My father absolutely hated all of Kevin Smith’s movies and characters. I tried several times to watch a few with him, but he didn’t like the constant vulgarity and absolutely freaking HATED Jay and Silent Bob as characters……but when I watched Jersey Girl with him, he looked just like George Carlin at the end: glassy-eyed, just trying not to cry. Afterwards he said, “Wow. I actually really liked that one.”
Everyone i have ever talked to about Jersey Girl who didnt like it was mad it wasnt a Jay and Silent Bob movie. Something to the effect of “at least chasing amy had them for a bit..” its really good mature heartfelt George Carlin is fantastic in it. When it failed Kevin pulled back. He has only stepped meaningfully outside the quick stop a few times over the years always good movies that dont do as well as they should. I want Red State Kevin Smith back. That guy was a filmmaker who loved film and wanted to step outside his comfort zone into new territory and genre. I love Tusk but that was from conception a tongue in cheek silly affair. Make another brave movie Kev we will come see it.
The "problem" with Jersey Girl was the fact it was a different kind of film from Kev. He had cultivated this cult audience with the View Askiewniverse, and at that time, most of those cult fans didn't want to see him leave that universe behind. I think that, as much as the failure of Jersey Girl at the box office is what led to Clerks II, J&SB: SGCM, J&SB: Reboot, Clerks III, and the ever elusive Mallrats II. "Oh, you only want this? Aight. More of this then." I feel like a lot of that backlash had died down by the mid '00s, opening the way for movies like Red State and Tusk. And Yoga Hosers, but we're not gonna talk about Yoga Hosers.
@@tomlaw8821it does not. Neither does his ability to make films he relies entirely on fans like this guy to come out no matter how little work he puts into a film.
How does this have less than 200 views as I write? You’re a consistently delightful video essayist. I love seeing them come up in my subscription feed. Never get discouraged!
I love Kevin smith's career. His movies are nostalgic and I thought both Tusk and Red State were great swings visually and tonally. He now makes what he wants to make, gets his investments back with the podcast road shows. If one of those movies end up big, it's pure profit. Nice he doesn't have to report to the studio. I'm a fan of his drive but not all his films. Thanks for putting this together, fun watch for sure.
For real, the Jay and silent Bob reboot was absolute garbage. I tried to sit and watch it. I had to turn it off because nothing about it felt like Jay and silent Bob. It was more like Jay and silent Bob go woke. And Tusk was just the dumbest attempt at body horror I've ever seen. It's probably just time for him to retire before he trashes anything else that's actually good.
@@diy_mushroomguynot to mention him trying to do a death of superman with He-Man but removing everything that made the death of superman so special because he also wanted to do a story about Teela at the same time
His filmmaking ability was mostly contained within his fat cells. So talent is inversely linked with his weight: the skinnier he gets, the worse his movies are. Or maybe this new guy is an IMPOSTER m
I’m confused. Maybe this toxic storm missed us in UK, but I thought Jersey Girl was great. I was genuinely touched when Affleck’s character cracked and shouted at the kid.
@@Tonberry2k People wanted to like it and bought into Kevin's real life story (which I found too predictable and cringe as we saw so much of it). I'm a huge Madonna fan but also incredibly critical of a lot of her work.
@@vinnym5607 I wanted to like it too. Especially after the horribly embarrassing Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, but I don’t think he could have made a worse movie if he tried. And I feel bad, because I know how personal it was to him.
@@Tonberry2k I saw "Reboot" at an AMC and even though it had Fantom Events as part of the info before it stated, it was a basic matinee price on a Friday. I was curious when he came to town but ultimately skipped it but I guess it played in the Detroit area because he was here that week. Very odd release but it wasn't very good but fine for a distraction. That being said, I knew better not to try and see "Clerks" in a theater. I would've been pissed. Had a trail for Starz and after putting it off for a while, watched it late one night and was so disappointed.
You're very kind in your analysis. I loved Chasing Amy and Dogma, but they still had an amateurish quality to them that I thought Smith would grow out of. He didn't. And his retreat to safer ground with Clerks sequels only reiterated that, so I haven't seen anything of his past "Zach & Miri". It doesn't help that "Jersey Girl" and horror aren't the kind of movies that would appeal to me anyway, so they'd have to be Oscar-worthy to get my attention anyway and they certainly weren't that. Word is that "Kilroy was Here" is absolutely horrible. So my take is that Smith never matured as a filmmaker (and possibly not even as a person). He may have the desire to tell heartfelt stories but doesn't have the self-analysis to tell smart ones.
