Clerks 3??....NOOOOoooooo!!!!!

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

Considering I think that CLERKS is STILL a great movie....and that Clerks 2 was shit (apart from a few bits)...i ithink this is a move of desperation from Smith...

We really shouldn't be surprised by today's announcement from Kevin Smith that he'll be doing one more CLERKS film. I was discussing Smith's claims of pending retirement with someone earlier this week, and, based on his idea of revisiting the characters of Dante and Randal for CLERKS II at a point when he had something to say about life in his 30s, it didn't seem out of the realm of possibility to me that he might do something similar as he got deeper into his 40s.

Although it would be nice to se The two main leads back together again....I don't want a glossy. cameo filled extended music video...Go back to low-fi Black and white like the original...

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I actually liked Clerks 2 more than the first film.

[Apronikoff Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Apronikoff]

Ugh. I fucking hate Kevin Smith to a degree that very, very few in pop culture match.

I really liked Clerks back in the day. But between the shitty sequel, the constant return to Jay and Silent Bob movies, the absolute abominations he's put out into the comic book world and his constant smug self-aggrandizement -- the dude can, to quote Louis CK, eat a bag of dicks.

So of course he's doing Clerks 3. He'll keep doing them as long as there is a dwindling fan-base to syphon money from.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

As an aside; I thought he quit directing?

[Horace Cordier Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Horace Cordier]

As an aside; I thought he quit directing?

He keeps threatening this, I keep getting excited, and then it doesn't happen.

Bummer!

[Toyboy like a hole in the head Find all posts View Profile Close Toyboy]

As an aside; I thought he quit directing?

That's what he said earlier in the year. I guess he wanted to focus on shitty reality shows and podcasts.

The best part of CLERKS 2 was Rosario Dawson getting her toes painted. Other than that...

[Barry M Super Fiend Find all posts View Profile Close Barry M]

The best part of CLERKS 2 was Rosario Dawson...

Yes.

I will still watch CLERK3. I have low expectations, but my requirements are even lower.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I liked Clerks. Haven't liked much else Smith has done, outside of Red State.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

I liked Clerks. Haven't liked much else Smith has done, outside of Red State.

Exactly......

Love the characters (as they were created in the first movie) but he has squeezed them dry (esp Jay and Silent Bob) to the point when they re not as "fresh" as they once were....

RED STATE was "interesting"......but not the great horror flick he was telling people it was.....

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

MALLRATS is the one that has stood the test of time best, I think. Interesting, I didn't much like it when it came out. Loved CLERKS, but now i find it to be mediocre. CLERKS 2 was such a piece of garbage....that Jackson 5 dance sequence irritates the shit out of me just thinking about it.