THE DAY CLERKS DIED

Kevin Smith's Clerks trilogy.
A series of films that started on a high and ended at an all time low.
The movies that gave us Jay and Silent Bob and then made us want to get rid of them.
The movies that made us love and then hate Kevin Smith.
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[@bullock4211]

Clerks 3 ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings.

[@brianmcavanaugh]

Review and reference; well done sir.

[@nettack]

All that Yoga Hosers had was a bunch of Bratzis.

[@seewhativescene]

I'm good with suspension of disbelief MCU distractions just fine tyvm, not all of us can cope with mortality

[@XBeatmymeatX1990]

It was depressing

[@RisingRecluse]

Dante did say he preferred movies with a down ending in the first Clerks.

[@drautch]

Why couldn't Dante just find some happiness man geez.

[@seewhativescene]

You can lead a guy to a donkey sex show, but you can't teach him how to hold onto Rosario Dawson

[@micahrutland991]

Dude literally has a heart-attack bitching about his life. Depressing.

[@map3384]

Exactly. That’s what I thought.

[@stephendexheimer7914]

I also hate what they did with Elias, what I loved about Elias in the second movie is that we’ve all met someone like him, a person who is very innocent that becomes indoctrinated by the people around him and unfortunately they overpowered him in the third movie because and was only there to please the fans and this time just didn’t feel like an integral part to the story

[@brokentardis]

Was he a satanist or just a huge fan of the Cure?

[@Emery101]

@@brokentardis He renounced god in the 3rd movie

[@brokentardis]

@@Emery101 I know that. It's just that a Satanist and a goth are apparently the same thing to Smith

[@jpryce90]

He was soooo annoying in clerks 3

[@burmiester1]

I thought I was the only one who was really disappointed in Clerks 3. They made Randal a total jackass and it was basically just a lame remake of the first one.

[@RyuDaBurninator]

I laughed when Dante said that Veronica didn't look a day over 37.

[@LSSJTHOR]

I just found out now that THEY KILLED DANTE, HIS GIRL, AND BABY?!?🤬 Clerks 2 was THE FINAL CLERKS!

[@mrmusickhimself]

They killed his wife and his baby, with plans to enslave him. First mistake....LAST mistake.

[@piperian3962]

He also has a falling out with Randal he never resolves. Why do filmmakers hate happiness?

[@TheDukeofMadness]

I seem to be in the minority of people that actually liked Mallrats.

[@burningempire666]

Mallrats is the best jay and Silent Bob ever

[@matthowell4214]

Mallrats is awesome totally unappreciated

[@sloppynyuszi]

Nah, most people love Mallrats. It’s a classic!

[@tarantinoish]

Mallrats is awesome. What are you talking about?

[@sergeantsapient]

Mallrats is good, but it's wedged between some other classics.

[@Exo-cannibalistic-havok]

I can think of 37 reason's why the first one is awesome

[@hiltwo]

Hey you, get back here! :)

[@chrisjohns4991]

In a row?

[@MrTwinbee]

Try not to think of any reasons along the way

[@newyorknole2225]

I just finished watching Clerks 3. I think I'm just going to ignore it in my head Canon. Killing off Becks and his daughter just felt so wrong. Clerks 2 was the perfect ending that brought Dante and Randall's story full circle. Clerks 3 just felt like Kevin wanted to bring his own story full circle but it came at the expense of his characters.

[@militaryhistoryguy827]

Clerks 3 pulled an Alien 3 by killing off a beloved character off screen

[@SGBassplayer]

Also killing off a main character onscreen.

[@TheDrizzle56]

And the unborn child. Way to cheer us up Silent Bill.

[@ajbanky7870]

@@TheDrizzle56the family of the main character and any hope of a happy life seconds after finally achieving one after a lifetime of misery. All offscreen in between movies. But both cases are only nightmares that Dante and Ripley are having.

[@DonovenGrey]

😂🤣 the movie is Clerks... Nobody is beloved 😄 Jay and silent Bobby are the only "beloved" can't be replaced douchebags. I did enjoy the movie Vulgar but I don't know if I did because I was a fan of these actors or if it was actually good 😅

[@Slice2099]

I love the friendship between Dante and Randall in the second movie that showed how The characters mature that prison scene was amazing it gave the characters a perfect sendoff.

