Thursday, February 02, 2006
The Best Thing Kevin Smith Ever Did
I might have shared this before, but it’s worth repeating: I loved Kevin Smith’s Clerks, but pretty much everything after that was just varying degrees of disappointing. Except for An Evening with Kevin Smith.
His double DVD of Q&A sessions across America reveals Smith as a smart, charismatic, quick-witted, funny man with a ton of great stories. Of course, he’s also offensive, foul-mouthed, and completely willing to call people out by name (Tim Burton takes a few big hits, for instance).
Great stuff.
I’m watching it while I’m downloading Verdi’s Nabucco and contemplating the graphics for Blogger Bash Version Whichever and thinking that I should really really be working on one of the freelance projects that I’ve got going.
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Oh come on, David. Dogma is one of the absolute greatest satiric ventures in Hollywood history. Any movie that can get George Carlin to be a golf-playing cardinal who comes up with a marketing scheme for the Catholic Church, well… That alone gets it into the top 25 list.
Although, I do admit, the rest of them pretty much were blah with occasional laugh moments.
But that’s okay. We just watch them for the big Kevin Smith one-line-per-movie-moments anyways.
I’m gonna go with Zombyboy on this one—I thought Dogma was overrated by a factor of 100. Clerks, okay. “Clerks” the cartoon, better. Seeing Kevin Smith live speaking to a large audience, best.
Design question, though: I’m getting a smattering of freelance design work. Where can I find out more about things like reasonable rates, contracts, etc.?
Clerks was great but I always enjoyed Chasing Amy better. I know. I’m weird like that.
Hey, Retro, drop me an email and ask away. I’ll be happy to help if I can.
Trench, I couldn’t get into Chasing Amy. I liked parts of Dogma, but the whole just left me down. Mall Rats was a screw up from beginning to end. And then that last movie he did wasn’t even something I wanted to watch--I had no interest in it.
Oh, and the Jay and Silent Bob thing just got tremendously old over time. It was hilarious in Clerks, but the comedic value declined with every visit largely because Jason Mewes is irritating as hell. Wish he was the (mostly) silent one…