Posted by Reek at ip82.seattle11.wa.pub-ip.psi.net on July 02, 2000 at 00:25:09:
In Reply to: You Know What's Funny Here, Darth? posted by Lucifer Lyndon Razoodock on July 01, 2000 at 23:20:52:
: The lower you see "Chasing Amy," the younger the user (this can be contrasted with how high "Mallrats" or "clerks." appears on these lists).
: Why is "Chasing Amy" the catalyst?
Bah, me no agree with said theory. I am well above the age limit here (pushin 26), and also I appreciate CA on a multitude of different levels. The drama, the male/male best friend relationship, as well as dealing with your male friend when a new woman comes along. The need for Holden as an artist to do something that has some sort, no matter what, but some sort of fucking meaning outside of SNOOTCH TO THE whatever.
I feel all of these things, and the entire movie up to one damn point...
Joey Lauren Adams is too fucking annoying. My aunt compares her to the lost Tilly sister. I myself love her in small doses, but man, that scene in the parking lot, the hockey argument. Dear god someone put her down for good! She absolutely ruins that movie for me, bar none.
However;
Clerks to me represents more than just dick jokes, if that's why you think someone young would choose it (of the 4) as the fave. Clerks I can look at as Kevins out into the big bad world, and he fucking blew it up. People took notice, for his crappy little cheap B+W flick. The actors were nobodies, the script was raw and different. Akin to an episode of Seinfeld, it had no plot. It came out at a time when Hollywood absolutely took it's audience for granted, thinking all the new advances in technology and special effects would compensate for 90 minutes worth of convoluted dialog and ridiculous summer tie-ins.
Clerks also gives a little glimmer of hope, although small as it may be, that anyone can make thier own shit happen if they just decide that they want it to. Fall flat on yer ass or float to the sky, at least you did it. Not to mention Clerks never once, not in the whole run time, tried to be anything more than it is. You don't see a 'set', you dont feel like sitting back and picking apart any continuity errors. A horribly filmed B+W, it is what it is, and either you love it or you don't.
CA on the other hand, while a nice film, from the content of the movie itself forces you to get it, or you simply cannot GET IT (and I mean this as where you can truly relate). Being in an obscure relationship, knowing someone gay etc...but who on this damn board, in the whole world even, young or old, can relate to having a shitty fucked up job and wanting to blame EVERYTHING upon that existence?
I like CA, I like Dogma too, but neither one of em holds a fucking thing over Clerks in my mind. But that's just my editorial on the subject....
Now back to StygianRules for the weather.
-E