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I thought it best to cut the name short, but Kevin Smiths next movie will feature Bruce Willis.

I remember after seeing A threevening with Kevin Smith he did say Bruce wanted to do a movie with him after working with him on Die Hard 4.

Directed by Smith, starring Bruce Willis, Seann William Scott, Jason Lee, and Tracy Morgan.

Essentially its a Adult buddy cop comedy.

WARNING, THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO BE R-18, DO NOT READ IF YOUR A MINOR.

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  • 6 months later...
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It looks watchable. I'm always wary when an indie director goes mainstream. Sometimes it's a success (Peter Jackson) and sometimes it's utterly botched (Gavin Hood). This flick looks nothing like a Kevin Smith flick. Smith can make a million dollars of film look like it cost $10,000 to make (ie. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) but I kind of liked that about his stuff.

I like all involved here, especially Rashida Jones, so I hope it turns out.

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Your welcome, Yeah I haven't laughed that hard at a preview in a long time, the stuff with monkeys, hitting the kid, the drawing on the glass window, and the knock knock joke had me in rolling on the floor.

I still can't get over Bruce Willis of all people doing a Kevin Smith movie, don't get me wrong I love KS, seen all his movies, but it just seems like a WTF Willis is doing a movie directed by the guy who gave us "donkey show".

Although its more Willis in a comedy, I mean the 2 whole yards movies he was a bit funny, but not really funny.

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It looks watchable. I'm always wary when an indie director goes mainstream. Sometimes it's a success (Peter Jackson) and sometimes it's utterly botched (Gavin Hood). This flick looks nothing like a Kevin Smith flick. Smith can make a million dollars of film look like it cost $10,000 to make (ie. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) but I kind of liked that about his stuff.

I like all involved here, especially Rashida Jones, so I hope it turns out.

I tend to agree but Kevin Smith has had quite a few "mainstream" films. Or at least what I would consider mainstream.

Clerks

Dogma

Mallrats

Chasing Amy

I think of this as another Dogma style movie, lots of big names but in Kevin Smith style.

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I tend to agree but Kevin Smith has had quite a few "mainstream" films. Or at least what I would consider mainstream.

Clerks

Dogma

Mallrats

Chasing Amy

I think of this as another Dogma style movie, lots of big names but in Kevin Smith style.

Dogma is the only one I'd consider mainstream, in that I saw ads for it, but I was speaking about how the movie looks. He's pretty much made cheap looking movies. The Chasing Amy scene in the stand at the hockey arena jumps out at me, it looks like a Saturday Night Live sketch. His last one, Zach and Miri, was the first one that looked like it had a real cinematographer working on it. But this new one looks like a serious Hollywood movie. I was shocked. I wasn't getting at the distribution of his stuff as much as the vibe they gave off.

I saw Mallrats in the theater, loved it, and still do. That "uncomfortable place" joke still makes me laugh :laugh: It's a great movie, and made mini-stars about of Lee and Suplee, and Claire Forlani was about as beautiful as any woman I ever saw in a movie.

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Okay, I'll admit, I laughed out loud at that and I'm far too cynical to ever laugh at trailers. I'll mark this one down as "To See."

Kevin Smith is a director I like, though he tends to write some of the most unnatural dialogue ever heard in movies. Even the dumbest characters have the improbably vast vocabularies, and it bugs me, but not to the point of not liking the movies. Dogma is one of my favourite movies ever.

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Kevin Smith is a director I like, though he tends to write some of the most unnatural dialogue ever heard in movies. Even the dumbest characters have the improbably vast vocabularies, and it bugs me, but not to the point of not liking the movies. Dogma is one of my favourite movies ever.

Well, you'll be happy, he's just directing this, not writing it.

I should watch Dogma again, it's been a few years...

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Well, you'll be happy, he's just directing this, not writing it.

I should watch Dogma again, it's been a few years...

Yes, I did notice that the characters weren't speaking in paragraphs, though I just presumed they'd kept the longer dialogues out of the trailer.

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Yes, I did notice that the characters weren't speaking in paragraphs, though I just presumed they'd kept the longer dialogues out of the trailer.

I think Willis is doing this as a favor to Smith. I love Smith's movies, but his "commercial" movies (Jersey Girl, Zack & Miri) make less than his "indie" flicks :laugh: (a joke, nobody bother fact checking please) So, I think this is a slow lob over the plate so that Smith can hit a homerun and build up some credit in Hollywood. Then maybe he can do more "Kevin Smith" stuff again.

He did a great job with the Reaper premiere two years ago, so I think he can handle this flick too.

  • 3 weeks later...
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Looks like Cop Out is Kevin Smith's worst reviewed film, and that's saying a lot. I'll take my time catching this, though I'm always curious how a group of talented people can make a really lousy film

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Looks like Cop Out is Kevin Smith's worst reviewed film, and that's saying a lot. I'll take my time catching this, though I'm always curious how a group of talented people can make a really lousy film

I've heard that too, but it still looks hilarious to me, I don't think I'm as critical as a movie critic. I'll hold my review until I see the film.

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I've heard that too, but it still looks hilarious to me, I don't think I'm as critical as a movie critic. I'll hold my review until I see the film.

I'm sure it has some funny jokes, but it sounds like "the plot" is very tedious.

I'm not a movie critic, in that a lot of praised Oscar films bore me, but a lot of Hollywood popcorn flicks bore me too, especially the last third where the fun stuff gets swallowed up tying up the banal plot.

Let us know what you think!

Posted
And so what, most critics are morons anyway, and only give high ratings to artsy fartsy movies.

What? Like Avatar? :tongue:

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Its directed by him, its not one of his movies.

Huh? Do you define a movie to be the director's movie only if the director also wrote the script? That would mean a whole lot of directors out there haven't had any movies that count as "one of their movies."

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