Clerks 3 - Starring DSPs not so retarded cousin and Rosario Dawson

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Pass. The first Clerks film is one of the best slacker films of all time. Funny, heartwarming in places, and with some great social commentary. The second film was good, just not as memorable as the first one, but it tried to change things up a bit with the fast food setting.

Clerks III is going to be The Force Awakens of indie films. Just a pastiche of self-referential jokes and member berries in Kevin Smith's attempt to be relevant again in a 2-hour runtime. Here's what he said back in 2006 regarding the original idea for Clerks III:
During press for Clerks II, Kevin Smith briefly discussed the possibility of a Clerks III. Stating that "if there's ever gonna be a Clerks III, it would be somewhere down the road in my 40s or 50s, when it might be interesting to check back in on Dante and Randal. But I don't know about Jay and Bob so much, 'cause at 45, leaning on a wall in front of a convenience store might be a little sad."[2] Smith repeated this sentiment on one of the audio commentary tracks on the Clerks II DVD, to which Jeff Anderson jokingly replied, "Oh, don't get me started", referring to Anderson's well known doubts about making Clerks II when first approached by Smith.
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From the looks of things, Jay and Silent Bob are still loitering around the shopfront being a pair of deadbeats, but with wrinkles this time.
 
If it means this makes Kevin Smith enough money to do an actually interesting project that's cool but this looks like recycled jokes and overly nostalgic bullshit.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
i thought Kevin Smith hated his old work and called everyone who still liked it retards?

dosent help the guy is such an asshole.
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A lot of directors hate the works that made them famous, just like how musicians always have that one song that everyone keeps asking them to play despite having several other hits. From the comments of that trailer it seems like you can easily please anybody these days.
Jimjamflimflam said:
I hope he makes references to things like comic books and star wars.
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So far it seems more likely that he's going the nostalgia route and referencing the first film to death.
 
If Kevin Smith were still a true Indy Edgelord with something to say, he would open the movie with the Quick Stop getting foreclosed on because it was shut down for 2 years from Covid Lockdowns and Randal hanging himself after declaring bankruptcy.

Of course Randal would fail in hilarious fashion that would deny him his death, while also causing him to land on his balls thus causing him an immense amount of pain.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
If Kevin Smith were still a true Indy Edgelord with something to say, he would open the movie with the Quick Stop getting foreclosed on because it was shut down for 2 years from Covid Lockdowns and Randal hanging himself after declaring bankrupcy.
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That's how you subvert expectations. I really liked Red State for that reason. That whole movie you had no idea which way it was going to go. He definitely inserted his libshit politics into it but it was still a great movie.

Vulgar was another Kevin Smith movie I went into without much info. It was a fucking bizarre movie and you didn't know what direction it would go. I like him as a director when he does weird movies he wants to do and not because he wants another vacation house.
 
Jeff_the_Thriller said:
Vulgar was another Kevin Smith movie
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No it wasn't, it just used his production company. He didn't write or direct it.

Edit: Just went to look up the wiki page of the writer


He was also the basis for the Clerks character Randal Graves
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So basically now Kevin is half ripping off the basis of this guy's life, who he already based Randall on. Clerks III is Randall makes a film.
Well...I guess 22 years ago, he did let him make a film...
 
The original idea was that Clerks 3 would've been filmed in black and white again, it's a shame they walked back on that. I know Randall's actor turned down returning after seeing an earlier draft of this movie's script. Kevin Smith said that version was going to be the "empire strikes back of the series" which sounds like it'd be some dumb subversive shit, but even that sounds more interest than what this trailer's promising
 
winterfag said:
Kevin Smith said that version was going to be the "empire strikes back of the series" which sounds like it'd be some dumb subversive shit, but even that sounds more interest than what this trailer's promising
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If you expect Kevin to treat two previous films and their fans with respect then your expectations will be thoroughly subverted.
 
Basically everyone's give up on Kevin Smith for at least a decade so this is more a threat then a celebration. Clerks, dogma, mallrats and even Jay and silent Bob strike back are stitched into my heart forever but the difference in Clerks 1 and 2 are vast and the drops only gotten steeper.
The only thing I want out out of smith's mouth is a reprint of dogma. I'm sure he can work something out with his best bud Harvey
 
Just a reminder that Kevin  didnt pass on Masters of the Universe to work on this. If he really cared about the film he'd have worked around financial problems like he did with Clerks 1.
 
Jeff_the_Thriller said:
That's how you subvert expectations. I really liked Red State for that reason. That whole movie you had no idea which way it was going to go. He definitely inserted his libshit politics into it but it was still a great movie.

Vulgar was another Kevin Smith movie I went into without much info. It was a fucking bizarre movie and you didn't know what direction it would go. I like him as a director when he does weird movies he wants to do and not because he wants another vacation house.
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Vulgar was written and directed by Brian Halloran, Dante from Clerks, not Kevin. Kevin just produced it.
 
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