Actually, they clicked for almost three decades. From the '50s into the late '70s. Granted that most in the '70s (and into the early 80s if I remember correctly) didn’t have to, but market research indicated that often people were uncomfortable with a remote control that didn’t go “click”. A good, reletively recent example of an old fashioned “clicker” was in the movie Pleasantville - big, bulky and noisy.
Actually there were remote controlled television before the 50s (and the remotes had very loud “clicks” too) but the numbers of televisions were extremely low and the numbers of remotes were even lower.
I should point out here that whiteboy is not ranting at anyone here, but is just quoting from the movie. I’ve already gotten a few e-mails on this, so in this thread please note when you’re quoting from “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” as there is bound to be some confusion here.
I generally like KS films but this one was terrible. The ONLY funny thing in the whole film in my opinion was the fart that set off the alarm. I didn’t expect that and I’ll admit, I laughed out loud. Outside of that, I felt ripped.
Something must be wrong, because I read very few comics, like star wars about as much as the next guy, so the only thing that applies is that I’ve seen all the “Jersey” films.
I liked the movie enough to buy it. More than anything else, I think it all hinges on your sense of humor. I think that the kind of comedy in it is the kind that I notice a lot of people don’t respond to, despite the fact it’s funny when done well. And in JSBSB it was done well for the most part.
Maybe the reason even people who liked his earlier films and hated this is because there isn’t any psuedo-intellelectual film school fluff in it. You can’t point to it and say, “I like this kind of comedy, which makes me smarter than YOU.”
“Death to Smoochie” is a fucking hilarious dark comedy. It is worth buying, IMO.
I watched “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” for what it was: A sendoff and a sendup, a final indulgence and a final `thank you and farewell.’ I liked it, but “Clerks” is still the better film.
(“Clerks” is also my favorite Kevin Smith film: It established the dominant mold of the repressed nerd (who isn’t the type to disrupt things just so he can shit in comfort) and the aggressively weird sidekick (who thinks it’s fun to rip into a random customer), which would repeat in the rest of his buddy films (except the last, of course), and it was a genuinely 90s film produced by a movie nerd for other nerds.)
The only good thing I can say is that at least it didn’t have the potential to be a great film, like Dogma did, and still ended up sucking. This one just stunk from the first scene.
Hmmm…how old are you skateboarder87? Clickers at one time actually clicked. They had one big button in the middle that changed the channel…with a very loud CLICK!
And I thought the movie was damn funny. Laughed through the whole thing.
And the quote was about anonomous internet folks who flame everything from behind the safety of the keyboards. Jay and Silent Bob find out about the Internet and see criticism of the fake movie being made I believe when they start the rant, part of which was replicated. So in a way, its use was faithful to the movie and was accurately meant to used to lampoon the would be CBG’s of the world.
That said, probably not the best idea in the world to use that quote in ALL CAPS.
Maybe the issue of:
Banky: That’s what the Internet is for, slandering others anonymously.
or
Holden: A Jay and Silent Bob movie? Feature length? Who’d pay to see that?
[Holden, Jay, and Bob look into the camera]
or
Banky: You know what? I feel for you boys, I really do, but Miramax - you know, Miramax Films - paid me a sh##load of money for Bluntman and Chronic. So it occurs to me that people badmouthing you on some website is none of my f###ing concern.
Silent Bob: Oh, but I think it is… We had a deal with you, on the comics remember, for likeness rights, and as we’re not only the artistic basis, but also obviously the character basis, for your intellectual property, Bluntman and Chronic. When said property was optioned by Miramax Films, you were legally obliged to secure our permission to transfer the concept to another medium. As you failed to do that, Banky, you are in breach of the original contract, ergo you find yourself in a very actionable position.
Jay: Yeah.
or
Tricia Jones: Why didn’t he option that comic about your “relationship?”
Alyssa Jones: Oh, “Chasing Amy?” That would never work as a movie.
[On “Bluntman and Chronic: The Movie”]
Alyssa Jones: Well, it was better than “Mallrats”.
or most appropriately, about the Internet:
Holden: It’s a place used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography together.
or the movie itself:
Holden: I don’t think I’m alone in the world in imagining this flick may be the worst idea since Greedo shooting first.
They used to click, back in the 60s and 70s. It’s the old hypersonic models, the kind you could change the channel by jingling the change in your pocket with. Just another slang term outliving the place it came from. When was the last time you heard a jukebox in a juke-joint, or got into the groove of some music on a vinyl record? Or dropped a dime on someone from a pay phone?