Mallrats | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@MaRodney07]

Rumor has it, that kid is BACK ON THE ESCALATOR

[@crawdaddy2004]

The mall was completely remodeled back in 2001. Those escalators are completely different/gone. 😂 Yes, I realize you’re being facetious. *** en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Prairie_Center

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

That kid is back on the escalator again!!! What?

[@adnap]

Leave it alone!

[@jasonlane1528]

The girl who died at the beginning of the movie? Randall and Dante went to her funeral and knocked over her coffin in the CLERKS, so this is technically a prequel in the View Askew universe.

[@van8ryan]

Yeah, the guy looking for the "Sailboat" picture is supposed to be the "Snowball" character, but as it was played by another actor (and played FARRRR differently), Smith conceded MALLRATS is more an "Alternate Universe" to CLERKS (even though he uses relevant events like Julie dying and at rest at the funeral in CLERKS)

[@Madbandit77]

​@@van8ryanI see it as two different William Blacks who happened to be stoners. A perfect coincidence.

[@Sumdumfilipino]

In Chasing Amy when they’re signing autographs…you can hear some lady over the intercom say something about a child getting stuck on the escalator.

[@nebulous8389]

Yet...somehow Jay and Silent bob are in 2 places at the same time...proving they super natural beings

[@shawnmiller4781]

@@nebulous8389Anybody that saw dogma knows that 😅

[@raydurz]

If I remember correctly, Stan Lee's cameo in Captain Marvel was him rehearsing his lines for Mallrats.

[@pigs18]

Yes. Stan's voice was very weak at the time so Kevin Fiege asked Kevin Smith if he had any Stan Lee recordings (knowing that Smith would have kept them all).

[@wightrat1207]

You are correct. Best part of that film, IMO.

[@Wezt334]

Lee once said Clerks was not his first movie cameo but his first real acting role *Edit I meant Mallrats

[@Ejay669]

He's holding the script yeah.

[@mikeduncan3953]

@@Wezt334 Imma give you a chance to edit that.

[@ryanswaynow]

Stan Lee’s name IS Stanley. He changed it from Stanley Lieber as a pen name.

[@chadbennett7873]

He also had a brother who wrote for Marvel named Larry Leiber. He worked on Ant-Man.

[@Ghost8386]

RIP Stan Lee, and Shannen Doherty.

[@rederik99]

He wanted to save his real name for when he wrote novels someday

[@ahumsaidtheplum]

@@Chriswallace0405 except it kinda is 👍

[@S-jq1yk]

@@Ghost8386 and Elvis Presley

[@3DJapan]

I've seen this a million times and never thought about Brody shaking Stan Lee's hand.

[@jrobwoo688]

Thanks so much to y’all and the patreons for continuing through the View Askewniverse. I sincerely hope that y’all will keep it going with Chasing Amy. R.I.P. Shannen Doherty

[@TheJamieRamone]

And Jay & Bob Strike Back. I need their reaction to the C.L.I.T. 😂 Also, 😢for Shannen Doherty. This world is a poorer one when an artist dies.

[@Apethantos]

This comment is how I learned about it, damn. RIP

[@nether2227]

I was soo sad to see that on Kevins instagram when it happened! This is probably my favourite ViewAskewnivers film so it was real sad. Watching this made me almost well up thinking about her. Only 1 of these films has made me cry before but I wont say which for Spoilers! Cant wait for Simone to get to that film though. If she doesnt cry ill be shocked!

[@AI_Image_Master]

Half the cast of this movie is in Chasing Amy. Also missed in this movie was that when they talked about the girl dying swimming at the beginning of the movie is the same girl that has the wake in Clerks. Kevin Smith movies also have these strange tie overs.

