Film

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Unless my airways were strapped to a bong, I don't think I could handle a single Kevin Smith movie these days.

Watched High Life, indie sci-fi film with Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche. Very good, lovely aesthetics, bit of Tarkovsky going on there but with an underpinning of Freudian psycho-erotic tension.

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Watched Jay and Silent Bob ReBoot last night,was a big fan of the first one and Kevin Smith movies back in the day but this isnt great.Plenty of references to the other movies and all the big names are in it,but its poor enough i thought.

I am going to the live show in 2 weeks where they show the film then do Q and A after it. Strikes back got awful reviews when it came out and I loved it.

[Emphyrio]

I'll watch it but I reckon as a 40 year old I don't think I'll get the same sense of enjoyment I did as when the likes of Clerks and Mallrats came out.

[Paul keohane]

I am going to the live show in 2 weeks where they show the film then do Q and A after it. Strikes back got awful reviews when it came out and I loved it.

i thought Strikes back was great!,i love most of his movies,but this new one isnt great.The actors are 20 years older,im 20 years older may be that had a lot to do with it.Some of the references to his other movies are good in Reboot,and was a bit of craic seeing all the original actors pop up again etc.But overall it just didnt grab me.

[Eoin McLove]

I thought Strikes Back was cuntish and I loved his other films.  Way too slapstick and stupid.  I think Jay and Silent Bob are great minor characters but are boring to watch for an hour and a half.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock today. The former in particular is still so damn good.

[Scáthach]

Khaaaaann! 

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The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock today. The former in particular is still so damn good.

For the most part I've enjoyed all of them. The Wrath of Khan being possibly one of the best, Montalban  is just so cool in it 

[Ducky]

I think the only time I ever got upset watching a film as wee'un was the earwig scene in Wrath of Kahn.

Holy fuck I screamed my head off

[StoutAndAle]

"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is a beautiful little film. Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen are brilliant together in it. I was a bit weepy by the end.

Looking forward to LaBeouf's other new movie too - "Honey Boy".



On Kevin Smith -  I was a big fan from "Clerks" on after reading a review of the video release in Empire back in the early 90s. Even going sd far as journeying to his Secret Stash shop in New Jersey. I think I own everything that the man ever put out, in several formats, up until "Zack And Miri..." and after that I switched off completely.

Just checked his filmography and I haven't seen anything beyond 2008  mainly because of diminishing returns on the quality of his work. But also partly due to Smith's attitude towards all the people who put him in his position in the first place by thinking that he could treat them any way he liked (see some of the later Q&A videos) - either by overtly insulting these people or by knowingly releasing shite (or re-releasing or re-re-re-releasing old material with nothing new on it)  to turn a quick-buck.  Some of the stuff he put out like his film-maker's diary which basically turns out to be the chronicles of him taking shits and eating BBQ every single day for his dinner is a definite low point.

The Batman comic series "Cacophony" being an exception to the downward slide.

For all that, I was interested in the re-boot if only for nostalgia's sake. I don't think that a single cinema in Cork screened it though.

[Pedrito]

I really enjoy a lot of his work also. Thought Clerks 2 was great, loved the vibe of the film. I find his grown up little boy thing a bit hard to take these days though, his fanboy involvement and lack of criticism of the recent Star Wars movies etc. Agree that Jay and Silent Bob are excellent minor characters but the thought of a full movie of them...uff. 

[Carnage]

I loved Clerks 2, though that's mainly due to Rosario Dawson, jaysus.

I'd give Red State a watch, it's not what you'd expect from him at all, and John Goodman and Michael Parks are excellent in it.

[Paul keohane]

Clerks 2 was alright,went to see it in the cinema when it came out.The main draw to the Reboot was probably nostalgia alright,be interesting to see what some of you think of it.

[Carnage]

I haven't seen the first Jay And Silent Bob film, like someone said above, they're grand in small doses but I can't imagine a full film of them holding my interest.

I read Smith's book (My Boring Ass Life, an apt title), he just comes across as obnoxious in it. Same with the first two 'Evening With' DVDs, though some of the stories are enjoyable. He seems to revel in his celebrity status and acts as though he's above those around him. Twat. At least Mewes has the good grace to seem embarrassed by it all.

[Pedrito]

I loved Clerks 2, though that's mainly due to Rosario Dawson, jaysus.

I'd give Red State a watch, it's not what you'd expect from him at all, and John Goodman and Michael Parks are excellent in it.

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