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Your Favorite Kevin Smith Movie?


Your Favorite Kevin Smith movie?  

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  1. 1. What is your favorite Kevin Smith movie?

    • Clerks
      9
    • Mallrats
      4
    • Chasing Amy
      5
    • Dogma
      8
    • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
      5
    • Jersey Girl
      2
    • Clerks 2
      3


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I just got done watching Clerks and was wondering what's everyone's favorite Kevin Smith movie?This poll is only for movies Kevin Smith directed and are in the View Askewniverse.Mine is easily Mallrats.edit: had to redo poll, please vote again

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I can see Jay and Silent Bob a thousand times and never get bored of it.This thread should be a poll.
good idea...poll is up nowand for obvious reasons I didn't include Jersey Girl.
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Fuck that. Jersey Girl is tied with Amy as my favorite.
I seriously hope you're joking...but I just added it now anyways
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I just got done watching Clerks and was wondering what's everyone's favorite Kevin Smith movie?Mine is easily Mallrats.
ewww...Mallrats..really!? why oh why?I agree with showstopper24, a poll would've been good for this.When I think Kevin Smith I always think Clerks and whenever I come across it wherever I forget how well done it really is. I haven't seen Clerks 2 so I can't comment. Dogma was fantastic as well. Does Good Will Hunting count? He was co-exec.
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ewww...Mallrats..really!? why oh why?I agree with showstopper24, a poll would've been good for this.When I think Kevin Smith I always think Clerks and whenever I come across it wherever I forget how well done it really is. I haven't seen Clerks 2 so I can't comment. Dogma was fantastic as well. Does Good Will Hunting count? He was co-exec.
there is a poll now...Good Will Hunting doesn't really count. I'm basically just including all the movies he directed and are in the View Askewniverse.And Mallrats is my fav!
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Jersey Girl is LITERALLY the dumbest movie I've ever seen. Watching Ben Affleck try to act in that piece of crap is like having teeth pulled. I voted for Dogma.edit: How have TWOOOOO people voted for Jersey Girl??? You have no taste!

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Jersey Girl is LITERALLY the dumbest movie I've ever seen. Watching Ben Affleck try to act in that piece of crap is like having teeth pulled. I voted for Dogma.edit: How have TWOOOOO people voted for Jersey Girl??? You have no taste!
lol glad im not the only one
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Jersey Girl is LITERALLY the dumbest movie I've ever seen. Watching Ben Affleck try to act in that piece of crap is like having teeth pulled. I voted for Dogma.edit: How have TWOOOOO people voted for Jersey Girl??? You have no taste!
I don't know about "dumb" that might be a bit extreme but I was disappointed and I tried to love it but didn't happen.Thanks for the poll OP. I had no idea you could add it after making the thread.
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I think it's clerks, and it's not even close. Every movie he's made since clerks hasn't been as pure, hasn't been as funny. He's tried to evolve a bit, move beyond a bit, and fails, some times a small degree of failure, sometimes its jersey girl. His movies are still really funny, and I'll still probably keep seeing each new one. But I think clerks is still his masterpiece.

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ewww...Mallrats..really!? why oh why?I agree with showstopper24, a poll would've been good for this.When I think Kevin Smith I always think Clerks and whenever I come across it wherever I forget how well done it really is. I haven't seen Clerks 2 so I can't comment. Dogma was fantastic as well. Does Good Will Hunting count? He was co-exec.
go watch clerks 2, it was very good
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I agree with BigD, it's Clerks by a mile. Clerks is the original, it is very well-written, and I have to give him credit for getting the movie made for basically right around 30K or less. Mallrats is hilarious, and is probably my 2nd favorite, though the editing job is horrendous. Chasing Amy might be his best overall effort. Dogma has its moments. Jay and Silent Bob should be much funnier considering how many funny people were in it. Everything after Jay and Silent Bob is meh. Clerks will be the movie he is identified with and remembered for the most, because it was fresh and clever when it came out.

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I agree with BigD, it's Clerks by a mile. Clerks is the original, it is very well-written, and I have to give him credit for getting the movie made for basically right around 30K or less. Mallrats is hilarious, and is probably my 2nd favorite, though the editing job is horrendous. Chasing Amy might be his best overall effort. Dogma has its moments. Jay and Silent Bob should be much funnier considering how many funny people were in it. Everything after Jay and Silent Bob is meh. Clerks will be the movie he is identified with and remembered for the most, because it was fresh and clever when it came out.
That right there is the issue. When I saw the original clerks, I had never seen a movie like it. It's writing and humor were hilarious, but it also was poingent. But all the movies smith has made have been increasingly stale, and like I've seen it and heard it all before from him. It's still funny.. but.. I think movies like Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob are overrated. Dogma seemed a bit over it's head, a little too.. lacking in subltety for the issues it was addressing. Plus like every five minutes, some character would give a monologue that wasn't funny, and didn't drive the plot, but only served to explain to the audience the religious theory, ideology, dogma, and I think these little monologues just ruined the movie and made it clunky. Jay and Silent Bob was high on shock value comedy and low on wit. And too many wacka wacka wacka cameo's that served no purpose. I liked clerks 2 better than either of these two movies, but still no where near as much as clerks.
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I may be the only person who thinks this, but as far as acting is concerned, the original Clerks was so bad it's almost painful. Yes, the writing is good. Whoopdee-doo. Writing doesn't mean anything if the actors you chose can't pull it off. It's not a difficult script to act. Just make it so it doesn't seem like you're reading it out of a text book in your 8th grade history class.You want to call something a masterpiece based on the writing, make a literature forum. Movies are more than just the script.

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