I think when Dogma failed to ignite the box office the way everyone involved thought it would, it traumatized him in a way that seriously altered the direction his career was headed. I personally think Dogma was the movie he truly believed would lift him up with the likes of Quintin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez. After Dogma every movie until Red State, for me showed little artist growth. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the movies in between, Clerks 2 is still a movie I hold near and dear to my heart.
I was a big fan of the early stuff, and was a proud Jersey Girl hater at the time. I eventually saw it on Netflix, it was fine. It definitely didn't feel all the way like a Kevin Smith movie
Funny you should ask! I made a whole video breaking down the Clerks trilogy as one thirty-year story: ua-cam.com/video/_1kNXNbcbZM/v-deo.htmlsi=1sBtW9t_QzKP05Ms
So Jersey girl also got heat because of the arguably actual disaster that was the movie Gili. That was such a trainwreck that Jersey girl caught some of the shrapnelJbecause Jennifer Lopez is in both movies.
I've defended Jersey Girl for almost twenty years and I'll never stop. Especially after how awful Yoga Hosers, Jay and Silent Bob reboot, and Clerks 3 were.
What I find interesting rewatching the early Smith films is that they are played very straight, understated, like a play almost. The dialogue is so whip sharp and delivered in a Gen X ‘whatever dude’ style, that the charm comes through in the characters and the story. At a certain point the hamming up starts to occur, from Jay and Silent Bob onwards. Somewhere around there, the laughs are being played big, the performances aren’t understated. He’s always had larger than life characters but they were always in the real world, and the evolution of Smith’s style went backwards after Clerks 2 (which was quite low-key for the majority, save the dance routine).
I'm always there with bells on for a Kevin Smith script. (Never seen "Cop Out," don't intend to.) I really liked "Jersey Girl," loved "Red State" and I weirdly, I dug Tusk. I just like the way he writes and I don't get pissed when he's not being the Clerks guy. Feel like I'm one of the only Smith fans who just digs his skills regardless of the genre. I'm also one of the only Tarantino fans who loved Death Proof, apparently.
@@claykennedy6790 if you end there it denies you the super bleak ending where humanity is shredded so badly that for whatever slivers of man there still are they have been overtaken by madness and walrus irreversibly. Never to be whole again never to rejoin society.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever. Because of some strange relationship with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Smith has always has had the help of an enormous amountf A-listers to appear in all his films, With small budgets and the star power the movies are critical and financial bombs each and everyone. Because of his love of comic books, hockey and podcast oddly he has a devout group that idolizes him even though most admit his movies are terrible. Becauses celebrity friends continue to help him studios have continued to make these films knowing they wouldn't perform. His fans have given him a cult like following one theory is his films are so odd and strange his low brow fan base thinks the films are esoteric and to difficult for them to understand his true genios when they are actually just a disjointed mess. Regardless there is a level of low brow toilet humor his fans can appreciate. It is absolutely bizarre.
Jersey Girl was the first Kevin Smith film I actually saw. I think its a totally fine movie, never really understood his or the fan backlash towards it.
I saw 'Killroy Is Here' last year at Smodcastle Film Festival. It was a decent horror comedy anthology. Overall I liked it, and the Killroy mask was cool.
Before netflix championed the killing of physical media, I was angry that Kevin Smith was in an ad (basically) that predicted that streaming was the future. I considered this a betrayal, but he does not suffer the puritanical censorship of digital merchants. Average people might think he is bold, but that's like Wendy's claiming to sell spicy chicken. Go to a Thai restaurant and you will discover spicy chicken. Physical media is the last bastion of uncensored content from indie directors.
it is your own fault for thinking he's championed for being indie because of his later work. No one's indie working with MiraMax people just celebrate his indie startup story.
