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Watched Clerks 3 (2023)

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Honestly I enjoyed this movie. Is it “funny”? No not really, I never laughed out loud. It was more pleasantly amusing but that’s a vibe I’m totally fine with.

I really fucking liked that the Randall character was dissected. Always thought he was a piece of shit and I liked that he was taken apart and then given a little redemption.

Focusing on the characters instead of nonsense sausage midgets or walrus-men is what Smith is best at and should have been doing for the last 16 years.

Yes he does a bunch of self-referential and meta shit that usually bothers me but for some reason I didn’t mind it, maybe because the character and original film are based on his own life and it felt okay here. Didn’t seem navel-gazey and self-obsessed.

The movie is also a small story told on a small scale with a small budget. This should be how Smith ends out the rest of his career. His early successes allowed him to get out of his wheelhouse for 20 years. This felt like a return to form.

I also credit him for the ending. it’s a nice send-off, it calls back to the first movie, and it more or less conclusively ends the franchise.
 
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The melodrama, faggy though it may have been, may not have been as bad if 90% of the remaining "comedy" wasn't "Haha, remember this? From 30 years ago?!" Meta is for faggots, and if there was anything else to hold onto besides "Remember joke from before" I probably would have given a shit about Dante dying.

But there wasn't.
 
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i remember it being annoying the moment it started with that gay music playing and the roof hockey. turned it off when it got to the "haha arent evangelicals goofy??!?" hack shit.

1950'sSpaceProgram said:
The melodrama, faggy though it may have been, may not have been as bad if 90% of the remaining "comedy" wasn't "Haha, remember this? From 30 years ago?!" Meta is for faggots, and if there was anything else to hold onto besides "Remember joke from before" I probably would have given a shit about Dante dying.

But there wasn't.
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i tapped out of the new jay and silent bob for that reason and i was a huge view askew fag back in the day. i still like the old movies, but holy shit kevin smith is a faggot. the last thing his name was attached to that i didn't think was horrible was zach and miri and for all i know that could've aged like total shit.
 
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The Chris Nolan joke was solid. Got a genuine laugh out of me.

Rest of it was typical modern day Kevin Smith quality, and his little monologue over the credits was extremely pretentious and very much up his own ass.

Clerks 2 was solid and in my opinion offered a superior ending to the series. Clerks 3 is fanfiction to me and I don't rate it.

I respect your opinion on it, I just don't agree with you on it.
 
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The Chris Nolan joke was solid. Got a genuine laugh out of me.

Rest of it was typical modern day Kevin Smith quality, and his little monologue over the credits was extremely pretentious and very much up his own ass.

Clerks 2 was solid and in my opinion offered a superior ending to the series. Clerks 3 is fanfiction to me and I don't rate it.

I respect your opinion on it, I just don't agree with you on it.
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I didn’t hear his credits monologue. Fawk!
 
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I'll say it again: Seth Rogan introducing this cunt to weed took a potentially unmotivated but talented writer (who was a barely serviceable director) and made him a complete Pillock.

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was such indefensible shit put to celluloid, and merely existed by calling in every last favor he had left in the industry. I'll give him Clerks 2 because it was very funny, if aimless, and I'll even give him credit for going outside his comfort zone for Red State... Which still sucked.

But Clerks 3 is weird. I've watched it twice, and my opinion hasn't changed: decent idea, poor execution. It's not even a terrible concept, adapting his heart attack - Randall and Dante were always his avatars - but too much of it feels like a rehash and easy jokes that don't land quite right.

And yet Brian O'Halloran, who plays Dante, gets this one scene near the end where he calls out Randall on all his bullshit, specifically not living life, but just watching it go by and merely mocking it - it's such an accurate call out to a lot of my peers that I was amazed Smith still had that kind of reflection left in him. It's the one highlight to me, and it's a credit to O'Halloran, who's actually a decent actor.

A prime Smith, I believe, could've made a pretty good film out of this. As it stands, it's fan service with very few moments of brilliance, if you're a man of a certain age.
 
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