@@Just.KiddingI guess the real life version would be if you got a key to like a blockbuster where you could go and watch the movie.. till one day you show up and the building is gone or key no longer works.
I remember me and my friends religiously watching awful bootleg copies of Clerks and Mallrats on a small CRT monitor in my friend's college dorm room, thinking Kevin Smith was the coolest dude ever. This evolution of him just makes me depressed.
That's the problem, though. He hasn't evolved. You haven't witnessed any evolution. You're seeing the exact same guy making the exact same thing while the world moves on around him.
@@mightilyoats2729 Devolved maybe. They've aged like milk, but Clerks and Mallrats were original at the time. Now he thinks "playing it safe" means rehashing the same tired movies and jokes.
Just like Zac & Miri was his attempt at a Judd Apatow comedy (which were SUPER popular at the time). He’s got a bad habit of trying to blatantly copy successful/popular films.
Depending on the NFT you may be wrong. A lot of NFT's come with royalties baked in if they resell. But definitely not the same as a movie royalty. I wonder if a straight to digital shit movie still gets royalties though...
@@tylernacho8673I wonder the same. I know pro-wrestlers used to get royalties for DVD and home video sales (Jesse Ventura took the WWE to court over it and won), but that's basically gone now that it's all streaming.
It feels like Kevin Smith believes he can "wish" his movies into becoming good by just talking enough about his passion for them, even though they have the same level of thought and effort put into them as a rushed school paper scribbled together an hour before the deadline.
And then on the back end, he defends them on the most pedantic of criteria. I remember in an episode of Smod him celebrating one of him movies making slightly over its budget, claiming that was a success. That was it. That was his defense for a movie people hated: it technically didn’t lose money if you exclude the marketing budget.
I've given up on Kevin Smith. He's become a caricature of himself, then become a caricature of that. The thing that suffered more than his writing were his fans though. We still have the classics, eh? I'm gonna go find Dogma on streaming.
I think taking inspiration from Kilroy is a decent idea. Kilroy still appears in graffiti all over the world. There's a lot you can do with an immortal globetrotting monster or serial killer. Too bad he went with, "what if Squidward was the Bye Bye Man?"
The man made great connections and did nothing with them. He's a grifter, he fills an extremely small pocket for someone out there and can continue to exist without going flat broke. He has Z- level "Sandler Like" crew, that he continues to payoff at the expense of actual talent he manages to trick into working on his films
@@thatoneguychad420 during WWII, there was a British equipment inspector named, "Kilroy" who would sign "Kilroy was Here" with a little doodle on different pieces of equipment that he approved. Soldiers would see it and thought it was cool and would write "Kilroy was Here" with the little doodle if they were the first people in an area.
Kevin Smith lost it a long time ago. He'll never get it back either. 50 year old man still trying to think he's a teenager. Need to update the 'hello fellow kids' meme with his face.
His cartoon show on Netflix must be doing OK if they've given it 3 seasons. I can see him continuing to have success in making cape slop. He'll probably just turn that money into drugs and terrible movies though.
@@Soloman_Gumball IMDB says the Master's of the Universe show got a 5.6/10 It seems like the main complaint of the show is that it was marketed as a He-Man show but then they pull the rug out and it's a very female character focused show. I think female characters are fine and can work if done properly but give that it's own show. Don't tack that onto a franchise people love and use lies and false marketing. It makes sensible women look bad and it ruins the show.
To be honest Chasing Amy and Dogma are dreadfully bad movies. Clerks 1 and 2 and the first Jay and Silent Bob are the only things of his worth watching.
@@Alleter_ It's amazing how weed effected the quality of his work. But when he got sober again he didn't really improve, lol. I mean Clerks 3 was a banger but I feel the Kevin Smith train ended a long time ago.
There's a video here on UA-cam of Kevin Smith after showing Clerks 2 to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.. with QT and RR giving their feedback.. and it is so uncomfortable how they are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to give some kind of positive praise towards Kevin.
The funneist part about Zach and Miri is, it could have been called Zach and Miri make a movie and it would have been less divisive and still had meaning. And once you go in and find out the movie is a porno it's actually funnier.
That would have (probably) made it ten times more successful. It’s a funny film, very mainstream for Smith but it could have earned him a fair bit of cash.
Did you guys forget (or were never there) just how many dudes were talking about going to see that movie just because of its name? It was the talk of middle school for two weeks.
As a Kevin Smith completionist, I really want to see this even though it looks terrible. As a sane person, ain't no way I'm spending several thousand dollars just to watch a movie.
@@obscure.reference Understandable. I have two different copies of Clerks, the Chasing Amy Criterion, Mallrats and the first Jay and Silent Bob. I bought Clerks 2 for two dollars because I figured why not. Beyond that, nah. I don't want any of his movies. That's like half his filmography.
I noticed with a lot of Kevin Smith movies that he's good with the individual bits, but awful at putting together a coherent whole. He's like a lot of extreme pot heads I know: he's easily distracted and varies wildly in tone from moment to moment.
@@habovay3 Green Book blatantly lies about and distorts important African-American history and doubles down on offensive stereotypes. the titular book(which was VERY important for black folks looking for safe places to stay where they wouldn't be racially profiled)barely even figures into the actual plot at all, what an insult. Yoga Hosers is at worst a misguided passion project for Smith, no more no less.
@@jadedheartsz social awareness and responsibility aren’t necessarily the only identifiers of a films quality, if it hadn’t been lauded at the oscars i dont think it’d be anything other than another forgettable movie.
Greets, what is that symbol? I used to be an occultist and I've seen it (at least something like it) in a pack of different contexts but I dunno its name.
A few years ago, he had that comic book store show on tv, and every time he looked at the camera, he was making this insipid closed-mouth, pursed-lip smile expression. Really annoying.
Pulling that face is a technique known as the "budget facelift". Actually I just made that up, but I think I'm on to something. Also, I feel like he knows a thing or two about branding, and he's knowing or unknowingly turned himself into a character.
I love Clerks 3. It was a perfect ending and it made me cry. Every time I watch it I feel impressed by how well he hit the mark. J&SB Reboot, though... That was disappointing.
Loved Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and a few other movies from his earlier career. But he lost me completely a long time ago. Haven't bothered to watch his movies from the last 15 years, if not longer.
It’d be interesting to compare smith and Zack Snyder. Both seemingly really believed the hype around them when they were hailed early in their careers as new and exciting voices in cinema. Now it’s just getting sad and awkward
She's truly terrible. I can't fault Smith for giving his daughter a job, and I wanted to give her a chance, but damn is she awful. I doubt she'll have much of a career outside of Kevin's movies. She might get a few background parts here and there as favours because Smith sucks up to Hollywood so hard. But yeah, she stinks.
Honestly Harley Quinn while not an academy award winner in the making (at least most likely, I guess we never know) isn't a horrible actress and I think has done fine in what she has done. Yeah she is a nepo baby but Hollywood is full of them and all Kevin Smith has done his entire career is put friends and family in his movies, so not sure why her being in his movies is suddenly the line we can't accept him crossing. The biggest problem is when she is in his movies parental pride gets in the way and he doesn't see things like Yoga Hosers for the crap fest they are.
Oh no, he blames weed for being a crutch he used to cope with apparently getting molested or something. Happy he's healthy and all, but I think that heart attack killed the Kevin Smith we all loved
He won't fondle you. If you wanted ass play...he won't do that. I get you want his sausage sauce but you won't get it. In short, he won't bang you regardless of you verbally tossing his sallad.
Why was 'Cop Out' left off while you were going through Kevin Smith's films? I get he didn't Write it, but he still Directed it, and he went on a very infamous heated rant on social media over the reception on it, further damaging his status as a filmmaker.
People *loved* chasing Amy when it came out. The studio loved the script so much they initially offered Kevin a $10mil budget (the movie later was made for $250,000). The CA script was so good, people thought Kevin wrote - or helped write - Good Will Hunting. After GWH won an Oscar, many speculated that affleck and Damon couldn’t have written such a great script by themselves.
@@SKa-tt9nm lmao WHAT?! People *hated* chasing amy when it came out because they wanted more clerks and mallrats and got that. People really went to town on it for not being a KS movie. It was only over time that people started to appreciate it. The GWH thing is just pure bullshit lmao
Has anyone seen the recent podcast where Smith is basicilly telling Bry and Walt that them and Mewes would be lost withou him and how stressful it is carrying his friends? It was really disappointing and even Walt was like "you dont sound like the person we grew up with" . Ive lost a lot of respect for Kevin Smith.