IT's really, really simple. Kevin Smith writs films about his own life, and when you are mid 30s to 40s and married with a kid your life becomes boring. Clerks was young and hungry and relatable because he wasn't famous. Chasing Amy was so good because it had heart, and unlike today, people back then didn't have Tinder, and every dude has messed up a relationship by judging the other person's past and being jelous so that hits home hard for a lot, and they didn't end up together at the end, Chasing Amy was by far his best film on all levels. Mallrats was great fun crude comedy with great camios, and introduced Jason Lee as an actor, and Malls are awesome, and were awesome that's where teens went back then MALLS KIDS!!!. Dogma was his own experience with being raised catholic and him poking fun at it. Jay and Silent Bob, Clerks two all him getting older, and then Red State, and Tusk, him venturing out to other genres and those were both great wierd unique independent films. After that was a hard fall off, he became woke likely because he has a young kid who is woke and he's a supportive and caring dude, so all his movies are super woke now which is not in favor even though media would have you believe that, and he has no hardships to draw from other then his heart attack which he used twice in clerks 3 which was like the only point of that movie, it was wierd. He's out of ideas, but I'll always support his work because he's a good dude, who else would stick by his friend through addiction, the dude is just a great guy.
Honestly, I think I liked you're personal opinion and dedication to make this video more than Kevin Smith's personal journey making these last movies. I honestly forgot about ALL of these movies. Even Red State. I had high hopes for Smith, but his later stuff was ...meh...
Jersey Girl is too mainstream for Kevin Smith fans, and too Kevin Smith for mainstream audiences. I never thought it was a bad movie, but he completely misjudged the tone. If he wanted to be a rom-com director, then the Playing Doctor and Bloody Musical stuff were an obstacle to connecting with rom-com fans.
11:03; yet Bruce Willis seemingly had no issues with Rian Johnson, whom I guessed passed BW's apparent 'What type of lenses are you using' s-test 2 years later.
Hell you can say Scott Mosier became far far far more successful without Smith weighing him down. Man that clip of smodcast makes me miss Mosier even more.
I liked Jersey Girl, I loved the story of the parent to child relationship and I thought Carlin was really really good in it "take her to see the caaatttsss" And the Sweeny Tood stuff at the school play is hilarious, man that's good
I remember liking Clerks and Chasing Amy. Then I kinda liked the theme on Dogma ( rewatching it years later I realized the acting is absolutely terrible). And stopped with the Jay and Silent Bob. Jersey girl… can’t even remember what it was about. Kinda remember Carlin. But I lost my interest and patience with him. A couple of months ago I started watching Clerks 3 but it was seriously unwatchable.
You think maybe casting Ben Affleck in the kind of role he's not quite ready to play, yet, was maybe a choice to reflect how the character is filling a role he's not quite ready to play yet?
I love Zack and Miri. It's one i enjoy more now way than when i first saw it. It's a lot of fun. And absolutely filthy. On the other hand, Cop Out is awful.
watching elizabeth banks play a porno pixie dream girl to a pack of average looking guys is not a lot of fun. in the movie's world, what does her character get out of this make a porno with a bunch of people situation that's better than putting on a fancy dress and prostituting yourself out to wealthy guys and keeping all the money yourself?
He is not a good filmmaker. It took me way too long to admit that to myself. Clerks came out when I was a teenager, so I was always a huge defender of Smith. But after revisiting the movies he made that I "thought" I loved, I had to come to terms with the fact he is just not that talented.
Jay And Bob Reboot is such a bizarre pile of garbage, it felt like someone killed my childhood and then puked on its grave. I love original Jay and Bob, but this is beyond distasteful and bad (except for few moments of Affleck scene which were also ruined by Martha joke). Clerks 3 is better, but it's not a good movie. Turning Dante into a martyr and then cracking up stupid jokes on his grave is just horrible and distasteful decision. Weed really make Kevin's brain rotten.
I’m sorry I loved Jersey girl, all his classic style films, and cop out. Hated or will never watch the horrors and Zack and Miri was dumb. The good stuff is his classic style and will always be.
Kevin makes movies for himself and his fans. He doesn't care about box office as long as he makes enough to insure getting to make the next one. And he definitely doesn't care what critics or wannabe critics with youtube channels think.
@@Ottophil this isnt the insult you think it is. Kevin smith curated a world in which he can choose to do whatever creatively. The youtube channel you speak of is forced to content correct towards algorithms built by companies that directly benefit from behaviour modification. Rather dystopian for you to think that is a good thing, not everyone's a brainless consumer happy to eat a shit sandwich.
