# Life imitates art: Kevin Smith argues with internet messageboard over Clerks 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114 "2006-07-26T17:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/21 "2006-07-27T00:01:47Z")
I clicked on the link in the OP and that took me to a login screen. I’ve been a member of the RT forums for years but have posted only a handful of times. Took me a while to remember my info, but I got logged in, and was then taken to RT’s front page. I enter the forums and now I’m lost, there are so many different sections and so many different threads. Where was this discussion with Smith and what was the Subject Line? I love Kevin Smith, but I also love Magnolia. It’s too bad he didn’t like it. ---
**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 27, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/22 "2006-07-27T01:47:08Z")
[QUOTE=Jayrot] …snip… I’d say that Jay and Silent Bob would go hunt him down if it weren’t for the fact that he IS Silent Bob. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the great link, a funny read. I think Kevin handled it well. Kevin really is not Silent Bob, according to the Clerks Commentary on the DVD; Kevin was more Randall back when. He has obviously evolved since then even though Randall has not. Silent Bob was to be played by a friend of Kevin’s that failed to show up at the filming and so Kevin took on the role instead. Apparently Kevin had a stoner friend that was going to play a caricature of himself. (Yes, just like Jay. Scary thought, apparently Kevin’s other friend was a bigger fuck-up that Jason Mewes) I think Kevin said he took on the role as he decided he might well never make another movie and he might as well have one acting role to look back on when he was still working at the Quick Mart in 20 years. (Not a quote, paraphrasing from memory) I do not know if anyone else cared about all that, I just thought I would clarify a common misapprehension I have seen and heard often. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/23 "2006-07-27T02:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] [Scott Foundas](http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/dear-kevin/14022/) of the _LA Weekly_ was asked to leave a _C2_ screening because of a past negative review of a Smith film. And [here’s more](http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0607160015jul16,0,6135852.story?coll=mmx-movies_heds) about how sensitive can get to some critics’ comments. [/QUOTE] I suppose it’s inevitable that if Smith’s movies are uninteresting, the writing about them is going to be, well, uninteresting-er. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/24 "2006-07-27T02:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] I clicked on the link in the OP and that took me to a login screen. I’ve been a member of the RT forums for years but have posted only a handful of times. Took me a while to remember my info, but I got logged in, and was then taken to RT’s front page. I enter the forums and now I’m lost, there are so many different sections and so many different threads. Where was this discussion with Smith and what was the Subject Line? [/QUOTE] It seems that with all the traffic from that thread “going public” they’re requiring logins to even view the boards for the time being. Unless they’ve moved it somewhere else, it appears to be thread 497797 based on my link. You should be able to get to the thread that way if you feel like logging in. Otherwise, it sounds like they’ll open it back up to everyone once things cool down. Here’s the url again. It seems that they parse their url’s similar to the SDMB with regard to thread numbers. [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=497797](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=497797) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/25 "2006-08-02T01:26:11Z")
\*\*Last minute change in the NetFlix rolling Roadshow for Clerks with Kevin Smith Q&A. \*\* It has been moved to Marine Park in Red Bank. This is a copy of the Email from Netflix: > [@](#): > > Dear James, > > We thought you’d like to know that The Netflix Rolling Roadshow is coming to the New Jersey area. Netflix will be presenting a free outdoor screening of the classic Clerks near The Quick Stop, a location the movie helped make famous. > > Date: Tuesday, August 8 > Time: 8:30 PM > Address: Red Bank Marine Park > 1 Marine Park (At Wharf Avenue and Front Street) > Red Bank, NJ > > Arrive early for a Q&A Session with Director Kevin Smith, who has promised to bring some of the behind-the-scenes DVD extras from the upcoming release of Clerks 2. The Q&A starts at 7PM. > > For more details please visit: [Netflix](http://www.netflix.com/Roadshow) > > Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. > > Enjoy the movie, > > Your Friends at Netflix Please let me know if anyone is going to be there. Enjoy, Jim ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114/26 "2006-08-02T10:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Fuck Jay and Silent Bob. Fuck them up their stupid asses. [/QUOTE] Yeah, someone needs to beat the s\*\*\* out of them; then make them eat that s\*\*\*; THEN make them eat the s\*\*\* that’s made out of their s\*\*\*… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-kevin-smith-argues-with-internet-messageboard-over-clerks-2/366114.md?page=1)