SModcast 62: The Human Quilt –

In which our heroes accost a rocker in the cereal aisle, get unruly on a plane, fear the wrath of a pent-up Paul Bunyan, and go to the movies.

For those looking for a few more words on “Watchmen”, Kevin does once again confirm that everything from the books is unchanged. Which we hope means everything about the ending! Listen for Mosier’s take as well — Yep, he got to watch it, too.

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“…fan-favorite writer/director Kevin Smith also had reservations on a newer, darker Man of Steel. “You always have to always keep Superman very distinct from Batman,” he related. “Batman can be brooding and bleak and dark but Superman – if you want to take a realistic approach to him that’s fine, but I don’t think you can turn him into an angry character. Superman is about the hope in people, the good in people, whereas Batman is about the more driven, hungry for justice angry side of us. [So] I don’t know if doing a dark Superman is the approach, but I’m all for a reboot.”

Click above to take a look at a bunch of moments from that awesome “Spaced” DVD signing event held in late July, for the first time anywhere on the web! Enjoy.

Kevin Smith makes a porno with `Zack and Miri’

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Smith likes to watch porn online, not to get his jollies but to marvel at how extreme the art of exhibitionist sex can be.

“I’m a morning porn peruser, and not for the titillation factor. I just find it interesting,” said Smith, whose latest comedy is “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” the tale of best friends shooting their own skin flick to dig themselves out of debt. “I’ll go read Google news, I’ll go read Guardian UK, go read our Web site, and then if I’ve got nothing else, I will just peruse the porn sites, because it’s an ever-expanding world.”

“Just when you see the most outlandish clip you could ever see, somebody introduces something new. I just check in periodically just to see how far porn has gone in my absence,” Smith said after screening “Zack and Miri” for The Associated Press at his Los Angeles home last week.

Debuting Oct. 31, “Zack and Miri” stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as lifelong buddies who have shared an apartment for years but never considered each other as potential mates.

Writer-director Smith — whose films include “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy” — has taken two people who have yet to realize they’re a couple and cast them into a sweet little romance — with a whole lot of sex and swearing.

Profanity is almost a given for Smith, whose characters barrage one another with four-letter words.

“It turns some people off but that’s how mostly everybody I know speaks,” Smith said. “It’s kind of strange. Whenever somebody goes, `That offends me,’ I’m like, wow, what kind of weird, opposite bizarro frame of mind do you live in? Cursing is just so second nature, you don’t even think of it as cursing any more. It’s just your lexicon.”

At the outset of the new film, Rogen’s Zack and Banks’ Miri have known each other so long and so well that they’re almost like siblings. The twenty-something slackers blissfully share a dumpy apartment on which they’re far behind on the rent and utility bills. When the electricity is turned off in the middle of winter, they burn their unpaid bills in a garbage can for heat.

A chance encounter with a gay porn actor (Justin Long) gives Zack the notion that they could make their own sex flick to pay off their debts. When he and Miri add up how much money they could clear from one dirty movie, they wonder why everyone isn’t busy making porn.

“Because other people have options and dignity,” Zack concludes.

They recruit an amateur cast and crew to make their porno, among them “Clerks” co-star Jeff Anderson as “cinematographer” and Jason Mewes — Jay to Smith’s Silent Bob, the pair of stoners in most of his movies — as a well-endowed “actor.”

The cast also includes Craig Robinson as Zack’s co-worker and producer, “Superman Returns” star Brandon Routh as Long’s lover, and former adult-film star Traci Lords and current porn queen Katie Morgan.

The porn shoot becomes something of a loving, though lewd, re-creation of how Smith made his debut film, “Clerks,” at the New Jersey convenience store at which he worked.

“Basically, it’s a dressed-up version of making your first film. It just happens to be a porn film,” Smith said.

Just like “Clerks,” “Zack and Miri” initially was hit with an NC-17 tag by the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America. That rating prohibits anyone younger than 17 from seeing a movie.

Smith nipped and tucked the key objectionable segment, a comically over-the-top sex scene between Mewes and Morgan. But the ratings board held to the NC-17 designation, which Smith later got knocked down to an R rating after stating his case to the MPAA appeals board.

With the exception of one tender, tame sex scene, the porn action in “Zack and Miri” was meant to be outrageous, a commentary on the impossibly silly deeds in real skin flicks, Smith said.