Dude, you just don’t even know. It was more than that. The dude sold his comic book collection and statues and stuff. Say whatever you want but the guy has talent and made some funny movies and what he did was incredibly risky had it failed. You sound jealous as fuck kid.
his worst film was undoubtedly the bruce willis/tracy morgan film, and i blame that on the studio more than anything. all of his other films are either really good, or watchable
What aboot yoga hosers? That was a beautiful classic, eh? I didn’t see any “fatphobia” or “racism” in that one. For that matter tho it also doesn’t have unrealistic hateful caricatures of cops or Christians in it so I can see why there’s no interest in that timeless classic 🧐 Kevin Smith! What a true artist of his craft! 🤮
Mainstream audiences won't show up to a Kevin Smith film because they're awful. He never progressed as a filmmaker because they're all still shot like home movies and the scripts should've never made it to a first finished draft. Tusk? Yoga Hosers? Even his crowdfunding is fading away from bombs like those movies. I keep seeing videos blaming the public and release dates and everything but Smith for why Zack and Miri Make a Porno but that movie was not funny. It worked as well as Ghostbusters 2016 and Jerry Lewis' Hardly Working. I keep seeing these videos about Kevin Smith asking if he'll ever get his mojo back, but they don't mention the self immolation of the past few years where Smith defends the obscenely-lame Star Wars trash and his own Woke sabotage (and lying about it) of He-Man. There are plenty of videos from disillusioned fans about that current down spiral.
I thought Jersey Girl (and most of his other films) would be far better off without Ben Afleck. He's an awful and unlikeable actor. I thought Zach and Miri make a porno was surprisingly sweet and thoughtful
My father absolutely hated all of Kevin Smith’s movies and characters. I tried several times to watch a few with him, but he didn’t like the constant vulgarity and absolutely freaking HATED Jay and Silent Bob as characters……but when I watched Jersey Girl with him, he looked just like George Carlin at the end: glassy-eyed, just trying not to cry. Afterwards he said, “Wow. I actually really liked that one.”
Everyone i have ever talked to about Jersey Girl who didnt like it was mad it wasnt a Jay and Silent Bob movie. Something to the effect of “at least chasing amy had them for a bit..” its really good mature heartfelt George Carlin is fantastic in it. When it failed Kevin pulled back. He has only stepped meaningfully outside the quick stop a few times over the years always good movies that dont do as well as they should. I want Red State Kevin Smith back. That guy was a filmmaker who loved film and wanted to step outside his comfort zone into new territory and genre. I love Tusk but that was from conception a tongue in cheek silly affair. Make another brave movie Kev we will come see it.
The "problem" with Jersey Girl was the fact it was a different kind of film from Kev. He had cultivated this cult audience with the View Askiewniverse, and at that time, most of those cult fans didn't want to see him leave that universe behind. I think that, as much as the failure of Jersey Girl at the box office is what led to Clerks II, J&SB: SGCM, J&SB: Reboot, Clerks III, and the ever elusive Mallrats II. "Oh, you only want this? Aight. More of this then."
I feel like a lot of that backlash had died down by the mid '00s, opening the way for movies like Red State and Tusk. And Yoga Hosers, but we're not gonna talk about Yoga Hosers.
@@claykennedy6790 We never speak of Yoga Hosers. It…it didn’t happen.
@@NoneofYourBusiness667 whats a yoga hosers?
I hated Affleck. The rest is fine. Kinda cutesy, definitely needed more Carlin.
Jersey Girl is both Kevin Smith's love letter to his daughter and his goodbye to his father. That's what makes it so beautiful
Oh god, who cares? Does that make it good some how?
@@tomlaw8821it does not. Neither does his ability to make films he relies entirely on fans like this guy to come out no matter how little work he puts into a film.
the clerks cartoon was the best thing he was ever involved in and what a shame it is that noone ever talks about it
To this day, my buddies and I will randomly blurt out "who drive car? Bear drive car? How can this be?!?!"
@@scottymacdewder5229everytime it rains, I always end up muttering “fine, try and kill it”
@@justin5002 also, "well played, clerk."
@@scottymacdewder5229 with such rude clerks, that Dante and Handle….”it’s Raaaandal!”
This reviewer is absolutely nuts. Clerks 2 is literally a perfect movie, my favorite movie of all time.
Needed this after the elegy that was Clerks III. Can't wait to hear you talk about that some day
Friday...
I used to enjoy Kevin Smith films and found them highly entertaining.
Then I turned 15.
I used to enjoy Kevin Smith films and found them highly entertaining.
Then the 90s ended.
