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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 9:17AM Ha! Kevin Smith F***ing Loves 'Zack & Miri'
I wish I could take credit for this, but as I had
nothing at all to do with it, I can only take credit for laughing at it.
Over the past couple of months, a lot of movie-related
websites not named The Big Picture have frantically reprinted quotes from
Kevin Smith about several films. First it was
The Dark Knight, then I think Watchmen, and possibly Star Trek
most recently. He could have been talking about anything, frankly, because he
loved everything he saw and spoke about each film in exactly the same way. The
reviews were interchangeable.
I'm not inclined to listen to these reviews for a few reasons, primarily because the guy made
Jersey Girl. On purpose. And he was
a correspondent/shill for The Tonight Show. So I don't necessarily feel
like taking his advice and running to the highest mountaintop with it.
Spill picked up the scent of Smith's recent
fits of fawning praise and has crafted a very funny piece about him pilin' on
the platitudes for an upcoming film called
Zack & Miri Make a Porno. The joke is, of
course, that Smith wrote and directed Zack & Miri. Here's an excerpt from
Smith's "blog" about the film, which he was fortunate enough to see a couple
months early:
"Fucking saw Zack and Miri last night. I can’t say much because of the fucking NDA I made myself sign, but I can say this: it’s fucking astounding! You know that feeling you had when you were fucking watching the first Clerks movie and you were like “wow, this guy really fucking knows what he’s doing” and then the fucking feeling you got while fucking watching Clerks II that like “wow, this guy knows what the fuck is up again.” Multiply that by a fucking billion. This fucking film is in very fucking capable fucking hands."Fuckin' A. So kudos to the crew at Spill. That's a great idea executed flawlessly.
Reader Comments (14)
Superb! (And don't forget the guy's cameo in Die Hard 4. WTF was that about?)
Yeah, I like Smith and even listen to his podcast (mostly brilliant because of Scott Mosier, btw) but Clerks 2 was a horrible piece of shit that noone should have ever had to endure. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back wrapped things up neatly for everyone, and he pooped on it all.
That being said, I hope Zak and Miri is good. I'd like to see Smith return to the witty pretentiousness that once made him the guy to root for.
Wow, take shots at Kevin for Jersey Girl and liking his own movies, that's so original. Kudos my friend, you certainly changed my prospective on his films because he was once a "Tonight Show Shill".
While I certainly don't like to force religion on anyone, God has a special place in heaven, for bloggers with such original and witty semi pop-culture blurbs!
Guy,
I always take shots at Kevin Smith, because he's vastly overrated and hasn't made anything worth a damn in a decade.
First I want to say, I'm not a Smith disciple who sits on his website and hangs on his every word. Still at the end of the day, I'm a big fan of his work and his writing, calling him over-rated is just saying, he could never write anything better than Clerks. My question for you is how many writers every have?
BTW, you might as well write about how he can't make any money at the box office, while you still can.. it's no secret Zack & Miri is going to do between 75-100 million.
*ever had.
Smith found Rogen...who could, and probably will save his film-making career. I heard there is a behind the scenes Smith on Rogen BJ sequence that will appear in the DVD special edition, by the way...
No word on whether a donkey or Brett Ratner was also involved...