Posted by King Joe at h006008e412c9.ne.mediaone.net on June 03, 2000 at 19:36:18:
After searching my local stores for Clerks on DVD, but no finding it anywhere, I went on over to Blockbuster, realizing I'd have to be content with just renting it... No Dice. Blockbuster's shitty DVD selection didn't include Clerks. So, I said what the hell and rented it on VHS. I hadn't seen this movie for quite a few years. I had seen it once before with my two friends and we thought it was great (though we couldn't really explain why it was so funny to our friends who hadn't seen it).
That was back in Middle School. In my Freshman year of High School I got into movie making, and drafted my friends as actors. After a few pretty bad films, we made one pretty good one ("The Grand Old Theft Of The Blue Machoo", if you care to know the name). We sold it at school with a cover and all for $6 a piece (and ended up makinf $250). But anyway, I had never noticed it in Clerks before, but (no offense to your actors) but the acting is pretty bad at times. But not bad in the traditional bad acting way, bad in the way acting is bad if you have people pretending to be actors. The way people sometimes speak their lines in your film sounds so much like the way my friends spoke their lines in my movie I almost fell over laughing. Its the kind of bad acting that, when you watching the movie with the people you made it with, you just look over at them and say, "Man, you suck!" and you all laugh because you all know you all kind of suck but its the movie's funny anyway. Just thought it was cool how I found Clerks funny on a whole new level when I watched it this time around.
Joe
P.S. A few of my friends are pot heads, and, dammit, people just can't remember their lines when their stoned! Ever have that problem when making Clerks?