Just tried to find the thread where there was discussion on the Evening w/Kevin Smith disks but gave up - this works too ... Tom gives a more balanced take on Kevin Smith here which is interesting to read, and so I'm teeing off on the Evening w/Kevin Smith disk here.
I think Reeleyes goes "I'll say it, I enjoyed the Prince and Jon Peters story" which I back up entirely ... these Evening disks (is he up to a 3rd one now?) encapsulate everything I like (not love) and hate about KS, which Tom kind of says more or less in so many words here in part 2.
My interpretation of him is: This is a guy who is basically a $30 million dollar check (let's just go with that number - I don't know if that's accurate and I don't want to look it up now) for the Weinsteins. He makes the same goddamn movie every time, and the same goddamn people go and see it, and his movies always turn more or less the same profit - the $30 million figure I"m basically pulling from a dim memory of reading it somewhere. So that's something. You don't have to knock 'em out of the park all the time, right?
If he's not sincere about this, then he's doing a really good imitation of a guy who knows he has limited talents but has found an audience, such as it is, and he is very greatful for that audience, and he tries to give them what they want.
So where like turns to hate is that he taxes the patience of even his most indulgent fans with these Evening w/things. Never mind the butt-aching marathon of sitting in the audience, even the disks need at least one more pass by an editor that isn't Kevin Smith-I know he edits his movies, but not sure he edits these. MY POINT IS STILL VALID!
So yeah, both those stories that Reeleyes is talking about are pretty awesome, but spread out with the snoochie boochie horseshit and the indulgent Kevin Smith nerdery, those get lost. Anyway. Scratchy record is almost done so I'm going.
