Posted by miss d at cwilbur.commsrv.indiana.edu on June 14, 2002 at 10:55:09:
In Reply to: Whats*with*the*asterisks*?*n*t*?* posted by The Bastard on June 14, 2002 at 10:52:22:
: : You know, I do kind of have to wonder where some of these people are coming from. There are to many naysayers out there insisting that things are going to suck if Kevin Smith does such-and-such. So I'm pulling up a tiny little soapbox.
: : Kevin Smith's not any sort of deity, but he's a pretty good moviemaker, and I trust his judgement. I mean, for instance -- JLo to me comes off as a bad actress in most, if not all of her flicks. But this *is* a movie called 'Jersey Girl' -- have any of you who are pre-critiquing ever *met* a Jersey girl? To me it seems like a pretty sound choice *g*. Anyway, Kevin Smith makes movies about *people*. JLo is a *person*. Where's the conflict? Maybe she's the *person* he wants to make the movie about. Did it ever occur to you that he might have a *reason* (and one that he's not letting out because it would be a spoiler, at that)?
: : And if I don't end up liking the movie, big deal. I wasn't that fond of Mallrats, either. It's not going to make *my* life suck because I saw a movie I thought sucked, and it's not going to make Kevin Smith's life suck, because one of the droves of people -- or even a percentage -- didn't like one of his films...
: : I mean, I almost hate to say it, since it feels somehow sacreligious, but Kevin Smith's track record on movies is actually higher than George Lucas' on both a bang-for-buck ratio and a 'percentage of movies made that most people think were good'. So, in short, just shut the fuck up and let the man do his job.
: : I mean, in programmming CGIs, I wouldn't want some fucker telling me 'As an uninformed nonprogrammer who's merely seen other programs using the same modules, I think you should not use that Perl Module because I went to another website and they used that module and the site sucked. If I deigned to respond at all, my response would simply be 'so maybe they used the module WRONG.' Probably it would just be 'sod off'.
: : Anyway, if those of you who are abso-fucking-lutely certain that KS's choice of a given actress or actor will make or break the movie, aside form the fact that you obviously don't respect his movie-making and directing ability as much as you claim, I invite you to do better. Go for it. Hell, you can make a movie on youf damned home computer. Troll alt.binaries.multimedia.utilities for a warez copy of Poer and then download my bongsabre props and go to it. You don't even need actors, then. Just some voice-overs. I want to see this.
: : Unless you're, like, Quentin Tarantino or Tim Burton or something, don't tell Kevin Smith how to make movies, and unless you're Lary Wall or Randall Schwartz, don't tell me how to program CGIs, and unless you're Frank Faillace or Hugh Hefner, don't tell me how to make a nudie magazine. Nuff said?
: : Oh, and don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.