Matt -- I may be in a minority, but I liked Smith's "Clerks", but really feel he's a "one hit wonder". Judging from his commentary track on the laserdisk version of the film and his "duh" attitude, it just doesn't seem that he's taking filmmaking seriously -- either as an artform or even as a business. I compare "Clerks" to alot of other independent films that seem to capture the spirit or mood of their times, often unintentionally. On Wed, 8 May 1996, Laughing H wrote: > I was looking to get some feedback on the motion picture CLERKS and the > film work of the director, Kevin Smith (MALLRATS, CLERKS, etc.) And while > I realize that his style of humor is not to everyones taste, I throughly > enjoyed the film CLERKS. Part of the appeal I believe came from the fact > that it was so low budget (he financed it with a couple of credit cards) > and that the MALLRATS semi-sequel was less interesting due to the large > amount of commercialization and the mainstreamness of the story line as > compared to CLERKS. Any fans reply. > > Matt > Charlotte, NC > > ---- > To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]