[@TheJamieRamone]

@@AI_Image_Master Well of course, he's a comic book geek. Comics are infamous for these self-contained universes where characters make cameos and cross-overs all the time. My favorite is the recurring cousin Walt stories. Here he got cats stuck up his ass trying to get the gerbil out, on Clerks he broke his neck trying to suck his own dick. Also: Gil Hicks, Dante Hicks. Both look and sound very similar...😉

[@zarajn6982]

It got cut here in your reaction, but after Shannen Doherty's character says "Oh, a sailboat" and he replies "Brenda?", it's a callback to her character on 90210, Brenda Walsh.

[@John_Locke_108]

That line cracked me the hell up. I remember watching the series premier of 90210 in the 7 8th grade. It was a great show until Dylan left.

[@3DJapan]

@@John_Locke_108 RIP Luke Perry.

[@Jerzeejaylive]

I was waiting that too! R.I.P.

[@JustAMagicDuck]

Word of warning before you get to Chasing Amy: Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, and Joey Lauren Adams are all in that movie but they play different characters than the ones they play in Mallrats. Just to avoid confusion because Lee and Adams in particular play similar roles in both.

[@StudioMod]

Honestly? I'd skip Chasing Amy. It's got a really strong first half, but the script goes completely insane halfway through -- worse than any film I've ever seen. It literally makes no sense.

[@idiot_city5444]

​@@StudioModcan say the same for most of Smiths films. Skip them all, bunch of crap that's aged like shit other than a couple of them

[@Lensmaster1]

Watch them all. They are all good.

[@Lensmaster1]

Watch them all. They are all good.

[@danmann861]

@@StudioModChasing Amy is still his best work to date imo.

[@elfkaze]

Amazing how this movie kinda introduced the world to Stan Lee who most people outside of comic books didn't know at the time. As repayment Stan Lee insisted on reading the Mallrats Script in the Captain Marvel movie as a nod to his first cameo and to Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith and Stan Lee had a pretty great friendship with each other.

[@vellynis]

I love that Brian O'Halloran plays all members of the Hicks family.

[@MrYin90210]

You can't stop now, Chasing Amy is my absolute favourite of the Kevin Smith movies.

[@van8ryan]

Absolute; apparently the ONE Kevin Smith screenplay that nearly was Oscar-nominated (according to Smith, he had heard he had just BARELY missed the nomination)

[@theaikidoka]

It has lots of stupidity, but at the heart is a really interesting story about love and self-identification. The main cast really put their all into it.

[@van8ryan]

@@theaikidoka It's gotten a bit of backlash then and now over how it represents lesbians, but honestly, I was glad it eschewed a ton of stereotypes that were still being used in the late 90s. Plus, it's one of the FEW rom-coms even now where the main couple break up and STAY broken up (by the ending, I was hopeful that, while the love story had ended, the "Friendship" might be reconciled, and according to JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT......it did)

[@LudvikM]

So freaking good!

[@patrickflanagan3762]

​@@van8ryanwell if Smith said it it must be true

[@Psilocybin77]

Joey Lauren Adams (Gwen/Girl in the change room) and Kevin Smith began dating during "MallRats" post-production. Kevin Smith has gone on great lengths what she meant to him, and how the relationship profoundly changed his outlook on life. He wrote what many consider to be his best movie, "Chasing Amy", about Joey and their relationship.

[@DJM2.0]

I ran a small comic shop when this movie came out and there was clearly a time before this film and a time after - for us comic book collectors/fans of that time, 'Mallrats' was what the whole Marvel/DC Universes are to comic fans now; no film hit like it did: it spoke to us, related to us and, to be honest, exposed us. Man, I miss going to a mall, just hanging out with friends, too.

[@mojoshivers]

I think Mallrats is an under-appreciated film in View Askew-verse. It isn’t as ground-breaking as Clerks and its humor is even more broad than that film, but I like the set-ups and Jason Lee is amazing in this. I also like how it really got Jay and Silent Bob into their own as secondary characters and started the idea that all Smith’s films can be interconnected. However, Chasing Amy is actually my favorite Kevin Smith film. It’s his first real attempt at doing something (mostly) dramatic. I would love if you took a crack at reacting to that one.

