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[ManaByte]

http://www.mallratsx.com/

After the huge success of the Clerks X DVD and the Reunion Q&A that was shot for the special edition set, we've decided to do it again, this time with the much loved cinematic gem Mallrats! In 1995 Kevin Smith released his second feature film to lackluster reviews and a drubbing by the movie critics that no man deserved, only to later find that 'Mallrats' was a huge fan favorite when it was released on video.

2005 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Mallrats and we're celebrating with a jam-packed 10th anniversary DVD special edition!

This special screening of Mallrats is being put together in conjunction with the 10th anniversary special edition DVD and will be followed by a Cast and Crew Q&A which WILL BE RECORDED FOR THE DVD!

I can't wait. I'll be there with my camera. A friend of mine is bringing his Mallrats LD that he got Kevin Smith to sign and he's going to try to get it signed by the rest of the cast.

 

[ManaByte]

Does anyone have anything specific they want asked at the cast Q&A? Not sure who all will be there for sure, but it sounds like the entire cast since they are filming it for the DVD.

I think "What's a nubian?" will already be asked and/or banned from being asked. :lol

 

[Kabuki Waq]

ask Kevin Smith what he feels is whe worst aspect of his writing and directing. Also ask him how it feels to pretty much single handedly ruin Daredevil?

 

[DMczaf]

Ask him if he would ever get Michael Jordan to have a cameo in one of his movies.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

ask him how he feels about the new star wars movies and sin city.

 

[galeninjapan]

Mallrats was my favorite kevin smith movie.

 

[ManaByte]

ask him how he feels about the new star wars movies and sin city.

That's already known.

 

[Triumph]

That's already known.

For someone who doesn't feel like browsing film/comic fanboy sites, can you summarize? I'll even pay to see Ep. 3 if you do.

 

[ManaByte]

TPM:
http://www.viewaskew.com/press/menace.html

I saw 'Episode One' tonight.

Hee-hee-hee! Ah - being in this business finally pays off.

The good folks at the BBC sent me to a press screening, so that I can review the flick next week for them. I offer my new Brit peeps a shoutout for that.

Of the film, I can say many things. But the long and short of it is that I liked it - quite a bit. I'd rank it right after 'Empire' in a list of fave 'Star Wars' flicks. It starts great, ends great, and has great stuff sprinkled in between.

Is there too much Jar Jar? For a small stretch, yes; but then the Binks quotient calms down considerably.

Is the kid bad? I thought he was okay. He certainly wasn't wooden, as some people have suggested. He was a kid actor - no more, no less. I will say that - while it's probably unintentional, his exhuberance juxtaposes nicely against what he eventually becomes in the stories.

Is it a puppet-heavy, CGI affair? There's a great deal of it, but not to the point where it's irritating (though the two-headed pod-race comentator was a bit much).

I think the key is to go in with low expectations. I did, and I really dug it. Dug it more with distance. I'd see it again.

The stuff I liked: Liam, Ewan, Darth Maul (who's in the 2:10 flick for maybe a half hour, tops), R2's introduction, the reappearance of the Tusken Raiders, the treatment of the Jedi as supreme badasses that are to be feared, the political subplot, the fact that Lucas slows the second act way down to introduce Anakin, and of course, the lightsaber battles. The use of the lightsaber in this flick is astounding; worth the price of admission alone.

I'm sure in about a week, it's going to become quite fashionable to bash this flick - hard. But I'd like to go on record as saying I dug it. It's a good movie with great moments.

Two things that stuck out to me, though: at one point, they refer to 'space'. Has the word 'space' ever been used in a 'Star Wars' flick before? Padme says "Space is cold." It struck me as odd, because I can't recall anyone ever using the term 'space' in the flicks before.

That, and the Viceroy of the trade commission. For half the flick, I was trying to decipher his accent - was it Jamaican, French, what? Then it came to me: he sounds like the Czech Brothers from the old SNL (or Steve Martin's 'Wild and Crazy Guy' character). Weird.

Anyway, see the flick when it comes out. It's better than half the crap out there, and it's got history on its side.

In a world of grades: B+ or A-

In a world of stars: 3 or 3 and a 1/2

AOTC:

Appearing in the July/August issue of FILM COMMENT, Smith was lush, if profane, with his plaudits for CLONES, and even revealed moments of the film ‘haunted’ him and built new levels of pathos into the original STAR WARS trilogy.