How does this have less than 200 views as I write? You’re a consistently delightful video essayist. I love seeing them come up in my subscription feed. Never get discouraged!
rosario dawson in clerks 2 is the hottest any human has been
It's honestly surreal
I love Kevin smith's career. His movies are nostalgic and I thought both Tusk and Red State were great swings visually and tonally. He now makes what he wants to make, gets his investments back with the podcast road shows. If one of those movies end up big, it's pure profit. Nice he doesn't have to report to the studio. I'm a fan of his drive but not all his films. Thanks for putting this together, fun watch for sure.
I think the failure of Jersey Girl and Zach and Miri broke his brain. He's not even trying anymore.
For real, the Jay and silent Bob reboot was absolute garbage. I tried to sit and watch it.
I had to turn it off because nothing about it felt like Jay and silent Bob.
It was more like Jay and silent Bob go woke.
And Tusk was just the dumbest attempt at body horror I've ever seen.
It's probably just time for him to retire before he trashes anything else that's actually good.
@@diy_mushroomguynot to mention him trying to do a death of superman with He-Man but removing everything that made the death of superman so special because he also wanted to do a story about Teela at the same time
His filmmaking ability was mostly contained within his fat cells. So talent is inversely linked with his weight: the skinnier he gets, the worse his movies are.
Or maybe this new guy is an IMPOSTER m
Spot the differences- Clue #1 No more glasses #2 the wife is nowhere to be seen at appearances.
06:51; the "HW Babble On" episode the week after the film's failure was so cringe.
I’m confused. Maybe this toxic storm missed us in UK, but I thought Jersey Girl was great. I was genuinely touched when Affleck’s character cracked and shouted at the kid.
You just earned a new subscriber, I haven't looked at any of your other content but I know you are worth it.
I look forward to seeing your "Dante Trilogy" after I finally power through "Clerks 3, which is kind of painful in parts.
It’s so bad, lol. I can’t believe so many people liked it.
@@Tonberry2k People wanted to like it and bought into Kevin's real life story (which I found too predictable and cringe as we saw so much of it). I'm a huge Madonna fan but also incredibly critical of a lot of her work.
@@vinnym5607 I wanted to like it too. Especially after the horribly embarrassing Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, but I don’t think he could have made a worse movie if he tried. And I feel bad, because I know how personal it was to him.
@@Tonberry2k I saw "Reboot" at an AMC and even though it had Fantom Events as part of the info before it stated, it was a basic matinee price on a Friday. I was curious when he came to town but ultimately skipped it but I guess it played in the Detroit area because he was here that week. Very odd release but it wasn't very good but fine for a distraction. That being said, I knew better not to try and see "Clerks" in a theater. I would've been pissed. Had a trail for Starz and after putting it off for a while, watched it late one night and was so disappointed.
J.Lo 'dying' at the start of "Jersey Girl" is one of the GREATEST scenes of that era....
You nailed it with red state. It was when he was sober. His excessive pot smoking destroyed his focus and must made him produce terrible movies.
You're very kind in your analysis. I loved Chasing Amy and Dogma, but they still had an amateurish quality to them that I thought Smith would grow out of. He didn't. And his retreat to safer ground with Clerks sequels only reiterated that, so I haven't seen anything of his past "Zach & Miri".
It doesn't help that "Jersey Girl" and horror aren't the kind of movies that would appeal to me anyway, so they'd have to be Oscar-worthy to get my attention anyway and they certainly weren't that. Word is that "Kilroy was Here" is absolutely horrible.
So my take is that Smith never matured as a filmmaker (and possibly not even as a person). He may have the desire to tell heartfelt stories but doesn't have the self-analysis to tell smart ones.
I think when Dogma failed to ignite the box office the way everyone involved thought it would, it traumatized him in a way that seriously altered the direction his career was headed. I personally think Dogma was the movie he truly believed would lift him up with the likes of Quintin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez. After Dogma every movie until Red State, for me showed little artist growth. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the movies in between, Clerks 2 is still a movie I hold near and dear to my heart.
I was a big fan of the early stuff, and was a proud Jersey Girl hater at the time. I eventually saw it on Netflix, it was fine. It definitely didn't feel all the way like a Kevin Smith movie
Thank you for defending Jersey Girl. I've always loved it.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
@@TheMarlinlask Uwe Boll?
Honestly he has had a few good years and not in a row and most of his career has been meh.
