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Re: Criterion (was Re: bruce)
> "Clerks" is definitive, RAW, kevin smith. His releases that followed are
> more polished and mainstream. They look better, contain fewer
> pop-culture "in-jokes", but, to me, have less of that first movie's
> quirky charm. "Chasing Amy", however, is probably his best made, best
> written film.
_Chasing Amy_ is the only film of Kevin Smith's that I've cared for all
that much, probably because it's the only one that had remotely
interesting characters, who seemed to exist for their own reasons. The
characters in his other films just exist as mouthpieces for the jokes
and/or, in the case of _Dogma_, Smith's rants about religion.
And some of his jokes are *so* contrived, they just aren't funny.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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