@Hamzahasanlse "Kevin Smith quit weed permanently" by: Red Cow Arcade" Is where I 1st saw the clip W/Walt and bry on their new podcast. I've seen him say the same about mewes on TESD and SMOD casts. Watch the Red Cow video it's all there. I didn't say it cause I'm some bitter internet troll, I used to really look up to Smith ( I even saw Jersey Girl in theaters and loved it) but he's undeniably lame now. -edited cuz it didn't tag you, so I tagged you below-
4:41 a big problem is when directors make a movie around their kids. Just because you’re in the industry and successful, doesn’t mean your kids are gonna be equally talented. But, hooray for nepotism I guess?
I completely broke down watching dogma. that movie has way too many superblong exposition scenes. they spend 10 minutes in a bar with a character explaining the lore and it was so dull i fast forwarded to the end
Clerks 2 was his last good comedy, Red State was good everything after is unwatchable crap and this is coming from someone who was a big fan of his first 5 movies
I didn't care for Red State personally. I remember how hard Kevin hyped it up on his podcasts but it felt like the movie completely lost steam and petered out at around 45 minutes. It just became one long boring shootout that wasn't even particularly inventive and there were lots of cringy jokes that felt out of place with the more serious tone the movie was going for. The ending was a pathetic anticlimax although I understand that was partially a result of budget constraints. It was great that Smith tried to push himself out of his comfort zone by making a more action/horror type film but by that point he had already fallen out of favor with the mainstream and people didn't care anymore. He just waited too long to start maturing as a filmmaker. It's crazy to think that he was a peer to guys like Tarantino and PT Anderson once but they just completely zoomed past him because they actually had the sense to evolve as filmmakers and storytellers.
Dogma was really big when it came out- a lot of advertising and a big push, and most people I knew liked it. It was seemed like his real “breakthrough movie.” Definitely a big film. Weird you didn’t mention it. Chasing Amy was also pretty big. And Mallrats was huge on video as well.
His extreme vanity is so incredibly uncomfortable to behold. He wears the same costume every day of his life, not to mention the exact same surprised look on his face for every picture that's been taken of him. It almost makes me feel claustrophobic.
I used to enjoy Kevin Smith movies and listened to a LOT of his podcasts. I can't even listen to him now. He used to be a relatable person but he has shown himself to be anything but that. He ruins products like He-Man and The Masters of The Universe and others. He has not had an original idea since Red State. I'll never listen or watch his projects again. I guess he had a lot of us fooled in the beginning. Not anymore.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 by making shitty, woke, and non-sensical....i don't know why anyone would listen to celebrity podcast, what do they have to contribute?
@@jamesrutherford1475He even shilled for Rise of Skywalker, telling everyone that it'll melt their minds, then cuts to the next scene of him at the theaters watching it with popcorn in hand as he cries. And that was during the time the first trailer just came out, so how is he's even watching it? I doubt it's the test screen version.
he appealed to people that didn't understand how film making works - just the lowest common denominator .. called using a pig brain cell to make movies.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 Hi Ive made movies and I know the craft inside out. Red State is a damned masterpiece of visceral cinema - but conservative softies tend to get triggered by its depiction of Waco Whackos and so they start making long winded essays claiming they're the greatest and Smith isn't. I think Ive seen this video 700 times by 700 different dudes. Talk of being one note.
Sorry man, got to get your facts straight. Clerks 2 made back almost five times its budget. If you double the budget to break even, it's gross was almost 300% what it cost to make. It was actually liked by most critics and the general audience that saw it. Compare this to the highest grossing film of the same year, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which cost $225,000,000 and earned $1,066,179,725 world wide. They are comparable in profit percentage. No one would call that a flop unless they were intellectually dishonest. I know it is a small gripe but this is the kind of thing that will tank your credibility. Of course the NFT movie was dumb and unenjoyable. That's not a hot take so get the rest straight.
Um that’s not how the movie industry works. Clerks 2 made 26 million at the box office. the movie studio gets 40% of that the other 60% the movie theaters keep and with a budget of 5 million and another 4 million spent on advertising clearks 2 did not really make money until it’s DVD release…..miramax called the movie “mildly successful” and Kevin smith said himself none of his movies have made much money at the box office (if any ) but they do well on the video market and that’s the only reason he gets a chance to make another movie
The Eras of Kevin Smith’s Career 1993-2001: The Heyday - Clerks - Mallrats - Chasing Amy - Dogma - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2002-2010: Selling Out - Jersey Girl - Clerks II - Zack and Miri Make a Porno - Cop Out 2011-2019: WTF? - Red State - Comic Book Men, Fatman on Batman, & Spoilers (the unbearable “nerd culture” shows) - Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie - Tusk - Yoga Hosers - Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 2020-2028: “My name’s Kevin Smith and I’ve long since disappeared up my own asshole.” - Masters of the Universe: Revelation - Killroy was Here (the one only released as NFTs… this is real…) - Clerks III - The 4:30 (New film in development: “focused on a group of teenagers in the 1980s who spend a day ‘theater-hopping,’ in Monmouth County, New Jersey.” …. Ugh…)
I liked Red State and Comic Book Men but I tapped out when I saw Tusk and the trailer for the Jay and Silent Bob Cartoon Movie. I listened to the podcasts for a while but eventually I realized Hit Somebody was never going to happen and that there were much better podcasts out there.
@@Young_Pacino Red State was good. And I liked Clerks 2 & 3. I think Smith still is capable of making good films, but he was always a bit hit and miss. Even his early films were a bit hokey, but they had a charm to them because they were made by a regular working stiff on a shoe string budget. He's not that guy anymore. He's rich and famous and too caught up in the whole left wing hollywood bubble. He's lost touch with being an average joe ... then again Clerks 3 was pretty relate-able.
@@DrakusRecords I’m not going to be able to sit through Clerks 3 I don’t think, but fair points. I just can’t get beyond the feeling with Kevin Smith that for the last 1.5 decades ish he’s been way way too impressed with himself, and he paraded around with a ‘wacky’ oversized jersey and jorts forever, pre heart attack, and he takes “nerd culture” far too seriously as one of its chief spokesmen, so it’s fun to shit on him. He peaked with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back IMO. :P I still love all the “An Evening with Kevin Smith” DVDs though. Fun stories told well! The Prince, Tim Burton, and Jon Peters stories from the first DVD in particular are hilarious.
I feel like he said on one of the podcasts that he went to mentor a film class and enjoyed them so much he wanted to work with them. I bet it was student short films that he jammed killjoy into
I was always a huge Smith fan, and technically I still am, but I can't bring myself to watch his movies anymore. I still like the guy, but the movies are just off the rails. So this was a nice way to catch up with whatever wacky stuff he's been up to lately. I appreciated it, thank you!
Because profit is no longer the motive. If the trash they put out for social engineering/destruction of beloved properties makes money.... great. But if it doesn't they will just go to Blackrock and have them get the Fed to print more DEI money. And if you are like Smith and be a compliant cog in this machine, you will not lose your place regardless of how many failures you are responsible for. Just look at KK at disney.
@@thelostronin it’s was fine but nothing really special. Clerks, mallrats and chasing amy were well produced movies. The rest were ok and most were just terrible. And I was a big fan of his.
@@RichardServelloI liked Chasing Amy when I was 16 but going back to it, the movie was melodramatic and it has some outdated ideas about sexuality that isn’t entirely Smith’s fault but it took me out of it.
I remember watching an interview with Seth Rogen about Zack and Miri. He said that having come off of making Judd Apatow movies, he was used to riffing and improvising. Kevin Smith apparently shut that down immediately and insisted that the actors stay on script, i think thats definitely why it didn't do as well as Rogen's other films from the time
Counterpoint: Most improv-based comedies are complete garbage. It's usually just SNL, Groundlings, Second City "veterans" jerking off on set forever - and then somebody edits that crap into a movie. There's a reason why that genre has had a downfall like practically no other. Of course Smith probably just shut it down to reduce the number and length of takes to save money. His written material isn't any better than improv comedy logorrhoea.
