Funk Babblings

Saw Clerks II last night. Second Kevin Smith movie I'm aware of with Soul Asylum playing at the end. Now trying to decide whether Kevin Smith's use of Soul Asylum at the end of a movie inspires him to make the whole movie so good, he puts Soul Asylum at the end when he knows he's made a really good movie, or the use of Soul Asylum itself is enough to color my perceptions of the whole movie. But even the opening scene was awesome, not just the end.

The movie was a bit heavy on the Christian references and the... "alternative eroticism" or whatever he called it "interspecies erotica", but otherwise awesome.


I'll have to see it a few times just to catch everything interesting in the credits.

In case you hadn't heard yet... Kevin Smith is making a sequel to Clerks, called The Passion of the Clerks. Read more of his comments about it here.


Update: How did I miss hearing about Fletch Won, which landed in Smith's lap four years ago? But that seems to keep getting pushed back, first in favor of The Green Hornet, and now in favor of The Passion of the Clerks. I for one am looking forward to seeing a Fletch movie made by someone who truly respects the books; the first Fletch movie was good and mostly based on the first book, but it tied things up wrong at the end, and second movie had nothing to do with the books at all. It sounds like Smith wants to be faithful to the books. Whenever he finally gets around to doing the movie. (Fletch Won, by the way, is part of a pair of "prequel" novels in the Fletch series; the whole series is around ten or twelve books.) There's also a web site dedicated to the Fletch Won movie, but I'm not sure how current it is.