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Clerks 3 is happening!


Can’t believe it. I was certain this was dead in the water, especially since Jay & Silent Bob Reboot was supposed to be a substitute for the collapse of Clerks 3 after Jeff Anderson refused to return.

It seems Smith’s heart attack has given some of his estranged pals a renewed appreciation for the guy who gave them a career. Affleck returning for Reboot, and now Anderson’s back in the View Askewniverse.

This is some of the best movie news I’ve heard in a long time. Smith is a genius writer, his brush with death will give him plenty of fodder for the emotional and philosophical undercurrents, and if he’s still got the talent for outrageous, crude, witty dialogue then we could be seeing an exciting new phase of this great filmmaker’s career.

Can’t wait!

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Greetings Drooch! It's been a long time. If you're the Drooch I'm remembering I was one of the guys who kept posting shill like positive comments on the imdb thread for A Good Day To Die Hard back in the day with you continually rebuffing them along with many others. I remember one of the many slanderous comments I said about you was your name Drooch sounded like an 8 inch tall walking blob of poop that talks like jar jar binks Damn good times, lol

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One post, and you are on Ignore

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me?

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Looks like you're off to a good start.

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Are you talking to me?

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Affirmative.

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Well good lord, I guess this is why they closed down the boards on imdb, LMAO

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Exactly what I meant. :)

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Hmm it’s been on and off for a while. Do you have a link?

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https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/clerks-3-jason-mewes-reveals-how-kevin-smith-talked-jeff-anderson-into-returning.html/

https://www.thewrap.com/clerks-3-story-will-be-inspired-by-kevin-smiths-own-heart-attack-exclusive-video/

https://www.slashfilm.com/clerks-3-score-gerard-way/

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Cheers for the links, sounds like they had a chat that’s good progress. I was hoping for an official release. These are a few weeks old.

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Yeah I'm guessing it'll be a little while before we get updates on an actual production start, but in the meantime you can hear Kevin state some exciting news starting at the 1:07 mark of this video [link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_YGKr1y40&feature=emb_title[/link]

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Nice one cheers.

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I hope they expand the Fanboy and Steve-Dave characters

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"Smiths heart attack and near death experience was enough to get old friends who became estranged to do one more Clerks movie."

I thought the same thing! Sometimes almost losing a loved one, even a friendship that had soured years prior, is enough to get people to forgive and give the friendship another chance. That being said, I had a friendship go sour from being tired of the mistreatment, then a couple years later the guys dad dies. He reached out, I gave him another chance, and lo and behold the guy began to mistreatment me after hanging out long enough with him. Sometimes its best to just move on from people regardless of if they experience loss or almost die themselves. You stopped being friends for a reason, not always best to keep giving out chances to people.

I've lost respect for Smith after his weird woke behavior, but I will give Clerks 3 a chance (by watching it from my local library). I watched the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and it was a stinker!!!! But you cannot bat-1000 all the time. At least we have Dogma, Mallrats, and Clerks 2. Hopefully Smith does not abuse his former friends that re-enter the fold to give us a new movie.

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Well, your fears were entirely founded. Smith’s heart attack and the subsequent support from old friends did nothing to revive his talent, Clerks III is a terrible mistake on every level.

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Update: I’ve now seen Clerks III. Here’s my spoiler-filled verdict: https://moviechat.org/tt11128440/Clerks-III/6328f9713f21695b42236d50/Im-out-spoilers

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