[@jeffkoenig7402]

Agree with basically all of this, and I think one of the main things Mallrats gives us is a peek at how the Chasing Amy main cast came together.

[@mojoshivers]

@@jeffkoenig7402 For sure. Those first 5 Kevin Smith films were so incestuous with casting. He really loved hiring all the same faces to be in his movies, even as secondary characters, so much so that in later movies some of these actors had to play multiple characters in cameos. Lol

[@kentonkruger8333]

The only real issue with this movie is the dialogue is too clunky. I's still clever and well written, but works far better on the page. It's hard for the actors to spit a lot of it out in a natural way, especially a lot of T.S.'s speeches. Brody's stiff isn't as bad, partly because Jason Lee speaks with a very unique cadence that allows him to take the breathing pauses without sounding unnatural even when it breaks the natural rhythm of the words.

[@mojoshivers]

@@kentonkruger8333 T.S. does sound stilted in some lines, but I think Smith is usually good about finding actors and actresses who can make his dialogue sing. I think it’s telling London never became a regular in the View Askew-verse because I think both parties realized his cadence wasn’t built for the way Smith writes dialogue on the page.

[@jessharvell1022]

i feel like his career could/would have been very very different if mallrats had actually been a hit as a mainstream teen comedy instead of developing a cult following on video. this is definitely the best of the movies he explicitly made for hollywood.

[@mrkesu]

As a "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave" listener for 15 years I really love spotting all the Bryan and Walt cameos in Kevin's movies, both as actual cameos and as mentions in lines. (They were the childhood friends of Kevin, and the Randal character was actually based on Bryan, something I'm sure has been mentioned many times in the comments)

[@DementedDistraction]

Big, baggy suits were the fashion during this period of the 90s...looking back on it a lot of dudes in suits from that time look like little boys playing dress-up with their dad's clothes, lol. Also, Stan Lee's name actually was Stanley. His real name was Stanley Lieber, but he truncated into Stan Lee as a pen name and wound up adopting it as his actual name.

[@sharqane]

Some facts. Jason Mewes was on heroin at the time of filming, and kicked the addiction in 2010 after Kevin Smith convinced him that they'd make a podcast together if he did. Jason Lee (Brodie) and Ethan Suplee (Will who can't see the sailboat) later went on to star together in My Name Is Earl. They became friends after Giovanni Ribisi (Ethan's friend) convinced him to go to acting school when they were teens. Kevin Smith cast them in Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. Ethan Suplee is my personal idol in my weight loss journey as at his heaviest, he was 520lbs, and dropped to 220lbs. He got down to 9% body fat at one point, but put a bit back on as he realised being chubbier got him more roles. But he is a weightlifting beast now.

[@theaikidoka]

Ethan Suplee is a HUGE man. At one point it was flab, now it's muscle. The effort required to transform like that is almost impossible to overstate. As someone who is struggling to shift ten pounds of fat, he has my respect.

[@theaikidoka]

@@Chriswallace0405 The very fact that YOU read it and replied to it proves that you are wrong there. If you don't want to read comments, don't. It's not rocket science.

[@Jerzeejaylive]

Also want to throw in that if Brody(Jason Lee) looks familiar to any old people like myself(45), it’s because he is/was my favorite professional skateboarder from the 80’s -mid 90’s, Jason Lee, who gets credited for inventing the 360 flip or tre flip as it’s now called and having the iconic Cat in the Hat deck. At the time, we couldn’t figure out why he quit so young. But, he obviously, knew what he was doing by going into acting.

[@laudanum669]

@@Chriswallace0405 Why do people like you feel the need to post negative comments? Probably because you are a jerk with no friends.

[@laudanum669]

Ethan Suplee was great as "Tuna" in the movie "Blow".

