Saccopoo |
09-25-2009 11:51 AM |
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Originally Posted by SDChiefs
(Post 6108041)
As stupid as his films come off to be, its really smart humor. Just crude. I would go as far to say that he is the best writer/director since Mel Brooks. The guys a genious.
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The guy uses the same formula that he employed in Clerks and re-works it (barely) for every other movie. It was brilliant in Clerks. The grainy B&W filming gave legitimacy to the locale and main characters plight of self-assumed brilliance and supremacy while working for/at a low budget convenience store, the witty mental sparing/castigating of their inferiors/superiors, the relationship ironies, etc. It was brilliant. And then came everything else, which was, pardon the pun, Kevin Smithian dogmatic tripe. The fact that he forced a tired, obnoxious, overused Jay on us, the spiteful insightful loser buddies, all of it. And it got progressively worse each and every film, culminating in that putrencent pile of pungent porcine poop, Clerks 2.
And I'd beg to differ on Mel Brooks. Some really brilliant stuff, but Robin Hood - Men in Tights and Space Balls didn't do him any favors.
If you are talking about directors/writers, how about Danny Boyle, Clint Eastwood, Baz Luhrman and the like?
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