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This film is only cool b/c the cool kids like it.
No doubt I'm going to get smacked up and down for saying this but, "What is all the HYPE about?!?!" I agree with one user who said "This is quite possibly the most over-rated film of all time." Sure, this is an indie flick that was basically Kevin Smith's audition for Hollywood, and if that's where it ended, I would judge it simply on that basis. But the fact that this has become a cult hit just baffles me. There are a whole lot of indie films out there made for less money that beat this into the ground. But hey, I can't diss everything about it...there are, in fact, some very GOOD things. The plot is fun and off-beat, the characters are sick, twisted and morally bankrupt, even the dialogue ain't all the bad. But that's where the good stuff ends. Since Clerks is now considered a "hit," let's judge it based on those terms. The acting is horrid. Unbelievably elementary. Auditions, anyone? The best acting involves Jay and Silent Bob standing outside the store jacking around. Anything with dialogue is on par with your local Jr. High School play. And the sad part is, had Smith edited a little better, he could've at least improved the dialogue a little. It seems like they did about two takes a scene -- most of which were long running dialogues with a locked-off camera -- then apparently gave themselves about a day to edit the whole darn thing. The entire film is a compilation of two-shots...they rarely cut to someone reacting to what another person is saying, and the term "over the shoulder shot" seems to be lost on Smith. The shots are flat, most dead-on straight, the camera finds nothing interesting in the scenes, nor does it work hard to put the scene in context or create a mood. These guys went to a lot of work to create something that looks like it took no work whatsoever. In short, A for effort, given that he was a new director and had no cash. But this should've remained exactly as it was meant to be: an application form for Tinseltown. For my money, Smith should've stuck to writing, and left directing to people with eyes.

Could I give it "37" stars?
To anyone who's seen the movie, that line makes sense.
Of all the movie's that Kevin Smith has made, this one if by far the best. People say it's overrated, including Kevin Smith, if you caught the interviews on the Chasing Amy disc.
What makes this movie great? First of all, I like the fact that it was shot on a next to nothing budget. No-name actors go hand in hand with the budget. The blatant mistakes on screen don't bother me; I think that these imperfections add to the whole "indie film" experience of this movie.
The next thing that's great is, of course, the story. A slacker 20-something gets called early in the morning to fill in at a job he hates. But relax, he only has to work until noon.
Upon getting to work, things start to go wrong, in the form of chewing gum jammed in the padlocks of the store's protective shutters. So, to assure customers that the store is open, Dante, the pseudo-protagonist of the story, makes a sign out a tarp and shoe polish. So begins his tortured day.
The person scheduled to work at noon doesn't show up. In fact, he leaves the state. So, Dante gets stuck working later than planned. He did have a hockey game scheduled... so on, and so on, and bad things happen to Dante. Worst synopsis ever.
The other really captivating thing was the dialogue. The characters in the movie seem to take the simplest things and add a new level of intelligence to it.

-Can the independent contractors constructing the Death Star be considered "innocents" when the Death Star was destroyed in The Empire Strikes Back?
-What counts as infidelity?
-Is it ethical to simply close a store for a hockey game?

This is also Jay and Silent Bob's first movie. For the most part, they hang around in front of the convenience store where Dante works. The events that follow are essentially a conversation involving a Russian metal singer, lots of cursing, and the roots of Jay's ambiguous sexuality.

If you think this review makes the film sound terrible, you might be right. It's hard to write a review that encompasses how great this film truly is. You have to see it to know its value. So do that.

Everytime I walk in a 7-11, I laugh so hard................
I am 92 years old, and my grandson made me watch this. I have never laughed this hard in my life, I thought Mean Girls was funny, but this film delivered. Jay and Fat Bob are very funny, I remember smoking the weed when I could walk and function. Now I'm strapped to a bed in a nursing home being molested by old nurses. This film delivered, I filled my Depends in 15 minutes, laughing so hard.

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