Ollie (Ben Affleck) is a top of his game N.Y publicist. He has a perfect life with a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. Suddenly things go astray and Ollie finds himself jobless and a single father. He's forced to move in with his father played by George Carlin. Things start to look up for him when he meets another great girl (Liv Tyler) and her daughter and learns that life sometimes throws you a few different directions and you can't choose the path you're given.
I hope it does well. Kevin Smith is a writing genius. It has been sad to see his talent wasted over the past several years with the dick and fart joke humor.
I hope this movie comes out..........and all the Jay and Silent Bob fans turn their back on View Askew............leaving future Kevin Smith films devoid of Stoners in the audience making noise and ruining the film for me.
lol...Personally, I've never seen a bad Kevin Smith movie. I was worried this would be the first-it looks like there's still hope, especially since J'Lo's barely in it.
He doesn't make shitty movies............I enjoy all of them. I think he is just too talented to waste all of his talent of dick and fart jokes. He needs to move on to better projects.
And you're right......nobody was pointing a gun at his head, but he does enjoy making money so he has been making what the fans want/expect.
Well, toilet humor is a sure fire way to make money off of teens who probably couldn't care less what they see. I wonder if he'll ever cast people that can deliver his hackneyed dialogue, or even TRY and write a story that can carry a plot, without throwing in some sick joke, just to avoid a transition?
If making movies was my passion, I'd rather be held in high regard, than be rich. Guess Kevin doesn't feel the same way?
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you know many people think kevin smiths movies are nothing more than "toilet humor" Even though there are lockeroom jokes found all through smiths movies. His stories are bound by intellectual inspiration. The so called "toilet humor" you find in his movies are there to give his dialogue realism. The way smith presents the raunchy jokes is in a brillant sarcastic way. He will take the pointless every day conversations people in there twenties have amongst each other and inject them with intelligent reasoning. Thus the sarcasim. His stories are everyday situations exagerated with on the edge humor. This is true with all of his films aside of jay and silent bob which was a fan film. Next time you watch his movies, watch it withan open mind and try and pay attention to content and the way the jokes and dialogue is presented.
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Don't plan on ever watching any of his movies ever again. Saw "Mallrats", thought it was a clever stab at a "romantic comedy", but like the rest, the movies are missing a plot. The "realistic dialogue" can be found in ANY B rate, or "teen" comedy today. it's not hard to write dialogue that people incorperate into their everyday lives.
It's just mindboggling how anyone would call this hack a "genius" in any sense of the word.
Let's not confuse opinions for facts here, people. Kevin Smith is nothing more than a glorified Woody Allen, that makes big budget home movies, and that's being NICE.
Alright, I've said all I can say about him. Hope he has great success with his hacked movies, high school dialogue, pot smoking, and elementary, plotless movies. Pure genius, indeed.
It always amuses me when people who obviously have a grasp of the English language act as immature as the "OMG!! K3V1N ZM17H 1Z TEH SUX0RZ!!!" people. So you don't think it's hyprocritical at all to denounce other people's opinions because "opinions aren't fact" but then tout your own as the One Truth? Maybe you should go back to medieval spain and join the Inquisition.
kevin smith is my second fave director I've stood by him with every thing even though i was 2 young 2 see his films i snuck in go on young go on young smith fans go, go
I saw this when it opened on friday, and I loved it. I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan, and this movie stuck it to all those moronic critics who said Kevin could do nothing more than "Pee-pee" and "Poo-poo" jokes. George Carlin is, surprisingly, a very good actor. But he did always want to be an actor, anyway. Jennifer Lopez is only in the movie for like 10 minutes, so that's a plus. And Ben Affleck is good as usual. So anyway, I would strongly recommend seeing this, and don't worry, it's really not a chick flick.
I've never seen any critic say that is all he CAN do........I have seen them say that's all he HAS done, which is correct. Up until this film, just a bunch of gay/dick/fart jokes.
That's true, but they were all great. And read the reviews in the New York Times. Those guys are jackasses, and they love to bash Kevin. Clerks wasn't really dick and fart jokes. Mallrats was, but Kevin has since publicly aplogized for ever making that movie, though I'm not quite sure why. Chasing Amy was awesome, and was a new direction for him. I guess that could fall into the "gay" category, but it wasn't really a "gay joke" movie. Dogma was none of the above, and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back was all of the above, but wonderful. Watch it closely, and you'll see that it was made just like a comic book, which is what Kevin always wanted to do.
In other news, Kevin is going to be wroking on a Green Hornet movie. I think it will be great.
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Jersey Girl
Feb 6th, 2004 06:44 PM
I love degrassi 