[@greenpeasuit]

I would say this movie's "I'm not even supposed to be here today" is "What, like the back of a Volkswagen?".

[@MY93SHO]

The girl didn’t run 700 laps, she swam 700 laps. It was her wake that Dante and Randall went to.😊

[@Delta-sj9dy]

Also referenced in "Chasing Amy"

[@mikewilder6390]

But how do you "drop dead" in a pool?

[@Delta-sj9dy]

@@mikewilder6390 Embolism bursting in your brain

[@vovindequasahi]

Clever!!

[@VanGl0rious]

Also the same girl who’s funeral they attend in Clerks

[@danielkinn782]

Fun fact Jason Lee(Brody) is a famous actor but he is/was also a highly respected professional skateboarder. Hes got his start with Kevin Smith in movies. The bald Dad(Micheal Rooker) also played Yondu in Guardians Of the Galaxy.

[@danielkinn782]

@@mynameisnotearl4383 great show

[@miraclefred]

Best 360 flips

[@TheTrueMac]

This filmed defined my youth. The first role Jason Lee ever acted in, he was a professional skateboarder before getting cast.

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

this movie has a lot of jaws refrences in it. smith has said that its one of his favorite films. the name of the characters brody bruce and hooper named after brody the sheriff, bruce the shark ( the name given to the shark, named after spielbergs lawyer though speilberg himself said he never called the shark that) and hooper the shark expert. ben affleck represents the shark. hes wearing a grey suit with a white shirt. much like the colors and patterns of a great white. and when ever he appears you can hear a slight Jaws motif play in the score. during one of his evening with kevin smith Q&As, smith has said that affleck was a talented enough actor that he could play the shark from jaws. little did we know he already did.

[@RonJomero]

Jason Lee was a brand new fresh actor for this one. He was a pro skateboarder beforehand (on the level of Tony Hawk, who he literally competed with) and decided to retire in his early 20s. Jason Lee mentioned that a few of the actors gave him notes on his acting ability. Concerned he wasn't doing very well, he went to Kevin Smith about it and Smith said "They're giving you notes because they want you to do worse. You're upstaging them all! Just keep doing what you're doing." Lee and Ethan "Sailboat" Suplee would star together as brothers years later on the TV show "My Name is Earl."

[@nicktoons125]

@@RonJomero My Name is Earl is great BTW for anyone who hasn't seen it!

[@Vanquish79]

Ben Aflek and Joey Lauren Adams were also both in Dazed and Confused along with Jeremy London's brother Jason

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Not only Stan Lee in this, in his cameo for Captain Marvel he’s reading the script for Mallrats

[@CoryBlissitte]

I recall seeing that scene when we watched in the theater and the knowledge that it was effectively a movie recreation of an actual thing that he did (practicing his lines out of excitement for being in a movie) was really heart warming.

[@darius_6]

The guy playing La Fours, Sven Ole Thorsen was actually in Conan. He was one of the two "henchmen" of Thulsa Doom.

[@Madbandit77]

He's one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding buddies. Sven's also in "Raw Deal", "Predator" and "The Running Man".

[@princetopher]

He was also a henchmen in Red Heat.

[@robprunyi]

This is the movie that introduced me to Stan Lee. Kevin Smith is a local hero to those who grew up in NJ. I live 10 minutes from where clerks was filmed so when I saw captain marvel and having them set it in the 90s see his cameo him reading the script being i believe the first cameo after Stan passed away it felt poetic

[@John_Locke_108]

My two daughters get so mad because I'm always randomly yelling, "Do it, Doug!!!". They're 9 and 6 so obviously they have no idea why I'm saying it. They just know that I say it instead of saying yes when they ask if they can do something..

[@jessharvell1022]

i literally just said it around my much younger coworkers just the other day to exactly zero reaction but hell it still makes me laugh.

