Red State (Kevin Smith)

[angrycinephile]

The man made the same movie for 16 years, then makes one generic-looking slasher film and all of a sudden he starts preaching about the importance of reinventing yourself as an artist. Heh.

[number8]

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You know, he met his journalist wife because she interviewed him when he was doing press for a movie.

[MacGuffin]

Okay, now I remember why I hate him.

[Dead & Messed Up]

It's weird that he's bold enough to step outside of the box with Red State and cowardly enough to dismiss any negative criticism.

[Sven]

Personally, I can't get upset with someone for understanding how retarded the film journalism industry is. Doesn't mean I like his movies, but he definitely has a point. And Michael Parks is tremendous -- I'm curious about what Smith is referring to, "his story."

[Dukefrukem]

I laughed a lot during Jay & Silent Bob Strike back.

[Sycophant]

Another note: I hate when people use Twitter to tweet long thoughts/sentences/paragraphs that have to be broken up into separate tweets. Commit to the 140-character limit and don't pollute my feed with a bunch of incomprehensible strings of words that I need to disassemble my brain to make sense of. Just get a blog and give us a link.

[eternity]

You guys...

[Ezee E]

Another note: I hate when people use Twitter to tweet long thoughts/sentences/paragraphs that have to be broken up into separate tweets. Commit to the 140-character limit and don't pollute my feed with a bunch of incomprehensible strings of words that I need to disassemble my brain to make sense of. Just get a blog and give us a link.

I think there's some tweeting thing that will let you post all of it. I don't know. I've given up on twitter myself

[Skitch]

I like that people are complaining about what Smith is posting on his twitter account. Maybe I'm a rube because I don't have an account, but you don't have to see his posts, yes? And if you hate the guy in the first place, why read his stuff at all?

Eh, maybe just me, but I wouldn't follow/friend people I hated. .

[Sycophant]

Mine was just a note about something people on Twitter (beyond Smith, who I don't hate but also don't follow) do that annoys me.

[Skitch]

I understood that in your initial post, sir. My coment wasn't pointed at you or anyone in this thread really, just a wide observation.

[Qrazy]

Twitter sucks.

[Sxottlan]

Remember when Smith posted over at Rotten Tomatoes?

Yikes.

ritch:

[KK2.0]

I laughed a lot during Jay & Silent Bob Strike back.

Funny that you brought this because if i'm not mistaken, there's a scene where Jay and Silent Bob go door to door to beat the crap out of every kid that bashed their movie on the internet.

Remember when Smith posted over at Rotten Tomatoes?

It only took ONE troll for that thread to derail. :lol:

Smith has serious issues with approval, I don't hate the guy but he needs to get over this.

[Grouchy]

Remember when Smith posted over at Rotten Tomatoes?

Yikes.

ritch:

He embarassed himself pretty badly.

[eternity]

Reception about the film itself has been generally positive. Drew McWeeny is pissed off though, which is always nice.

[MacGuffin]

Damn, John Goodman is like twice as small now.

[Sxottlan]

Smith is saying he'll self-distribute Red State.

He also claims he'll quit directing after his next film. So I guess don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Henry Gale]

So it seems like Smith staged an auction for the film and instead got up onstage with and bought it himself for 20 bucks. He spent the rest of the time describing how he's going to roll out the movie himself, starting with an 13-stop American tour of it through March where he'll show the film and then follow with a Q&A with him and Michael Parks (though this will likely cost quite a bit). He then says they expect to make back about half of the movie's $4 million budget with that, but won't spend too much more on conventional advertising for the main, self-release on October 19th.

I think I can wait.

[Ezee E]

Anything more then $20 is silly.

[number8]

Drew McWeeny is pissed off though, which is always nice.

This part of his review cracked me up.

I am sure I'll hear people defend the script, talking about it as "bold" and "original" and how it takes risks and twists and turns. I disagree. I disagree completely. And for once, I am in a position to respond to the most immature reaction to criticism, because if someone says to me, "Well, if you think you can do it better, you should."

Ahem. I think I did. Humbly submitted, I will be happy to tell you every single thing I think is wrong with my "Masters Of Horror" episode "Pro-Life," directed by John Carpenter, and it's not a small list. But I will also tell you that we deal with very similar material, we did it in 2006, we did it for 1/4 of the money Smith spent, we had Ron Perlman who was amazing in the film, and I didn't spend a year of my life bent in half like a carnival freak blowing myself in public in the lead-up to the release of the episode.

[eternity]

This part of his review cracked me up.

I don't know who is more of a blowhard; McWeeny or Smith. It seems to me that after Cop Out was frowned upon and he was kicked off of a plane, Kevin Smith has legitimately gone apeshit, while McWeeny is just...well, an asshole.

But seriously Kevin, get help.

[Watashi]

I can never forgive Drew for naming his son, Toshiro Lucas McWeeny. I mean... what the hell?

[eternity]

I can never forgive Drew for naming his son, Toshiro Lucas McWeeny. I mean... what the hell?

I'm going to do to him what he did to Kevin Smith yesterday and never mention or think about him ever again. Christ.