I'm an actor/comedian who was obsessed with the movies from the moment I saw Lindsay Lohan play twin girls on screen. I formed a strong connection to so many VHS tapes from my childhood that today, for you, I'm rewatching some of my favorites and incorporating some new classics into the mix. Come for quirky reviews, film commentary and criticism but stay for my shiny personality and Taylor Swift references. :)
I prefer Clerks 2 over this. I think this movie betrays what was set up for Dante at the beginning. He was told to move on and live his life, but then he just dies. It’s terrible writing on Smith’s part.
It’s all the Impractical Jokers. Brian Quinn from Impractical Jokers worked for Kevin Smith years before Impractical Jokers was a thing. He’s also the third member of the podcast Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave, which includes both Walt Flanagan (the inspiration for Brodie in Mallrats/plays the Egg guy) and Bryan Johnson (the inspiration for Randal in the Clerks movies/the guy with the beard playing hockey in this movie). Both Bryan and Walt appear in Mallrats, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back as Steve-Dave and Walt.
My favorite is "The Big Fat Kill" because the good guys not only win but live and those trying to use abusive power from Jackie Boy to the Police Chief get their comeuppance. I also appreciate the balance with the nominal hero, Dwight, working both closely and well with "the girls", Miho being a pint-sized killing machine and saving Dwight twice.
This movie had no business being as emotionally impactful as it was. An absolute masterwork in my opinion. And an amazing way to close off the saga of Randall and Dante. <3
The impractical Jokers are friends of smiths friends who run the Secret Stash store in Red Bank. BQQuinn worked at view askew in the 90s and was also FDNY but was friends with Sal. He also ran the board for the first couple of episodes of TellEm Steve Dave podcast, with Walt Flanagan and Brian Johnson, smiths childhood friends and main guys in Comic Book Men TV series.........
I actually remember watching this in the theaters when it first came out. The moment when Darth Vader picked up the Emperor and tossed him over, the entire audience stood up clapping and cheering.
I saw this as kid when it started showing airing on cable, lol. Watched it in full unedited later on but i love this film on showing the behind the scenes of a casino to the drama and humor. Goodfellas is a perfect movie but i just hate the main characters, nothing about them was redeemable or likable. Loved Pauly and then the main character rats him out after already going behind his back. It just didn't show anything different just mobsters doing crime and backstabbing each other. To me Goodfellas doesn't have any replay value while casino does with the humor with Nicky. From throwing the cards back at the dealer making bets who can hit the feds plane or that every sex scene he has is just him getting a blowjob he can't be bothered to do any work. Only flaw is some scenes are long but i always have patience for movies.
Someone with more knowledge than me may have commented about Jimmy Stewart’s accent already. It’s interesting, because I have spent much of my life in Western Pennsylvania, not all that far from Indiana, PA where Jimmy Stewart was from. Nevertheless, his accent does not at all sound familiar to me as something I would be likely to hear in this region today. I think it has to do with how accents have changed in Western PA over time. The accent which is now known as a “Western PA accent” was, in the past, much more restricted geographically to closer to Pittsburgh, and more restricted to the working class. But this accent has expanded over the past several decades to cover most people in the western half of Pennsylvania nowadays. I don’t know that you would find many people here with speech like Jimmy Stewart’s today. As far as I can tell, the people in that area in his time probably spoke something that was more like A). A “Midlands” accent, which today is associated mostly with a region extending through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, and/or B). An “Inland South” accent, i.e., something more like West Virginia or Kentucky. In other words, an accent with shared characteristics with both Northern and Southern accents. I think you can hear that in the more Southern-sounding way he will sometimes exhibit a little bit of vowel-breaking in words like cash (“cay-yash”). And also in more Northern-sounding “like” and “my” with clear glides (“mai”), rather than the monophthongized “mah” which might hear traveling not even very much deeper into the South. So if I had to label his accent, I would probably call it “Midlands.” Also, I could tell you were either from New York, or somewhere a little further down the Atlantic coastline region by your confusion about “Merry/Mary” :). Jimmy Stewart, like most of us any farther west, have long ago merged words like “merry,” “Mary,” and “marry,” so that they also sound identical. But he definitely is not speaking with the “Trans-Atlantic” accent. That sounds very different; it would display noticeable influences from (a very conservative version of) RP English, which I do not hear. And it would have been very inappropriate for his character. There are some characters, who, like you noticed in Mary’s mother, who flap their “r”s, (which Jimmy Stewart does not). I’m honestly not sure what kind of accent she has. But that’s not Trans-Atlantic. (Trans-Atlantic was designed with mixed characteristics of General American English and (a conservative version of) RP English. And most American accents, as you obviously know, never flap their “r”s, and RP is non-rhotic, also with approximate, (not flapped), “r”s). Maybe she has some kind of New England accent? I’m not sure.
