Friday Funnies

For whatever reason one of the movie channels has brought Chasing Amy back into the rotation, so of course I've watched it about 27 times. When you nail the opening scene of the movie, you got a good thing going. Black rage!

Friday Funnies

OK, bear with me, this is a long video.

I love Kevin Smith. I watch all his movies, listen to his series of podcasts and also watch a ton of Q&As with him. He's hilarious, has no filter whatsoever, and while super knowledgeable about Hollywood and comics he can at times come off as so disconnected from the lives at real people that it's hilarious when he talks about food shopping or dealing with anyone that isn't on Twitter.

Anyway, one of the best stories I've heard him tell was way back in the day during his first "An Evening with Kevin Smith" Q&A movie. In this clip, he talks about how he was commissioned to write a Superman movie starring Nic Cage and directed by Tim Burton. It's great where this ends up, and since I saw this way back when it was first released in 2002, I knew I liked Kevin Smith and his view on Hollywood.



And believe me, if you think this was good, you will not believe how awesome his attempt at making a documentary of Prince went. Just YouTube it, it's classic.

What I've Watched: Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Being a fan of Kevin Smith films has never been hard for me. Some people grew up on certain musicians and cultural lightning rods. One of mine was certain Clerks and all the other subsequent films Smith made. Chasing Amy was the perfect (if not refined) date movie and its still great to see Ben Affleck and Jason Lee before they got huge. Also, Mallrats is an underrated classic.

Clerks 2 was decent but not great, and Jersey Girl was kinda crap so I was worried he had lost his schtick. But luckily he rebounded well with Zack and Miri, another "date movie" if you can call it that. I like Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogan was awesome in Knocked Up and his side stint in Superbad was solid. The movie has great pottymouth jokes and has some good rambles and one-liners you expect from Smith.

Even seeing a sobered up (maybe???) Mewes was a nice sight, even though he's just getting worse looking by the day, and I can only hope he's kicked the habit. And I love the guy who plays the warehouse guy in The Office. He's doing a great job of not taking any lead roles just yet and just continuing to rock things out from the sidelines. For some good laughs and funny faux porn scenes, this is a worthy movie to check out.