Pynchon

Back on planet Earth, today I saw "Clerks 2".



There is a train of thought that says Kevin Smith has only one movie in him and that he has remade it over and over again. It's a good job it's a good movie then, isn't it?

I liked "Clerks 2". If you liked Kevin Smith's other films you will like it. If you disliked Kevin Smith's other films you will dislike it. I think that it is as simple as that.

Variable acting (Are those trees' onscreen? No! It's the two leads!), dodgy pacing (note to editor - too long! CUT CUT CUT), lots and lots of dialogue (most of it really funny), a bit about "Star Wars" (and the "Lord Of The Rings" films - No, I don't think Kevin Smith was impressed at all with the "Lord Of The Rings" films), a discussion about a sexual practice (ass to mouth, yay or nay?), unnatural sex (inter-species erotica? Eek!), and the greatest ever excuse for a lady to give for not having sex with her boyfriend.

"Clerks 2" is not a great departure. There is absolutely nothing in this film that betters the original "Clerks". I would go so far as to say that "Clerks 2" is probably a step back creatively from "Jersey Girl" , which actually is the film that makes a nonsense of my Kevin-Smith-Only-Remakes-One-Film opening, because it was an attempt to make a movie outside of the Jay And Silent Bob universe. I thought "Jersey Girl" was OK, but just OK.

Hell, enough blabber. Go and see "Clerks 2". It's not often that I hear real, stomach creasing laughter in a cinema, but I did hear it from the audience of this film.

There was some good news yesterday. Lorraine has had a promotion and a pay rise. It's quite a good pay rise and she deserves it. She has worked very hard for The Company, early mornings and late nights, sadly, I think, at the expense of spending time with and doing things with me (she went to work today). I have not expressed this opinion. I don't think it would matter if I did express it. All I have said is, "It's about fucking time" and I meant it.

Wait and see.