Worst Personal Reflection on One's Generation Ever

[Slacker]

The oral sex exchange is still my favorite.

"My girlfriend sucked 37 decks!"
"In a row?"

"Hey try not to suck any deck on the way thru the parking lot!"
(Slacker begins walking towards her)
"Hey! Hey you!"

38! Woo-Hoo!!!

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

38! Woo-Hoo!!!

She never loved you, though!

 

[Slacker]

She never loved you, though!

It's a total win-win!

 

[justgladtobehere]

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 ship about.

 

[Huggy]

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

 

[Deskgrunt50]

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 ship about.

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

Some respect for consistency I guess.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Love it.
Also:
"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude.But they don't all bring you lasagna at work.Most of 'em just cheat on you."

Also also:
"Pack o' wraps, my brotherman, time to kick back, drink some beers and shmoke some weed!"

"You guys see any balls down there?"

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

 

[justgladtobehere]

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

Some respect for consistency I guess.

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.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

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, mash-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.

 

[fossywriter8]

Dude writes about Gen X with a lot of music references without mentioning Prince, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys (or hip hop at all) or MTV. He gives one sentence to Kurt Cobain and Nirvana - the same as Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaffer and Theodor Adorno (who the fork are they!?!). Is this Jann Wenner's alt?

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.

 

[Songbird]

Musically speaking, as a Gen-X'er I was never into Pearl Jam

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

 

[justgladtobehere]

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, mash-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.

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.