[@sklba632]

Shame about everything else in the movie that had very little to do with their characters, aka, almost every other minute of the movie.

[@BishopWalters12]

I agree, Clerks 2 was a great send off for this whole universe.

[@jwood8769]

It was a holding cell not Prison. Lol but your point is correct

[@Slice2099]

@@jwood8769Does it matter

[@jwood8769]

@@Slice2099 it’s a big difference my guy

[@laurenced2916]

Clerks 2 was fantastic

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

The donkey felt like over kill the first time i watched it but i came around to especially after hearing how they got that guy to do his scene with the donkey 😂

[@travismiles5885]

Clerks 3, Godfather 3, and Highlander 2 don't exist in my universe. I'd like to see what the characters from Mallrats are doing instead. He should have made that sequel

[@tiago2189]

Brody owns a comic book store at the mall where Mallrats takes place

[@williammiller3277]

Dogma 2: The Endogening

[@southern_cinephile3412]

I’ll agree, Clerks and clerks 2 are perfect Clerks 3 wants to be the original and can’t do that

[@charlessaints]

i lost respect for kevin smith with all that he-man stuff. he was awesome, but now he's pretty tame. i don't know, it's almost like as if almost dying changes you. 🤷‍♂️ great video though 👍

[@xboxgamer3389]

Wasn’t Rosario Dawson’s character pregnant and she Just Dies I’m glad I didn’t waste time watching it it don’t know how you sat through 4 viewings of dumpster fire I’m also sick of him shoving his untalented daughter into everyone’s projects she ruins everything she’s in

[@MrBlink1980]

I was worried Clerks III would not top the ending to Clerks II. I was prepared for the plot to have some depressing midlife crisis since both Dante and Randal are now in their late 40s. However, I was not prepared for how depressing and just bad Clerks III would be. I completely agree with your criticism. On my way home from the theater, I thought of an alternative story plot that would have still kept the essence of what Kevin Smith was trying to do as a tribute to his first movie while making a point about mortality. Dante still loses his wife BUT he has a daughter. The daughter grows up with Dante and "Uncle" Randal. Randal still has a heart attack, thinks he has wasted his life and decides to make a movie. However, during the process he realizes he does have meaning and a legacy. His relationship with Dante's daughter and being part of that family. Dante still has a heart attack and dies. However, when he is with his wife watching the movie, he realizes his daughter will be fine with Randal still there. The movie ends with Randal and Dante's daughter at the funeral realizing Dante help made them who they are while also understanding they have each other as family. The movie ends similar to Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. That families come in many different shapes and sizes, but family is what gives meaning to life. Also take out the weird Santanic Elijah plot. It was funny for a couple minutes but it was a joke that went on too too long.

[@aethersurfer6793]

Yeah, I had a similar thought when watching it. ‘Okay so you can’t get Rosario back, but wouldn’t it give Dante more of a drive in the film if he was looking after a kid?’ Maybe the kid worked shifts there, maybe Dante feels Randall is a bad influence? Maybe the heart attack inspires Dante’s kid to make something of themselves. And then you’ve opened up a whole new opportunity for new characters and an actual plot. Rather than us all having to rewatch Clerks being made in a very meta way by a bunch of 50 year olds. I think the unspoken thing here is that Smith became Indie-famous at a very early age. His life experience is very different to all of ours. That’s not a bad thing, but all this latest stuff feels so maudlin and backward, it’s just someone trying to catch something that’s never coming back. Or at my most cynical, someone milking their cult audience to pay the mortgage.

[@map3384]

I like it.

[@escooper33ify]

They really dropped the ball with Elias. He was my favorite character in 2

[@AbigailHonestly]

Christy boi eh? Well, boo hoo sorry your feelings were hurt church boi, but real people loved this film and in much the same way I adore both Randal and Supernatural's Bobby. Also I LOVED ELIAS IN THIS!! Talk about finally growing a pair instead of being a Jesus Freaky Hippiy long stockings. I love satanic Elias, because at least now he's not some little Jesus Cock Licking Church boi.

[@tyronegorman8949]

What the fuck are butt thieves?

[@map3384]

After being a simp to his girlfriend in the second perhaps Dante could have been that father figure to show him the ups and downs of love and relationship as he lived it in his past. But no.

