Archive for July 16th, 2000

Sunday Commentary…

July 16th @ 6:46 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Hey folks, thanks for stopping in. Got some odds and ends to report on today, including a post from Kevin on a few things, including his thoughts on the X-Men movie. It was actually a pretty fun flick, though it would have been nice to have seen the 45 or so minutes that was cut from the flick way back when, since it seemed a bit on the short side. Fun flick though, and it grossed a TON, paving the way for a ton more comic book flicks. Hopefully these (and the inevitable X-Men sequel) will be allowed a bigger budget, since this one did suffer a bit here and there due to the constraints. Go see it.

We’re gonna let the poll topic ride another week, it’s a fun one, and we’d like to see what the final straggling votes stack everything up to. Alright, let’s take a look at what’s new in the View Askew world today:

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Kevin On X-Men, San Diego…

July 16th @ 6:45 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Kevin Smith, Jess

  • Here’s Kevin on his thoughts on X-Men, and a little teaser about his upcoming stint at the San Diego con:
For all the curious…

I liked ‘X-Men’. It’s gotta be one of the best comic book movies ever made; easily in the top five. And if it does gross what the early reports indicate, this means great things for the future of comic book movies. Kudos to Bryan Singer for taking a great deal of shit from the studio to get it made. He turned out to be right, and that’s the best revenge there can be.

But man, is that a moody little flick. And due to the fact that they kept Bryan ham-strung with the budget, one of the climactic battle sequences has to be fought in the Statue of Liberty’s gift shop. Weird.

At the very least, we’re bound to see a sequel out of this. I vote for ‘Days of Future Past’.

And love it or hate it, you have to admit to a fan-boy tingle when Wolverine said “Bub.”

Anyhoo, I’m in L.A. on a little business (and leisure time with Jen), then it’s off to the big Comi-Con in San Diego. Hope to see some of you there. We’re going to show some stuff you might be interested in, if you’re a regular ’round these parts.

If there are any spellng errors above, I apologize. I’m on the hotel WebTv, and it’s a little slow (and small).

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View Askew NewsBites™

July 16th @ 6:43 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brian Crewe, John Lovegrove, Cary, Nimesh R., Alex Murphy, Jeremy, Ben Pett, A.J. Martinez, Nathan Hurst & Jason Pankoke

  • This week’s edition of Starz! Movie News (airing on the network itself) did a bit on Kev’s deal to do the next Fletch flick. The show aired this past Friday, check your listings for reruns. Coincidentally, Heavy Metal 2000, which premiered on the channel this past weekend, was pretty damn cool.
  • Just in case we didn’t mention it, Kevin’s got a feature page at the IMDB director’s gallery now. Check it out.
  • Check out this excerpt from the latest Stan Lee chat…Maybe Kev can work a part in for the dude in View Askew 5!
degenerate_teenager asks: Mr.Lee Do you plan to be in any other of Kevin Smith’s Movies?
stan_lee_live: Only if you call me Stan will you answer.
stan_lee_live: I would love to be in any movie that Kevin Smith does, but some directors are fickle.
stan_lee_live: I think he has forgotten how magnificent I was in Mallrats….
stan_lee_live: But every day I sit by the phone, waiting for the call, breathless, …and it just never comes.

You can read the entire chat at the official X-Men web site.

  • On the show The New Movie Show with Chris Gore, on FX, a clip from the Chasing Amy DVD featuring commentary from Kevin was featured on the segment “DVD film school”. The show airs over and over on the FX network (since they only run like 5 programs a week or something), so check your listings.
  • Dogma pre-viewed VHS tapes are showing up at video stores all over the place, for prices as low as $9.95 (maybe even better!). You non-DVD owners out there may wanna pick up a copy.
  • In this year’s financial statement, Lions Gate attributes their 129% growth (in part) to Dogma!
  • Micro Film, a new magazine of indie, student, and grassroots cinema, will be interviewing Vincent Pereira about the making of A Better Place for their next issue. Check out their website HERE.
  • Box Office Guru is running a poll asking folks if they’d see the new Tom Clancy flick if Ben takes over. Cast your vote and check out the results.

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