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Kevin Smith , Underrated or Underachiever?
This is a question that I sometimes ask myself when I'm whatching a Kevin Smith film. Kevin Smith as a writer and filmmaker is kind of hard to describe, but here goes; I think the dialog in his films are intelligent, not quite brilliant. I think his films are far from bad, but far from great. I think he's a lot like Spike Lee in that regard, but even Lee has been able to muster up two great films("Do The Right Thing","Malcom X") in a long line of hit and misses. In my opinion, Smith has yet to make one "great" film(and yes that includes "Chasing Amy").

I thought this movie was a great START for Kevin. The movie is about, obviously, a day in the life, a day at the job, of two friends who work as clerks named Dante and Randle. Dante is an insecure, nice guy, who works in the convenience store, isn't really doing much with his life, and can't really get over a girl named Catlin, who broke up with him when he was still a senior in High School, despite the fact that she cheated on him basically every chance she could. Randle on the other hand, is a rude, lazy, always showing up late for work, unapoligetic smart a** who works in the video store right next to Dante. This is also the debut of two of my favarite movie characters, Jay and Silent Bob. Of course Jason Mewes( Whose playing himself basically) provides that silly, immature, homaphobic humer that we all love and relate to. silent Bob played his typical silent comedic role with that oh so important and impactful thing to say during that one point in every movie that Smith has written him in. I'm not going to explain any more of the plot because I don't want to accidentally spoil it for any one who hasn't seen it.

I'll admit it, I found myself relating a lot to the Dante Hicks's character in this movie in terms of his temperment and personality. Overall, I thought this was a pretty good movie and like I said great start for Kevin Smith. As far as extras on the DvD, it's the usuall, deleted scenes, Trailers, blah, but they have an alternate ending, that when I first saw it, part of me thought that it probley would have ruin the film, thus a great decision to cut it out, and another part of me who thinks that had they not cut out the full original ending, it may have gone down as one of the more bizzare, different, and , dare I say, brillient endings, that a movie of that type of Genre has ever had.

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
Clerks is American filmmaker Kevin Smith's directual debut. The film cost about 25,000 to make, and went on to gross 3 million at the box office -not bad at all for a first movie. Today, the movie is viewed as a cult classic, quoted by many, and revered as Kevin Smith's best film to date -even after movies with bigger budgets.

Dante Hicks, played by Brian O'Halloran, is called in to work at a New Jersey convenient store on a Saturday. He gets there to find that the shutters won't open, the customers that will walk in on that particular day all have major issues, two stoners Jay and Silent Bob, played by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith respectively, that hang around right outside his door all day, and his next door video store clerk buddy Randal, played by Jeff Anderson, is less excited about being at work than he is. In additon to that, he had arranged plans that day to play hockey - which he ends up doing on the roof of the store, and finds out a dirty secret from his woman that explodes into a fight and a possible affair with an old flame.

The film's plot might seem pointless, but Kevin Smith's hilarious dialogue makes Clerks an enjoyable film, plus the movie is shot in black and wite that gives it a sense of coolness. The movie also introduced the world to the quirky characters Jay and Silent Bob, who would end up appearing in all of Smith's future films.

Most importantly, Clerks has become an inspiration for many young American directors to make their mark with the smallest and most affordable budget possible.

Recommended

B+

Indie Classic
This was one of the movies that started the whole indie film revolution. When you watch this picture and see the terrible film quality, just imagine how tough it must have been to have to make a movie using the old style film cameras -- instead of today's cheap and good quality mini-DV video cams. You young film-makers have it easy compared to the directors and producers just a few years older than you. But the movie itself is very funny, and transcends the issues with production value.

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