@@LtCaveman Yeah, and now that he's quit he's been reduced to making crap like Kilroy Was Here. People need to stop blaming the weed for Kevin's downfall and just accept that he naturally declined as a filmmaker and entertainer. He didn't really have that many great ideas to begin with and he became bitter that his movies still made piddling returns at the box office while guys like Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen were raking in 200 million per picture. The overuse of weed was just a symptom of a larger problem.
@@silversnail1413 Kilroy was made before he quit, in fact it was probably at the height of his use. It's probably 2 years old by now and was barely promoted, it's not a new project. I find it really funny how many people are here saying they liked his early stuff but that now he sucks and has gotten worse as a filmmaker as if it's also not possible that they've grown up and their tastes have changed....or that they haven't changed and expect him to just keep making the same thing over and over again. Not saying everything he's made has been great but other than Kilroy, nothing has been objectively bad; even Yoga Hosers, from a production standpoint, is a well made, narratively competent film. You, me or anyone not liking them is a matter of opinion and doesn't change that. In fact, what he's able to do with a limited budget is pretty amazing, most of the time, because his movies never look low budget. I'll take that over a lot of modern Hollywood trash and nonsense because at the very least, his movies are fun and he's not trying to change the world.
Got recommended this video on my home page, seems the algorithm knows you're on to something. I've never even seen a Kevin Smith film, but your video does a good job at essentially giving him a mini-doc before getting into the review. It was entertaining and informative, with a very relaxed presentation style. Great scripting, editing, and audio mixing. You've earned a sub, and hopefully many more to come.
@@Gannoh Like saying basically no one liked Clerks II and it flopped.. both wrong And he left out Cop Out Dude clearly got his feelings hurt and didnt care about actual info that exists
@@EmperorGuyver Alright fair enough, if there's just omission or incorrect information then it should get tightened up in future videos. Seems like this is a first attempt making these types of videos, no need to rip too harsh into it.
Killroy was, in part, a school project for the students of Ringling College Art and Design in Sarasota FL. He was asked to help guide these inexperienced students make a film. I don't think he deserves to be shit on in this context.
After Tusk I lost a ton of respect for Kevin Smith. He seems to have just gotten last as a film maker after that and had only learned the wrong lessons.
@@ericstaples7220 he talks in one of his first live pre-podcast shows about how he'd tried it a handful of times. I think he became a proper wake&bake stoner after spending time with Rogen. He's sober now.
Watch Jersey Girl. I promise, it’s better than you think it’ll be and you’ll get the best George Carlin performance. There is a thematic cameo that is super…interesting…in 2024.
So is it that Kevin Smith is bad or that he just peaked early. I remember hearing a lot of buzz for clerks and dogma as a kid and not really understanding any of it. And now it seems Kevin Smith is more of a meme than a visionary. He seems chill enough aside from crying at subpar movies.
He’s just at a weird phase in his career. He’s capable of better stuff, but he also pretty good about keeping these things cheap. But there is a lot of value in some of his films.
He was fair as I can tell not doing well. He was high a lot and dealing with his near death heart attack. It was only a couple years he checked himself into a clinic because he woke up with what he more or less described as freak out. During his time the health clinic he dealt with childhood trauma that he has talked about.
I loved the early Kevin Smith movies like Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent bob, and first two Clerks films. I dropped off caring about Kevin Smith once he did does lame studio movies like Jersey Girl and the Bruce Willis cop film. I had no idea he made a horror film that used the short lived NFT grift to sell it. Also you are spot on about the 'Trump era' phenomenon killing alot of art. It made alot of movies (and shows) age poorly.
Ohhhhhh fuck. With how up his own ass he is nowadays, that is NOT gonna go well. You can't write an insightful movie about god if you're convinced you're him.
Since they keep messing with the idea of Killroy being a protector of children, here's my rewrite for his backstory: Killroy was a child soldier drafted incredibly young who was killed in the line of duty before ever reaching 18. His agony during his death and anger at the adults who drafted him and brought him into this war caused him to stay on this earth as a vengeful spirit, killing adults recklessly but sparing children and often being used as a guardian spirit by abused children. The WWII graffiti comes from how people who saw him would often mark the area as warnings to adults and give children harmed by the war a safehaven. Definitely needs another draft but at least it's something.
Jersey Girl? Smith stole that title from a Matt Dillon film. Tusk? That's a Fleetwood Mac album. Then something with the word jaws? Another bad idea. Online I told him several times to stop ripping off titles - use your OWN title. He ignored my sage viewer advice. Now I'm hearing here about a Kilroy thing? Ouch. When will the inevitable film about a Stitch In Time also be hitting the Smith junk pile? Yikes.
Kevin Smith's early movies are great and had a very unique feel and personality. Chasing Amy is one of my favorites of all time, but everything Kevin Smith has done recently is so "self aware" that it stops being something that feels human in the way the original View Askew movies did.
I'm genuinely baffled that Smith has made a decades-long career after making only 1 decent film in his entire life (and even that film hasn't aged well). I'm no closer to understanding his mainstream appeal.
"None of this makes any sense whatsoever." - This sums up my thoughts on how Kevin Smith keeps making movies or tv shows at all. Who keeps giving him money to make garbage?
The thing about NFTs is, if it's a picture of an ape, _you don't even own the picture._ You essentially own a *_hyperlink_* to that picture. You know, those little links that are blue and underlined on your browser and turn purple when you click them? Yeah. With NFTs, you own the _link,_ not what it links _to._
I mean ... it WOULD be admirable if he didn't go out basically being a complete shill for whatever politically correct movement he thought would win him attention. I mean FFS out of this anthology most were taking shots at christians, bring up immigrants, ect. Then there was the He-man series he made where the title character gets absolutely dunked on and upstaged by his sister amount various other issues. IT's not even like he appears to especailly be devoted to any "cause" and is just like a washed up celebrity screaming "LOOK I DID THE RIGHT THING! I SUPPORTED THE RIGHT NARRATIVE RIGHT? PLEASE LOVE ME!!!" In the end it looks like he always was and always will be a nacasist that just wants people to love him and his work. That's why he always goes into a panic spiral everytime his work isn't a hit.
@metazoxan2 so I'm guessing you don't realize the irony of calling him both a shill for things he doesn't believe in, and then calling him a narcissist
@@Ramonatho Are you seriously that ignorant? People Can be both, especially if they are shilling specificial so people will validate them or they think it will get people to praise them. So no there is nothing ironic about it, it's actually not that rare to see people try to make themselves look good for attention or praise.
@@yourmomlovespenislol you were one of those kids who didn't like when the teacher corrected your homework huh “adds nothing” except… useful information that will make him sound smarter in future. Who wouldn’t want that? Oh yeah - someone who’d rather be a dumbass for life than ever be told they got something wrong ^^;
Being a fan of Kevin Smith has been an emotional roller coaster, one that malfunctioned and has been flying off track over the last few years, but I am still stupid enough to keep getting back on because I remember when it was functioning and was a great ride. What happened to the Kevin that made Clerks? Dogma? Chasing Amy? This current Kevin doesn't have that same thoughtful disposition, the same sarcastic wit, he feels like a flanderized version of himself and it's a bummer.
Weed. Weed is what happened. Once he discovered weed, his creativity took a nose dive. Every dumb idea he had while stoned was made into a movie and they all suck.
@@Scudboy17 The last movie by Kevin I enjoyed was Red State, 13 effin years ago. It's been rough and yeah, it looks like it was the weed that ruined him.
@@Scudboy17you’re on crack if you think weed is the problem scud. He’s just grown out of the appeal he used to have. It’s a natural part of life. You’re all treating him like an ex girlfriend. It’s weird as fuck
Wait, having it be an NFT is really awful for the actors. They act in a film that only a certain amount of people will ever see? If he really was making it like a regular film, but then changed it to an NFT, that’s really low. Actors deserve exposure, even in bad movies.