[@jhilal2385]

- For Stan Lee's cameo in the MCU's "Captain Marvel", he was reading from the script for "Mallrats". The audio for the cameo was from an unused take from "Mallrats". - Joey Lauren Adams, playing Gwen, was Kevin Smith's real life girlfriend at the time. - The orangutan with Silent Bob and Jay at the end was also in "Going Ape" with Danny Devito and played Clyde in "Any Which Way But Loose" with Clint Eastwood.

[@joelstewart8795]

At 8:28. Tell em Steve Dave! Bry and Walt Flanagan. 🐜

[@angelagraves865]

Claire Forlani (Brandi) was in the movie Mystery Men, the best of the superhero movies.

[@jculver1674]

She was also in The Rock.

[@tonyberezowski7859]

@@jculver1674 And the infinitely crappy Meet Joe Black.

[@davideubanks5825]

@@tonyberezowski7859 lol how can you be so wrong about meet joe black

[@Jerzeejaylive]

I’ve loved her since I first saw her with the incredible Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat back in the early 90’s.

[@christopherdreeszen6822]

She was also in the tv show csi ny

[@Ghost8386]

RIP Stan Lee, and Shannen Doherty.

[@phunkjnky]

LaFours is the name of the lawman that was chasing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He wore that distinctive straw hat.

[@MrDman21]

RIP Shannon Doherty 🙏🏽

[@fengxiaoyang]

So proud of George the moment he recalls Jade from the rock!

[@ericstarkey551]

Rip Shannon doghrtery

[@johanjarvinen]

The actress you wondered about where you knew her from, she's the love interest in Meet Joe Black and she plays Sean Connery's daughter in The Rock.

[@scottp.5055]

And she was in Mystery Men

[@theaikidoka]

@@scottp.5055 "I don't find you threatening". "Oh, thank y..." "At all". Loved Claire Forlani in Mystery Men. It's a really fun movie, and yet so few reactors have seen it.

[@metalbeard1090]

And Boys and Girls with Freddy Prinz and Jason Biggs.

[@mikebrown7799]

Hello Simone & George!😊 Shannen Doherty (Rene) just passed away in July 13th, RIP.🙏🏻 She was my favorite on the original "Charmed". Great reactions to this fun Kevin Smith film, Guys!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@mattcolton6268]

Love the subtle 90210 joke when Willim calls her Brenda by mistake 😂 RIP

[@CharlesinTampa]

Walt Flannigan's dog is the real hero of this film... He's a friend of Kevin Smith, and he's in Clerks and Mallrats (he's the guy who yells "Tell em Steve-Dave"). He bought a dog while they were filming, and bragged about it being really fast. At the premiere, Walt was the only one who laughed at the line "...faster than Walt Flannigan's dog", and it made Kevin's day.

[@likecrazyhorse]

Walt runs the Secret Stash, I went there a long time ago and bought a few comics and a shirt and the man himself checked me out. Even then I was too starstruck to say anything because this man was in Kevin Smith's movies.

[@adnap]

He’s also the construction worker who gets fired by Mr. Svenning, the egg guy in Clerks, as well as the “highly offended” guy.

[@ericstarkey551]

Brand's father is yonduu from guardians of the galaxy, and mearl from the walking dead.

[@FreakshowReptiles]

He’s also in Tombstone

[@tonyberezowski7859]

lol, he's Michael Rooker!! He's been in about a hundred things since the 70's! I always remember him as the villain in Pacino's Sea of Love.

[@poolhall9632]

@@FreakshowReptiles he played McMasters right?

[@FreakshowReptiles]

@@poolhall9632 yep!

[@TheOrthoglyph]

I'm so excited for Chasing Amy. It's my favorite View Askewniverse film.

[@karabearcomics]

The funny thing to me about the Magic Eye picture is that what they showed us is not a sailboat, but some various shapes. No wonder he was having so much trouble with it.

[@andrewward5891]

I didn’t realize that was Michael Rooker playing the game show host until now.

