Kevin Smith

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Discuss him...

[PTAhole]

Not a very good director, but very good writer, and the stories he tells don't beg for great direction.
List

1. Clerks
2. Clerks II
3. Mallrats
4. Chasing Amy
5. Dogma
6. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

(Have yet to see Jersey Girl, I will someday.)

[captainofbeef]

1. Clerks
2. Dogma
3. Chasing Amy
4. Mallrats
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.....

and way down here
6. Jersey Girl

[blackmoses]

1. Clerks - 10/10
2. Clerks II - 10/10!
3. Mallrats - 9/10
4. Chasing Amy - 8/10
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - 6.5/10!
6. Dogma - 6/10

[PTAhole]

Ratings....
1. Clerks (10)
2. Clerks II (10)
3. Mallrats (10 as a comedy, 8 as a movie)
4. Chasing Amy (9)
5. Dogma (8)
6. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (6)

[criterionmaster]

I think he is really cool. He is great to his fans!

1. Clerks
2. Clerks II
3. Mallrats
4. JaSBSB (It was my first, and it's fucking funny. Screw you if you don't agree, i still laugh my ass off at it.) and Chasing Amy
5. Dogma
6. Jersey Girl (I mean it was terrible, but people fuckin' overreact. It wasn't the worst thing ever. It was just a bad choice on Smith's part.)

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks:_Sell_Out

I am really looking forward to this since I loved the Clerks: Animated Series.

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After six little words, Harvey Weinstein is sold[/b]
Source: Hollywood Saloon

But when Harvey Weinstein pulled the trigger on the latest raunchy comedy idea from "Dogma" and "Clerks II" writer-director Kevin Smith after Smith had written only six words of it, Weinstein's $15 million looked like a pretty good bet.

The title? "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."

For a certain stripe of moviegoer, that's a sure thing.

"A bawdy sex comedy with heart," as Smith describes the just-completed script, "Zack and Miri" is about two friends who have managed to trudge into their 30s with a satisfying lack of accomplishment. But a 15-year high school reunion and dire rent problems spark the novel moneymaking idea of pulling together an amateur porn enterprise. As for where it goes from there, just think of Smith's characteristic sexual verbosity finally coupled with matching imagery.

"It's … dirty, with nudity," says Smith. "But funny nudity, not gratuitous nudity." Well, leave it to Smith to choose a plotline that kneecaps the issue entirely. (The civilians-making-a-blue-movie conceit also drove the narrative of writer-director Michael Traeger's "The Amateurs," which played festivals last year.) Because the story unfolds during a snowy Minnesota winter, Smith plans to film "Zack and Miri" there in February (although, Smith jokes, global warming may force him to shoot at one of the poles).

In the intervening months, Smith is publishing a book of reprinted blog entries from SilentBobSpeaks.com called "My Boring Ass Life." And he hopes to squeeze in filming of his low-budget ($3 million) horror script, "Red State," by the end of the year. Smith is aiming to give the politically charged screenplay, about outsiders who stumble into "fundamentalism gone to the extreme" in Middle America, a naturalistic, drive-in feel.

"Horror is more than a dude with a chain saw," says Smith, who engaged the Christian right promotional machine for the release of "Dogma." Given his rabid fan base, Smith is keeping the screenplay on lockdown at his Hollywood Hills home, so agents, actors and executives have needed a personal invitation to see it. Rosario Dawson, a "Clerks II" star, is supposed to give it a read this week.

After her vampy turns in "Sin City" and "Grindhouse," it sounds like a perfect trilogy.

End of Article.

[PTAhole]

In case you didn't know, Smith directed the pilot for the new show Reaper. He didn't write it, but his influence can be felt. It's a pretty funny show. It premieres on September 25th, but the pilot is online here.