Clerks X

Clerks X

 

Synopsis

Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems. The shutters outside won’t open. His ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in love with, is getting married. His girlfriend, who bugs him about starting college, has revealed certain, uh…stuff about her past. His boss hasn’t come in to take his place. He has a hockey game at 2 o’clock. Another ex has died, and today’s the last day he can go to her wake. He must deal with customers that aren’t so intelligent. His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante’s customers. And the biggest problem of them all: HE’S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage it all?

(From IMDB)
Cast:

Brian O’Halloran
Jeff Anderson
Marilyn Gjigliotti
Jason Mewes
Kevin Smith
Scott Mosier
Walter Flanagan
Scott Schiaffo
Al Berkowitz

Director:

Kevin Smith

DVD features

Disk 1:Theatrical Version

• cast & crew commentary
• Enhanced playback track
• “Clerks”: The Lost Scene
• “The Flying Car” Short film
• MTV spots: With Jay & Silent Bob
• Theatrical Trailer
• Music Video
• “Clerks” Restoration Intros
• Original “Clerks” Auditions

Disk 2: “Clerks”: The First Cut

• new cast & crew commentary

Disk 3: “The Snowball Effect: The Story Of ‘Clerks’

• “Mae Day: The crumbling of a documentary”
• 10th Aneniversary Q&A
• Outakes from “Snowball Effect”
• Still photo gallery
• Original Kevin Smith journals
• Articles & Reviews (8 of them)

Great selection of extras, most quite interesting, but some a little dull, I wont go into a full blown extra by extra review as this would be boreing, If you can find this on the shelf or the net for a good price, then its worth looking at if your a fan of the film and want to know more about the movie.

Movie:

Well I came to this movie back in ‘95 (I was only 13 & yes I was into movies then) when it hit the streets in the US, and I read good things about it, and saw a trailer which intrigued me even more, but unfortunatly It slipped by and whent under my radar since, until I watched a programme on BBC 2 called “Talking Movies” which did a preview of “Clerks II” which then shunnted my memory to the back of my brain and pulled out the memories of “Clerks”, then while browsing my local HMV I found the 10th Anniversary Edition for £7.99, and I had to have it.

I had mixed feelings about this film, as I had only seen Jay and Silent Bob in “Dogma” and had only knwo Kevin smith for this film, the thing was I loved “Dogma” and liked the look of this movie, but I had heard from a friend who knows his movie stuff, and he mentioned that it wasnt that good, so I had to watch it with an open mind. The first 15 to 20 minutes were a little dull and un eventfull, but I presisted (I gave up watching “Troy” the first time around at this point, But I still hate it).

later on the film picked up and I liked some of the jokes and capers they got into, but I didnt like the vulger side of this movie, and had a hard time swallowing some of the diologue due to the amount of swearing. This side of the film let it down, and seemed to be in there just to prove that they could, rarther than severing a purpose. I wasnt sure what the film was trying to get across, and maybe that was the point, maybe there wasnt a punchline to the film or a morale of the story, but this just let the film down even further for me.

Due to its lack of substance this film was an average movie, the acting was good, some of the script was good, but the way in which it was filmed let if down, black and white didnt work it just made it even more like it was trying to be something it wasn’t, I think this film is a bit too, I dont know… and maybe that was the problem.

To sum it up, I would have to say, if you havent seen it, rent it dont go out and buy it, and then if you like it, get the version I got, as its got loads of extras, this film had good acting and a up and down script. The music and sound were ok but I didnt like most of the music, but this didnt detract from the film, which was a good thing, I think that I may have missed the point of the movie, maybe there are some of the stuff was too American and it didnt translate to me too well, who knows.

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