- Marvel’s website is celebrating the completion of the Spidey/Black Cat series with a new Black Cat wallpaper, available for free
download via their website. Looks like it’ll adapt to widescreen or standard displays, too. Cooool. - We’re getting reports that Kevin is thanked in the credits of the new film “Waiting…†that was released today. The writer/director has been a long time View Askew fan. If anyone has the exact text, let us know.
- Arizona Film Critic Phil Villarreal editorializes ‘Good Will Hunting’ today, calling it the career-defining film for Affleck and Damon, and citing the Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back parody as the best. Read the piece HERE.
- A small mention in this article from USA Today announcing a new edition of VH-1’s “I Love The 80’sâ€:
- The front page of today’s joblo.com has a feature dedicated to the “Pie-f*ckers†of American Pie, and draws a comparison of that film’s popularity to the lack thereof for Mallrats when released theatrically (also by Universal, of course):
Hailed as a ‘smart Porky’s‘ Kevin Smith’s MALLRATS (which hit cinema screens a good FOUR years before Biggs had even begun sweet-talking his doomed dessert) also featured a cast of ‘hip fresh-faced’ unknowns, embraced the raunchy humour of Johns Landis and Hughes and was released by Universal Studios.
Mallrats grossed $6 million.
So what was responsible for the Chris Farley sized gulf between the meager Mallrats moolah and the ‘Pie’ profit pandemic? Jason Lee’s performance as the irascible Brody surely surpasses the cum-guzzling gurning of Seann William Scott’s Stifler? The answer? It’s down to one simple thing… breasts (or is that two simple things?). The generous screen-time dedicated to the glorious fun-bags, that just so happened to be attached to Shannon Elizabeth, proved who the real stars of ‘American Pie’ were. Whereas Mallrats limited amount of ‘T’ unfortunately resulted in Universal looking like an ‘A’.
We sort of disagree — Lest the reviewer forget the fortune teller and dressing room scenes…It’s likely just more of a wrong place, wrong time type of thing. Sometimes something just catches on, and Pie just hit at the right time. Mallrats’ video/cult success has shown the film’s popularity and that it was just as deserving.
- Christian (Xtian), who works so diligently over at the Westwood Secret Stash, was given a shout out on yesterday’s “Attack of the Show†on the G4 channel. The Westwood Stash is the official supplier of comics for their weekly comic book round-up.
- And finally today, perhaps the Jay of Mallrats’ day would support a site such as this , eh? Have a fine weekend!
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