Posted by PHREAK at backgammon.freeuk.net on April 13, 2001 at 18:13:02:
By Kevins high standards, Mallrats was not good. By normal standards t was an excellent movie, but when somebody can turn out incredible movies like Clerks and Chasing Amy, Mallrats was not good.
I think that this was because it was not as personal as the other two movies. Kevin worked at a convenience store, hence Clerks. He wen through what Holden went through, hence Chasing Amy.
Mallrats really had nothing personal in it except for Kevins love of comics. That was more of an aspect of a character than the theme of a movie.
I think that Kevin had established the dynamic of two male friends and the interference of women in the friendship and was simply trying to make another Clerks but in a different setting and with higher production values.
Dogma abandoned this dynamic and was simply a great story that Kevin thought up.
This is what I think. Kevin makes his best movies when he has something personal to say.
Do you agree?