![]() ![]() As he was rushed to hospital having suffered a massive heart attack while speaking on stage in 2018, one of the things that kept him calm was knowing he’d achieved more than he would ever have imagined possible growing up in New Jersey. If Clerks represented a brief moment of acclaim, with Smith heralded as a contemporary of Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino, it’s been all downhill ever since.Īnd yet, even with Clerks III set to deliver another ding to his reputation, nobody would describe Smith as a failure. He discovered that Smith knew nothing about lenses (Willis next threatened to punch Smith). Willis notoriously lost his cool with Smith on the set of Cop Out when he advised the director to use a specific camera lens for a close-up. He’s also been accused of misogyny over 1997’s Chasing Amy, in which Ben Affleck flips out over his girlfriend’s complicated romantic history (the film suggests he is justified in doing so). His 2016 comedy Yoga Hosers – starring Johnny Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose – was described by movie review site Rotten Tomatoes as “undisciplined, unfunny, and bereft of evident purpose”. If Clerks – a lo-fi, black and white chronicling of a day in the life of two slackers working at a convenience store – was instantly acclaimed, the rest of his career has been one big thumbs down.Ĭop Out, the 2010 action-comedy he made with Bruce Willis, was lamented by Time Out as “oozing desperation from every frame”. “A closed loop only for die-hards,” echoed the Los Angeles Times. “For diehards only,” said the Washington Post of the movie, which is released Friday, September 16. Clerks III, which follows the 1994 original and Clerks II from 2006, has suffered a critical trouncing. ![]() Silent Bob – Smith’s onscreen alias with the regulation backwards baseball cap – rides again. Having reinvented himself as podcaster, raconteur and bête noire of Harvey Weinstein director Kevin Smith has now gone back to where it all started with a new Clerks movie – the imaginatively titled Clerks III. ![]() Silent Bob has received one of the year’s loudest raspberries. ![]()
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