Snarkastic: Things that might have saved <i>Zack and Miri Make a Porno</i>:

November 02, 2008

Things that might have saved Zack and Miri Make a Porno:

Tisha Campbell-Martin just hollering in the background the entire time.
Recurring scenes with that guy from Reaper.
Making the movie less aggressively unfunny.

Sadly, none of these options occurred to Kevin Smith, and we're left with the movie we got, which is So Bad. So very, very bad. AND it was about porn so I felt really uncomfortable weeping with frustration and disgust into 'Box's neckbeard when Fett's 'Vette began seeping from the speakers. On the bright side, while I was ignoring most of the first act I managed to plot out an hour of my Secret Life of Bees/Candyman crossover on a napkin.

Posted by Nastinchka at November 2, 2008 07:48 PM

Comments

I don't think Kevin Smith has explored the third option since Dogma.

For some reason I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back recently (late at night and on the cable system), and I'm convinced that was where he completely jumped off the bridge.

Posted by: Signal to Noise at November 2, 2008 11:30 PM

What killed me about Zack and Miri, especially at the beginning, was how it seemed like they only did one take of scenes or used the very worst one.

Dogma and the first Clerks were funny. I can't recall anything else of his that I just lurved though, and I've hated some of it.

This one gets more of a "meh" from me than apoplexy though.

Posted by: Rusty at November 3, 2008 09:24 AM