Need to hear your thoughts on clerks 3! The movie was depressing af but it’s stuck with me
Funny you should ask! I made a whole video breaking down the Clerks trilogy as one thirty-year story: ua-cam.com/video/_1kNXNbcbZM/v-deo.htmlsi=1sBtW9t_QzKP05Ms
So Jersey girl also got heat because of the arguably actual disaster that was the movie Gili. That was such a trainwreck that Jersey girl caught some of the shrapnelJbecause Jennifer Lopez is in both movies.
I've defended Jersey Girl for almost twenty years and I'll never stop. Especially after how awful Yoga Hosers, Jay and Silent Bob reboot, and Clerks 3 were.
What I find interesting rewatching the early Smith films is that they are played very straight, understated, like a play almost. The dialogue is so whip sharp and delivered in a Gen X ‘whatever dude’ style, that the charm comes through in the characters and the story.
At a certain point the hamming up starts to occur, from Jay and Silent Bob onwards. Somewhere around there, the laughs are being played big, the performances aren’t understated. He’s always had larger than life characters but they were always in the real world, and the evolution of Smith’s style went backwards after Clerks 2 (which was quite low-key for the majority, save the dance routine).
Maybe a year too late, but amazing video about kevin smith. Most of us at our age were fans of smith. A great insight of his films.
I'm always there with bells on for a Kevin Smith script. (Never seen "Cop Out," don't intend to.) I really liked "Jersey Girl," loved "Red State" and I weirdly, I dug Tusk. I just like the way he writes and I don't get pissed when he's not being the Clerks guy. Feel like I'm one of the only Smith fans who just digs his skills regardless of the genre.
I'm also one of the only Tarantino fans who loved Death Proof, apparently.
Um why? Yoga hosers and jersey girl?
You are not alone on Death Proof.
Tusk falls apart for me once the Walrus is born. It's great up until then. If I made the movie, I'd have the reveal of the creature be the ending.
@@claykennedy6790 if you end there it denies you the super bleak ending where humanity is shredded so badly that for whatever slivers of man there still are they have been overtaken by madness and walrus irreversibly. Never to be whole again never to rejoin society.
@@claykennedy6790Yeah, Tusk is basically a short film concept stretched into a feature film, and it shows.
01:22; wondering when the extended version will be put onto bluray.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever. Because of some strange relationship with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Smith has always has had the help of an enormous amountf A-listers to appear in all his films, With small budgets and the star power the movies are critical and financial bombs each and everyone. Because of his love of comic books, hockey and podcast oddly he has a devout group that idolizes him even though most admit his movies are terrible. Becauses celebrity friends continue to help him studios have continued to make these films knowing they wouldn't perform.
His fans have given him a cult like following one theory is his films are so odd and strange his low brow fan base thinks the films are esoteric and to difficult for them to understand his true genios when they are actually just a disjointed mess. Regardless there is a level of low brow toilet humor his fans can appreciate. It is absolutely bizarre.
Jersey Girl was the first Kevin Smith film I actually saw. I think its a totally fine movie, never really understood his or the fan backlash towards it.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
The commentary on Jersey Girl and how it changed Smith and runs through the later films makes it seem like you never saw Chasing Amy.
“cop out” should of been luke wilson, & tracy morgan . I only mention this, because their chemistry was impeccable in “death at a funeral” .
SHOULD OF?
Looking forward to this video.
What'd you think of Clerks 3?
Stay tuned...
Great vid def subscribed
These videos are excellent. Sharing.
One strange thing is that given JLo's modest role in the movie, it was misleading to give her top billing w/ Affleck anyway.
For me Kevin will always be that funny Q&A guy I used to watch.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
another great video! I am so sorry you had to buy and watch Cop Out!
I saw 'Killroy Is Here' last year at Smodcastle Film Festival. It was a decent horror comedy anthology. Overall I liked it, and the Killroy mask was cool.
