Posted by jkm822 at 208.140.189.12 on July 11, 2001 at 09:55:01:
In Reply to: HOW DARE I SPEAK AGAINST KEVIN SMITH posted by Bluekah! on July 11, 2001 at 01:41:15:
You're not speaking against him, if you're comparing one of his films to another one of his films. But that's being picky.
I find it interesting that you feel Dogma is less funny than Chasing Amy. I feel the exact opposite - I think that Chasing Amy is the least funny of the lot. Which isn't to say Amy's not a great film, or that I don't love it - it is, and I do. But despite the fact that Dogma has a much heavier subject matter (carrying the weight of centuries of people admonished not to have premarital sex, and all the wars they've fought over those centuries to try to prevent anyone else from being allowed to fuck pre-marriage, too. There's more to it than that, I know, but think about it - doesn't it just make sense, in a way?) to handle, I think alot of the weightiness of the subject is played off with things like the Golgothan shit demon, having George Carlin play a cardinal, and so on. As long as you can handle seeing a movie that looks at Catholicism in a humorous (and thought-provoking, yes, but that's not the point I'm trying to make) light, I think it works incredibly well. But Amy always came across to me as a bit of a downer. There are some hilarious moments in there, like the Skee-Ball scene, and Jason Lee, and all that, but overall it seems more serious and emotional than Dogma. I guess that's partly because what happens in Dogma isn't likely to happen to just anyone, where as Chasing Amy could happen to any of us. But maybe that's just me.
Jill