Clerks II

[atxrocker]

anyone gonna watch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhu_qDdGSNU&search=clerks%20II

[midgetonadonkey]

No. It's a fucking shame they made a sequel to that flick.

[Vashner]

Hollywood ran out of ideas except reruns.

I would not mind watching this movie but yea the trend is sequels that blowz.

[GoldToe]

no.

[RealEstateDude]

the 1st one suked, so maybe...lol

[midgetonadonkey]

The first one did not suck. It is a classic.

[leemajors]

The first one did not suck. It is a classic.

i used to like it a lot, but as with every kevin smith movie i cannot watch it anymore. too much talking about nothing. well, i take that back, i can still watch mallrats.

[Gatita]

:td DOWNGRADE

[atxrocker]

i used to like it a lot, but as with every kevin smith movie i cannot watch it anymore. too much talking about nothing. well, i take that back, i can still watch mallrats.

indeed

[Spurminator]

Kevin Smith pwnz Joel Siegel...

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

July 19, 2006 -- DON'T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That's what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving "Good Morning America" film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith's "Clerks II," which opens Friday - an act that's sparked a vicious war of words between the two.

"Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.

In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey. Siegel told Page Six: "It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn't ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn't make any more movies."

An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: "Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For 'Pirates 2,' he made us all titter with 'Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun' . . . He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, 'Wheelie Good Time for "Cars." ' I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy."

And there's more: "I don't need Joel Siegel to [bleep] my [bleep] the way he apparently [bleeps] M. Night Shyamalan's, gushing over his flick ['The Lady in the Water'] before he's even seen it, but [bleep] man, man - how about a little common [bleeping] courtesy? You never, never disrupt a movie, simply because you don't like it. Cardinal rule of moviegoing: Shut your [bleeping] mouth while the movie's playing.

"I don't come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like, ' "Shark Tale" Is a Halibut Good Time' - so don't [bleep] with my stuff while it's still screening . . . What are you, a 12-year-old boy cutting loose with your pals at a Friday night screening of 'Scary Movie' 4' while your parents are in a theater down the hall watching 'The Devil Wears Prada'? Leave the diva-like behavior and drama-queen antics to the movie stars, not the movie reviewer, ya' rude-ass [bleep]."

[katyon6th]

:lmao

Fuck, Kevin Smith does own. I'll reiterate that.

[ashbeeigh]

"Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.



I'm not saying I want to see the movie, but joel needs to get the stick out of his ass. It's a movie, a Kevin Smith movie at that.

[Spurminator]

Here's the whole blog...

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=63831867&blogID=146000943&MyToken=cd5e7fda-a14c-4e9b-a0e6-2ec41de21ffa

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

A Dick in a Mustache is Still Just a Dick

So last night, at a press screening of "Clerks II" in New York City, "Good Morning America" movie critic Joel Siegel decided he'd had enough of my shenanigans, and walked out of the flick at the forty minute mark. You'd imagine this would bother me, and yet, I'm as delighted by this news as I was with the eight minute standing ovation "Clerks II" received in Cannes.

I mean, it's Joel Siegel, for Christ's sake. As Paul Thomas Anderson once said of the man, getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on being "punny" - that is, he likes to add his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay into the reviews he writes/gives.

For "Pirates 2", he made us all titter with "Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun".

For Pixar's lastest, he made us squeal with delight when he wrote "Wheelie Good Time for 'Cars'".

Can you believe he somehow not only made us laugh, but also think, when he challenged our perception with "X-Men' Fails to X-cite"?

I mean, Fozzy fucking Bear laughs at this guy (AT, mind you, not WITH).

So while I feel like my life will be a little bleaker now that I'll never know what pun Joel would've dug deeply into his comedic well to produce for "Clerks II" ("'Clerks II?' More like 'Jerks, Too'!"), I've gotta admit that I'm relieved somebody was finally offended by the flick - enough to head for the exit less than an hour in. I was beginning to think I was losing my touch.

I can't fault Mr. Siegel for feeling "revolted" (his producer's description of Joel's reaction) by our flick; in truth, there is a donkey show in it, and I recognize that brand of whimsy might not be for everybody. Film appreciation is very subjective, and maybe Joel just isn't into ass-to-mouth conversations.

However, I CAN fault him for the manner in which he left the screening.

Apparently, rather than quietly exit, both Joel and his Cum-Catcher (my slang for the fancy kind of mustache he sports) made a big stink about walking out, calling as much attention to himself as possible, and being generally pretty disruptive.

Check this shit out: roughly forty minutes into the flick, when Randal orders up the third act donkey show, Siegel bellowed to his fellow critics "Time to go!'' and "This is the first movie I've walked out of in 30 fucking years!''

