Good for him, honestly. I was just thinking about how lame his movies are again, and thought can't blame him, his vision is foggy. But now imagine the late night shame spirals this guy can go down stone cold sober. "I used to brag about crying so people would talk about me... Everyone I know saw me do that. They all think of me that way now." Etc.
I've always seen Kevin as a bit of a lolcow with his beatnik jargon trying so hard to be cool. But his SmodCast episodes where he jocktobers his teenaged self (Emo Kev) is incredible, I highly recommend it.
He tried too hard to make it a "real" movie. The subplot with Dante and Rosario Dawson was just abysmal. Dante and Randall riffing on pop-culture bullshit while they endure their shitty jobs...that's all it had to be. And that wife of his is an even worse actress than his daughter is. Every scene she was in was downright painful.
Jay and Silent Bob could have been Cheech and Chong, he could have just done a whole series of movies where they get into all kinds of wacky adventures. But instead, he let Harold and fucking Kumar do it while he pretended to be a "filmmaker".
In Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back 2001 the cameo scenes with Dante and Randall characterized them perfectly - aged gracefully, whereas in Clerks 2, Dante's soy sauce hair and goatee especially in the sunlight, just looks terrible. They should have done all Clerks movies in black and white. And actors wearing hats with fake hair on them... How bout -- hey, they're older now, and he doesn't have a mullet anymore. How about that? No, give him hair made of straw.
I would watch a movie or TV show about old bitter critical idiots talking shit about everything... Beavis and Butthead reboot was good. And the Clerks and O&A reboots can be good as well.
I would even watch Clerks as a series, if Kevin Smith remains sober and gets back with Scott Mosier who has conveniently been absent from all of Kevin's recent terrible movies for years now. Hmmmm...