Before netflix championed the killing of physical media, I was angry that Kevin Smith was in an ad (basically) that predicted that streaming was the future. I considered this a betrayal, but he does not suffer the puritanical censorship of digital merchants. Average people might think he is bold, but that's like Wendy's claiming to sell spicy chicken. Go to a Thai restaurant and you will discover spicy chicken. Physical media is the last bastion of uncensored content from indie directors.
it is your own fault for thinking he's championed for being indie because of his later work. No one's indie working with MiraMax people just celebrate his indie startup story.
what??? Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
I didn't realize "Zack and Miri" bombed. I saw it on video and liked it
IT's really, really simple. Kevin Smith writs films about his own life, and when you are mid 30s to 40s and married with a kid your life becomes boring. Clerks was young and hungry and relatable because he wasn't famous. Chasing Amy was so good because it had heart, and unlike today, people back then didn't have Tinder, and every dude has messed up a relationship by judging the other person's past and being jelous so that hits home hard for a lot, and they didn't end up together at the end, Chasing Amy was by far his best film on all levels. Mallrats was great fun crude comedy with great camios, and introduced Jason Lee as an actor, and Malls are awesome, and were awesome that's where teens went back then MALLS KIDS!!!. Dogma was his own experience with being raised catholic and him poking fun at it. Jay and Silent Bob, Clerks two all him getting older, and then Red State, and Tusk, him venturing out to other genres and those were both great wierd unique independent films. After that was a hard fall off, he became woke likely because he has a young kid who is woke and he's a supportive and caring dude, so all his movies are super woke now which is not in favor even though media would have you believe that, and he has no hardships to draw from other then his heart attack which he used twice in clerks 3 which was like the only point of that movie, it was wierd. He's out of ideas, but I'll always support his work because he's a good dude, who else would stick by his friend through addiction, the dude is just a great guy.
Honestly, I think I liked you're personal opinion and dedication to make this video more than Kevin Smith's personal journey making these last movies. I honestly forgot about ALL of these movies. Even Red State. I had high hopes for Smith, but his later stuff was ...meh...
Jersey Girl is too mainstream for Kevin Smith fans, and too Kevin Smith for mainstream audiences. I never thought it was a bad movie, but he completely misjudged the tone. If he wanted to be a rom-com director, then the Playing Doctor and Bloody Musical stuff were an obstacle to connecting with rom-com fans.
Great assessment 👏 👍
Kevin Smith had hit years??
11:03; yet Bruce Willis seemingly had no issues with Rian Johnson, whom I guessed passed BW's apparent 'What type of lenses are you using' s-test 2 years later.
Wasn't every year his flop year?
Hell you can say Scott Mosier became far far far more successful without Smith weighing him down. Man that clip of smodcast makes me miss Mosier even more.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
I've no interest in movies whatsoever, but your videos have been very entertaining. Take my dollars.
So what do you watch????
I liked Jersey Girl, I loved the story of the parent to child relationship and I thought Carlin was really really good in it "take her to see the caaatttsss"
And the Sweeny Tood stuff at the school play is hilarious, man that's good
great video. i find smiths career fascinating
Really good watch. 😎
I remember liking Clerks and Chasing Amy. Then I kinda liked the theme on Dogma ( rewatching it years later I realized the acting is absolutely terrible). And stopped with the Jay and Silent Bob. Jersey girl… can’t even remember what it was about. Kinda remember Carlin. But I lost my interest and patience with him. A couple of months ago I started watching Clerks 3 but it was seriously unwatchable.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
He was never the same after the heat attack
Bro I was with you all the way till you said Fatphopia dead serious
You think maybe casting Ben Affleck in the kind of role he's not quite ready to play, yet, was maybe a choice to reflect how the character is filling a role he's not quite ready to play yet?
He didn't just not grow, he grew smaller.
No mention of Tusk and Yoga Hosers?
when was his last hit?
its been a long while
George Carlin should have been nominated for an Oscar for his role in Jersey Girl
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
Send me that CopOut Blu-Ray only if you write a one sentence review of the movie on it as well as sign it.
Sold!
add Clerks 3, Jay and Bob remake, Tusk, Yoga Hosiers and his NFT movie to Mr. Irrelevant`s crap list.
I love Zack and Miri. It's one i enjoy more now way than when i first saw it. It's a lot of fun. And absolutely filthy.
On the other hand, Cop Out is awful.
watching elizabeth banks play a porno pixie dream girl to a pack of average looking guys is not a lot of fun. in the movie's world, what does her character get out of this make a porno with a bunch of people situation that's better than putting on a fancy dress and prostituting yourself out to wealthy guys and keeping all the money yourself?
Zach and Miri i actually thought was a pretty great movie. But it hasn't aged very well.
So like, the last 20 years?
I always liked Jersey Girl. One of his better films IMO.
