Posted by Not a Dilettante at cc450010-a.narltn1.nj.home.com on August 27, 2001 at 23:04:46:
Kevin, dude. I hope you realize that you used your last "Get out of Jail
Free" card up with Bob & Harvey with your latest fiasco.
I was really wanting to like "Jay & Silent Bob", but not entirely
surprised when it turned out to be another self-indulgent piece o'
crap.
You've made a total of four films to date, J&SB not included, do you
really think this constitutes a body of work worthy of a retrospective?
To recap:
Clerks showed promise of great thinks to come.
Mallrats wasn't that great thing, but it was a good time.
Chasing Amy was your Mona Lisa, as long as you didn't mind the fact
that it was visually uninspired (variations on a two-shot) and
basically spoken in one voice.
Dogma was, well, pretty damn bad... and it gets worse with each
successive viewing.
Now this... a rehash of references to all of the above with some
topical humor (owe yeah, and how did you get so p-whipped that you
put your modestly attractive wife in the same league with Eliza,
Shannon and Ali....if they were a spoof on Charlies Angels, what was
she, one of Jerry's Angels? I understand, put up, or no put out, it's
rough.)
Kev, take some of your own best advice. be Holden fucking McNeil
and write something personal like Chasing Amy, but not as didactic
or prosaic as Dogma.
Your current path is going to lead nowhere.
Oh, and if you and Mewes show up at my door looking to kick my ass,
you don't stand a chance, lunchbox.