[@caitling.9358]

I was hoping Myra would show up so Randal could see she was real.

[@FandomCanon]

Part of the issue I think is Smith's experience with the heart attack. Clerks cast a wide net. There are many people who have worked at mundane jobs and who have a goofy sense of humor. And though most of us haven't gotten into a fight at work, seen a donkey show, or boinked a dead guy, we have had day dreams that weird while working at our mundane jobs. Clerks was a movie any average Joe or Jane could relate to. Then comes Smith's heart attack, which I understand was a bit of a life changing moment for him. And that's awesome. It's awesome he can reframe his life and get an almost spiritual experience out of something bad. The problem is, most of us haven't had life changing heart attacks. Most of us aren't preoccupied with loss and death. So, we can't really follow Smith on that journey.

[@CarlC259]

Clerks 3 depressed me. Even before the death that was suppose to depress you. Just a depressing tone even during the comedic moments. I wasn’t a big fan of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, but I enjoyed that much more than Clerks 3.

[@seewhativescene]

At least Jay and silent bob 1 &2 didn't make me want to fckngkms without a note or deleting porn from hardrive

[@crazyforgg]

@@seewhativescene thats for reminding me; I really need to do that

[@ZachCK]

Dante deserved better.

[@DocGriffon]

Plain and simple: Clerks 3 was devoid of heart and humor. However, I will say Brian O'Halloran acted his ass off. Too bad that effort was wasted by this movie.

[@DocGriffon]

@Vee_Infusoo Nooooo.

[@jamesgamesalot8239]

This video is why I stopped at Clerks 2 - I just couldn’t watch these characters and films that meant so much to me, continue to degrade. You don’t come of age as a film geek in Jersey during the late 90 without falling in love with Kevin Smith. Clerks meant so much to me precisely because I wished I’d made my own Clerks. That story behind the movie was an integral piece of enjoying the movie. Clerks 2 was a good send off to the entire universe. Every thing after just made me sad. Maybe this film works better 10 years ago, but all those actors look way too old for this stuff. And we as his primary audience have grown up. Unfortunately Kevin didn’t.

[@PatrickPaul1203]

Clerks 3 has the best acting out of all of them, it is a phenomenal showcase of how far they have grown. Give it a try, preferably with some friends then make up your own mind. You might still agree with him or you might agree with me that it’s one of his top movies. It’s definitely not better than Dogma in my mind but I put it in my top 3 for Kevin Smith

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

As far as I’m concerned, it ended with 2. The ending was a perfect arc to end on.

[@randallflagg3700]

I still want Kevin Smith to finally release *"Batman:Bellicosity"* with Walt Flanagan... I discovered who Kevin Smith was in 2002 thanks to *Green Arrow: The Sound of Violence* , and it's sequels *Batman: Cacophony* (2008/2009) and finally the highly divisive *Batman: The Widening Gyre* (2009/2010)... It's been 13 years of blue balls since I first read the last couple pages of that last one, and the reassurance, every couple years, from Kevin Smith that *Batman: Bellicosity* was on its way, didn't help. Almost as bad as GRRM's TWOW for me...

[@sklba632]

Kevin did grow up...and he sold out over it.

[@chadthechad4365]

@@sklba632 you mean he did what was good for him. You people are so pathetic with that sellout bs

[@NottyGurlStyle]

The first Clerks will always be a classic 😂 I love it just as it is. I always watch it and laugh at the same dumb jokes over and over… I didn’t like the other films…it wasn’t the same or as funny (to me)

[@freebirdallen]

Agreed!

[@TheScience69]

It was just never very good. It appealed to edgy teenage potheads and does NOT hold up if you're over 25 and/or sober. Especially after seeing more from Kevin Smith himself and more of his writing. Watching it now you realize that's not smart dialogue, it's Kevin Smith sniffing his own farts like seth mcfarlanes writing and people dont actually conversate in lectures and life lessons. The only thing that made the second film bearable is because rosario Dawson makes my pp tingle. And I'm far from a hater. I was a huge fan right up to clerks 2 when I realized Kevin Smith has one shtick and it was already wearing thin that far back

[@Charl1eSheenWIN]

They made the third movie so sad for no reason

[@tyronegorman8949]

I agree, I thought they killed off Becky because Rosario Dawson wasn't going to be in it, but she had scenes 💀 I get the heart attack stuff, but it seems a bit pointless to kill off his family

[@Charl1eSheenWIN]

@@tyronegorman8949 rosario was one of the reasons why the second movie was so popular lol. no reason why they essentially wrote her out. especially the way they did

[@PeacefulPiranha]

Clerks 2 and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back are Smith's best films. Lots of other notable entries but Clerks 3 just wasn't it.

