Seeing Clerks II took me straight back to seeing the first one in 1994. It was a time when people looked at you funny if you carried around a cell phone, the Internet was still for computer geeks, and setting up an email account was more complicated than my calculus exam. I was a film student at the time, so seeing the movie was practically required. I remember how exciting it was at the time. The movie was low budget, with unknown actors using language seldom heard in mainstream cinema, yet it was getting tons of attention from critics.
So Kevin Smith set up an empire based around the characters he created and is probably one of the better-known directors today. And I’m not making movies. At least I can write about them. I can’t say whether Kevin Smith agrees with John Lennon or not. At first glance I might say no, but then again maybe he does.
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1 - Ty
I thought the movie was good, but I had an issue with Emma Bunting.
She should NOT have been played by Jennifer Schwalbach, who conveniently dropped the "-Smith" we saw in her credit for Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back.
She is cute, but in the movie she looked god-awful, and not believable as Dante's early 30's fiance. She should have been someone who isn't Mrs. Kevin Smith AND a "name." It probably would have helped box office numbers.
M. Night showed his ego by making himself a bigger role in Lady in the Water, and Kevin Smith showed HIS ego by casting his wife in Clerks II.