Archive for January 31st, 2002

eJay Returns!

January 31st @ 9:17 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Ming Chen

  • As alluded to in a recent update, the View Askew auction site, eJay, has returned! That’s right, folks, now you get your chance to electronically bid on your favorite View Askew collector’s items, including hard to find stuff as well as ONE OF A KIND ORIGINAL FILM PROPS! Own a piece of View Askew history! Here’s Ming with more:

We’ve got props from ‘Dogma’, ‘Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back’ and if you’re good.. maybe we’ll even aucton off our last copy of the Mallrats Book!

eJay starts tomorrow afternoon. If you registered before and forgot your password or need to change your e-mail address – please e-mail me at ming@viewaskew.com.

And if you weren’t around for the last eJay – here’s how it works. We put a rare View Askew item up for bids – be it a screen used prop or rare item (can anyone say ‘Dogma’ cast and crew jacket?) and you bid on it. It’s sort of like that other e-place, but this one has Jay and hot models on it.

The fun starts tomorrow – Good luck, and happy bidding!

View Askew NewsBites™

January 31st @ 9:16 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Sandy, Chris Kuiters, MoVENTURA, Jim & Scott Bellairs

  • The very slick new website for Jason Mewes’ new movie, “R.S.V.P.” is up with stories, pictures, and even a trailer. The site address is: www.rsvpthemovie.com. Check it out!
  • More from Australia: Jay & Bob are officially #7 for the first full week in theatres. 101 screens, total take was $1,111,491 (including GST). The film is the same print as we have in the States (put all rumors aside).
  • You can also get some discounted ($8.00) tickets for the film in Australia at the Hoyt’s website HERE. The coupon is valid to February 7th.
  • Finally, here’s a very nice review of the film from down under (A newspaper called “The Age”):
Top-Gear Laughs On A Twisted Road To Hollywood
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
4/5 stars.

Having discovered that the comic book based on them, Bluntman and Chronic, is to be made into a big-budget movie, Kevin Smith movie regulars Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) head out on aroad trip to Hollywood to stop its production and cause as much mayhem as they can along the way.

It’s a ceaseless, breathless, monumentally tasteless onslaught of visual gags, in-jokes, anti-Hollywood jabs and good-natured, foul-mouthed high spirits. Mewes, who’s often been the highlight of Smith’s films, is given centre-stage, and carries the film with insouciant, over-caffeinated ease, his barrage of swearing and sexual references often achieving an almost musical quality.

Along with the usual Star Wars references, Smith takes several well-aimed shots at the movie industry, most notably in the segment where Ben Affleck and Matt Damon snipe mercilessly at each other on the set of “Good Will Hunting II”.

Fans of Kevin Smith will relish a whole substrata of references to Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats and Dogma (including the Buddy Christ), although there’s enough colour, movement and action to keep non-fans who in the mood for some broad, loud comedy satisfied.

The host of terrific cameos ncludes Jason Biggs trying to escape the infamy of the pie-poking scene in American Pie, Seann William Scott as an angelic guitar-playing airhead, and Chris Rock as an angry black man who claims to have invented Sesame Street. — Jim Schembri

  • Pixposters.com have some of the French Dogma one-sheets for sale. They’re $25, and similar art to the US one-sheet, with the Buddy Christ above the cast.