Just came home from the movies. Saw Clerks II. Heather and I are big Kevin Smith fans (though we didn't dig Jersey Girl), so it is with a heavy heart that I say that we both deemed this film mediocre. The most basic flaw? No story. Not in a cool indie film no-story-but-really-a-story way like, say, Clerks, but just no story. So we were left to laugh at some predictably rude jokes, gaze upon the beautiful Rosario Dawson (while sadly acknowledging that her character was absolutely a two-dimensional plot device), and enjoying the performance of Trevor Fehrman, an actor that we have never seen before but look forward to seeing again.

Alex's review (in the single-post thread) pretty much nailed criticism I have of the acting (but what's a Clerks flick without Dante?).

After enjoying the Clerks Animated Series on DVD, I just wish Smith had done something more than just try to recapture the feeling of the original film. He's better than that.

Two stagnant stars.

Sorry to go so ten posts ago, but I am agog that there are other people in the world who appreciate Roman Polanski's "Pirates" and find it an amazing fit with the spirit of Walt Disney's.




(drool) wide-screen DVD, hmpfhsllvvph ... the Depp sequel recently inspired a viewing of my crappy VHS panscan from the dark ages, bah. (/drool)

Indeed and in follow-up research I discovered that Polanski was a big fan of the attraction and took people to ride it for inspiration for the film.

But could you imagine a Walter Matthau animatronic?

Maybe someday Disneyland Paris will open a Repulsion ride...

or better yet Bitter Moon in 4D

movie musing to come: €uro, your copy of Dr. C (you know what I mean) is in the mail.

Um, great story there, €, but wasn't Polanski an indicted felon who could not set foot in the U.S.???


(He was stuck in France, I think, but the Parisian version of the ride had not been built yet.)

I'm still waiting for someone to send me Citizen Kane. :(

Although I've seen both Gentlemen Prefer Blonds and How to Marry a Millionaire.

Yeah, I was wondering a bit about the timeline - and if the story as written may have been embellished - perhaps he encouraged those who still could, to go ride it in the states - or perhaps they took a trip to Tokyo...

Bewitched was cute. I really like Nicole Kidman.

My movie musing is this: Isn't Marilyn Monroe just about the most overrated product of Hollywood ever? Not a good movie in the bunch (yes, Some Like It Hot suffers horribly in my opinion because of her presence) when she is involved for more than 10 minutes except for The Misfits and that is, I think, made more interesting by the events surrounding the movie than the actual movie.

She was pretty though. But it also sucks that somehow she is the image on the DVD cover for Monkey Business. That's such an insult to Ginger Rogers.


Also, I'd like to point out, for those who don't like them, the futility of resisting generic threads. I created a separate thread for Clerks II and mousepod still posted his comments here.

Cool - of course, now I'll have to hunt down a copy of Café Flesh