They get starting to get alot of respect beyond cult status. Fans should check out the voting race at YMDB

http://www.ymdb.com

Whats your favorite

Mallrats? Jay & Silent Bob Strike back? Clerks?

An Evening With Kevin Smith? Vulgar? Jersey Girl?

Dogma? Chasing Amy? Good Will Hunting?

I think he has a new movie coming out called "The Green Hornet"

Good Will Hunting???

Far and away - Chasing Amy.

Then Dogma (I love the concept), then the rest. I love Kevin Smith.

LarrytheGOD said:

Clerks. (1994) #60 in YMDB
Mallrats (1995) #131 in YMDB
Chasing Amy (1997) #86 in YMDB
Dogma (1999) # 87 in YMDB
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) #294 in YMDB
Jersey Girl (2004) # 1590 in YMDB]

Good Will Hunting is not a Kevin Smith film it is by Gus Van Sant and in YMDB the film is in #97


His next project by the way is "The Green Hornet" (Jake Gyllenhaal is favorite to take the lead role in new movie The Green Hornet)....The Green Hornet was made into a TV series in the sixties, which famously starred kung-fu legend Bruce Lee.

[This message was edited Sun May 16 8:12:11 2004 by PusherMan]

I guess there are no Kevin Smith fans here.....
But if you are a Pulp Fiction fan go to YMDB to support Pulp Fiction.....it is currently in #3

Clerks. I didn't see Dogma or Jersey Girl. I dug Jay and Silent Bob also.
[This message was edited Mon May 17 7:05:38 2004 by Zelaira]

PusherMan said:

I'm a HUGE Kevin Smith fan! Got on board with "Clerks" and haven't looked back... although, I have to say " regarding "Jersey Girl".... what happened?

I suppose you all have seen 'An Evening with Kevin Smith" where he tells that bizarre story about Prince... right?

I'm ceratainly a Kevin Smith fan. Dogma and Chasing Amy are my faves, but the rest are great too. I haven't seen Jersey Girl yet, though. Seems like a renter.

i have to say i like all his movies pretty much equally - i don't know if i'd call myself a "fan", but i'd go so far as to say that i can sit through any given movie he's done and be entertained. i think he has a great gift for writing dialogue, and i have a great time just listening to his characters rant and ramble.

They're all good. The only one that's kinda iffy with me is Mallrats because it's like it was made for the teenage crowd. Not as intellectual as the others.

I didn't know Kevin smith had a part in Good Will Hunting..

I loved Chasing Amy the best i think!

not sure i kinda like them all (never saw Jersey Girl), but if i had to


1. Clerks
2. Mallrats
3. Dogma
Then everything else, those 3 stand out the most to me for some reason

BabyCakes said:

Didn't he help on rewrites? It's been a while since I've read about that movie. Gus was the director, and it was Ben and Matt's story.

Love Kevin Smith and his movies. Intelligent, quirky and funny.

Did he invent the "stink palm"?

NCC2012 said:

Kevin Smith was the producer on "Good Will Hunting"

DiminutiveRocker said:

Went and looked it up: "co-executive producer".

love his stuff!

NCC2012 said:

On Howard Stern he said he fronted alot of the money for it.

The only Smith films I've seen are Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. I've gotten a chuckle here or there, but his films have zero to do with the way life is actually lived; they're nice fantasies.

I remember seeing a Janeane Garofalo stand-up thing on TV where she was talking about Chasing Amy. She referred to the scene in the car where Ben Affleck spills his guts about his feelings for the female lead and - of course - she falls for him then and there. "In real life", she said, "that doesn't work. You want me to fall for you? Don't call me." And, incidentally, a dyke friend of mine was much offended by CA and said he knows "shit about dykes".

The fact that Kevin Smith is a rich man while Neil Labute remains relatively obscure is indicative of what's wrong with our culture.

He does tell a good Prince story, though.

LarrytheGOD said:

Yeah - I heard that on Howard too. Since Matt and Ben were relative unknowns back then, Kevin used his influence with Miramax to get the film made - and I believe it was a pretty low budget enterpriese inspite of Robin Williams appearance (which won him an Oscar, BTW)

Jay & Silent Bob Strike back, Clerks, An Evening With Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy and Dogma. I haven't seen Jersey Girl yet...

Ace said:

He tells an excellent Prince story! In "An Evening with Kevin Smith" he does explain how and why he made "Chasing Amy." I think his character of Amy was supposed to be an evolved individual who falls in love with a person for who they are - and not necessarily preferring or excluding him because of his gender. I have personally known bi-sexual women who've dated and been in relationships with both sexes - so perhaps if you look at it like that, it won't seem like such a stretch to believe. Most of his movies seem to be "over-the-top" and would definitely enter that fanatsy arena. Not all movies need to depict life the way it is actually lived... if that were so, Walt Disney would've sank his ship long ago.... in a galaxy far far away....


P.S. I think Neil LaBute's work is well known (although 'Possession' was not one of his best efforts) - and you really can't compare the two filmmakers. Neil's work is far darker and falls into an altogether different genre. But I guess you can say that Aaron Eckhart is to Neil what Jason Mewes is to Kevin.

PusherMan said:

Those numbers sound pretty accurate. After "Clerks", they all kind of went downhill alhtough "Chasing Amy" was better than "Mallrats" iMHO. I can't even take myself to see "Jersey Girl" but considering it ain't in theathers anymore, I won't have to!

"Vulgar" is a movie he producded (I think) and appears in but it ain't for the faint of heart. It is really fucking dark. Howard Stern was talking about it when it came out and was saying it was the most twisted movie he's ever seen, or something to that effect. I would avoid it. Just don't think about it!
[This message was edited Tue May 18 14:41:30 2004 by VinnyM27]

DiminutiveRocker said:

I wish I could find or download Vulgar. Its sounds like a real knee slapper

Did you all know that "the most beautiful girl in the world" was in the original Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ?

RomeoMustDie said:

Its available on DVD.

CarrieMpls said:

Those are my faves as well. I really enjoyed Jersey Girl. It was more in the vein of Chasing Amy, but a tad bit more serious. Its getting slammed by a lot of his fans who can't stand the idea that the man has moved beyond making movies about slacker stoners.

I think you'd dig it though!

JediMaster said:

RomeoMustDie said:

only on remaining bootleg VCD copies of the original movie when Jay first meets Justice. I wonder why it was cut out of the DVD