Mallrats 2 location announced (1 Viewer)

Kevin Smith has found a mall at which to shoot a sequel to his 1995 film "Mallrats".


Personally, I thought one Mallrats was way too many, but oh well, I guess it's coming:


http://zap2it.com/2015/09/kevin-smith-mallrats-2-shooting-location/

Anyone remember when Smith planned to leave the "View Askewniverse" behind and not use those characters/situations anymore?

Colin Jacobson said:

Anyone remember when Smith planned to leave the "View Askewniverse" behind and not use those characters/situations anymore?

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He has to make money. His movies outside that universe like Red State, and Tusk have done pretty poorly.

Colin Jacobson said:

Anyone remember when Smith planned to leave the "View Askewniverse" behind and not use those characters/situations anymore?

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He does have two non-Askewniverse movies coming up so it's not like he's only doing Jay and Silent Bob movies again. I'm a big fan and Clerks II was probably my favorite movie of his so I'm happy to see what the Mallrats characters are up to after 20 years.

TravisR said:

He does have two non-Askewniverse movies coming up so it's not like he's only doing Jay and Silent Bob movies again. I'm a big fan and Clerks II was probably my favorite movie of his so I'm happy to see what the Mallrats characters are up to after 20 years.

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Jesus Christ, man, there's just some things you don't talk about in public!

Bryan^H said:

He has to make money. His movies outside that universe like Red State, and Tusk have done pretty poorly.

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If Kevin Smith hasn't earned enough money over his 20-year career to live comfortably the rest of his life, then he's managed his money really poorly!

TravisR said:

He does have two non-Askewniverse movies coming up so it's not like he's only doing Jay and Silent Bob movies again.

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Not the point. When someone says they're retiring characters, I expect the characters to stay retired.


Mostly this symbolizes when I see as Smith's creative decline. I think he "retired" the characters to prompt himself to branch out from his bread and butter, but when those other efforts didn't succeed, he scurried back to the old standbys, and I find that disappointing.


I used to really enjoy Smith's work and his sense of humor. Now? Not so much. He just seems like he's stuck in one mode, and that mode doesn't work for me anymore...

Colin Jacobson said:

...when those other efforts didn't succeed, he scurried back to the old standbys..

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Maybe you could say that when he made Clerks II after Jersey Girl didn't do well but he's made 6 non-View Askew movies since Clerks II.

It's embarrassing the number of times I watched the ABC television edit of Mallrats during the nineties.

Colin Jacobson said:

Not the point. When someone says they're retiring characters, I expect the characters to stay retired.

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Speaking personally, the only thing I care about is whether the resulting movies are good or not. If they go back to the well and come out with something I enjoy, I'm happy they changed their minds.