SPOILER** Clerks II ** SPOILER

[MechaBlade]

Loved all the ATM scenes - we've been talking about that here lately...I laughed so hard....tres fun

I wish I audiotaped that part. I can't remember the lines, but I know they were funny as hell.

 

[montrealgirl]

Those aren't fans - MagnoliaFan and Wampa1 are, as he said, sad pathetic little bastards.

I will say though - that this is surprisingly the most cinematic of Smith's films - surprising because it takes place essentially in one location. But most interesting is that for all intents and purposes - this is the exact same movie as Clerks 1 - the structure of the script - the emotional questions - the tone and feeling of the entire thing are almost exactly identical - However - instead of a funeral it's go-karts, instead of hockey it's dancing, instead of merely deciding who to love, it's about deciding HOW to love.

The two films together represent an fascinating examination of what happens when you ask the exact same questions - but separate them by 12 years - How are we different from those people we were back then - why is it that we are still asking ourselves the same questions - still living the same lives we were. I've gotten older - I make more money, from all superficial view-points my entire life has changed - but like Dante and Randal I still ask the same questions - I'm still living the same movie - and what Smith did brilliantly here is take that theme to its logical extension.

He made the same movie - but this movie is removed by time and experience. The real question is how those who looked at Clerks back then, and thought that it was speaking to them will feel when they look at Clerks 2 and have to admit that they are still being spoken to - only this time - unlike Clerks 1, which allowed its audience to accept that there are no easy answers - Clreks 2 allows for no such ducking and weaving - this sequel challenges in the simplest of terms by demanding resolution. And I don't know if a great deal of former and current slackers are comfortable with that.

Loved this post. Thanks.

 

[Diablo_Canadien]

What was the shirt Elias was wearing at the end of the movie? Robochrist or something like that...?

 

[Krusos]

RoboChrist! lol I looked for it online but they don't have it at the Stash.

And I'm the same age as Randal in the movie and I totally indentified with Clerks back then and I totally identified with this one too. Kevin did a great job. I feel like those people are my friends, and I hadn't seen them in awhile. It was awesome. I almost shed a tear when Randal professed his hetero love for Dante. Great stuff.

Can't wait for the Clerks the Cartoon movies, because I want more from those characters. I can't get enough.

 

[Krusos]

I wish I audiotaped that part. I can't remember the lines, but I know they were funny as hell.

"Seventeen year olds nowadays are crazy. They even like it when you go ass to mouth."

"You never go ass to mouth, Randal."

"You sound like my mom."


there was much more, but that was the best part.

 

[tymeblind]

so if you've seen it, let's talk about it here

would you fuck me? I would fuck me; hard.....

 

[stonedfox]

would you fuck me? I would fuck me; hard.....

Oooh!

 

[tymeblind]

Oooh!

funny scene, simple as that

 

[stonedfox]

It was. The chapstick or whatever he pulled out of his pocket made it perfect.