[@jaredruff9823]

Yep. Same guy who played Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy.

[@burntvirtue]

He's not the host

[@d3adtwist]

I think the chick that died was the funeral dante and randall tipped the coffin over at

[@shawnmiller4781]

Correct

[@lukebarber9511]

Here's the View Askew timeline (according to the pamphlet in my Criterion DVD of Chasing Amy): Mallrats takes place the day before Clerks, then Chasing Amy takes place two years after that.

[@chickwithbricks]

"I'd do it but i threw my back out doing yr mom." 😂 The way you laughed at that one, I'm way more excited to see you watch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back than Chasing Amy. But yes please, entire Kevin Smith verse, i need to see you regret asking for more dancing, and also so curious if anyone liked Clerks 3 as much as i did.

[@hdw237]

The actress you are trying to place is Claire Forlani. I recognize her from Meet Joe Black.

[@cmoshpit9171]

FYI. It is not a Sail boat. Just some random shapes

This is BY FAR my favorite Viewaskewniverse movie! All because of Stan Lee's cameo... That's like BY FAR the longest Stan "the man" Lee has been in any movie! You usually just see him in the background randomly and he has no lines... RIP Stan Lee 😢😭⚰🪦

[@jjkcharlie]

Yes, please, more View Askew.

[@JugheadJones03]

Good job remembering where you saw Claire Forlani before George. Also, you should Google why Ethan Suplee calls Shannon Doherty "Brenda!" 😉

[@hanskneesun123]

13:06 Clarie Forlani: The Mystery Men, Meet Joe Black, The Rock and co starred with Jackie Chan in the Medallion.

[@Paulo_Maximus]

Oh my God, I can’t wait for you two to do Chasing Amy. It’s one of my favorite “romance” movies ever. It’s very unconventional, funny, and hard at times. So good and a modern classic.

[@DevilzFan]

This movie was the beginning of a long and lovely friendship between Kevin Smith and Stan Lee. There are a ton of great videos out there with the two of them.

[@erichall3326]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA!"

[@MrZeek1519]

It should have been.... "When am I ever gonna see the Trivia!!!"

[@mistercard3599]

The Julie Dwyer funeral is the same one. Dante and Randall went to.

[@MrDman21]

The guy who plays the security guard used to train with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[@Echo4Bravo]

Let's hand it to Sven-Ole Thorsen security. The gladiator that fights Russell Crowe and the hammer dude from Conan the Barbarian. He's 79. Cool lil fact in Conan, they give him a 6 foot boa. It was Inclined to bite. He grabbed it one time. And it totally chilled out. It was on the director's commentary with arnold.

[@snarkysquirrel]

yes please watch them all!

[@punklover99]

Thank Christ this is the original cut

[@gregmcdonald8962]

Technically, it's not, but I get your point and I concur!😂

[@DukeTheSPO0K]

I was in the military in Japan when this movie came out. I randomly bought the soundtrack CD not knowing anything about the movie. In between the songs on the CD were quotes from the movie. It was years before I actually had the chance to watch this movie.

[@williamsummerson1204]

Clerks 2 and Chasing Amy are my favorite Kevin Smith movies. ❤️

[@rossanderson1892]

The actress (Claire Forlani) yous didn't know if you had seen before is Sean Connery's daughter in *The Rock* and Ben Afflick's love interest in *Mystery Men*

[@crystalpistey-lyhne3406]

I❤This Movie!RIP Shannon D.

[@effluviah7544]

YESSS. I love Mallrats! :) This was one of my favourite movies back when it came out, still love it. I'm glad you enjoyed watching it! :) And please do continue with the View Askewniverse, each movie is such a 90s/early 2000s classic. Very few other movies manage to capture the 90s vibe like these movies do.

