Kevin Smith:The Greatest Director Of All Time

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20 Dec 2005, 2:13 pm

Kevin Smith has made my top 2 fav films

Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back

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22 Dec 2005, 9:06 am

come on people
you dont remeber thoes classics

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22 Dec 2005, 9:45 am

Yeah, his films are really funny. Especially for comic book and sci fi fans!

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29 Dec 2005, 5:34 pm

All those films are decent at the most. Although Jay and Silent Bob was really funny! :lol:

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29 Dec 2005, 11:52 pm

Kevin Smith barely deserves the title of "director." All he does is plant the camera and let his characters talk.

That's okay, however, because he is a brilliant writer, especially of dialogue. He and Quentin Tarantino were largely responsible for a paradigm shift in movie writing and characterization in the mid-to-late 1990s.

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29 Dec 2005, 11:57 pm

toddjh wrote:

That's okay, however, because he is a brilliant writer, especially of dialogue. He and Quentin Tarantino were largely responsible for a paradigm shift in movie writing and characterization in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Jeremy

Now Tarantino is someone I could nominate as Best Movie Director

(of the Decade, because I don't believe in there being any such greatest director of all time. But if there was it'd probably be Kubrick or Scorsese or Spielberg or somewhere along those lines.)

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30 Dec 2005, 4:08 am

toddjh wrote:

And in the process inspired thousands of imitators :wink:

Okay... I've got an idea for a movie... It's like Clerks meets Pulp Fiction...

I agree though he's a good writer, though I am quite dissapointed that Fletch Won seemed to have just vanished to thin air yet we get given Jersey Girl???

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30 Dec 2005, 4:36 pm

dogma was a trip! I loved it. Even if the language was a bit harsh, the message was valid.

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30 Dec 2005, 8:14 pm

A list of directors who are better than Kevin Smith:

Peter Jackson
Stepehn Speilberg
Martin Scorcese
Stanley Kubrick
Orson Welles
Sam Raimi
Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino
Paul Verhoeven
James Cameron
Ingmar Bergman
Roman Polanski
John Boorman
Luc Besson
Sophia Coppula
Woody Allen
Alfred Hitchcock
George Romero
Terry Gilliam
Tim Burton
Ridely Scott
George Miller
Kathryn Bigelow
David Fincher
Spike Jonze
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Robert Rodriguez
Christopher Nolan
Sam Mendes
Hayao Miyazaki

Anyone care to add?

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30 Dec 2005, 8:23 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
you asked for it no derector is better than the great kevin smith
he made clerks
i repeat
clerks
now the beasts will finish you off :twisted:
sick em boys

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30 Dec 2005, 8:26 pm

Thagomizer wrote:

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Weir

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30 Dec 2005, 8:27 pm

you too

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05 Jan 2006, 10:47 am

Kevin Smith's films are classics.

I thought the one about the lesbian wasn't too great - but was a good film nevertheless.

Chasing Amy I think it was called - still well worth watching.

Can't wait for clerks 2 to hit the cinemas

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11 Jan 2006, 7:09 pm

I had three teenagers in the house in the Jay and Silent Bob years ... so Im a big fan. :lol:

Jersey Girl doesn't fit the mold, but I enjoyed it. Looking forward to Clerks 2.

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17 Jan 2006, 3:31 am

I just saw some preview stuff for Passion of the Clerks, it looks pretty much like the original, which means it should rock.

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