Now, I don't need Joel Siegel to suck my dick the way he apparently sucks M. Night's, gushing over his flick before he's even seen it; but shit, man - how about a little common fucking courtesy?
Never mind the fact that when you're paid to watch movies for a living and the only tasks required of you are to a) sit through said movies and b) write your thoughts about them before your deadline, walking out before a movie's over is pretty unprofessional. Never mind the fact that the scene he was offended by (the ordering of the donkey show), with its (misleading) crude references is only the set-up to a third act pay-off that is a true bait-and-switch from where Joel's imagination went (and if you've already seen the flick, you KNOW what I'm talking about). Never mind that this dude is so straight-laced in his tastes and hyperbolic in his praise that when The Onion took a poke at Joel, I was almost unsure whether it was a joke or not...

You never... NEVER disrupt a movie, simply because you don't like it.

Cardinal rule of movie-going: shut your fucking mouth while the movie's playing. They even ask you to do so in the pre-show run-up to every flick ("Cell phones and pagers off, no talking during the show"). This guy went beyond talking, even; he was making a spectacle of himself as he left. I've now spoken to three folks in attendance last night, and all have said that Siegel WANTED everyone to know how disgusted he was, and that he was leaving. If you want to share your displeasure with everyone, that's fine, dude; just do it AFTER the movie, not during. Some folks were enjoying themselves. I don't come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like "'Shark Tale' Is a Halibut Good Time"; so don't fuck with my stuff WHILE IT'S STILL SCREENING.

Shit, Joel, I know you like being on camera and all, but was it so difficult to not be the center of attention for 40 minutes that you just had to sparkle, Neely, sparkle-it up for your peers instead of showing them a little goddamn courtesy by leaving the theater the way most people do, either during or after the picture: quietly? What are you, a twelve year old boy, cutting loose with your pals at a Friday night screening of "Scary Movie 4" while your parents are in a theater down the hall watching "The Devil Wears Prada"? Leave the diva-like behavior and drama-queen antics to the movie stars, not the movie reviewer, ya' rude-ass prick.

It makes me laugh to think that, had Joel stayed 'til the end (like any good critic would for any movie they're paid to watch), he would've seen that we weren't going where he seemed to think we were going. But apparently, Joel took a cue from his own "Poseiden" review, in which he wrote "Audiences today wouldn't stand for an hour of exposition before the flood hit. In fact, they wouldn't stand; they'd walk out." Well, Magnum (y'know - because of the mustache), I guess you're a member of that same audience that can't stand exposition.

Look, I don't hate the guy. Shit, I'm glad he survived his fairly recent bout with cancer. But his behavior in that screening was unconscionable and professionally unethical, not to mention childishly disruptive. And while I might get laughed at for saying this... well, I just expected more from Joel Siegel.

*sigh*

[leemajors]

:lmao

Fuck, Kevin Smith does own. I'll reiterate that.

he hasn't made a good movie in over a decade. i guess he saves all his good lines for myspace now?

[Spurminator]

His recent movies have been pretty weak... But he's still hilarious. If you haven't seen "An Evening With Kevin Smith" I recommend it highly.

[leemajors]

His recent movies have been pretty weak... But he's still hilarious. If you haven't seen "An Evening With Kevin Smith" I recommend it highly.

i'm just not terribly interested anymore. i am more interested in the comics he wrote for than his movies.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I need to watch more movies.

I think the only Kevin Smith film I've seen is Chasing Amy (and I thought that was a great flick).

[Mixability]

His recent movies have been pretty weak... But he's still hilarious. If you haven't seen "An Evening With Kevin Smith" I recommend it highly.

Giant mechanical spider.


:lmao

:tu

[katyon6th]

he hasn't made a good movie in over a decade. i guess he saves all his good lines for myspace now?

What the hell? What about Jersey Girl? That movie rocked!

:spin

[ChumpDumper]

If everyone spoke French and there was an actual donkey show in the movie, Joel would've loved it.

[alamo50]

I just HAVE to see it, although I probably will be dissapointed 'cause it could never be better than the original.
BUT I KEEP MY FINGERS CROSSED!

[Quadzilla99]

The first movie was pretty funny, not as good as the hype though. I'll definitely see the second one when it comes out on DVD but I wouldn't go to the Movies to see it.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Rosario Dawson looks uber hot in this movie, even though she's not trying to be hot at all.

[atxrocker]

Rosario Dawson looks uber hot in this movie, even though she's not trying to be hot at all.


weird, that street bunny tried to look hot in sin city and failed miserably. maybe she should stop trying. though, i must admit she does look pretty decent in the previews.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I thought she looked insanely hot in Sin City, but it just wasn't her style.

She looks like the girl next door in clerks and is pushing the boundaries of hotness in new directions.

But nothing--NOTHING tops her performance in Alexander i said.

[Leetonidas]

I saw this movie today...FUCKING AWESOME movie.

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

I think the only Kevin Smith film I've seen is Chasing Amy (and I thought that was a great flick).

"Chasing Amy" was just one big downer of a movie.

[midgetonadonkey]

Chasing Amy sucked.

[J.T.]

Chasing Amy sucked.

:tu

[midgetonadonkey]

I actually enjoyed the Clerks cartoon more than I liked Chasing Amy.

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

I actually enjoyed the Clerks cartoon more than I liked Chasing Amy.

The "Clerks" animated series was great.
WAAAAAAAAAAY better than "Chasing Amy"!