[@walcourier4074]

Kevin Smith sold out and forgot his roots. That's why all his newer stuff is garbage

[@nettack]

Suuuure, after Cop Out and burning the bridges to Hollywood with his staged Red State auction at Sundance. Now he sold out?

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

The day it died is when Kevin smith kept posting images of himself crying over and over, since that is funnier than anything in any of his movies

[@KrautCat]

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the soyboy, crybaby, He-Man ruining, wussy, childhood destroying, Hollywood Cuck Villain.

[@Slice2099]

Prime Kevin Smith died in 2006 with clerks to his last good movie was Zach and Marie made a porno

[@anonconspicuous6910]

I'm going to say "The Walrus" was a so good it's bad movie. Kevin Smith's new soy boy self seems sus. He diddled someone inappropriately at some point, that's how Hollywood soy boys are made.

[@seewhativescene]

@@Slice2099 can confirm, I was Jay's fluffer between takes

[@ezio_Winchester]

​@anonconspicuous6910 well he almost died and now he is a stoner where he wasn't when he made the stoner movies go figure

[@dix0n778]

I deleted clerks 3 from my memory after watching it at the plane back from my holiday vacations. It was so depressing that my brain simply deleted it from my cache memory.

[@CreepyBoris]

So glad someone agrees with me, I loved the first 2 Clerks but 3 just didn't do it for me.

[@CamelotGaming]

Processed, manufactured, and overall fake is what Kevin Smith is now.

[@metalgrinch]

I feel like a 3rd movie wouldn't have worked no matter how you created it. Clerks 1 stands on its own, and 2 was like a sweet compliment cherry on top. 3 is overkill. The biggest issue here is that Kevin Smith either simply sold out to the Hollywood machine, got too old to be an edgy director, or both. Watching the film, it felt cheap. Felt like a straight-to-streaming movie with Hallmark-level cinematography, and wondered if Smith even REMEMBERED how to direct a film, and almost every actor has gotten TOO OLD to keep that youthful edge this franchise always required and needs to thrive. Weird robotic camera angles, wooden acting, extremely dry jokes, useless characters with ZERO reason to exist (i.e. angry Black woman with her husband and daughter supervising Randal and Dante's film for her daughter's college class, who felt like she was just there so Kevin can have some non-White people incorporated, then ironically and cluelessly going for the "Angry Black Woman" stereotype no less, smh...). Kevin Smith used to push the boundaries of political correctness and status quo, but here it's like he's afraid to say ANYTHING controversial, which tells me he was egg shell walking so he wouldn't upset the whacko basement dwellers on Twitter. Well, he succeeded on that as NOBODY has uttered a peep about this film very soon after its release. The Jay and Silent Bob reboot's mediocrity should have told us this disappointment was coming. In a world where there is SO MUCH to bash, from overreaching governments, to moronic street blocking protesters, to whining Twitter twits, to an oversaturation of superhero bullsh*t, to gender delusional screaming extremist Leftoids, to language and online censorship gone bonkers, to social media obsession, to even freaking Trump as former president, etc etc etc Smith not only doesn't even mention it, he purposefully runs far far away from it, leaving us baffled. I honestly think Smith needs to just hang it up and retire. I don't forsee ANY good film coming from him at all anymore.

[@cbond1c113]

Although it was released on September 13, 2022 I didn't finally cave in and watch Clerk III until a couple of weeks before Christmas. Despite the fact that I still had some hope that Kevin Smith could pull it off, it was just as bad as any of his last 3-4 films. I mean... the 'die had been cast' and was beginning to rear it's head somewhat in "Jersey Girl" and "Zack & Miri" but now Kevin Smith's outings in the directorial chair strangely resemble that of a punch drunk fighter, entering the ring to face yet another consecutive defeat. It's hard to watch!