Nfts are, to me as an older guy, the strangest thing you can buy. The mere thought people are buying pictures that can soooo easily be copied or atleast closely copied... and they give you absoloutely nothing in return. Now im unsure if people actually expected them to gain in value but its a bizarreþý
People aren't buying the pictures. Or any kind of rights to the pictures. They're "buying" a glorified hyperlink to a picture, that's on a server somewhere. If they don't find an even bigger idiot who will buy the hyperlink from them before whoever scammed them stops paying for the server, it will be a hyperlink to nothing but an error message. And since "NFT enthusiasts" are usually also crapto morons and pay for that nonsense with unregulated faux techbro "money" in an unregulated faux "market" with no legal recourse whatsoever, that's where it ends. Of course the initial scammer has long converted the doggie picture "coins" into actual, regulated, government-backed currency somewhere on the planet - and may or may not be enjoying hookers and blow on a Caribbean beach. Yes, NFTs are THAT dumb and THAT obviously a scam. You buy a hyperlink that may or may not still work tomorrow from a con man - and try to find an even dumber person who will buy it from you at a higher price.
The last fifteen minutes of Clerks 2 was good. Really good, actually. But yeah, it says something that that's the only thing he's done well in decades.
@@gianni_schicchi Clerks was ok. It was way over hyped. I did really like Mallrats and Dogma. Jay and Silent Bob strike back was also pretty good just because of all the call backs. But after that his movies were turning into trash. Also he ruined He-man. They should never allowed him to touch that IP.
The biggest problem with Smith is that he stopped being sincere. My favorite movies are Clerks and Mallrats, because you can see Kevin there. Jay and Silent Bob or Dogma are good movies, but you don't really care much about them. They are those kind of movies that you watch with your friend with couple of beer. He started doing mass product rather than something sincere. That sucks
Oh wow as an NFT you can own your own copy of the film! Could you imagine if they did that physically?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
you don't own a copy of it with an NFT. you own what is, in essence, a link TO a copy, but not the copy itself.
@@Just.KiddingI guess the real life version would be if you got a key to like a blockbuster where you could go and watch the movie.. till one day you show up and the building is gone or key no longer works.
@@Just.Kidding i thought the whole point was theres 5555 copies... which would explain why he mentioned the guy who leaked his film.
I remember me and my friends religiously watching awful bootleg copies of Clerks and Mallrats on a small CRT monitor in my friend's college dorm room, thinking Kevin Smith was the coolest dude ever. This evolution of him just makes me depressed.
That's the problem, though. He hasn't evolved. You haven't witnessed any evolution. You're seeing the exact same guy making the exact same thing while the world moves on around him.
@@mightilyoats2729 he still dresses and acts as a teen from 1992))) sure, it was cool back than, but the 1990s are over and you are a 55 year old man.
@@mightilyoats2729 Devolved maybe. They've aged like milk, but Clerks and Mallrats were original at the time. Now he thinks "playing it safe" means rehashing the same tired movies and jokes.
That is the course for every Smith fan. Teenagers and young adults like him but eventually, they grow up. Smith never did.
There is no evolution. You grew up, he didn't. What you saw then was EXACTLY the same person.
It's almost like "Kilroy" is his attempt to try to join the A24 club but instead made a Troma movie.
??? He already did an A24 movie. It was called Tusk.
That's insulting Troma!
@@WalkBesideMeit was distributed by A24 not produced, which is a bit of a difference.
Just like Zac & Miri was his attempt at a Judd Apatow comedy (which were SUPER popular at the time). He’s got a bad habit of trying to blatantly copy successful/popular films.
No, people like Troma movies. Last good movie he did was Clerk's 2
Worst part of this NFT film shit is, nobody gets residuals or royalties. The crew and cast and completely screwed.
NFT means "New F'n Trash"
Good. Payment for being stupid
Well if your name isn't Jason Mewes you get no royalties.
Depending on the NFT you may be wrong. A lot of NFT's come with royalties baked in if they resell. But definitely not the same as a movie royalty. I wonder if a straight to digital shit movie still gets royalties though...
@@tylernacho8673I wonder the same. I know pro-wrestlers used to get royalties for DVD and home video sales (Jesse Ventura took the WWE to court over it and won), but that's basically gone now that it's all streaming.
Whoever made NFT's popular really scammed the stupid.
_"I dun stole yer monkey JPGS with my screenshot app. Whatchu gonna do about it, Big Boy?"_
Almost three years later and this still makes me laugh.
@@MarvinPowell1 George from Sinefield: THEY STOLE ALL MY APES JERRY!! ALL MY APES ARE GONE!! GONE
@@MarvinPowell1 Where is that from? lol
Yeah, I really have a hard time finding sympathy for anybody who couldn't instantly see through that nonsense.
Trump supporters especially
It feels like Kevin Smith believes he can "wish" his movies into becoming good by just talking enough about his passion for them, even though they have the same level of thought and effort put into them as a rushed school paper scribbled together an hour before the deadline.
And then on the back end, he defends them on the most pedantic of criteria. I remember in an episode of Smod him celebrating one of him movies making slightly over its budget, claiming that was a success. That was it. That was his defense for a movie people hated: it technically didn’t lose money if you exclude the marketing budget.
Honestly Kevin Smith is really overrated he is the type of guy that always rides on the one accolade he had when discussing his future endeavors.
@@HandsomeFrogman that's a good defense though and he ain't wrong.
@@adamvalerio1377 Clerks is overrated but I like most of his other stuff
@@jadedheartsz but it's not a good defense, because if a movie barely makes back its money then it's not a good risk
I've given up on Kevin Smith. He's become a caricature of himself, then become a caricature of that. The thing that suffered more than his writing were his fans though. We still have the classics, eh? I'm gonna go find Dogma on streaming.
It’s on UA-cam for free
@@mizuko6132 and "edited"
I think taking inspiration from Kilroy is a decent idea. Kilroy still appears in graffiti all over the world. There's a lot you can do with an immortal globetrotting monster or serial killer. Too bad he went with, "what if Squidward was the Bye Bye Man?"
The man made great connections and did nothing with them. He's a grifter, he fills an extremely small pocket for someone out there and can continue to exist without going flat broke. He has Z- level "Sandler Like" crew, that he continues to payoff at the expense of actual talent he manages to trick into working on his films
Wtf is kilroy
@@thatoneguychad420 during WWII, there was a British equipment inspector named, "Kilroy" who would sign "Kilroy was Here" with a little doodle on different pieces of equipment that he approved. Soldiers would see it and thought it was cool and would write "Kilroy was Here" with the little doodle if they were the first people in an area.
@@olivedrabwool ahhh okay
@@thatoneguychad420 Basically the first meme ever
Kevin Smith lost it a long time ago. He'll never get it back either. 50 year old man still trying to think he's a teenager. Need to update the 'hello fellow kids' meme with his face.
He’s legit “Old man yells at Cloud”
Make sure it's his most common face these days: bloodshot eyes selfie after crying over a trailer of some garbage made for children.
His cartoon show on Netflix must be doing OK if they've given it 3 seasons. I can see him continuing to have success in making cape slop. He'll probably just turn that money into drugs and terrible movies though.
@@Soloman_Gumball IMDB says the Master's of the Universe show got a 5.6/10
It seems like the main complaint of the show is that it was marketed as a He-Man show but then they pull the rug out and it's a very female character focused show.
I think female characters are fine and can work if done properly but give that it's own show. Don't tack that onto a franchise people love and use lies and false marketing. It makes sensible women look bad and it ruins the show.
To be honest Chasing Amy and Dogma are dreadfully bad movies. Clerks 1 and 2 and the first Jay and Silent Bob are the only things of his worth watching.
I think weed should be legal, but Kevin Smith has to be the disclaimer
weed stocks would plummet
he's just a hack, this whole wacky persona is exactly how he wants to charm you
I mean recently he admitted to being sober for most of the view askew and it wasn't till recently he started smoking heavily and made yoogerhosers
@@Alleter_ It's amazing how weed effected the quality of his work. But when he got sober again he didn't really improve, lol. I mean Clerks 3 was a banger but I feel the Kevin Smith train ended a long time ago.
Killroy lookin' like the Bold and Brash painting from SpongeBob Squarepants. 😂😂
That's exactly what it looked like
There's a video here on UA-cam of Kevin Smith after showing Clerks 2 to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.. with QT and RR giving their feedback.. and it is so uncomfortable how they are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to give some kind of positive praise towards Kevin.
I've seen that. They were trying so hard to be nice
Nah, Clerks 2 is great and if anyone was to get it it was them
That's so uncomfortable.
It must be so embarrassing for him to be friends with them.
