>>151038607
>Kevin Smith is fucking awful now and cannot make anything but shit.
He never could make anything but shit. He found success with Clerks for being "avante garde", but a lot of that just came from the limitations he was forced to work with. He got more ambitious with his writing, but that only exposed his flaws as a director. Take Dogma, for example—it's ultimately a movie that thrived on its edginess, pseudo-intellectualism, and a handful of big-name stars, but once that shine wears off, you realize how fucking unwatchable it is. Every scene is just two people talking with basic-ass shot/reverese-shot editing, until eventually some third party joins the conversation to keep people on their toes.
That's basically Smith's formula for writing a "scene"—have two people disagreeing, then a third person pops up as a "plot twist" to say something slighly perpendicular to what was already being said. In general, Smith tries to disguise this flimsy writing style with his edgy humor, but once you're innoculated against that, you realize how fucking garbage every single scene in every single movie he's ever written is.
The only reason Clerks Animated was good was because other people worked on it besides Smith.
