Kevin Smith takes it to Joel Siegel

[Dr.Jeckyl]

Apparently Joel Siegel walked out on Clerks 2 and made a scene while doing it. here is a 19+ minute clip of Kevin on the Opie and Anthony show. this is one of the best sound clips i have heard.



PS: i am a huge Kevin Smith fan.

[MindlessOath]

i love to say shit about how crappy a trailer looks in the movies, and out loud, but when the movie is rolling, its all about shut the hell up.

"ring ring, hello", hey you with the phone, SHUT THE F UP!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zazoo]

Clerks is one of my favorite movies. Chasing Amy and Dogma were also pretty good. But after Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back I felt embarassed for Smith. What a disappointing mess. I don't mind crude and stupid humor, but it has to be funny and relevant. J&SBSB was just a case of "hey lets see how offensive we can be and still get an R rating!" Smith even mentions this in the commentary to the deleted scenes on J&SBSB -- a number of the deleted scenes were cut just so that they could push by the MPAA with an R instead of an NC-17. He talks about how it was a process of feeling out the MPAA to see what they could get away with and what they couldn't.

Unfortunately, from the few previews and reviews I've seen of Clerks 2 it looks like more of the same. I'm not willing to part with 10$ to find out.

As for the incident... Either Kevin Smith is a big self-important prick and a drama queen, or he's using this minor incident to drum up interest in the movie. Probably the latter given what I know about Smith.
While I agree with Smith that a paid critic making a scene at a movie screeening is a bit unprofessional, it's really not that big a deal.

Just my 2 cents,
~Mike