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FOT Community => Links => Topic started by: A.M. Thomas on August 02, 2007, 07:03:47 PM
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[youtube=425,350]epg18Q1hKmI[/youtube]
Guy was just asking a relevant and accurate question.
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WHAT A COMEBACK!!1
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Classy, too.
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Really. This is like eighth grade lunch table banter.
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Amazing pwnage. Rip on a guy for his weight when you're probably a b-cup. Glass houses?
On another version of the clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou2mVnElp6c), someone claiming to be the guy said:
He responded to my comment just the way I thought he would, and it didn't bother me at all that he insulted me, I'm just glad that I got to point out that he makes the same tired movie over and over again.
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Ap Mike's long lost brother
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it's sad... the kid is smiling as he gets ripped by Smith. As if it's some badge of honor.
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#7. Kevin Smith's Fletch Won
If at the mention of "Fletch" you groan and say, "That '80s Chevy Chase movie?" then we're very, very ashamed of you. Long before that film came along, the Fletch character appeared in a dozen very smart, funny novels by author Gregory McDonald. You should read them. No, not right now.
In 2000 Kevin Smith and Miramax got the rights to Fletch Won, a McDonald novel about a young Fletch that takes place before the Chevy Chase movies. It seemed like a perfect fit: It saved Smith from the burden of coming up with a story, and it let him focus on writing the crude, rapid-fire dialogue that is his one unique talent.
Pretty much every young male actor in Hollywood was mentioned in connection with the role (Matthew Perry, Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, many more) but we'd have rolled the dice with Chris Rock, who apparently wanted the part very badly. The difference in race from the original Fletch shouldn't have been an issue. At worst, they could have just digitally added Chevy Chase's face and had Chris Rock dub the dialogue.
Why it didn't get made: Smith said he wouldn't direct the movie unless his best friend for life Jason Lee got the part. Shortly thereafter, Miramax announced that Smith wouldn't be directing the movie. Once again, Smith's career was evidently set back by his insistence that he only work with actors he's had at least one drunken pillow fight with. Since this limits his choices to Lee and Ben Affleck (and we're thinking the latter would not only have ruined the franchise, but would have incited fans to pile up all the copies of the novel and hold a Nazi-style book burning) the studio is wisely developing Fletch with another writer and director.
So everything's back on track! On the other hand, apparently the lead in talks to play Fletch is now—brace yourself—Zach Braff.
And while we're on the subject: Maybe Kevin Smith shouldn't take over other people's franchises after all; his Superman Lives script (widely available online) had the potential to be one of the worst movies ever made.
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I wish the All Girl Summer Fun Band would do a follow up song to their smash hit "Jason Lee." It would be a sad, slow song about how Jason Lee and his wacky religion and his really bad TV show broke their hearts into tiny little pieces.
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My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I9-xuRnTL._AA240_.jpg)
Anything but boring, the creator of "Jay and Silent Bob" shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way! Lewd, crude and hilariously rude, Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting, in-your-face expose of, er, his rather dull and uneventful life... well, not always dull. In between watching his TiVo, he manages to make and release "Clerks II", relate the story of his partner-in-crime Jason Mewes' heroin addiction, get a tattoo, serve on a jury... and be berated for nose-picking by his erstwhile Playboy-model wife, Jen. Thrown in are his views on the perils of strip clubs, the drawback of threesomes, the pain of anal fissures, his love-affair with "Star Wars" and so much more!
Also, if that mumblecore article wasn't enough, I'm now officially done with the New York Times:
"Elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle." - New York Times
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Nice try, Kevin Smith, but Drew Carey already wrote the great American novel in Dirty Jokes and Beer.
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Also, if that mumblecore article wasn't enough, I'm now officially done with the New York Times:
"Elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle." - New York Times
I ask as a fellow done-with-New-York-Times-er and someone who is on the fence about mumblecore but leaning towards anti: is it that you think mumblecore sucks, or that the NYT covered it badly?
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I ask as a fellow done-with-New-York-Times-er and someone who is on the fence about mumblecore but leaning towards anti: is it that you think mumblecore sucks, or that the NYT covered it badly?
Chris L already hit this one out of the park (http://thebicameralmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-it-im-buying-video-camera.html).
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I ask as a fellow done-with-New-York-Times-er and someone who is on the fence about mumblecore but leaning towards anti: is it that you think mumblecore sucks, or that the NYT covered it badly?
Chris L already hit this one out of the park (http://thebicameralmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-it-im-buying-video-camera.html).
Damn, Chris L nailed it. Although my vote would be for calling it "shit-edge." (see what I did there?) Because, srsly? Mumblecore? That's the worst tag to call anything since "lo-fi."
Also, I just saw an ad for a new show called "Reaper" that boasts of Kevin Smith's involvement,which made me want to watch that show even less than I already did.
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I ask as a fellow done-with-New-York-Times-er and someone who is on the fence about mumblecore but leaning towards anti: is it that you think mumblecore sucks, or that the NYT covered it badly?
