- The great DVD Talk presents a brand new, 3 part interview with Kevin this week. Part one does a lot about “Cop Out”. Here’s a snip to grab your interest:
DVD Talk: For big movies, like Transformers, most people really don’t care what critics have to say.
Kevin Smith: No, of course not. It’s ridiculous and it’s a waste of time to have some critic write a fucking review of Transformers or Cop Out. There’s no point. Get a twelve-year old to review it because that’s who you wanna hear from. I’ll believe a twelve-year old. If they say something sucks I’ll believe it. If a twelve-year old says something rocks, I’ll believe it. I’m not going to believe some fucking dude or chick who says, “I saw the movie for free, had a few hours to digest it, had a chance to think of my political stance on the filmmaker and the studio and had the chance to think about the people I want to push or hold back on, and now I’m going to write my fair and unbiased review.” It doesn’t work like that. I believed that forever since that was the world I was raised in. I believe to this day the New York Times review of Clerks made my career. Janet Maslin opened so many doors with that review. That review meant something. Reviews don’t matter as much anymore. Why? Because you can talk to the fucking audience. That was the only way to hear about. I don’t know, it’s weird. I’m not bitter about it, because I didn’t read many of the reviews. Even if I did, it’s just a lot of energy to spend on a movie that didn’t try to do anything besides making people laugh. That was it and that was our agenda. It has nothing to do with art except for the art of making people laugh. We had very talented artists onboard to make that happen. But for a movie like this, why even bother reviewing it? To me, it just makes a film critic look like a bully. Why bother?
Want more? Hit up DVD Talk and keep an eye right here. We’ll let ya know when more is on the way.
- A sharp-eyed scooper recently caught a “Cop Out” poll presented on popular social networking site Facebook. Check out a screen grab above.
- Kevin’s been all over the world, but how about Israel? Not yet, but they want him, according to this website http://www.kevincome.com/ and blog. Yes, it’s the actual “Kevin Smith, Come to Israel Project” here. Will it happen? Time will tell. This sure seems like a nice first step to us.
- SXSW interviews Malcolm Ingram about his new flick, “Bear Nation”, which recently inspired Kevin to participate in a live SModcast with his longtime friend to celebrate the film.
- Speaking of, you just can’t ignore such a funny mistake — This scan and text come to us from the free Dutch newspaper “Spits” (which, in Dutch, means “Rush Hour”):
Director Kevin Smith, known for movies “Zack and Miri make a Porno” and “Cop Out”, is about to start work on a horror movie. The movie will be called “Red State” and will be about hate towards gays in the American Church. Smith, himself bisexual and according to some the inspiration for the character with the same name in cult-horror game “killer7”, wants to make Red State into a very serious and dark horror movie. The release is planned for next year.
Bisexual, eh? That’s a good one.
- Finally today, you gotta love Google Maps — Here’s a couple more great Google Maps image grabs off satellite in the UK – Check out #1 which is a road we think fits right in, and #2 which is a place we’d happily sit down and dine any day. See ya, folks!
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