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Talentless?

posted 3 years ago by VanZan (857)
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I've never been interested in anything he's done. I watched Clerks recently and it was good for a low budget film but I wouldn't be in a hurry to watch it again. Have seen that he did Dogma, Chasing Amy and Clerks 2 but haven't watched them. To be frank they all seem a bit weird. Also find his Jay and Silent Bob characters shit.

And it seems it was downhill for him after those films. Yet he keeps getting work and pops up to give a supposed expert opinion on geek culture.

But I find he's just not very good at his job. Nothing he's done has ever been a massive success. Can he just fuck off already?

[–] TearofLys (2411) 3 years ago

The guy has, or at least had, real talent. There is no other way to explain his meteoric rise from stoner convenience store clerk to in-demand Hollywood director in just a few short years. These are just movies, he also writes (or wrote) comic books at a high level. As one pundit recently remarked, maybe he stored all his writing talent in his stomach.