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Summary: Expect Cramps from Laughing Hard Throughout
Review: This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Unbelievable that a movie like this can be produced on a tiny budget by today's standards and be as successful as it has been. Because of Chasing Amy and this one, I immediately became a Kevin Smith fan. I didn't like Dogma, though. Anyway, it's life at a convenience store... you'd think it'd be boring, but it's hilarious.
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Summary: Clerks
Review: Here is the first movie created by director Kevin Smith who came on the scene and showed some good potential for making some great films in the future. Unfortunately Clerks was the first and last good movie he has created (with the slight exception of the Clerks Cartoon which was average).
The story is about two young clerks, Dante and Randall, who are stuck in the mundane aspects of their lives and although they are obviously discontent they will not, or cannot escape this "Waiting for Godot" mentality.
The story is amusing the the conversations are (pseudo)inteltually amusing.
My only complaint about Clerks is how Kevin Smith changed the ending. I think the original ending was much better than the one that he finally chose for the theater. It simply was the "perfect" ending to a "perfect" day.
But as Kevin Smith has proven through his later movies, he's not really a man of high ideals.
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Summary: IT's not quite Slapstick, and it's not quite intelligent
Review: This is really one of those movies that you really have to see to believe. Technically it's a cult classic, I am a little more skeptical.
As the title implies this movie is strickly about clerks at a New Jersey convience store and Rental Place. It's about how they spend there day at work on a Saturday. From there we meet ex-girlfriends, perverted old men, gum salesmen, Drug Dealers, and smokers galore.
It is really unusal, for one thing it's in black and white which really added to the tone, it made it better. Also it's funney, but for whatever reason I was not laughing. I could kind of relate to some of these clerks mostly because they deal with ideot customers, I have been there and anyone who has held a job at Fastfood, Convienvce, or rentals knows this as well.
Over all it's a cult hit because it mostly explains the truth, to an extent.
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Summary: This should've been titled "TERDS!"
Review: After seeing the rest of Kevin Smith's masterpieces, I was highly disappointed in this film.Although I found it funny, a number of things turned me off. Number 1 was the fact that the entire film is shot in black and white. I realize the K. Smith was probably trying for an artistic deviation from todays movies but it made the film harder to watch. The lack of color gave me a headache and I was ready to turn it off midway through the flick. It'd be different if the film was shot on the true, old, black and white cameras. These had definition, shades, and hues that can't be replicated.
The cameras used in Clerks remind me of watching a cheap, fuzzy, security surveillance camera. Number 2, except for the opening scenes, the director never takes the viewer outside of the mini-mart. I felt trapped in a convenient store, devoid of colors, for a long 90 minutes! I would've liked to see what was going on outside of the Quickiemart. Number 3, there was no real plot, just a series of events. A day in the life of a clerk at a convenient store. Except for the man who passed away in the bathroom, this leads to a very boring motion picture. This has to be my least favorite of Kevin Smith's films. Even Jay and Silent Bob, and their antics, couldn't save this flick. In my opinion, the director tried way too hard to make his film stand out amongst others. If you're considering buying this movie, and you haven't seen it, I recommend that you rent it first!! It's hard to believe that this ...came from the mind of the director who wrote Dogma, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Jay and SB Strike Back!
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Summary: I'd give it 5 trillion stars if i could.
Review: The best movie ever. I think we wore out our VHS tape - we were so glad to purchase the DVD. The dialog is superb.
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Summary: fun time
Review: I saw this movie a while back in my friend's basement. It was my first exposrue to kevin smith. I had heard lots about the movie so I was expecting something good. I was not disappointed. The plot isn't much but the dialogue and characters make this movie something worth seeing.
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Summary: Good (if vulgar) writing, but with bad timing, weak acting
Review: I don't normally post anonymously, but I really think that "Clerks" was not a very good movie, and I'd like to express my opinion without being savaged by hardcore fans. The film had a number of fun and interesting characters (Jay and Silent Bob were first introduced here), and some very funnily-written scenes, but the timing was way off in most of the dialog. After almost every line in the film, there was a pause, as if to give us time to listen for a moment to the hiss of student film sound equipment and wait for the other actor to deliver his or her line without the least semblance of spontaneity. The bad lighting and grainy visual quality of the film don't do much for me, either. If, like many, you were completely taken up in the content of what was being said, you may have been able to overlook it, but if you look for the pauses, you will see them, then you will begin to predict them before they happen, then you will dread their inevitable appearance. I started noticing them early on, and it was all down hill from there. Timing is vitally important to me in a comedy. I would love to see what this film would be like if Kevin Smith were to remake it today with better equipment, more experienced actors, and a better sense of pace and timing. I see the things that people like in this film, but I just wasn't able to get into the performances, for the reasons I describe above. Fix those problems, and this film would be worth the 5 stars it often gets. As to the "collector's edition" aspect of the DVD, I'd rate this one better than most (and I'm rarely even slightly impressed by special features on DVDs). Kevin Smith gives a lot of good commentary, and the alternate ending was interesting to watch.
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Summary: funny, though definitely vulgar
Review: I had the fortune to see Clerks before I saw any of Kevin Smith's other movies. The grittiness of this little film would indeed have been murkier had I compared it to its glossier decendants. Since it was a sketchy, low-budget-type movie, it would understandably be deemed "unrefined" in light of Smith's big-money movies like Dogma. Being twenty-something, I found a lot of the humor was based on pop-culture I was in tune with (there's a a couple of funny dialogues about the Star Wars trilogy, for example). However, those who are averse to vulgar locker-room language should probably skip this one. There's plenty of talk about sex, porn and drugs. Those who aren't thus offended will find good one-liners and witty exchanges. The acting, I'll admit, was somewhat cheesy.
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Summary: Overrated --Read a Book Instead!
Review: After hearing people talk about how great this low budget film was, I was expecting to see a good comedy about what its like to work in one of those mini marts and the oddballs that drop in at all hours. Instead, I was totally bored and had no trouble keeping myself from even a chuckle. The dialog between the characters was not particularly interesting---just mainly vulgar which bores me to death. My wife left the room after a half hour of it as she felt it was too offensive. I think I turned it off after 45 minutes. Recommendation: Buy a good book instead and don't waste your time or money with this DVD.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After seeing the excellent movie "Dogma", also by Kevin Smith, I was expecting a great movie that was interesting, intellectually stimulating , cynical, and hilarious throughout. In the end, though, I found this movie very boring for the most part. At many points it just seemed like senseless rambling to me, espessially in vulgarity. I wasn't offended, as I don't thing vulgarity is always bad, but I just felt like it brought the movie down somewhat. I would suggest seeing "Dogma," which I think is a masterpeice in many respects, and really shows Kevin Smith's talent thourogly.. Again, in the end, this movie has great scenes that really make you think and show Kevin Smith's intelligence, but many of them just make you laugh by the simple fact that you are supposed to...
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