Red State by Kevin Smith

[John -- '02 HAWK]

Watched it last night, and fast forwarded through most of it. I enjoyed a lot of KS's movies but I can understand why this one got such bad reviews cause it just didnt work.

[Tyrone Biggums]

I'm really surprised at how much Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back did in the theater. I don't regard it as one of the stronger films. Maybe I need to watch it again sober.

[LANTIRN]

Watched it last night, and fast forwarded through most of it. I enjoyed a lot of KS's movies but I can understand why this one got such bad reviews cause it just didnt work.

I think a lot of the reason it got bad reviews was because people went into it expecting to either be a horror movie based on some of the previews, or a politically toned anti-right wing movie. It didn't give the anti right message most assumed he was going for, based solely on the title, and I think that really led to a lot of negative reviews.

[War Machine]

Clerks, which was shot for $27,575 in the convenience store where director Kevin Smith worked in real life, grossed over $3 million in theaters, launching Smith's career.

Mallrats - LOSS - The film did not fare well at the box office, grossing only $2,122,561[2] with an additional $331,916 in Spain for a total of $2,454,447, on a $6 million budget

Chasing Amy - On a budget of $250,000, the film grossed a total of $12,021,272 in theaters.[1][2] Chasing Amy played at three locations and earned $52,446 upon its opening weekend in the United States.[4] The following week, the film was expanded to a further twenty-two theaters where it grossed $302,406.[5] During the 18-20 April 1997 weekend, Chasing Amy was screened at a further 494 locations, where it earned $1,642,402 and moved into the Top 10.[6]

Dogma - The film opened at #3 in its opening weekend with approximately $8,669,945, behind The Bone Collector (the previous week's champion) and the newly released Pokémon: The First Movie.[4] The film would eventually gross a domestic total of $30,652,890 from a modest $10 million budget.[1]

Clerks 2 - The film's theatrical gross was $24,148,068 domestically, plus an additional $2,833,903 foreign,[1] turning a profit on its reported budget of $5 million

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - Budget-$22 million Box office-$33,788,161[1]

Jersey Girl - LOSS - The film "bombed" at the box office,[12] making only $25.2 million domestic and $10.8 million overseas against a $35 million dollar budget[13] and a $15 million dollar marketing campaign

Zack and Miri Make a Porno - made for $24 million, and grossed $42 million worldwide during its theatrical run

Red State - LOSS - Budget $4 million / Box office $1,104,682

I need links to support this. Seems edited

[71chevellejohn]

It's all from Wiki - look up each movie by itself. I like most of his movies, but not enough to fabricate box office numbers for a forum post.

[War Machine]

It's all from Wiki - look up each movie by itself. I like most of his movies, but not enough to fabricate box office numbers for a forum post.

Can you post each individual link?

[Downs]

YOu could go to the wiki page and just click the links there to your hearts desire.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Can you post each individual link?

I checked. The information for each movie is literally copied and pasted from wiki.

[Shorty]

The end reminded me of Burn After Reading.

[talisman]

Watched it last night, and fast forwarded through most of it. I enjoyed a lot of KS's movies but I can understand why this one got such bad reviews cause it just didnt work.

You're talking about how much you don't like a movie that you didn't watch most of? Oh, okay.

[talisman]

I'm really surprised at how much Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back did in the theater. I don't regard it as one of the stronger films. Maybe I need to watch it again sober.

It's a little better after multiple watchings, but not by much. The saving grace is it has so many characters from other movies, and people playing multiple characters that they played in different movies.

[War Machine]

YOu could go to the wiki page and just click the links there to your hearts desire.

Can you post the links for me? Im not very good at navigating the internet

[John -- '02 HAWK]

You're talking about how much you don't like a movie that you didn't watch most of? Oh, okay.

Yep because you can watch those horrendously long monologues in seconds vs 10-20 minutes. The audience is smart it doesnt need a badly done sermon to establish the movie and character(s)

The first real action is about 25 min which is about the same time KS pulls off some low dollar special effects while he is trying to set the movie up as a horror movie. After about the the first 1/3 of the movie it gives up that approach and moves into becoming a lackluster drama staring John Goodman as a not so believable federal agent

It lacked the quirkiness and intellectual quality of KS's earlier work

[Jimbo]

yep because you can watch those horrendously long monologues in seconds vs 10-20 minutes. The audience is smart it doesnt need a badly done sermon to establish the movie and character(s)

the first real action is about 25 min which is about the same time ks pulls off some low dollar special effects while he is trying to set the movie up as a horror movie. After about the the first 1/3 of the movie it gives up that approach and moves into becoming a lackluster drama staring john goodman as a not so believable federal agent

it lacked the quirkiness and intellectual quality of ks's earlier work

Lmao!

[talisman]

Yep because you can watch those horrendously long monologues in seconds vs 10-20 minutes. The audience is smart it doesnt need a badly done sermon to establish the movie and character(s)

The first real action is about 25 min which is about the same time KS pulls off some low dollar special effects while he is trying to set the movie up as a horror movie. After about the the first 1/3 of the movie it gives up that approach and moves into becoming a lackluster drama staring John Goodman as a not so believable federal agent

It lacked the quirkiness and intellectual quality of KS's earlier work

Don't like Tarantino movies either, do you?