@@tvsonicserbia5140well clearly they didn't think it was great, looks like it's just you mate.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 Have you seen the video? They just like they are analyzing from a filmmakers perspective.
The funneist part about Zach and Miri is, it could have been called Zach and Miri make a movie and it would have been less divisive and still had meaning. And once you go in and find out the movie is a porno it's actually funnier.
holy shit u right
That would have (probably) made it ten times more successful. It’s a funny film, very mainstream for Smith but it could have earned him a fair bit of cash.
They *did* change the title, to simply “Zach and Miri”.
Did you guys forget (or were never there) just how many dudes were talking about going to see that movie just because of its name? It was the talk of middle school for two weeks.
I actually forgot he had any hand in that.
Kevin Smith getting actively worse each film he makes has blown my mind
he said is because he is not suffering making movies anymore, he's just trying to have a good time making them. he already made dogma tho
@@joseneitor-eg4iy Dogma was f'ing garbage. He's having a good time making dog s**t movies? That's embarrassing
@@somericanguy nah, dogma is pretty cool, mixes pulp fiction, star wars and marx brothers flicks
@@joseneitor-eg4iy wtf?? No tr it doesn’t lol plz be for real. Smith is not at all that clever or good in his craft
@@somericanguy watch it again and you will notice, even sourpuss critics agree is good
As a Kevin Smith completionist, I really want to see this even though it looks terrible. As a sane person, ain't no way I'm spending several thousand dollars just to watch a movie.
Yeah.. it's gonna have to happen :P
I too was a Kevin Smith completionist for like three movies, then I realized I didn't like any of the others.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia i was willing until he made tusk
@@obscure.reference Understandable. I have two different copies of Clerks, the Chasing Amy Criterion, Mallrats and the first Jay and Silent Bob. I bought Clerks 2 for two dollars because I figured why not. Beyond that, nah. I don't want any of his movies. That's like half his filmography.
Oh no.... yo ho yo hooooooo
I noticed with a lot of Kevin Smith movies that he's good with the individual bits, but awful at putting together a coherent whole. He's like a lot of extreme pot heads I know: he's easily distracted and varies wildly in tone from moment to moment.
If it's worse than Yoga Hosers than that is SERIOUSLY impressive, because Yoga Hosers is legitimately one of the worst films I've ever seen.
I don't think that film is that bad, it's not like godawful on the level of say Green Book
@@habovay3 Green Book blatantly lies about and distorts important African-American history and doubles down on offensive stereotypes. the titular book(which was VERY important for black folks looking for safe places to stay where they wouldn't be racially profiled)barely even figures into the actual plot at all, what an insult. Yoga Hosers is at worst a misguided passion project for Smith, no more no less.
@@jadedheartsz even if green book’s writing is pretty dated, it’s not as though kevin smith is a better filmmaker than peter farrely.
@@obscure.reference Smith never made a film as bad and offensive as that one.
@@jadedheartsz social awareness and responsibility aren’t necessarily the only identifiers of a films quality, if it hadn’t been lauded at the oscars i dont think it’d be anything other than another forgettable movie.
Dude really went live in front of his Funko Pop collection...
Greets, what is that symbol? I used to be an occultist and I've seen it (at least something like it) in a pack of different contexts but I dunno its name.
@@TheTrumpReaper it's the sigil of Lucifer
That's his comic book/pop culture shop in New jersey.
@@TheTrumpReaper is called a cacapeepee.
Sigil of Lucifer@@TheTrumpReaper
Is Kevin Smith literally incapable of having a different expression when photographed?
People don’t know, but his hands are permanently in a thumbs up position.
@@shmabadu 97 percent chance he's wearing a hockey jersey. 64 percent it's an orange one.
Just incapable.
A few years ago, he had that comic book store show on tv, and every time he looked at the camera, he was making this insipid closed-mouth, pursed-lip smile expression. Really annoying.
Pulling that face is a technique known as the "budget facelift". Actually I just made that up, but I think I'm on to something. Also, I feel like he knows a thing or two about branding, and he's knowing or unknowingly turned himself into a character.
I lost all interest in Kevin Smith movies after the depressing mess that was Clerks III.
The only best part of "Jay and Silent Bob strike back" was Judd Nelson as the Sheriff or deputy in a small town in Utah!
I love Clerks 3. It was a perfect ending and it made me cry. Every time I watch it I feel impressed by how well he hit the mark. J&SB Reboot, though... That was disappointing.
Loved Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and a few other movies from his earlier career. But he lost me completely a long time ago. Haven't bothered to watch his movies from the last 15 years, if not longer.
It’d be interesting to compare smith and Zack Snyder. Both seemingly really believed the hype around them when they were hailed early in their careers as new and exciting voices in cinema. Now it’s just getting sad and awkward
Kevin Smith made dogma tho
"The film starts with Smith's daughter..." Uh oh.
She's truly terrible. I can't fault Smith for giving his daughter a job, and I wanted to give her a chance, but damn is she awful. I doubt she'll have much of a career outside of Kevin's movies. She might get a few background parts here and there as favours because Smith sucks up to Hollywood so hard. But yeah, she stinks.
@Great_Watt
Ill fault him. That type of nepotism is genuinely one of the main factors stagnating society in general.
Am I the only one think she's got a long face to be his kid? Like is it me or does she flat out look more like Jay?
Honestly Harley Quinn while not an academy award winner in the making (at least most likely, I guess we never know) isn't a horrible actress and I think has done fine in what she has done. Yeah she is a nepo baby but Hollywood is full of them and all Kevin Smith has done his entire career is put friends and family in his movies, so not sure why her being in his movies is suddenly the line we can't accept him crossing. The biggest problem is when she is in his movies parental pride gets in the way and he doesn't see things like Yoga Hosers for the crap fest they are.
@@joeydurant6267 Boom!
God this looks lame. The only thing Smith makes successfully anymore are his weed payments.
And cry watching Marvel/Star Wars trailers
@@ragnar97 There's a word for that: narcissist.
He quit smoking like over a year ago tho.
He quit smoking a while ago.
Oh no, he blames weed for being a crutch he used to cope with apparently getting molested or something. Happy he's healthy and all, but I think that heart attack killed the Kevin Smith we all loved
he lost weight and credibility
Sampson type beat 😔
The credibility was gone LONG before the weight.
Clerks 2 didn't flop. It made five times its budget and was well received at the time.
He won't fondle you. If you wanted ass play...he won't do that. I get you want his sausage sauce but you won't get it. In short, he won't bang you regardless of you verbally tossing his sallad.
Oh... Well if it made MONEY...
@@HC-cb4yp "and was well received"
You should read the entire sentence next time, it'll help out.
Yeah Clerks 2 was great.
Loved it
Why was 'Cop Out' left off while you were going through Kevin Smith's films? I get he didn't Write it, but he still Directed it, and he went on a very infamous heated rant on social media over the reception on it, further damaging his status as a filmmaker.
Skip to 9:45 if you already know who Kevin Smith is.
You've mixed up Jersey girl with Chasing Amy. People like Chasing Amy, not so much Jersey girl.
Honestly people have been coming around on Jersey Girl because of how ass the later KS movies have been.
People *loved* chasing Amy when it came out. The studio loved the script so much they initially offered Kevin a $10mil budget (the movie later was made for $250,000).
The CA script was so good, people thought Kevin wrote - or helped write - Good Will Hunting. After GWH won an Oscar, many speculated that affleck and Damon couldn’t have written such a great script by themselves.
@@SKa-tt9nm lmao WHAT?! People *hated* chasing amy when it came out because they wanted more clerks and mallrats and got that. People really went to town on it for not being a KS movie. It was only over time that people started to appreciate it.
The GWH thing is just pure bullshit lmao
Has anyone seen the recent podcast where Smith is basicilly telling Bry and Walt that them and Mewes would be lost withou him and how stressful it is carrying his friends? It was really disappointing and even Walt was like "you dont sound like the person we grew up with" . Ive lost a lot of respect for Kevin Smith.
The only thing he is carrying is his wife's handbag.
Damn which podcast is that?
@@hellraiserx44Tell Em Steve Dave 474 I think. I was talking to one of my friends about him one night and he brought it up.