The only problem I have with this movie is he destroyed her business and with that the memory of her mother (in someways obviously she won't forget her mother) of course knowing what we know now it would have died anyway independent bookstores are few and far between these days. And his store likely would have failed too. It's hard to imagine someone going eh okay let's be together with all that but otherwise I think it's a perfect rom com. But I also grew up with it.
Hey Shanelle, you seem to have the same amount of love for Kev as I do. I just hope you know there is a MOUNTAIN of podcast that go WAY BACK with Kev in it. I hope you check into it. He still does Hollywood Babble-on, Fatman Beyond and the newest one with his daughter " Beardless Dickless me"
Ben Affleck in this movie was a bigger deal than some may know. The 2 weren't friends for a very long time but they eventually made up. If anybody is wondering how I may know that it's because I have always been obsessed with Kevin Smith podcast and he tells everyone everything
Sarah Michelle Gellar("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Melissa Benoist("Glee" and "Supergirl"), and Ralph Garman(Kevin Smith's "Hollywood Babble On" co-host) had cameos during the audition scene.
Kevin Smith almost died from a heart attack before this movie. The Clerks movies reflect where Smith was at. For this one he was contemplating his morality and legacy as a director. Elias and Transformers in Clerks 2. The surgery is a stint insertion. A small nick is made in the artery in the arm or leg and insert stint on like a wire that is threaded through the circulatory tot the blockage. The heart is not directly involved nor any organ. The incision is minimal and no blood loss. Only a local anesthetic is used for the incision. There is no reason to risk unconsciousness. He would be given an anti-anxiety drug. And an IV because that is used to increase blood pressure in case of shock.
3:40 Funny you should say that Shanelle because Civil War is the last MCU film to use that Marvel Studios logo card. 10:35 Yeah like that time the Avengers recklessly saved the world from an Alien invasion in New York and stopped the World Security Council (hmm, very similar sounding the to UN security council) from nuking NYC. #TeamCap 28:40 No, this isn't Age of Ultron. 33:57 That was literally Cap's objective the entire time. He never wanted to fight, he wanted to get to the jet so they could get to Siberia. 40:11 He knew Hydra killed Tony's parents, and so did you, because it was told in CA The Winter Soldier. He didn't know that it was Bucky who did it. 52:00 You literally just spoiled Thor Ragnarok for yourself.
I can imagine her reaction itself will be “gimmicky” to people watching this video in the future, ironically, in how it will speak of HER time/era with so heavily her emphasis on social politics in movies, and with such a pretentious flare as if acting on some moral authority over other eras before her -hilariously marking or time-stamping her current age and her generation no doubt. An unfortunate, sad, one-string banjo regurgitation of one’s current day college professors influences is obvious, and quite boring. It’s well known that ‘progressive’ is also the same word used to describe a cancer or disease as it spreads throughout a body. Maybe ALL the generations through the ages have it right in that world needs more tough “good” men who win a lot, and the damsels who can admire them ? - without some college-brainwashed movement diminishing it all - whether we’re talking about in life, or continued to be represented in movies. The alternative: Aspiring to imperfection, flawed with every story? …and that’s good in what way? That’s what dramas are for. And we still have our awesome Laura Croft movies, so let it alone with so many of the unnecessary woke-topics, clashing of the sexes critique, subtle or otherwise… e.g. going on about such things as how her dress might or might not be justified, etc. woke bs ..Yawn. It’s in the 1930s!! The need to bring it up is all telling of the bs I’m pointing out As for the other behind-the-scenes trivia… awesome, fun! Peace said, out.
@Shanelle Riccio : Now you should watch 'Awakenings', with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro. It has a similar vibe to it, but in a very different setting. If you haven't watched it before, and it's already here on the channel, of course.
