08/02/2007
Director Kevin Smith Reads Heckler at San Diego Comic-Con
Here's a great clip of director Kevin Smith's (Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma) appearance at Comic-Con, during which an audience member stood up to ask the director, "Do you ever plan on making an original movie without rehashing any of your old characters that doesn't suck?"
What transpires is genius: "Never a good idea to attack a dude with a microphone."
Below, a clip of Smith with his friend director Malcolm Ingram. Ingram directed a film that comes out on DVD this coming Tuesday called Small Town Gay Bar which looks at the proprietors and customers at two small bars in Mississippi. Smith served as executive producer on the film.
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HAHAHAHA -- I love the intellectual rigor of attacking the guy's mom and his physical appearance...it's like this comment board on any given day.
So, Kevin, after all that distraction...what's the answer?
Posted by: Becks07 | Aug 2, 2007 9:56:37 AM
I'd just like to point out that Small Town Gay Bar is available in the "Watch Now" section of Netflix for you PC users. I watched it last night and thought it was ok.
Posted by: jeremy | Aug 2, 2007 10:02:53 AM
I think Kevin Smith would look like Matt LeBlanc if he were to shed some pounds...(not being mean--I could stand to lose a few too)
Posted by: Michael W. | Aug 2, 2007 10:18:24 AM
I saw "Small Town Gay Bar" at Sundance in 2006. It was a crowd-pleaser. Great, inspiring little movie.
Posted by: the other jeff | Aug 2, 2007 10:26:28 AM
I saw "Small Town Gay Bar" last night, too. It was pretty meh.
I'm not saying my argument is great, or cogent, or even appropriate -- but if you're a gay man in Mississippi? Maybe you could move. "But then the bad guys win." It's not a contest. Move. Out of. Mississippi. "But my stuff is there." Move your stuff. Out of Mississippi.
I'll go back to my luxury ivory tower in the sky. A sky that's not in or near Mississippi.
Posted by: Mike B. | Aug 2, 2007 10:28:08 AM
Its about the fear of the unknown (big city, aggressive new yorkers, etc) vs. fear of the known (homophobes in town)
Posted by: Landis | Aug 2, 2007 10:40:39 AM
I've always had a bit of a crush on Kevin Smith, even though I am not a huge fan of his movies. It was great to see him have so much fun up there, returning the heckle.
[[Oh, and Becks07.... if you think that the comments here are so terrible, why do you keep coming back? It doesn't cost you anything to visit here, so it's not like you have a subscription. And I am sure that Andy hasn't hijacked your web browser and prevented you from going to any other website. Can't you find anything better to do than whine about how mean and catty the queens are here at Towleroad? Why not visit "Pink is the New Blog" instead, which I think is comment-free, where your sensibilities won't be assaulted?]]
Posted by: Jonathon | Aug 2, 2007 10:55:12 AM
I saw "Small Town Gay Bar" in Montreal. The director was there with the film. I thought it was excellent, well-worth seeing if you're interested in a slice-of-life look at real gay people (unlike, say, the typical urban twinks featured in fictional gay films) struggling to carve out lives in a generally inhospitable environment. Re: their decision to stay in Mississippi. I'm glad I'm not living there, but for them it's home. (Just as Vermont is home for me.) Who are we to judge why people stay where they stay? Often there are practical and emotional reasons why gay people choose not to cut and run. I found the film poignant and fascinating (and a lot less goofy than the youtube promo clip suggests).
Posted by: Ernie | Aug 2, 2007 10:56:33 AM
"I can't hear you but I can see your man-tits from here."
Hilarious!
Posted by: gwyneth cornrow | Aug 2, 2007 11:06:15 AM
To respond to Mike B.'s groundbreaking "solution" to homophobia--gay kids are being born in Mississippi (not to mention Mea Shearim and Islamabad) all the time. If they are being persecuted because of their homosexuality at 14, 12, 10 years old (and they are), at what point in their grade school educations do you suggest they should run away to live on the streets of whatever paradise you apparently live in? Don't you think that it would be better to try to improve conditions for gay people everywhere than to throw up your hands and insist that they should all just give up on the rest of the country and the world and move into a ghetto? If it makes you feel safe to think that homophobia only exists off in some other place that you see as hopelessly distant and backwards, go ahead--but in doing so, you're deluding yourself about the extent to which people are basically the same everywhere, in both good and bad ways.
Posted by: Thomasina | Aug 2, 2007 11:14:41 AM
Does Netflix get movies earlier than the general release date? I had it in my queue for a couple of weeks and it arrived in the mail yesterday. I'll watch it tonight...hope it is good!
Posted by: dctopman | Aug 2, 2007 11:34:48 AM
Kevin Smith's dead-pan is fucking GENIUS!!! I love the "I'm gonna switch over and become a bear so I can steal all of Malcolm's action."
Posted by: JR | Aug 2, 2007 12:19:09 PM
Probably not the most common opinion on this particular blog, but:
Any time Kevin Smith is ready to take that leap, this bear is here for him.
Posted by: Jerry | Aug 2, 2007 12:34:24 PM
Now there's his next movie, The Big Switch, I'd watch. Did he say flying jizz?
Posted by: CJ | Aug 2, 2007 3:43:46 PM
Jerry, megadittos to that!!!
Posted by: Jonathon | Aug 2, 2007 4:48:47 PM
Small Town Gay Bar has been available on DVD for quite a while. It came to my doorstep in June as part of the Ironweed documentary film club selection for gay pride month.
I thought it was so-so, parts of it are quite victim-oriented, unfortunately. (And I don't just mean the parts with actual victims, I mean the editorial perspective.) I was surprised to see the View Askew logo at the start.
Posted by: Rinse | Aug 3, 2007 7:05:58 AM