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kleinbl00  ·  1774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-Fi club: general discussion

The show is good TV. I will gladly say that Season 5 of the show beats the tar out of Book 5 of the series because you don't have to sit there mired in a completely useless set of characters.

Primer would have been an interes... No. It never would have been. Primer is a perfect example of a bad script, bad editing, bad cinematography, bad directing and bad sound that fanbois all gleefully ignore because there's a bunch of fast-talking powerpoint bullshit that makes them feel smart.

But I'll gladly go back to a bunch of neckbeards celebrating the wet-fart triumph that is Primer if we can stop at Iron Man II and be done with superheroes forever.





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kleinbl00  ·  1774 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Apt. Worthy of note, however, is that Clerks was shot back whem you had a dollar a second of celluloid ripping through the shutter, audio was on magnetic tape and edits were done with razor blades. It took a lot more effort to make a mediocre film like Clerks than a mediocre film like Primer, which is a FCP extravaganza.

OftenBen  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know I don't think we have ever discussed Clerks but I really would have thought you were a fan of Kevin Smith.

kleinbl00  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Kevin Smith came up with that whole fuckin' thing at 24. As a paean to being a useless 24-year-old burnout it's a great little piece. The problem is nobody remains a 24-year-old burnout forever.

Clerks is a viable first film. Chasing Amy is a reasonably good (if dated and no longer PC) film. The problem with Kevin Smith is he surrounded himself with people who told him he was a genius. M. Night Shamalyan has the same issue - if you think you're brilliant by default you never strive to be better.

OftenBen  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think Smith has come to realize that himself.