Link or it didn't happen
@Hamzahasanlse "Kevin Smith quit weed permanently" by: Red Cow Arcade"
Is where I 1st saw the clip W/Walt and bry on their new podcast. I've seen him say the same about mewes on TESD and SMOD casts. Watch the Red Cow video it's all there. I didn't say it cause I'm some bitter internet troll, I used to really look up to Smith ( I even saw Jersey Girl in theaters and loved it) but he's undeniably lame now. -edited cuz it didn't tag you, so I tagged you below-
4:41 a big problem is when directors make a movie around their kids. Just because you’re in the industry and successful, doesn’t mean your kids are gonna be equally talented. But, hooray for nepotism I guess?
He put his wife in J&SBSB and she throws off the whole hot girl-robber angle because SHE CAN'T ACT. It's been super-downhill since then
@thelostronin
I thought she threw it off because she wasn't hot, but _was,_ minimum, a decade older than the other two.
To each their own, I guess.
This@@DoobieKeebler
Correct, my dad is a bankruptcy attorney and I'm bad with credit.
Hair and eye color get occasionally passed on, not skills.
Kevin Smith got lucky with Clerks and Dogma. After that he thought he was untouchable and started making movies with monkeys and fart jokes
all the greats have used fart jokes... let me guess, you have a stick up your arse?
I completely broke down watching dogma. that movie has way too many superblong exposition scenes. they spend 10 minutes in a bar with a character explaining the lore and it was so dull i fast forwarded to the end
Jay and Silent Bob was fucking awesome
So the first story of the movie was basically Gypsy Rose
Clerks 2 was his last good comedy, Red State was good everything after is unwatchable crap and this is coming from someone who was a big fan of his first 5 movies
Am I the only one, who thinks Killroy looks like a screwed real life version of Squidward?
THAT'S WHAT IT REMINDS ME OF
Why the hell did you put a comma in that sentence?
I didn't care for Red State personally. I remember how hard Kevin hyped it up on his podcasts but it felt like the movie completely lost steam and petered out at around 45 minutes. It just became one long boring shootout that wasn't even particularly inventive and there were lots of cringy jokes that felt out of place with the more serious tone the movie was going for. The ending was a pathetic anticlimax although I understand that was partially a result of budget constraints. It was great that Smith tried to push himself out of his comfort zone by making a more action/horror type film but by that point he had already fallen out of favor with the mainstream and people didn't care anymore. He just waited too long to start maturing as a filmmaker. It's crazy to think that he was a peer to guys like Tarantino and PT Anderson once but they just completely zoomed past him because they actually had the sense to evolve as filmmakers and storytellers.
A shout out to Jason Mewes' new dentist, he looks a lot closer to how he did in the 90s.
Dogma was really big when it came out- a lot of advertising and a big push, and most people I knew liked it. It was seemed like his real “breakthrough movie.” Definitely a big film. Weird you didn’t mention it. Chasing Amy was also pretty big. And Mallrats was huge on video as well.
The internet broke Kevin Smith.
His extreme vanity is so incredibly uncomfortable to behold. He wears the same costume every day of his life, not to mention the exact same surprised look on his face for every picture that's been taken of him. It almost makes me feel claustrophobic.
I used to enjoy Kevin Smith movies and listened to a LOT of his podcasts. I can't even listen to him now. He used to be a relatable person but he has shown himself to be anything but that. He ruins products like He-Man and The Masters of The Universe and others. He has not had an original idea since Red State. I'll never listen or watch his projects again. I guess he had a lot of us fooled in the beginning. Not anymore.
I had to stop listening to his Smodcast cause he was smoking a lot with Scott Mosier and laughing at nothing.
@@RustyX2010 I found that out too. That's when I really checked out. And I really gave him chance after chance.
How did he ruin He man and masters of the universe?
@@itcouldbelupus2842 Read up on it. He took the universe of He-Man and completely threw it out and created his own dumber version.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 by making shitty, woke, and non-sensical....i don't know why anyone would listen to celebrity podcast, what do they have to contribute?
I enjoyed 'Jersey Girl' when it came out, and I loved it after I had a daughter.
You were probably sleep deprived and in a manic mood :P
One of the ten people
I've come to really lose some respect for Smith in recent years, and this movie only increases my disappointment.
The constant crying over Arrowverse episodes was the nail in the coffin for me.
@@jamesrutherford1475He even shilled for Rise of Skywalker, telling everyone that it'll melt their minds, then cuts to the next scene of him at the theaters watching it with popcorn in hand as he cries. And that was during the time the first trailer just came out, so how is he's even watching it? I doubt it's the test screen version.
Red State fucked me up because I thought Smith was an actually good director.
he appealed to people that didn't understand how film making works - just the lowest common denominator .. called using a pig brain cell to make movies.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 Hi Ive made movies and I know the craft inside out. Red State is a damned masterpiece of visceral cinema - but conservative softies tend to get triggered by its depiction of Waco Whackos and so they start making long winded essays claiming they're the greatest and Smith isn't.
I think Ive seen this video 700 times by 700 different dudes. Talk of being one note.
He can be, he just doesn't want to put in effort.
Sorry man, got to get your facts straight. Clerks 2 made back almost five times its budget. If you double the budget to break even, it's gross was almost 300% what it cost to make. It was actually liked by most critics and the general audience that saw it. Compare this to the highest grossing film of the same year, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which cost $225,000,000 and earned $1,066,179,725 world wide. They are comparable in profit percentage. No one would call that a flop unless they were intellectually dishonest. I know it is a small gripe but this is the kind of thing that will tank your credibility. Of course the NFT movie was dumb and unenjoyable. That's not a hot take so get the rest straight.
Um that’s not how the movie industry works. Clerks 2 made 26 million at the box office. the movie studio gets 40% of that the other 60% the movie theaters keep and with a budget of 5 million and another 4 million spent on advertising clearks 2 did not really make money until it’s DVD release…..miramax called the movie “mildly successful” and Kevin smith said himself none of his movies have made much money at the box office (if any ) but they do well on the video market and that’s the only reason he gets a chance to make another movie
@@Horsemanray ...and you resemble Jason Mewes before he got sober. Gee, personal attacks are fun.
@@Horsemanray I didn’t know you were so intimately involved with them. Hey, do you! ❤️
@@Horsemanray You had me at "I'm sorry." Here's a hug 🕊
@@Horsemanray You’re funny. We should hang out.
The Eras of Kevin Smith’s Career
1993-2001: The Heyday
- Clerks
- Mallrats
- Chasing Amy
- Dogma
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2002-2010: Selling Out
- Jersey Girl
- Clerks II
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- Cop Out
2011-2019: WTF?
- Red State
- Comic Book Men, Fatman on Batman, & Spoilers (the unbearable “nerd culture” shows)
- Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie
- Tusk
- Yoga Hosers
- Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2020-2028: “My name’s Kevin Smith and I’ve long since disappeared up my own asshole.”
- Masters of the Universe: Revelation
- Killroy was Here (the one only released as NFTs… this is real…)
- Clerks III
- The 4:30 (New film in development: “focused on a group of teenagers in the 1980s who spend a day ‘theater-hopping,’ in Monmouth County, New Jersey.” …. Ugh…)
I liked Red State and Comic Book Men but I tapped out when I saw Tusk and the trailer for the Jay and Silent Bob Cartoon Movie. I listened to the podcasts for a while but eventually I realized Hit Somebody was never going to happen and that there were much better podcasts out there.
@@ChromeDestiny I never saw Red State, I’ll be honest. But I’m willing to give it a shot! Looks interesting and unique at minimum.
@@Young_Pacino Red State was good. And I liked Clerks 2 & 3. I think Smith still is capable of making good films, but he was always a bit hit and miss. Even his early films were a bit hokey, but they had a charm to them because they were made by a regular working stiff on a shoe string budget. He's not that guy anymore. He's rich and famous and too caught up in the whole left wing hollywood bubble. He's lost touch with being an average joe ... then again Clerks 3 was pretty relate-able.
@@DrakusRecords I’m not going to be able to sit through Clerks 3 I don’t think, but fair points. I just can’t get beyond the feeling with Kevin Smith that for the last 1.5 decades ish he’s been way way too impressed with himself, and he paraded around with a ‘wacky’ oversized jersey and jorts forever, pre heart attack, and he takes “nerd culture” far too seriously as one of its chief spokesmen, so it’s fun to shit on him. He peaked with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back IMO. :P I still love all the “An Evening with Kevin Smith” DVDs though. Fun stories told well! The Prince, Tim Burton, and Jon Peters stories from the first DVD in particular are hilarious.