“There's something bittersweet about the fall of Darth Vader now,” Smith says in the issue, “that hadn't existed before CLONES: had his mother simply died of old age, the guy might never have developed that extreme case of asthma he seems to suffer from in STAR WARS, EMPIRE, and RETURN OF THE JEDI… Which leads to the most haunting moment of CLONES for me: when Anakin breaks down to his puppy love, Amidala, and confesses that he butchered that no-good bunch of sand-eating bandage wearers with his hi-tech Zippo. This scene really resonated with me, because Amidala wears this expression that very quietly says, ‘Holy Christ I'm in love with a human time-bomb.’ The sad, hopeless look on her face upon learning of his murder spree brought to mind that moment in JEDI when Luke asked Leia if she rememered what her (and his) mother was like. Leia (in what may be Carrie Fisher's finest hour in the original trilogy) reminisced that her mother always seemed sad. Here, nearly 20 years later, we get to see what Leia was talking about.”

He even went as far as to praise one of the most maligned aspects of the film, the romance between Anakin and Amidala.

“And that's what worked best for me about the Anakin arc in CLONES: the doomed love affair of Anakin and Amidala. Most of the critics dismissed this as the flick's most ham-fistedly handled aspect, but I thought it played out tragically and beautifully. High marks to both Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman, because I completely bought their relationship. He wants her desperately without really even knowing why, as do all teenage boys when they find who they assume is their one-true in high school. And even though she knows this guy is poison, she can't help but fall for him - the little slave-boy that grew up to be a conflicted, impetuous hat tank who insists everyone's giving him a raw deal. In high school, the really hot chicks always went for the massive ****-ups, and eventually wound up married to them. But this marriage doesn't end in small town affairs and divorce; this marriage ends with the girl scattering her kids across the galaxy to save them from their father, who by that point is more machine than man."

He hasn't posted much about Sin City from what I can find on his forum.

 

[galeninjapan]

Deep down he knows the prequels suck. Heck everyone in hollywood excet for lucas knows they suck. But because he has so much money everyone just wants to suck his dick.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Actually maybe all those times we thought the Kevin Smith movies were comedies he probably thought they were serious loves stories.


Damn i cant believe he bought the Anakin love crap.

 

[ManaByte]

Deep down he knows the prequels suck. Heck everyone in hollywood excet for lucas knows they suck. But because he has so much money everyone just wants to suck his dick.

iW: What do you think of the title to the new Star Wars, "Attack of the Clones"?

Smith: I think folks will just wind up calling it 'Episode Two'.

iW: How many times did you see "Episode I"?

Smith: Twice in the theaters.

iW: And what did you think of it?

Smith: I dug it. But then, I didn't go in thinking the flick would invoke the same warm feelings the first three did when I was a kid. I mean, I'm an adult now.

iW: Have you seen the version on the net in which some fans altered the film to change Jar Jar's voice and add subtitles?

Smith: No. What a strange use of free time.

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[IAmtheFMan]

Kevin Smith's review to EP:3 is up

http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=32494

Spoilers in there, so be careful.

 

[ManaByte]

Two pictures from the Q&A:

The Q&A was with Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Mewes, Ethan Suplee, Renée Humphrey, Scott Mosier, Jim Jacks, and Dave Klein.

Before and after the movie, Kevin did some casual Q&A and owned this guy who commented that he was wearing the same clothes as Wizard World and Kevin just went off on him with stuff like "You should've seen me yesterday, I was wearing the same outfit when I fucked your mother. Oh look, I still have some of her juice on me." He left, changed and came back for more Q&A before the actual Mallrats Q&A started.

He also talked about Star Wars and said that people think he sucks Lucas off and he said "I do" and mimed the action with the microphone. Someone also asked about the SW TV series and the way he responded to the question very flatly makes everyone think he's involved and can't say ANYTHING.

During the Q&A Mewes went out for a piss and when he came back some jerk shouted a comment about Mewes pissing for his parole officer and Kevin shouted back "What he didn't tell you was that he was peeing in your mom's mouth". There was also this psychotic French chick bashing Canadians and Texas who MUST make it on the DVD.