I should revisit it now that I’m older. I thought Fight Night was ok, not a masterpiece. American Psycho was ok too, not amazing to me. I loved Wolf of Wall Street as a comedy, but now I can’t watch it because the main characters are such scum. I think you nailed it when you said that teenagers are a ripe audience for these movies, yet just experiencing these films for the first time at any age can be a joy. These movies are only going to get more popular with all the sanitized and preachy movies Hollywood is releasing today and I also can’t help but notice that some of these movies are being aimed at young women, but with little success. Birds of Prey and others like it, but the genre finds more success with men. I always have and probably always will prefer a movie where a man fights for something beyond his own selfish desires. It could his family, to protect the innocent, the truth, his people, justice, or his faith. Call me old fashioned.
Jersey Girl is trash. You lost all credibility with your essay if you liked it.
Likes Jersey girl but then sits there and says Zach and Mindy sucks😂
It all went downhill when they shut down the website
smiths daughter looks more like a daughter of jay mewes 🤔🤔🤔
The snow comment always annoys me. Getting 2 feet of snow at night is very common in areas that get a large amount of snow over winter. I spent 30+ years in Minnesota. Getting 2 feet of snow in the winter is like a Tuesday. Getting that much in the mountains is going to be commonplace. It's one of the reason the place is closed down for winter, it's impassable without special equipment.
Zach & Miri was absolute 💩 and Red State rules. Never seen Jersey Girl, and doubt I ever will. Clerks 3 is bad. Just bad. Boring, predictable, unfunny.
I completely agree with Kevin Smith's assertion that some movies work better in theaters than at home. Action blockbusters do completely work better in a theater than at home. Dialogue driven movies absolutely work better at home. Action blockbusters are "events" that take way more advantage of the sound and giant screen. Dialogue driven movies always suffer in theaters because there's less intimacy that enhances dialogue-driven movies. The sound systems in theaters do not prioritize voices and dialogue nearly as well as home watching does. At home, you can add subtitles to even further enhance a dialogue-driven movie. You can pay closer attention. You can be comfortable. You can be alone. You can pause the movie in case of distractions. Of all of Kevin Smith's movies I saw in the theater, watching Clerks and Chasing Amy at home enhanced the experience in those films for me exponentially. I was able to better absorb the subtleties in those movies MUCH better and easier than in a theater. So, no. I don't agree that "big screen + loud" is always a better experience. In Oppenheimer, the theater experience was dreadful because of the random ambient bass notes that would distort the dialogue. There was only one scene worth sitting in the cinema to see (the bomb going off), and that was it. Watching Oppenheimer at home was definitely better.
It's insane with the prestige and resources that must be at his disposal that Nolans movies still have piss poor audio mixes for dialogue. And he claims he doesn't do ADR in post "out of respect for the audience". How is unintelligible dialogue respecting the audience?
I like the 90s movies but I feel they’re too dated for anyone under 40. Stoner/slacker comedy is dead and you had to be there during the comic speculation bubble to appreciate how much of a wild west it was compared to todays safe superhero media. Even the sexual topics in the movies that were edgy then seem quaint now(the 90s bi female trope for example). Dogma IMO was his chance to springboard to the next level but he got lazy and just pumped out a J&SB movie and Clerks II instead. Clerks is relevant I suppose since the corner store is still a thing and of course shitty jobs still exist. Once again though it has dated elements like stoner comedy and VHS jokes. hell even the star wars jokes might be dated for a lot of younger people. You can legit meet younger people now that have only seen the prequels and new movies/shows for star wars.
Smith donating his tr&nny profits is not "umambiguously great"
He's donating car transmission profits? What a nice guy!
U forgot to include the part where he sold out the fanbase
It really went down hill when he started crying all the time. It just became a lame gimmick and he was no longer the guy that I loved watching everything he did. I even bought the DVD of him speaking.
I don't know who you are. I know a shit ton about Kevin Smith. I cashed out around 3:31.
Mall rats and jay and silent bob strike back were cool back then but other than that Kevin Smith movies suck
Amazing analysis and about the movie and the story and plot perfectly
I actually like everything Kevin has made, except for the horror movies. Horror isn't my thing. Kevin Smith is a national treasure to me and always will be❤
Of course the final bitter irony of the Wendy Theory, is to put the blame of violence and abuse on to Shelley Duvall's character after all the real abuse Ms. Duvall endured during the actual filming of the movie
we all know what group is the new bully...
White collar crime
I was a teenager when I first saw OHMSS. I was disappointed since Sean Connery wasn't in it. Recently I watched it again and saw that it really is a good movie and enjoyed it very much.
Seriously, who fucking cares?
Great points. Watching this right after the Kevin Smith video; you’ve got yourself a new subscriber!
As someone who grew up with Kevin smith movies, I loved Jersey Girl. It is easily Ben’s best movie, I am not a fan of a fleck. Some of the commercial films, ie cop out & Zach & Miri, weren’t for me but love everything else, even tusk. Mall rats clerks are gems and fall in the same space for the 90’s as 16 candles and breakfast club do for the 80’s and super bad for the early 2000’s. I agree, Kevin’s magic is in his writing. Dogma was one of my favorite of all time, it’s one of the best parts of Kevin is his personality and wit.
this was a really great review / critique of one of American cinemas great films...just one quibble, you mention the evils that Polanski perpetrated, just for clarity he committed 1 crime ( i dont condone what he did of coarse and wish he didnt) but for what its worth he has apologised, not many in Hollywood would even accept responsibility let alone apologise for doing wrong, and she has forgiven him. There are far worse people in Hollywood than Polanski, anyone on the Epstein Flight Manifest...or closer to this review, John Huston himself who has done dreadful things in his life..check out how he treated Susan Tyrell on his film Fat City..itll make your skin crawl...but great review none the less
The part here about him being a writer much more than a director is so true in my opinion. I know nothing about movie making, and I prefer to watch critic videos over the movies themselves. But even I couldn't help but cringe at the way the dialogue was done. Especially the way one character speaks until done, then the camera switches to a different character, who waits a beat, then says their part. It was bizarre.
His masters of the universe was super bad too.
I've barely watched much of his work, but by proxy of a friend that was a huge fan, I became fond of him as a person. Unfortunately at some point he did a complete 180 and grew a huge ego. I think social media got the better of him.
His politics became more important than his product. People qtent going to buy that sh*t