Clerks 2 was great, but other than that agreed.
I feel like he said on one of the podcasts that he went to mentor a film class and enjoyed them so much he wanted to work with them. I bet it was student short films that he jammed killjoy into
I was always a huge Smith fan, and technically I still am, but I can't bring myself to watch his movies anymore. I still like the guy, but the movies are just off the rails. So this was a nice way to catch up with whatever wacky stuff he's been up to lately. I appreciated it, thank you!
I don't think Pirates of the Caribbean is what Johnny Depp was busy with lol
Why does Kevin Smith get so many chances after multiple financial flops?
Because profit is no longer the motive. If the trash they put out for social engineering/destruction of beloved properties makes money.... great. But if it doesn't they will just go to Blackrock and have them get the Fed to print more DEI money. And if you are like Smith and be a compliant cog in this machine, you will not lose your place regardless of how many failures you are responsible for. Just look at KK at disney.
Because his early success in the indie scene made him a legend for a time and people like to believe those types will always bounce back.
Because he pays for the films himself and through money made on his previous films.
Smith had 3 great movies and beyond that, pretty bad. Honestly once he started cutting his own movies they started sucking.
... which three? You don't like Dogma?
@@thelostronin it’s was fine but nothing really special. Clerks, mallrats and chasing amy were well produced movies. The rest were ok and most were just terrible. And I was a big fan of his.
@@RichardServello Dogma was definitely his most ambitious, but it was so far up it's own ass
@@RichardServelloI liked Chasing Amy when I was 16 but going back to it, the movie was melodramatic and it has some outdated ideas about sexuality that isn’t entirely Smith’s fault but it took me out of it.
I remember watching an interview with Seth Rogen about Zack and Miri. He said that having come off of making Judd Apatow movies, he was used to riffing and improvising. Kevin Smith apparently shut that down immediately and insisted that the actors stay on script, i think thats definitely why it didn't do as well as Rogen's other films from the time
Counterpoint: Most improv-based comedies are complete garbage. It's usually just SNL, Groundlings, Second City "veterans" jerking off on set forever - and then somebody edits that crap into a movie. There's a reason why that genre has had a downfall like practically no other.
Of course Smith probably just shut it down to reduce the number and length of takes to save money. His written material isn't any better than improv comedy logorrhoea.
James Rolfe is a better filmmaker than Kevin Smith.
Who is James Rolfe ?
I wish he could actually keep making films, but he's a slave of The Nerd.
I'm a huge pot head, massive! Like I've been smoking for 31 years, and even I, think Kevin Smith shouldn't smoke pot
Hooray, because he quit. As should you.
@@LtCaveman nah I'm good, just think Kevin Smith should keep it that way, might actually make another good movie one day
@@LtCaveman Yeah, and now that he's quit he's been reduced to making crap like Kilroy Was Here. People need to stop blaming the weed for Kevin's downfall and just accept that he naturally declined as a filmmaker and entertainer. He didn't really have that many great ideas to begin with and he became bitter that his movies still made piddling returns at the box office while guys like Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen were raking in 200 million per picture. The overuse of weed was just a symptom of a larger problem.
@@silversnail1413 Kilroy was made before he quit, in fact it was probably at the height of his use. It's probably 2 years old by now and was barely promoted, it's not a new project. I find it really funny how many people are here saying they liked his early stuff but that now he sucks and has gotten worse as a filmmaker as if it's also not possible that they've grown up and their tastes have changed....or that they haven't changed and expect him to just keep making the same thing over and over again. Not saying everything he's made has been great but other than Kilroy, nothing has been objectively bad; even Yoga Hosers, from a production standpoint, is a well made, narratively competent film. You, me or anyone not liking them is a matter of opinion and doesn't change that. In fact, what he's able to do with a limited budget is pretty amazing, most of the time, because his movies never look low budget. I'll take that over a lot of modern Hollywood trash and nonsense because at the very least, his movies are fun and he's not trying to change the world.
@@LtCaveman "As should you"
imagine being this guy jfc
Cop Out and Jersey Girl can at least be called "movies"
Got recommended this video on my home page, seems the algorithm knows you're on to something. I've never even seen a Kevin Smith film, but your video does a good job at essentially giving him a mini-doc before getting into the review. It was entertaining and informative, with a very relaxed presentation style. Great scripting, editing, and audio mixing.
You've earned a sub, and hopefully many more to come.
Thank you, yes, i plan on many more essays like this, along with our weekly show The Harbor where we talk and focus on specific films.
Informative with false information, you get better info from the back of a vhs
@@EmperorGuyver Like what?
@@Gannoh Like saying basically no one liked Clerks II and it flopped.. both wrong
And he left out Cop Out
Dude clearly got his feelings hurt and didnt care about actual info that exists
@@EmperorGuyver Alright fair enough, if there's just omission or incorrect information then it should get tightened up in future videos.
Seems like this is a first attempt making these types of videos, no need to rip too harsh into it.
Spotted a wild Chris Jericho
I still think Red State is so underrated
A better movie title would be “Squidward Was Here”.
Dude has made 2 "OK" films in 30 years.
Dogma is his best movie by a wide margin. Genuinely funny.
Why are we just lying now?
Killroy was, in part, a school project for the students of Ringling College Art and Design in Sarasota FL. He was asked to help guide these inexperienced students make a film. I don't think he deserves to be shit on in this context.
I would sue my school if they booked that 'fing hack to show us how to make a film
After Tusk I lost a ton of respect for Kevin Smith. He seems to have just gotten last as a film maker after that and had only learned the wrong lessons.
His career went down hill once Seth Rogan intoduced him to marijuana
Did it really take Seth Rogan to introduce him to weed?
@@IsmailofeRegime Yes, Kevin's first time using it was on the set of Zack and Mary make a prono.
@@ericstaples7220 he talks in one of his first live pre-podcast shows about how he'd tried it a handful of times. I think he became a proper wake&bake stoner after spending time with Rogen. He's sober now.
Kevin Smith has become someone I hate so quickly
Wtf happened to him?
It's amazing how cheap that movie looks.
Watch Jersey Girl. I promise, it’s better than you think it’ll be and you’ll get the best George Carlin performance. There is a thematic cameo that is super…interesting…in 2024.
Especially the snyder cut of it
So is it that Kevin Smith is bad or that he just peaked early. I remember hearing a lot of buzz for clerks and dogma as a kid and not really understanding any of it. And now it seems Kevin Smith is more of a meme than a visionary. He seems chill enough aside from crying at subpar movies.
He’s just at a weird phase in his career. He’s capable of better stuff, but he also pretty good about keeping these things cheap.
But there is a lot of value in some of his films.
He was fair as I can tell not doing well. He was high a lot and dealing with his near death heart attack. It was only a couple years he checked himself into a clinic because he woke up with what he more or less described as freak out. During his time the health clinic he dealt with childhood trauma that he has talked about.
@@Horsemanray but they were also, ya know, good movies.
I loved the early Kevin Smith movies like Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent bob, and first two Clerks films.
I dropped off caring about Kevin Smith once he did does lame studio movies like Jersey Girl and the Bruce Willis cop film.
I had no idea he made a horror film that used the short lived NFT grift to sell it. Also you are spot on about the 'Trump era' phenomenon killing alot of art. It made alot of movies (and shows) age poorly.
I think his first foray into horror, Red State, is quite excellent, but everything he's done since has been atrocious.
Jeez. It was a miracle this didn't kill his career (last time I checked, Smith had announced a sequel to Dogma fairly recently).
Ohhhhhh fuck. With how up his own ass he is nowadays, that is NOT gonna go well. You can't write an insightful movie about god if you're convinced you're him.
That was an April fools joke.
Kevin Smith has never had a peak.
Here's your annual reminder: Kevin Smith was never good, you were just less critical when you liked his work
I still like it. The only thing that disappointed me was Reboot. But Clerks 3 is insanely good.
Since they keep messing with the idea of Killroy being a protector of children, here's my rewrite for his backstory:
Killroy was a child soldier drafted incredibly young who was killed in the line of duty before ever reaching 18. His agony during his death and anger at the adults who drafted him and brought him into this war caused him to stay on this earth as a vengeful spirit, killing adults recklessly but sparing children and often being used as a guardian spirit by abused children. The WWII graffiti comes from how people who saw him would often mark the area as warnings to adults and give children harmed by the war a safehaven.
