- Just a quick word today…With all the news happening and the bigger stuff surrounding the movie starting to come around, don’t forget to check the site for multiple updates from time to time. For example, tomorrow morning we’ll post the new set pics for the week, then likely be back later if there’s more news to report. Don’t miss out! Today we’re very pleased to bring you the menu screenshots from the upcoming “A Better Place” DVD (it won’t be long now, folks) as well as a few other odds and ends, including that scoop that a lot of you saw, Kevin’s new plug in Ebert’s Answer Man column, and more. Check out that new poll topic, as well. Here we go:
Archive for May 6th, 2001
First Look: “A Better Place” Menu Screens!
- Thanks to Vincent, we’re happy to present 4 menu screens from the upcoming Synapse DVD release of “A Better Place: Special Edition”. Note: On the final version, “Cassese” and “Skywalker” will be spelled correctly. Click the thumbnails above for a better look at how the chapter selections, special features, introductions and more are organized. It’s nice to see that the deleted scenes will indeed be viewable both with and without a commentary track, a feature often lacking from this area of most discs. Enjoy, and pick up your copy on or preorder before June 19th!
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- Today’s most popular scoop, by far, is Kevin’s quote in this week’s Answer Man column by Roger Ebert. He manages to answer the question AND get an early plug out there for Jay & Bob this August. Check it out:
Q. While watching the DVD of ”Dogma,” I noticed that in the scene where Linda Fiorentino’s character is trying to convince Jay and Silent Bob to accompany her to New Jersey, Jay says ”I feel like she’s Ben Kenobi, I’m Han Solo, you’re Chewy and we’re in that [bleeped]-up bar!” Aren’t Jay and Silent Bob inspired by C3P0 and R2D2? One is tall, slender and speaks at great and annoying lengths while the other is short, fat and hardly utters a word.
Roy Chang, New York
A. Kevin Smith replies: ”From as far back as ‘Mallrats’ people have been asking me this question, and I have to admit it’s an interesting theory. However, I’d be lying if I said the similarities were intentional. While Jay and Silent Bob may suggest the world’s most famous droids, it’s purely coincidence. However, if my embracing of your theory makes you rush out and see ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ when it hits theaters nationwide Aug. 24, then may I take this opportunity to say that there has never been a more astute observation of my work.”
- Look for Ben Affleck and his “Pearl Harbor” costars to begin appearing on 3 days of Celebrity “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” starting on May 20th. Contestants’ winnings will go to benefit the proposed National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Finally today, Fandom’s got an article on the Comics Code Authority and in it, they talk to Kevin about how he was forced to make changes in Daredevil:
Take Kevin Smith’s recent Daredevil run for example. While the storyline is obviously not aimed at children, the series is Code approved, even though it includes scenes of Daredevil dropping a baby off of a rooftop and Karen Page catching a billy club in her chest. At the Wizard World convention in Chicago, Kevin Smith admitted that he changed at least one scene in his run, Daredevil giving Black Widow the “big beat-down,” a scene where the most violent acts were off panel. As Smith originally envisioned it, Daredevil would graphically be shown beating on Widow in his Mysterio-induced mind control.
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