Really? Childhood nostalgia is EVIL now? Fuuuck.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that his wife was all that mortified. They've been married for 15 years, they do a podcast together, he photographed her for Playboy. (I just got all this from Wikipedia, i'm not that big of a fan.) If they do a podcast together, the've probably developed some kind of shtick. Couldn't it have been part of the act?

I really love what Abrams did with Star Trek, which is a lot closer to my heart than Star Wars. Anybody else, I'd be expecting disaster.

"childhood nostalgia" =/= "jerking off about childhood for nostalgia for a roomful of geeks", or with a roomful of geeks or whatever

but as far as childhood nostalgia itself goes, I don't see how it's an excuse for worshipping caca, and Star Wars is a fairly stupid mythos that has been repeatedly shit on by its own creator for the sake of merchandising and pandering to children

a true storyteller of the sci-fi or fantasy type would not bring the level down to children, but bring children up to the level

2 directors, 1 commemorative cup

Childhood nostalgia is fine but when it turns into 35 to 40 year old men droning on and on about the "mythos" of a fucking movie it needs to stop. There comes a time where you can like something without being a dork about it and that time is adulthood.

Kevin Smith made millions of dollars being a nostalgic child. It's his career, it's what he's good at, cut him some slack!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and express the radical, outsider opinion that the original Star Warsl trilogy 4-6 is a classic.

Joseph Campbell, born 1904, Age 83, 1987

83 year old man talks about the "mythos" of Star Wars, and it becomes a public television classic

http://youtu.be/2F7Wwew8X4Y

Catie Wayne born 1992, age 18, 2010

When Boxxy returned to youtube after being hacked, stalked, threatened, and pursued, she found her courage by assuming the persona of Princess Leia.

http://youtu.be/aTyCJQYrGt0

>>a true storyteller of the sci-fi or fantasy type would not bring the level down to children, but bring children up to the level

Well, sure. He said he didn't really like it. Again, I'm going to take the outsider position and suggest that maybe episodes 1-3 weren't quite up to the level of 4-6. Considering the success and influence of 4-6, saying that episodes 1-3 work okay for children isn't extravagant praise.

Me personally, I'm more of a Trekker.

Oh jesus dude, as far as Hollywood goes, FUCK Joseph Campbell.
I'd like to piss on his grave. "monomyth"

As far as your other rhetorical appeals go, all I can say is: fart.

I don't see how anyone can really watch 4-6 as an adult, and I think that SW has been exploited so many times by its owner/creator that it now smokes crack in a condemned building and no teeth worth keeping.

That's okay. Just let it out. We're all here for you. Would you like a tissue?

HATE STAR WARS

STAR WARS HUNHH! GOOD GOD!
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
(Absolutely) NOTHIN!
Say it again!

That's the spirit!

Aw boy, I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars.

What I love most about Star Wars isn't the movies themselves. I love that it's become such a rich source of metaphor. The death star, the empire, the dark side... these images color our discourse. Without them, we'd all have to talk about baseball a lot more.

Eh, he was joking. Who cares. I'm pretty sure that if his wife was the kind of person who was really upset by that kind of thing she wouldn't be married to this yo-yo.

So did you get to fuck his wife?

No one laughed.

kevin smith is the bottom feeding shitstain of film school and there's always 3 guys like him in every film class. I hate him, his movies, and the people that like his movies.

I'm hoping it really badly sucks so we get another Plinkett review.

Also! This Star Wars film sounds great!!

His story about ten years coming off his life every time he took a step up the Millenium Falcon's ramp was pretty harrowing because he was 7 when he was halfway up, so it sounded like he was going to reach negative figures before he got to the top.

The only people who love his films are nerds and New Jerseyans. Clerks was good, Mall Rats was aight, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was just a giant jerkoff to all his prior okay films.

I was fortunate enough to see "Chasing Amy" first; I liked it. Yeah, the lead guys were kind of broken, but that was the point; romance wouldn't lead to drama (on the screen or in real life) if people were generally good at handling it.

Then I saw "Clerks" and it was largely a retread of the same themes, only it didn't deal with them nearly as well. Kevin Smith's troubles coping with women are worthy of a single movie, just one.

The "Clerks" cartoon is pretty awesome.

I'm not a big fan of most of his films, but DOGMA was the shit.

I hate his films but Red State is good.

I've spent huge portions of my life in New Jersey and nothing about his films in any way encapsulates anything about New Jersey other than the general setting. I've never understood this weird connection there because the films could literally be set almost anywhere, yet people seem to think they have some inherent quality of "New Jersey-ness" because "hey, that one place is in a state I live in."

I don't like any of his films but the Clerks cartoon is ok. It's dumb but its heart is in the right place. Actually, that sums up my feelings on Kevin Smith in general.