Definitely needs another draft but at least it's something.
Don't ever watch Cop Out. Unbelievably its far worse than even this pile of shit.
You’ve clearly never seen Tusk or Yoga Hosers, which is good that you haven’t actually
I really like Cop Out.
Kevin Smith has become such a hack. He would have hated what he’s become.
Jersey Girl? Smith stole that title from a Matt Dillon film. Tusk? That's a Fleetwood Mac album. Then something with the word jaws? Another bad idea. Online I told him several times to stop ripping off titles - use your OWN title. He ignored my sage viewer advice. Now I'm hearing here about a Kilroy thing? Ouch. When will the inevitable film about a Stitch In Time also be hitting the Smith junk pile? Yikes.
Kevin Smith's early movies are great and had a very unique feel and personality. Chasing Amy is one of my favorites of all time, but everything Kevin Smith has done recently is so "self aware" that it stops being something that feels human in the way the original View Askew movies did.
I used to be a ***HUGE*** Kevin Smith fan, now I'm embarrassed I even know his name.
I got banned from r/movies, my first post ever on Reddit, for asking someone that bought the nft to host a torrent so i could watch it.
Sounds like that would violate the rules of that sub without even knowing the rules of that sub 😅
Oh man Brian O'Halloran who plays Dante looks almost exactly like DarksydePhil
I'm genuinely baffled that Smith has made a decades-long career after making only 1 decent film in his entire life (and even that film hasn't aged well). I'm no closer to understanding his mainstream appeal.
Gen X eats it up.
"None of this makes any sense whatsoever." - This sums up my thoughts on how Kevin Smith keeps making movies or tv shows at all. Who keeps giving him money to make garbage?
I didn't know Kevin Smith had an NFT Movie.
The thing about NFTs is, if it's a picture of an ape, _you don't even own the picture._ You essentially own a *_hyperlink_* to that picture. You know, those little links that are blue and underlined on your browser and turn purple when you click them? Yeah. With NFTs, you own the _link,_ not what it links _to._
Why the fuck did i assume zack and mary was apatow movie??? Absolutely no idea that was kevins movie
lol same
It's possible you're mixing it up with this is 40 which is
Probably just because of Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen + 2000s raunchy sex comedy = "Must be an Apatow movie I never heard of."
He hates criticism, lookout
Kevin Smith died of a heart attack. Something else came back in his place.
Kevin Slimth
It's admirable an amateur filmmaker like Smith has lasted so long in Hollywood
I mean ... it WOULD be admirable if he didn't go out basically being a complete shill for whatever politically correct movement he thought would win him attention.
I mean FFS out of this anthology most were taking shots at christians, bring up immigrants, ect.
Then there was the He-man series he made where the title character gets absolutely dunked on and upstaged by his sister amount various other issues.
IT's not even like he appears to especailly be devoted to any "cause" and is just like a washed up celebrity screaming "LOOK I DID THE RIGHT THING! I SUPPORTED THE RIGHT NARRATIVE RIGHT? PLEASE LOVE ME!!!"
In the end it looks like he always was and always will be a nacasist that just wants people to love him and his work. That's why he always goes into a panic spiral everytime his work isn't a hit.
@metazoxan2 so I'm guessing you don't realize the irony of calling him both a shill for things he doesn't believe in, and then calling him a narcissist
@@Ramonatho Are you seriously that ignorant? People Can be both, especially if they are shilling specificial so people will validate them or they think it will get people to praise them.
So no there is nothing ironic about it, it's actually not that rare to see people try to make themselves look good for attention or praise.
By the way dude the word isn't leeway it's Segue 11:00
Your comment adds nothing
@@yourmomlovespenislol you were one of those kids who didn't like when the teacher corrected your homework huh
“adds nothing” except… useful information that will make him sound smarter in future. Who wouldn’t want that? Oh yeah - someone who’d rather be a dumbass for life than ever be told they got something wrong ^^;
Being a fan of Kevin Smith has been an emotional roller coaster, one that malfunctioned and has been flying off track over the last few years, but I am still stupid enough to keep getting back on because I remember when it was functioning and was a great ride. What happened to the Kevin that made Clerks? Dogma? Chasing Amy? This current Kevin doesn't have that same thoughtful disposition, the same sarcastic wit, he feels like a flanderized version of himself and it's a bummer.
Weed. Weed is what happened. Once he discovered weed, his creativity took a nose dive. Every dumb idea he had while stoned was made into a movie and they all suck.
@@Scudboy17 The last movie by Kevin I enjoyed was Red State, 13 effin years ago. It's been rough and yeah, it looks like it was the weed that ruined him.
@@Scudboy17you’re on crack if you think weed is the problem scud. He’s just grown out of the appeal he used to have. It’s a natural part of life. You’re all treating him like an ex girlfriend. It’s weird as fuck
@@Flipindabird23 My guy, we're just lamenting that this dude used to make movies we enjoyed and now he makes nothing but trash, it aint that deep.
@@DanielSantosAnalysis saying “it’s the weed that ruined him” like your some housewives from the 60’s just cracks me up.
I learned how to steal pay per view on old school cable boxes when I was in the 8th grade to be able to watch Clerks
Are those transferrable skills to an NFT? Hook a brother up with a VHS copy yo! :P
I don’t know how someone can regress this much. Only other example I can think of is Eminem
wait, there was another NFT movie he did besides clerks 3?
Wait, having it be an NFT is really awful for the actors. They act in a film that only a certain amount of people will ever see? If he really was making it like a regular film, but then changed it to an NFT, that’s really low. Actors deserve exposure, even in bad movies.
You don't ever have to tell me a Kevin Smith movie is terrible - we'll assume it.
Facts. It’s my default assumption.
I have yet to really be disappointed by his movies. The only miss for me was Reboot.
@@purrpocalypse did you see that Jay and Bob cartoon movie? I felt that was a defined low.
@@HandsomeFrogman I don't even count that train wreck lol
Nfts are, to me as an older guy, the strangest thing you can buy. The mere thought people are buying pictures that can soooo easily be copied or atleast closely copied... and they give you absoloutely nothing in return. Now im unsure if people actually expected them to gain in value but its a bizarreþý
People aren't buying the pictures. Or any kind of rights to the pictures. They're "buying" a glorified hyperlink to a picture, that's on a server somewhere. If they don't find an even bigger idiot who will buy the hyperlink from them before whoever scammed them stops paying for the server, it will be a hyperlink to nothing but an error message. And since "NFT enthusiasts" are usually also crapto morons and pay for that nonsense with unregulated faux techbro "money" in an unregulated faux "market" with no legal recourse whatsoever, that's where it ends. Of course the initial scammer has long converted the doggie picture "coins" into actual, regulated, government-backed currency somewhere on the planet - and may or may not be enjoying hookers and blow on a Caribbean beach.
Yes, NFTs are THAT dumb and THAT obviously a scam. You buy a hyperlink that may or may not still work tomorrow from a con man - and try to find an even dumber person who will buy it from you at a higher price.
Kevin Smith hasn't made a good movie since Dogma.
The last fifteen minutes of Clerks 2 was good. Really good, actually. But yeah, it says something that that's the only thing he's done well in decades.
Dogma was dope. Chasing Amy was pretty good. Clerks was never my thing.
@@gianni_schicchi Clerks was ok. It was way over hyped. I did really like Mallrats and Dogma. Jay and Silent Bob strike back was also pretty good just because of all the call backs. But after that his movies were turning into trash. Also he ruined He-man. They should never allowed him to touch that IP.
Dogma is not a good movie
Clerks 2 is better than dogma
The biggest problem with Smith is that he stopped being sincere. My favorite movies are Clerks and Mallrats, because you can see Kevin there. Jay and Silent Bob or Dogma are good movies, but you don't really care much about them. They are those kind of movies that you watch with your friend with couple of beer. He started doing mass product rather than something sincere. That sucks
We have Bored Ape Yatch Club at Home.
He might have the most bizarre filmographies ever. Completely all over the place.
Kevin Smith made a NFT Movie? 😮
You shouldn't be surprised, one of the characters in Clerks 3 was literally named "Blockchain".