Chris L already hit this one out of the park (http://thebicameralmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-it-im-buying-video-camera.html).
Hot damn, you can say that again. HIGH-larious and spot-on. I think the BM is an exception to Jason's rule about blogs (though certainly not the only one - I read a good Annalee Newitz article recently about how, contrary to all of the hype and hysteria, blogs tend to settle into the same hierarchy as a lot of other media - the good, or at least luridly interesting, stuff floats to the top, while the rest is just white noise. But I digress).
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Thanks for the kind words, guys. If my blog is interesting to anyone (and I tend to assume it isn't), I mostly attribute it to avoiding personal kvetching and jpegs of my lunch receipts and so forth. That and cramming it with not-so-subtle Best Show references.
And I'm actually thankful for the term "mumblecore" because surely no genre, no matter how much it thrives on irritating me, can survive such a ridiculous moniker. Instant death knell.
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I like that when one Googles "mumblecore," one is asked, "Do you mean 'dumbledore'?"
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ha, ha, ha
Sarah, I'm glad you're back. I love your crack o' dawn posts.
I hope your hand's healing up nicely.
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Chris L, will you email me some .jpgs of your lunch receipts? It's actually my favorite thing to read.
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My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I9-xuRnTL._AA240_.jpg)
Anything but boring, the creator of "Jay and Silent Bob" shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way! Lewd, crude and hilariously rude, Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting, in-your-face expose of, er, his rather dull and uneventful life... well, not always dull. In between watching his TiVo, he manages to make and release "Clerks II", relate the story of his partner-in-crime Jason Mewes' heroin addiction, get a tattoo, serve on a jury... and be berated for nose-picking by his erstwhile Playboy-model wife, Jen. Thrown in are his views on the perils of strip clubs, the drawback of threesomes, the pain of anal fissures, his love-affair with "Star Wars" and so much more!
Also, if that mumblecore article wasn't enough, I'm now officially done with the New York Times:
"Elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle." - New York Times
This is great cause it says "not always dull" then lists a sad ream of less-than-minor achievements (can't decide which requires less of an effort, releasing clerks 2 or picking your nose and making your wife mad). "Gets a tattoo"?? Seriously? That's what you're offering up here?
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Artist on Artist: Kevin Smith and Zach Braff (who beats up little kids (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/14/zach_braff_beat_up_kid_during_punk_d_stu/))
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429)
Barf. Total ass-kiss fest.
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Artist on Artist: Kevin Smith and Zach Braff (who beats up little kids (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/14/zach_braff_beat_up_kid_during_punk_d_stu/))
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429)
Barf. Total ass-kiss fest.
I couldn't watch the whole thing. About 20 seconds into it I was thinking about what I'm going to make for lunch.
I see why they had to punch this footage up with ADD jump cuts and "kick ass" bed music.
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Artist on Artist: Kevin Smith and Zach Braff (who beats up little kids (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/14/zach_braff_beat_up_kid_during_punk_d_stu/))
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=959671429)
Barf. Total ass-kiss fest.
Wow!! I never knew that the cuddly Zach Braf was so hard core!!!
Get him!!
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I turned it off when Kevin Smith said that Zach Braff has "insane credibility". That's like having authenticity to the extreme.
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After watching these two guys, I feel like maybe me, an endodontist, could direct a feature length film. How hard can it be, seeing these mutants.
Then I too could have "insane credibility."
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If one takes the phrase to mean "credibility among the insane," it's quite accurate, really.
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If one takes the phrase to mean "credibility among the insane," it's quite accurate, really.
"Insane credibility" vs. "Mad kudos." FIGHT!
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They got the wrong Kevin Smith.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TKLC3G1&show_article=1
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man dressed as Santa Claus was knocked unconscious by a thrown object that hit his face while he was riding on the back of a truck decorated as a sleigh.
Kevin Smith says he never saw what hit him Saturday. Whatever it was, it broke his nose and gave him a concussion and two black eyes.
"One second I was up there waving to people, and the next minute I wasn't," Smith said.
He was taking part in Santa Run, sponsored by the firefighters union, which features off-duty firefighters who dress up as Santa and ride through residential areas handing out candy to children.
Other volunteers realized something was wrong after they hadn't heard from Smith for a few minutes. They stopped the truck and found him lying unconscious.
"It pretty much cold-cocked him," fire Lt. Scott Himelspach said.
Smith awoke in the back of the sleigh.
"They thought I'd spilled my hot chocolate, but then they realized it was blood," Smith said. "The rest of the night was kind of hazy."
Smith, a firefighter for eight years, said he hoped to return to work on Christmas Day.
Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said an assault report was filed with police but that no witnesses have come forward.
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Lunch receipt:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/kokoblue/receipt2.jpg)
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Lunch receipt:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/kokoblue/receipt2.jpg)
Another West Seattle Suds n' Tussin fest?