What's your favorite Kevin Smith film?

[eyesroll]

Poll question: What's your favorite Kevin Smith film?

I've been asked this once today, and I posted it in an "ask me anything" thread. Thought I'd throw it out to the masses.

[truhavoc]

1. Had to say "Dogma", but Mallrats is a close second n/t

[MallRat]

2. My handle notwithstanding, Clerks is a classic.

n/t

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Clerks, most definiely.

But I have a fondness for Chasing Amy as well. :loveya:

[liontamer]

5. Toss up between mallrats and clerks

but I don't think he was ever a great director, and after those two he wasn't even a very good director.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. You don't like Chasing Amy?

That seems to be the popular one.

[liontamer]

14. among straight men from places like jersey maybe

if it touched a certain fantasy, I think it was easier to like it. Otherwise, the dialogue is blah, and the quirky kevin smith touches don't really perk things up

[arwalden]

4. Never Heard Of Him... I've Only Heard Of ONE Of Those Movies...

... and I didn't see that one either.

Although I did go to school with a fellow named Kevin Smith (what a cutie... only not so cute at our 25th year reunion.)

Polls like this make me feel so OLD and out of touch with today's pop culture. Sigh.

-- Allen

[liontamer]

9. he's not that much a part of today's pop culture

His last good movies were so long ago, you've probably just forgotten them.

[arwalden]

13. Thanks For Your Reassuring Words... :-)

It's good to know that I'm not "square" ... just suffering from pre-dementia loss of memory. Isn't that nice? I feel much better now. LOL

-- Allen :hi:

[asthmaticeog]

17. I suspect you'd like some of them.

Judging from your posts, your sense of humor is properly skewed for Smith's work. For what my opinion's worth, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma are all fantastic. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a godawful exercise in juvenile and self-referential humor and isn't worth seeing even as an object-lesson. Jersey Girl, I've never seen, probably never will.

[quispquake]

6. Chasing Amy...

A bit klunky on the dialogue, but a powerful film. Other than this & "Dazed & Confused" I have a hard time thinking of another Affleck film I like (barring his cameos in other Smith films).

[liontamer]

10. powerful film?

in what way?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. You must like Chris Rock in that.

He's fantastic.

[asthmaticeog]

22. He's not in that one.

Are you thinking of Dwight Ewell?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Ha!

I think I've gone mad.

[quispquake]

23. A heavy exploration of relationships...

I was in a relationship once where the woman's past was very difficult for me to move past, and I could really relate to the movie because of it (and I had to admit to a lot of errors on my part, because the bottom line, is the past is the past, and NOW is what it is all about...). So, powerful for me, perhaps not for others...

[phillybri]

7. Clerks is #1, #2, and #3...

The rest are just vying for 4th.

This is back before Kevin got a little too into himself...

[On the Road]

12. I Had to Vote "Dogma"

because of the compeletely original take on religion. It's not only funny, it's very thoughtful.

I thought "Chasing Amy" was a more powerful movie, though. Ben Affleck had some remarkably moving monologues.

All the Kevin Smith stuff I've seen is fresh and surprising (although I haven't seen "Jersey Girl".)

[eyesroll]

15. I suppose I should answer my own poll.

I have a certain soft spot for "Mallrats." It's certainly the funniest, if not the smartest.

Although... the "My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks"/"in a row?" exchange from "Clerks" has provided many parody opportunities, and the look on Affleck's face when he realized Alyssa was kissing a woman (and not him) and they we're in a lesbian bar (and Lee's reaction as well) in "Chasing Amy" was priceless.

I don't hate any of them.

[TransitJohn]

16. Chasing Amy is the absolute worst.

I hate when "actors" think screaming is good "acting."

[mairceridwen]

19. thank you...

i hated chasing amy

[TransitJohn]

20. No prob

the movie was awful. Never could understand why people thought it was good.

[mairceridwen]

18. oh my

clerks was highly entertaining, but save for a few good moments, not at all memorable

dogma was more memorable, definintely more thought provoking but not pretentious

mallrats...ick

chasing amy had to be one of the worst movies i've ever seen. i found it utterly offensive in the way that it tried to construct a queer character that would be acceptable and non threatening to straight men. ben affleck "moving" give me a break. asschump is what he is. jason lee's character was much more believable. cynical bastard. i loves me the jason lee.

and the whole silent bob thing is just ridiculous.

[noonwitch]

21. Dogma-but I liked the other Kevin Smith (Aries) better. RIP

Aries on Xena was hot, and he, like all the gods on Xena and Hercules, was pretty funny.

[liontamer]

26. He's dead?

[Bridget Burke]

27. Kevin Smith died in 2002---after a fall from a set in China.

He was a talented guy & all accounts by Xenafen indicated he was a fine person, as well.

My favorite film of his? Desperate Remedies was an extremely original (odd, weird, strange) New Zealand film; I've just ordered the VHS. (He's the one without a shirt.)

Edited to add: no hotlinking allowed--you can see the poster here:

www.thezreview.co.uk/posters/d/desperateremedies.htm

[jonnyblitz]

25. clerks. hated dogma. n/t

[Dedalus]

28. Chasing Amy!

"Chasing Amy" is Kevin Smith's masterpiece. It is the greatest thinking-person's romantic comedy made by someone other than Woody Allen.

[skypilot]

29. Definitely "Dogma"

Favorite line (and I'm paraphrasing):

"It's the Golgothan Shit Demon. And he's comin' for you, girlie."

[redqueen]

30. Mallrats!

Clerks is a close second, though.

[TrustingDog]

31. Dogma was Brilliant! the jay and bob strikes was Lousy.

[last_texas_dem]

32. "Clerks" is my favorite

I know it's technically a pretty simple low-budget movie, but it just cracks me up much more than any of the others do. Devout liberal political leanings notwithstanding, I'm actually a pretty conservative, goody-goody kinda guy so I should find a movie like "Clerks" to be gross and offensive, but... it's just very funny, accurate, true-to-life. I liked Jay and Silent Bob because it emphasized those two and was pretty over-the-top funny. And it had Eliza Dushku... Of the others Mallrats is above average, Dogma I liked in concept more than in actuality, but it was still pretty good. Chasing Amy is the only Kevin Smith movie I didn't care for, but I've never seen Jersey Girl.

So those are my takes, for whatever that's worth...