Posted by Bilgefire at spider-wc023.proxy.aol.com on September 05, 2001 at 23:52:17:
Kevin,
I'm sure you get a zillion and nine e-mails a day, and you probably won't get this, it will be one of your lackeys (no offense) who reads these and assumes what your response will be, but i have a few questions for you. First off, let me write the sincere sterotype. i have been down with view askew since i first saw "Clerks" when i was in high school. i own all of your movies incuding the "Clerks" animated series. in spite of that, i just went and saw "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" for the first time last night. i know, it's been a week since it came out, but it was close to payday and that "Dogma" special edition wasn't cheap.
i'd like to begin my saying i was seriosly disappointed. First off, Why wasn't Alan Rickman in this movie? i know he was a minor character in "Dogma", but so was "Trish the dish" in "Mallrats", and Alan Rickman had 10 times the charisma of Trish.
second, and the most disappointing character in the movie was Brodie. He MADE all of the movies he was in (Dogma included). Jason Lee is THE MAN. in your newest release he was a minor cliche of his former self (the chocolate covered pretzel line was just plain sad). as Bankey, he was a pushover who bent at the very whim of jay and silent bob, and was a major sell out to boot.
Third, where was the wisdom dispensed by silent bob? okay, i understand that he tells jay where to go to find suzanne (which had a great song to it in "Mallrats", might i add, because i love Weezer"), and he explains to Bankey about the legal stipulations of their contractual agreement, but i was expecting something phenomenal that would change the whole direction of the movie, as did his advice to Dante in "Clerks" and his ancdote of Chasing Amy. but he gave no earth shattering advice as i expected him to. silent bob was just pretty much silent in this movie, which is unlike any of your other films.
That is all i really have to bitch about. i still reall yliked the movie, because it was funny, but i was disappointed in the referneces to other movies, which is what i expected from a filmmaker such as yourself. i also heard through the grapevine that this was going to be your last movie. i sincerely hope not because intelligent movies are harder to find now days than walt flannagens dog. please respond to this, i would like to hear what you have to say as the filmmaker.
geoff