he said, "Well, you're a critic, man. If you didn't tear me a new one you wouldn't be doing your job. And I gotta be honest, what you saw up there onscreen is about as good as it's gonna get.
" Good thing you never talked during one of his movies though. Yeah, he's probably trapped inside a kind of bubble, and he's nowhere near as interesting a director as he is a writer, but the guy's a grownup and a mensch who seems genuinely open to lots of different kinds of movies. So I wouldn't write him off just yet.
I'll cut Smith - and many other filmmakers of his "generation" [or whatever you wanna call it - technically Matt, you and I fall into that same bracket, we just don't have cult followings...
um, well, I don't anyway] simply because they largely seem to get to make the movies they wanna make, and I've always got enormous respect for that kind of clout, esp when it's someone like Smith who plays to a very specific audience. Navigating ones way through the abyss that is the studio system takes some intelligence. His movies are often juvenile, but there are always going to be teenagers out there wanting to see movies with fart, dick and pussy jokes.
Eventually they'll grow out of it, but that doesn't necessarily mean Smith has to as long as he cultivates new fans. What Jeffrey Hill mentioned above about his continued interaction with his fansbase - THAT's how you do it in this day and age. Let your fanbase know that they're appreciated and that they've got a voice and you'll listen.
Let them know you're a geek like they are and that you're not going to just surf into some website set up by strangers and browse post anonymously. I've seen Kevin involve himself in AICN talkbacks! Talk about brave.
I bet his online presence has done more to guarantee his audience than anything else he's done. Plus, critic Alonso Duralde swears that the two hour, 45 minute director cut of "Jersey Girl" Good lord! What Kevin Smith storyline could possibly justify that kind of running time?
One would think he'd get bored and want to try something a little different (which I suppose is what the two movies of his I haven't even seen are attempts at doing - right?) I wonder what sort of films Kevin Smith will be making 20 years from now? Will I ever get around to seeing DOGMA?
Will I bother with CLERKS 2? Is he really writing AQUAMAN 2? These questions and many others will not be answered on the next episode of SOAP, because it was canceled like 20 years ago.
he said, "Well, you're a critic, man.
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