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Clerks III: Why?

jufonuk

not tag worthy
I only saw Dogma once soon after it came out. I should probably watch it again. The other three I have seen countless times.
kevin smith dogma GIF
 
Still remember going to see Clerks 2 with the family and getting to the Donkey scene at the end. Good lord, that was hard to watch! 😬. I’ll probably watch the 3rd one just to close this whole thing out and move on.
 

YCoCg

Member
If Clerks 2's ending was the hopeful ending, then Clerks 3 is the depressing one. Dante's life was really fucked over in this one.
 

TheMan

Member
Finally saw this and it wasn’t bad. Went in with low expectations though given all the negative impressions.

Has smith announced whether he’s done with view askew? Seems like clerks III and JSBR were the send offs and
Dante’s death
seemed to be the metaphorical death of the universe itself. Plus everyone’s old now and either too cringey or not able to bring it like they used to- I was disappointed by Brody’s lack of bite in the last movie lol.
 

Quasicat

Member
I loved the first two Clerks and the TV show. I guess I love the banter between Dante and Randall which is what makes those movies/shows. This had very little of that back and forth. Probably because of
Becky and Grace’s death, which left Dante depressed and done with life. This made his death all the more expected as it’s the ultimate ending to the universe.

Plus, I hate how Smith’s daughter is in every movie now. The scene at
the graveyard
made no sense since we have never seen her interact with the main characters until that moment. I’m probably jaded since I saw her at Smith’s book signing for the Jay and Silent Bob reboot script and she was being a piece of shit constantly complaining about being there.
 

JonSnowball

Member
Clerks III is the film that proved to me it's possible to suffer audiological and ocular rape without any physical contact. The only comparable experience is an asshole full of manic hornets attempting to sting their way out of the vessel they've found themselves trapped in.

Did people finally realize that what happened to Bill Clinton, also happened to Kevin Smith?

He fucked an intern in his office, ejaculated all over her dress, and spent the next 30 years of his life trapped in a loveless marriage losing every argument?
 
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JayK47

Member
I started to watch this on a flight. I couldn't even finish it. So maybe I can't fully comment on it. As a huge fan of the first two movies, this one was literally a rehash of the first two. It felt so very pointless. They could have done so much more. Hell, just shooting it similar to the original in black and white with an original script could have been good. They came up with an excuse to do the tired "let's make a movie in a movie". And the movie was about the first two movies. Wow. So lazy. Several shots were directly from the first movies, but with the actors now 30 years older and fatter. Not really an improvement. Proof that Kevin Smith is washed up and out of ideas.
 
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