# Clerks III **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 6, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523 "2022-07-06T20:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/1 "2022-07-06T20:17:56Z")
That’s right, [Clerks 3](https://youtu.be/0_lFOqQDRx0). I haven’t thought about Clerks in a long time, but who knows, this might be fun. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/2 "2022-07-06T20:25:03Z")
As far as I am concerned, Dante got his ass blown away at the end of the first film. Life is a series of bad endings. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/3 "2022-07-06T20:37:21Z")
I’ll see it. I’m sure it will be fun. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/4 "2022-07-06T21:19:45Z")
I’ll watch it, this one should be fairly meta. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/5 "2022-07-06T21:57:10Z")
Which is kinda disappointing to me. I can’t find it now (and my kingdom for anyone who does), but I remember a little video they put out for Clerks II. It was basically Dante and Randall sitting in a car, with Randall complaining about how comedy sequels are just an excuse to do a bunch of callback jokes. (If I remember correctly he jumps out of the car after Dante makes a “I’m not even supposed to be here today” joke). Clerks II specifically avoided the meta humor. I think the only callback to Clerks was in the very last scene when they were back at the Quick Stop. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/6 "2022-07-06T22:25:00Z")
Im so waiting for Ted 3. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/7 "2022-07-07T02:34:12Z")
Trailer is pretty good so I could see this working; I was a 20 something ne’er do well myself in 1994 when “Clerks” came out & it was a HUGE film phenomena @ that time; Nirvana’s “In Utero” album had come out the year before, Pearl Jam & Soundgarden were also sonic high\*points, there was an energy coursing through media culture all over the place. That said, “Clerks II” coming out 12yrs. later could be seen as milking an old bit BUT it was goddam funny & one could see & hear that Kevin Smith had matured a bit as a writer/director; also I’d highly (pun intended!) recommend his “Jay & Silent Bob Re-boot” of 2019 for more well written & funny af examples of Smith’s renaissance. So, even though, Randall & Dante look as mid-lifed in the “Clerks 3” trailer as I do, another day in the QuickStop IS a fun premise & I’m totally going to check it out! 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/8 "2022-07-07T02:41:11Z")
Clerks 2 was pretty good, to be honest. I only saw it the once, but this might get me to queue up the first two and watch this one. I support Kevin Smith more or less going away except for making a Clerks movie every 15 or so years. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/9 "2022-07-07T03:44:27Z")
I really liked Clerks II. I thought it was the rare sequel that grew from the original and was able to stand on its own. But I’ve lost faith in Smith. He made those bad horror movies. And Reboot showed that the problem wasn’t just the horror genre. Smith seems to have lost his touch. I’m hoping Clerks III will be great. I’ll settle for it being good. But I’m not counting on either. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/10 "2022-07-07T11:13:18Z")
I _love_ Clerks I, and have probably seen it a hundred times. I love everything about it… the script, the B&W photography, the shoestring budget. I had high expectations for Clerks II, but it just didn’t do anything for me. Seemed contrived, and didn’t have the zero-budget feel of the first. Since then, I have watched a number of Kevin Smith’s movies, and have been really disappointed. Red State is one of the worse films I’ve ever seen. So he’s sort of a one-trick-pony to me. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/11 "2022-07-07T11:27:44Z")
I remember loving Kevin Smith’s early movies the first time I saw them (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy), but liking them all much less on the second viewing. With Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II, I skipped the “loving” stage and went straight to the “liking it much less” stage. I think my tastes have just changed, combined with the fact that his movies are more like a filmed stand-up comedy routine rather than normal films with interesting plots and characters. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/12 "2022-07-07T14:31:30Z")
Looking forward to this, but dreading seeing how old these actors who are pretty much my exact age will look. (Except Jason Mewes, who apparently has been preserved by heroin) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/13 "2022-07-07T19:42:31Z")
Dante: “A sequel? What am I, a hack?” Meta indeed. Should be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/14 "2022-07-07T23:24:41Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Looking forward to this, but dreading seeing how old these actors who are pretty much my exact age will look. Skinny Kevin Smith just looks weird. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/15 "2022-07-09T04:35:29Z")
Kevin Smith is hosting a screening in Seattle in September with a live spoken word show and Q&A afterward, and I picked up a ticket today for just under $50. I saw him and Jason Mewes do the same thing when they were touring with the Super Groovy Cartoon Movie and he had some interesting stories to tell about living in Federal Way for a few years as a young adult, so I look forward to what he’s gonna have to say this time. If i get a chance to ask him a question, I think it’ll be which is better - the Star Wars prequel trilogy or the sequel trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/16 "2022-07-09T15:30:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If i get a chance to ask him a question, I think it’ll be which is better - the Star Wars prequel trilogy or the sequel trilogy. I hope you get to ask. I bet he will answer that overall, the prequel trilogy is better, but that Force Awakens is the best of all 6 movies in those two trilogies. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/17 "2022-07-09T17:48:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If i get a chance to ask him a question, I think it’ll be which is better - the Star Wars prequel trilogy or the sequel trilogy. Not “What’s a Nubian?” (I’m sure he never gets asked that question.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerks-iii/967523/18 "2022-09-27T05:55:15Z")
Got to see the movie tonight and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very bittersweet conclusion to the story of Dante and Randall. Make sure you stay for the credits - Kevin Smith gives a monologue at the very end that wraps things up nicely.