[@KevinMenace]

Simone, you were right....his name was Stanley, Stanley Lieber. He shortened it to Stan Lee and made it less "ethnic" sounding (like most comic guys in the 40s)

[@OakloreGaming]

So I'm only just learning now that there are two versions of the movie. I've only ever watched the Extended Version, but you watched the Theatrical Version!

[@deadcatthinks6725]

Claire Forlani (Brandi) was in The Rock (connerys daughter), mystery men (waitress & love interest of Mr Furious) amongst other things.

[@joshmackaben4537]

Meet Joe Black with Pitt also... ✌️

[@plum_swf]

My favorite Jason Lee roles: 1.Mallrats 2.His part in 'Way Out East' for Stereo Skateboards 3.That time he played a dead guy in a Sonic Youth music video

[@needles1987]

Brandy's dad is Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy.

[@Tonyblack261]

I could never see those Magic Eye things. For a while I was convinced that people were lying to me lol.

[@pablosonic892]

Chasing Amy is Kevin's third film in the view askewniverse and his opus. It's an amazing piece of work which is a tale of two halves where the first half of the movie is a pure Kevin Smith-esque raunch-fest comedy, but then the second half takes a turn and the movie turns into a David Mamet play and Gen X tragedy taking a huge swing at greatness and Smith absolutely crushing it with a big flex and knack for grand drama as well to his signature comedic styling talents. The movie is a showcase for Joey Lauren Adams who at the time Smith had met on the set of Mallrats and they became an off-camera real life couple during the filming of Rats and Chasing Amy. Then they broke up and some of their break up also wound up as creative fodder for Chasing Amy which is pretty brave of Kevin as an artist to reveal that much about himself, even as an audience insert character in the form of ridiculously handsome goate-sporting 90s prime Ben Affleck. The studio was dubious about real life Jay being able to pull off fictional on-camera Jay so had forced Kevin to cast a very young Seth Green to play a back-up Jay, basically an understudy should the big brass decide real life Jay wasn't believable ass. But it all turned out to be a moot point. Everybody in Chasing Amy is like an encore cast reunion runback from Mallrats, but playing musical chairs with roles where if an actor was the main leading man in one, now in Amy they were the sidekick or if you were the film heavy in Rats, you were now Amy's main protagonist. And so on. Amy is an unmitigated masterpiece and big part of the view askewniverse continuity and where Kevin continued to tie in Characters from the Amy movie with ones from Clerks and Mallrats, showing a real natural gift of interconnecting all these eccentric East coast often rudderless Gen Xers together into a nice shared universal collective whole.

[@Madbandit77]

Great points, yet Seth Green and his friend Breckin Meyer ("Clueless", "Road Trip", the live action Garfield movies) both got to audition for the role of Jay, yet both sabotage themselves because they both liked Clerks and felt they couldn't measure up to Mewes' raw performance, and he had NO formal training as an actor.

[@spacetiger5076]

I don’t know where the whole “Lois couldn’t have Superman’s babies” thought experiment came from, but the earliest I remember reading something like it was an essay by Larry Niven in a collection of sci-fi short stories. It was titled, “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”, from 1969, if you want to check it out sometime.

[@terrysperman304]

RIP Shannon Dougherty

[@peteblueeyes]

RIP Shannen Doherty

[@ericlencher2356]

Claire Forlani, the leading lady, starred in the movie Meet Joe Black with Brad Pitt & Anthony Hopkins. It's Martin Breast's masterpiece. If you don't know the name Martin Breast, then you're not a cinephile. He directed Beverley Hills Cop, Midnight Run, & Scent of a Woman.

[@lukebarber9511]

There's a pattern in View Askewniverse movies: In odd-numbered movies, Silent Bob gives good advice, but in even-numbered ones he just repeats one-liners from other movies.

[@jrobwoo688]

Been watching these movies for a long time, I have never noticed that. Thank you.

