Mallrats
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MooCriket
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I'm going to admit something embarrasing now....I didn't realise Carrie Fisher was in Jay and Silent Bob strike back until last week
I am almost certain that I read in paragraph three sub section eight, page 463 of the member guidelines... that this is a ban worthy offense.
Pretty sure.
I'm going to admit something embarrasing now....I didn't realise Carrie Fisher was in Jay and Silent Bob strike back until last week
Banner
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"One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all. But the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So I run into him a week later at the mall and he was buying another cat! And I said to him, "*****, Walt, what are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck in your ass, too. Why don't you knock it off?" And he said to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy."
Man, I haven't seen this movie in forever... it was pretty much a staple back in college. Good times. =) First Kevin Smith movie I ever saw (never have watched Clerks... shoot me, I know), and still my favorite to this day.
Man, I haven't seen this movie in forever... it was pretty much a staple back in college. Good times. =) First Kevin Smith movie I ever saw (never have watched Clerks... shoot me, I know), and still my favorite to this day.
Kubla Kraus
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Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back at humping your mom last night. Nooge! Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie Berzerk style, and knock out the ****in' pin and bickety bam, the motherf***er is rubble. Hence, no game show.
It's been a long time since I've seen Mallrats but Smith in general writes lines that look good on paper but are nigh-impossible to read in a natural-sounding fashion. A lot of actors, especially the amateur friends he casts, have trouble with them.
Solo4114
Master Member
Actually, in a weird way, I found the more amateurish quality of their delivery somehow more natural. Maybe it's just that I give them a pass because I know they aren't really top-notch actors, and I just don't care because they seem more "real" as people. But with Shannon Doherty, it really seemed like (a) she could do better, and (b) she was just...off somehow. Might be that the other folks are really just having fun with the roles, whereas for her, it was like "Ugh. I guess I'll do this because I need some cash."
By contrast, Stan the Man seems tickled pink to be in the film -- and all before his Marvel movie appearances, too!
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Kevin Smith's dialogue is one of my favorite parts, but then again, I like the wordy conversations in Woody Allen and Quentin Tarantino movies.
Laspector
Master Member
I like Kevin Smith but honestly, other than Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I really can't stand any of his movies. I love pop culture and comics as much as anyone here, but I just can't get into his stuff. Maybe it's because I'm just older than the generation his films are aimed at.
My first introduction to him was Mallrats. I had never heard of the guy. Someone told me this is the 90's version of Fast Times at Ridgemont High with a lot of comic book stuff thrown in. I thought that sounded interesting as hell. I love stuff like Fast Times, Dazed and Confused, American Grafitti, etc. I was told that if those movies represented the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Mallrats was the 90s. Sorry, but this movie doesn't even hold a candle to those others.
First off, this movie does not even know what it is. Is it a comedy, is it a drama, is it an outlandish comedy? Maybe I was just sullen by the time I watched it but I just couldn't engage with any of these characters. When it finally got to Batman grappling hooks and actually using the Force, it just completely took me out of this film. To me, that and the psuedo reality of the film just did not mix.
As for Jay and Silent Bob, at this point I thought they were just awful, their antics just does not belong in this type of film. "Snootchie-bootchies?" I've known a gazillion pot heads in my life and NO ONE has ever used this terminology.......Jay and Silent Bob work great in their own movie because of the outrageousness of their characters. They don't fit into a reality based movie IMHO.
But this is just one man's opinion. for those of you that like all his stuff, more power to you. I'm not knocking it, I'm just saying it is, for the most part, not my cup of tea.
My first introduction to him was Mallrats. I had never heard of the guy. Someone told me this is the 90's version of Fast Times at Ridgemont High with a lot of comic book stuff thrown in. I thought that sounded interesting as hell. I love stuff like Fast Times, Dazed and Confused, American Grafitti, etc. I was told that if those movies represented the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Mallrats was the 90s. Sorry, but this movie doesn't even hold a candle to those others.
First off, this movie does not even know what it is. Is it a comedy, is it a drama, is it an outlandish comedy? Maybe I was just sullen by the time I watched it but I just couldn't engage with any of these characters. When it finally got to Batman grappling hooks and actually using the Force, it just completely took me out of this film. To me, that and the psuedo reality of the film just did not mix.
As for Jay and Silent Bob, at this point I thought they were just awful, their antics just does not belong in this type of film. "Snootchie-bootchies?" I've known a gazillion pot heads in my life and NO ONE has ever used this terminology.......Jay and Silent Bob work great in their own movie because of the outrageousness of their characters. They don't fit into a reality based movie IMHO.
But this is just one man's opinion. for those of you that like all his stuff, more power to you. I'm not knocking it, I'm just saying it is, for the most part, not my cup of tea.
mattycsi
Master Member
He doesn't actually use the force, the scaffolding is knocked by Willem Black and the cig slips into his hand, he just thinks he used the force.
And Jay's phrases are Jason Mewes's phrases, they're not meant to be indicative of all potheads. In Chasing Amy, when talking about his likeness (Bluntman and Chronic) from a comic book he himself even says " Snootchie bootchies! who talks like that its like baby talk or something".
Love it or hate it, Mallrats paved the way for stuff like American pie and certainly for Judd Apatow.
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