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Post by Lantlas on Jan 27, 2011 4:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by Heavy Metal on Jan 27, 2011 10:01:23 GMT -5
Yet another awesome review. Nice job, man.
I’ve always found Jay the downside of every Kevin Smith movie. I know he’s someone I’m supposed to love to hate, but he’s what I have to tolerate to get to the good stuff.
I see Clerks as an anthology of wacky stories rather than a traditional arc. I suspect this may be intentional, as some of the dialog-heavy scenes are very good and some are completely flat. I imagine this being assembled instead of written, which is not a bad thing. It shows his Comic Book Guy roots and may be part of why it caught on so big. Dialog is cheap to film too, so at this point his style was being shaped by budget.
And god, I miss the video store. I’m old enough to remember when it was a new technology and even the little rinky-dink shops had aisles full of the most insane shelf-filler you can imagine. I know that’s where my taste in film came from. I’d spend hours in the horror and exploitation section they kept next to the porno, trying to imagine what was in the ones my mom would never let me watch.
EDIT: By the time this movie came out, I'd worked extensively in both video and convenience stores. So a lot of my enjoyment of the movie was pure catharsis. The "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup" scene is one of my favorites.
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