[@wulfsbane245go]

This is my favorite intro cuz of George's reaction 😂😂😂 soooo good hahaha

[@krono5el]

Being into comics and anime before the 2000s was not only an awesome adventure but so full of the most legendary works of all time.

[@Madbandit77]

Amen, brother.

[@SilentBob731]

Greatest.Intro.Ever.Period. Paused what I was watching and clicked over immediately when I noticed this. An awesome movie by (perhaps obviously) one of my favourite film-makers being covered by absolutely my favourite Reactors. I'm two drinks into a ten-day vacation and it's starting out pretty sweet. Cheers, Happy Weekend, and Snoochie-Boochies to all the other Cine-B!tches out there. 🥃☮❤

[@RoGueNavy]

The actor playing La Fours, (Sven-Ole Thorsen), played Tigris of Gaul, in "Gladiator".

[@RazorShalom]

Isn’t it weird Ben afflecks name is gown in opening credits along with the “buttman” comic which is a play on BATMAN!! Then he becomes Batman.

[@brandon15a]

17:24 - it is Stanley Martin Lieber. He wanted to write more than comics, so he penned comics under Stan Lee.

[@isaacderbyrazzianaya2671]

Dumb facts: Kevin Wrote a couple comics books episodes for Daredevil, Green Hornet, Green Arrow and a couple of Batman

[@joshallanmpls4495]

I once randomly partied with an extra from the flea market scene years after this film... 😂

[@leahb8069]

This is the movie that introduced me to both Kevin Smith and Stan Lee when I was 16.

[@countgeekula9143]

Love Mallrats. RIP Shannen Doherty

[@RoGueNavy]

As always, when Silent Bob says something, it is profound!

[@MadcapMatt]

You're going to love the character arcs of basically everyone in these movies. I'm excited to see you continue them.

[@dabe1971]

That kid is on the escalator again !

[@TheJericho1123]

Mr. Svening played real life serial number killer, Henry Lee Lucas in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

[@thomasharris4942]

The topless psychic was one of the roommates on Three's Company, a classice 80s tv show

[@kebernet]

Are: budgets-- Smith has joked that his movies always make about 30 million dollars, whether they cost 25,000 or 50,000,000 to make.

[@keywesttexmex1]

I was on a show like this but it was on the radio. I was chosen and we hit it off. The station sent us from Austin to Dallas for a big concert. We dated before and after the concert. Funny thing is both of us were prompted by friends to participate. Good times. 😜

[@1938superman]

6:06 You'll probably hit it in this movie, but the studio didn't want to let Jason Mewes play Jay in this movie, even though the character is based on him. They wanted Seth Green. Kevin had to go to bat for him and even then they had a probation period at the beginning of filming where they could fire him anytime. Crazy.

[@jacotromp59581]

The actress who played Brandi is currently 52 years old. I remember renting this movie the week it came out on VHS. Where in the actual hell did the years go? You start working and suddenly your entire life just flashes past you in a blinj of an eye. One moment you are a Mallrat, the next you chase kids off of your lawn 😂

[@theendistheend123]

I TOTALLY relate to the guy that is trying to see the sailboat....I have NEVER gotten one of those photos to work.

[@hellomark1]

I've been able to get it to work a couple of times, but for the most part yeah, took me awhile to even get it once. It's a little headache-inducing the first time.

[@John_Locke_108]

Yup. It's so dang frustrating. Don't know how people did it.

[@robling1937]

Gill Hicks (the 3rd contestant) is a nod to the main character of Clerks, Dante Hicks, so it is implied they are bothers! I think this is one of the most underrated of Smith's movies, and Dogma is still my favorite.

[@joshallanmpls4495]

They are cousins

[@frizzlethecat2084]

I have a few reaction-channels I follow but I have to say that you are by far my favorite team. Just so enjoyable and delightful to watch. Keep on doing this and I hope you have much fun as I have watching you

[@misterno-ice-guy8082]

"My name is Earl." -Nescobar Aloplop