Yep, everyone including Kevin Smith thought it wasn't going to happen, but it's happening! It's inspired by Kevin Smith's heart attack. Plot is, Randal has a heart attack, realizes his life has meant nothing, so he and Dante make the story of their lives as Clerks 1. https://collider.com/clerks-3-plot-kevin-smith/
No, No , and hell fucking no. I feel old enough as is, and I don't need to see the clerk's cast figuring out which old age home they can afford to retire at. Seriously, Jay should be fucking dead with a needle in his arm. Silent bob is probably writing a panel for comic con in norphlet AK (It is the only tiny town we all know the name of) while living on disability because diabetes took his legs. It is not a snowball if your dick spits out dust because you forgot your viagra. I will stick to Stranger Things and GLOW for my flashbacks to my youth thank you. If I really want to see elderly comic book guys at the movies I will go see an MCU film in the theater.
very surprised, but I am not excited in the least about this. Smith has sunk to being the self parody of a parody... or maybe a parody of a self parody? Either way, I'm expecting a more compelling watch from Bill and Ted 3 than this repeat of a repeat
Yes, but he does have enough flunkies that will buy tickets to whatever he does. It is one thing to watch young clerks and mallrats, but when they are forty somethings or older the idea that they were never going to do much with their lives becomes the plot. At least we could have pretended the old characters went on to do some things, even if those things were not grand. However, when they are in the same place after all this time it is just depressing. I am not saying they have to save the world, but to be caught in the same existential questions after 2 decades is just lame. It is one thing for Bill and Ted who were lovable idiots who really had to have success fall into their laps. However, comic book geeks are just depressing at 40 or fifty mainly because they seem to be stuck on the same heroes and never evolve. I do have to say I saw a picture of keanu as Ted and He looks old and pathetic. Bill at least still looks somewhat young, but clean shaven Ted looks bad. The black of Keanu's beard seems to have slimmed his face and taken away the middle aged pudgy face.
25 years ago, I'd have wanted to hang out with Smith and Mewes. These days, I'd probably pass that up for going to a gig with Wil Wheaton. I mean, Jay and Silent Bob became the inspiration for hipsters... and the whirlpool of narcissism in that plot description cements that opinion. Wheaton as it turns out, has amazing musical tastes (we've seen a ton of the same punk bands over the years), is big into several of the same causes, and seems like a really humble guy.
Lionsgate bought it, and they're filming really soon. https://www.darkhorizons.com/lionsgate-acquires-clerks-iii-globally/
I recently rewatched Clerks and I can't disagree with this. It's...okay...but nowhere near as good as everyone makes it out to be.
How good do they make it out to be? Like it dissolves tumors, and regrows limbs? I just think it's a cute movie, and it's neat it's getting a final sequel. Like Bill & Ted.
As did I, and the only reason I watched Clerks (in like 97, so years after it came out) was because so many people said that I reminded them of Randall. YMMV.
As far as extremely low budget movies go El Mariachi beats the daylight out of Clerks IMHO. Smith spent three times as much as Rodriguez.
Clerks was the closest thing my small town video store had to an art film for the longest time, I'm guessing it was like that for a lot of people. You felt like you were in on some cool secret knowing about Kevin Smith films. Now SubUrbia, there was a movie that left me emotionally gutted and my friends and I worrying we might off ourselves out of despair.
One of the reasons I found his ideas interesting and then bland was because there was my life up on the screen with some small alterations. It was like "oh look people are entertained by the dumbass shit we hang out and talk about." The reasons why I only ever see his movies once is because why watch what I could sort of live. I have a thousand or so episodes of clerks I have lived. So he had a way of bringing it to the screen and sometimes added a little over the top plot, and you had a movie. I don't think it was genius as I assume he grew up in these areas and had similar experiences. Clerks is just a small section of life dramatized a bit for the screen. If it was actually some great performance you could easily see it if you just got a job working at gas station/convenience store in north jersey or westchester NY. Go down there and just hang out, that is what we did.
So did I. Several in fact. And, I saw nothing in the movie, IIRC (it's been 20+ years), as far as working in a "stop-n-rob" goes - that I didn't do myself. We all do stupid things when we're young. That's why most people think of teens and twenty-somethings when talking about minimum wage paying jobs. Because stupid shit gets stuck in our brains more than 30 and 40 somethings just doing their job and trying to get by.
Agreed. I felt exactly like that when I worked at a convenience store, except my coworkers were nowhere near as articulate as Dante and Handel.
I worked in more than one "Stop and Rob". Was offered half-smoked joints for after hours beer purchases. Was offered blank temporary checks by low-rent con artists. Was propositioned by men. Was under the influence of all manner of things during a graveyard shift while interacting with cops. That's all I'll admit to.