He is not a good filmmaker. It took me way too long to admit that to myself. Clerks came out when I was a teenager, so I was always a huge defender of Smith. But after revisiting the movies he made that I "thought" I loved, I had to come to terms with the fact he is just not that talented.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
@@TheMarlinlaskHe is objectively the greatest film maker in his genre
Kevin Smith is on par with Steven Soderbergh 😂
Jay And Bob Reboot is such a bizarre pile of garbage, it felt like someone killed my childhood and then puked on its grave. I love original Jay and Bob, but this is beyond distasteful and bad (except for few moments of Affleck scene which were also ruined by Martha joke). Clerks 3 is better, but it's not a good movie. Turning Dante into a martyr and then cracking up stupid jokes on his grave is just horrible and distasteful decision. Weed really make Kevin's brain rotten.
It was all downhill after zack and miri
I’m sorry I loved Jersey girl, all his classic style films, and cop out. Hated or will never watch the horrors and Zack and Miri was dumb. The good stuff is his classic style and will always be.
I am “like” number 666. Figured I’d share.
Kevin makes movies for himself and his fans. He doesn't care about box office as long as he makes enough to insure getting to make the next one. And he definitely doesn't care what critics or wannabe critics with youtube channels think.
Wanna be critics with youtube channels don’t care what comments think. They all add to the interaction and help the algorythm
@@Ottophil this isnt the insult you think it is. Kevin smith curated a world in which he can choose to do whatever creatively. The youtube channel you speak of is forced to content correct towards algorithms built by companies that directly benefit from behaviour modification. Rather dystopian for you to think that is a good thing, not everyone's a brainless consumer happy to eat a shit sandwich.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
Eddie Murphy should have been in COP OUT
Jersey Girl is a good movie.
He’s not a film maker.. he’s a dude who took out credit cards in his moms name
Dude, you just don’t even know. It was more than that.
The dude sold his comic book collection and statues and stuff. Say whatever you want but the guy has talent and made some funny movies and what he did was incredibly risky had it failed.
You sound jealous as fuck kid.
Stack slack by the Star wars thing smith like that...
his worst film was undoubtedly the bruce willis/tracy morgan film, and i blame that on the studio more than anything. all of his other films are either really good, or watchable
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
Where is tusk...?
He keeps putting his awful daughter and wife into his movies, and posts tweets of him crying over capeshit. He lost all his fans respect.
What aboot yoga hosers? That was a beautiful classic, eh? I didn’t see any “fatphobia” or “racism” in that one. For that matter tho it also doesn’t have unrealistic hateful caricatures of cops or Christians in it so I can see why there’s no interest in that timeless classic 🧐 Kevin Smith! What a true artist of his craft! 🤮
Mainstream audiences won't show up to a Kevin Smith film because they're awful. He never progressed as a filmmaker because they're all still shot like home movies and the scripts should've never made it to a first finished draft. Tusk? Yoga Hosers? Even his crowdfunding is fading away from bombs like those movies.
I keep seeing videos blaming the public and release dates and everything but Smith for why Zack and Miri Make a Porno but that movie was not funny. It worked as well as Ghostbusters 2016 and Jerry Lewis' Hardly Working.
I keep seeing these videos about Kevin Smith asking if he'll ever get his mojo back, but they don't mention the self immolation of the past few years where Smith defends the obscenely-lame Star Wars trash and his own Woke sabotage (and lying about it) of He-Man. There are plenty of videos from disillusioned fans about that current down spiral.
Kevin Smith is with out a doubt the most inept film maker maybe ever
Bro I think you sold me on cop out 🤔
Clerks 3 felt really clunky. Smith needs to go back to someone else cutting his films.
So... Everything after dogma?
I saw Killroy was here and it was terrible. It was an anthology but really silly and the different stories didnt make much sense
I thought Jersey Girl (and most of his other films) would be far better off without Ben Afleck. He's an awful and unlikeable actor.
I thought Zach and Miri make a porno was surprisingly sweet and thoughtful
Hes supposed to be unlikable in most of Kevin's movies lol
1:18 did realise americans said that.
😎🙏💯
Kevin Smith was always over rated. People are just not realizing it.
Clerks 3 was trash
Kev was very high when he wrote Red State.
I put one few in my BØX 1:37
Your politics clouded the entire point of cop out.
I wouldn't mind a director's cut of Jersey Girl