Worst Personal Reflection on One's Generation Ever

38! Woo-Hoo!!!

 

She never loved you, though!

 

It's a total win-win!

 

Kevin Smith is awful. His movies have terrible structure, are horribly self centered, and have a tone of misogony.

Forgive me if I don't find him a voice of a generation or even an artistic voice I can even give a shit about.

 

Randal ordering videos is one of my fave scenes in any film

 

Great thanks. Don’t want to out, but you’ve gotta be Phil Mushnik. Because you fucking hate everything.

Some respect for consistency I guess.

 

"You guys see any balls down there?"

"Bout the biggest pair you've ever seen...dingleberry."

 

Clerks was funny, but it's not a well made film and not just because it was cheap. Smith's films are so poorly done. Any independent director from the '90's who is still around is so much better than Smith.

His resume shows what Hollywood thinks of him. The results are in. He is not good.

 

I won't quibble with technique, that's been documented. Though, I think he improved in that aspect along the way. Clerks was basically a student film.

I'll absolutely push back on "what Hollywood thinks" and "he's not good." What Hollywood wants is largely awful, mass-produced, focus-group written garbage.

Smith has fans, obviously. Not everyone cup of tea and clearly not yours. Which is a-OK. But judging on "what Hollywood thinks" is a poor argument.

 

Musically speaking, as a Gen-X'er I was never into Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain or Nirvana. And I certainly don't know who Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaffer and Theodor Adorno were.

 

PJ's last good song was Daughter. They were enormous ... then faded out pretty fast.

 

Rian Johnson, Danny Boyle, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Quentin Tarantino are around Smith's age or had a debut film around the time of Clerks. Their debuts were much better and they don't go begging for work 30 years later. Smith's problem isn't which movies Hollywood is making.

Slacker was seen as more of a Gen X movie, even though Linklater is technically a boomer.