“It’s not titillating in the least. It’s comedic,” Smith said. “If you’re turned on by this, then we didn’t do our job very well.”

CNN picked up the piece as well.

You can get your seats through the Bushnell Theater Website directly. Prices are listed as follows, and do not include an additional $6.00 processing fee per ticket: BOX ($42.50), Orchestra ($42.50), Front Mezzanine ($36.50), and Rear Mezzanine ($36.50). This is one of the more rare areas of the country that Kevin visits, so don’t miss your chance to see this show — Also, don’t delay in reserving your seats, as it’s highly likely that the show will totally sell out.

Expect a bunch of new stories and tales from “Zack & Miri” and beyond in Hartford this January!

Wanna go? You can get your tickets this Saturday, August 30th! Tickets go on sale for “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” at noon CST, Saturday, August 30th and will be available online at http://www.fantasticfest.com, by phone at 1-866-4GET-TIX or at the Paramount Theater Box Office in Austin, Texas. Admission to this show is included for Fantastic Fest badge holders. THIS WILL SELL OUT THIS WEEKEND! If you wanna go, we highly suggest you be near a phone or computer at NOON CST this Saturday.

Aint It Cool News picked up the story and confirms that anyone who has a festival pass will definitely get into the screening. The theater seats 1,200 people, so this will be a HUGE audience and just incredible fun to attend. AICN also picked up Kevin’s very brief “Trek” comments for a story this week. Nothing new there, just the same cryptic quotes. So cool that Kev’s getting to see some of the most anticipated flicks, and cool, considering he’s been known to do the same type of screenings of his own for fellow directors as well.

Wanna go? You can get your tickets this Saturday, August 30th! Tickets go on sale for “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” at noon CST, Saturday, August 30th and will be available online at http://www.fantasticfest.com, by phone at 1-866-4GET-TIX or at the Paramount Theater Box Office in Austin, Texas. Admission to this show is included for Fantastic Fest badge holders. THIS WILL SELL OUT THIS WEEKEND! If you wanna go, we highly suggest you be near a phone or computer at NOON CST this Saturday.

Aint It Cool News picked up the story and confirms that anyone who has a festival pass will definitely get into the screening. The theater seats 1,200 people, so this will be a HUGE audience and just incredible fun to attend. AICN also picked up Kevin’s very brief “Trek” comments for a story this week. Nothing new there, just the same cryptic quotes. So cool that Kev’s getting to see some of the most anticipated flicks, and cool, considering he’s been known to do the same type of screenings of his own for fellow directors as well.

Wanna go? You can get your tickets this Saturday, August 30th! Tickets go on sale for “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” at noon CST, Saturday, August 30th and will be available online at http://www.fantasticfest.com, by phone at 1-866-4GET-TIX or at the Paramount Theater Box Office in Austin, Texas. Admission to this show is included for Fantastic Fest badge holders. THIS WILL SELL OUT THIS WEEKEND! If you wanna go, we highly suggest you be near a phone or computer at NOON CST this Saturday.

Aint It Cool News picked up the story and confirms that anyone who has a festival pass will definitely get into the screening. The theater seats 1,200 people, so this will be a HUGE audience and just incredible fun to attend. AICN also picked up Kevin’s very brief “Trek” comments for a story this week. Nothing new there, just the same cryptic quotes. So cool that Kev’s getting to see some of the most anticipated flicks, and cool, considering he’s been known to do the same type of screenings of his own for fellow directors as well.

#13 – CLERKS 2

To many people Kevin Smith and his films are an acquired taste. To be honest, as much of a fan that I am of Smith, I’m not actually that thrilled with many of his films. Having said that, I honestly think Clerks 2 is one of the sharpest, funniest and yes smartest comedies I’ve seen in a long long time. Smith shows he’s more than just fart and fuck jokes. Clerks 2 has so much heart to it that many people miss. Real issues struggled with by a lot of people entering their mid 30’s, issues of friendship, home, belonging, dreams, all dealt with within the context of Smith’s edgy humor. I unapologetically love this movie.

Actor is in negotiations to play the best buddy of Jason Bateman’s character, a flower extract factory owner dealing with workplace problems and a streak of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo.

While we didn’t love “Idiocracy”, Judge’s last flick (though the first 10 minutes or so were pretty brilliant), this one sounds like a winner. With Jason Bateman on board, who’s been on a streak of his own these days, we’ll be lining up when this hits screens. Filming begins on Monday.