[@TheOnlyGuermo]

I don't get it. Clerks 2 had such a satisfying ending, where everyone grew up and found their place and then Clerks 3 has the murder OF A MOTHER AND CHILD! Did we get a name for the kid? Why weren't they there to see their dad as he died? Even if she was less than a year old she could have been in her mom's arms. Loving your kids more than your own life only comes after a year I guess?

[@collegerebel]

Grace and she died while Becky was still pregnant with her I believe.

[@the.realjimboslice]

I agree Becky should’ve stayed alive, but I saw Kevin talking about it saying Rosario Dawson is too expensive now to be a leading actress in the movie

[@seewhativescene]

As it should, she was discovered on the block in lower Manhattan at like 14 for that one movie Kids

[@tjcoolness1768]

Rosario was also working on her Star Wars spinoff show at the time as well, so she was just hard to get. But she loves the character of becky so im glad she did come back

[@dspsblyuth]

She is? I haven’t heard her name in like 12 years

[@BishopWalters12]

Why kill her off in a pointless way and basically erase the ending of Clerks 2? Just have her home with the kids and that could easily explain why we don't see her that much.

[@Njbear7453]

They did have her on the poster and made it seem like she was going to be a major character

[@WolfmanTim87]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who was disappointed by the 3rd movie. Most of my friends seemed to love it but I personally did not care for it. You pretty much hit the nail on the head with this video. I feel the same way you do.

[@davidk.1917]

I watched it with my friend group the other week. We went into it hyped and ready. Once the film ended, we were silent. It was very poorly received by all.

[@mayotango1317]

​@@davidk.1917 NO, maybe they are shock because is so real.

[@amunago080]

​@mayotango1317 because that's what the other Kevin Smith films are about.....realism LOL. Make a separate movie if you want a drama.

[@Burtlocker]

@@amunago080 Clerks 2 realism? No that's some nonsense right there.

[@jmoney25240]

I personally love this movie cause life is not far and your happy ending sometimes doesn’t happen and the worst part is when u think u have it figured out and something take all of it always it’s hard to keep going and I just relate to this movie and I wish I didn’t understand it to well

[@brandocalrissian3294]

Kevin smith's last good movie was Jay and silent Bob strike back. Clerks 2 had funny moments, but Kevin lost it once he started sucking up to Hollywood in the early 2000's. Nowadays he just makes lame movies that cater to Hollywood and something to give his wife and daughter work,because they aren't going to find it anywhere else.

[@robhogate2312]

Yeah I'm in no way surprised, because Smith has apparently jumped head first into and fully embraced the cesspool that is modern Hollywood....I hesitantly watched the jay and silent bob reboot movie and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be,I also looked at it like maybe he was making fun of what Hollywood has been doing and maybe I'd still get to enjoy Kevin Smith movies....then I started hearing more about what he's been saying and doing and realized nope he's just another pathetic person who has been fully brainwashed by the lunacy of their political sides ideology....I'm hoping I can still enjoy his old stuff that's worth watching,but idk if I can....he has jumped onto a long and seemingly ever growing list of ppl who have gone full mask off and shown their stupidity and full indoctrination to hateful bigoted ideologies....there is now so much stuff I use to enjoy that I can no longer bring myself to watch or listen to, because of these ppl that don't know anything further then what they're told and are so stupid that they don't even know the depths of their stupidity and feel the need to open their mouths and virtue signal showing off how little they actually know and it also tends to always be done in hateful bigoted ways that frankly disgust me

[@micahrutland991]

Hateful and bigoted. Perfect way to describe the woke community. They really are too.

[@YoshLovesYou]

As crazy as it may sound, I think the only solution to this is another one. Clerks 3.5, where it's revealed that the entirety of Clerks 3 was a bad movie script written by Randall.

[@chuckymunsterstudios]

That is a horrible idea.

[@nessadvantage9447]

They could just retcon the ending with an alternate ending where after the dante becky scene in the theater the camera pans out to darkness (then it pans out from randall's eyes.) Randall: so that's my movie idea. Pretty fuckin sweet right? Dante: you kill me in your movie?!? What am i, some hidious fucking chud? Becky: really weak graeves. Dante& becky's kid: Fuck you uncle randall. (Fade to black) That's how i would have ended it😂

[@saloz9483]

@@chuckymunsterstudios not as bad as what actually was released.

[@jwnj9716]

Clerks 3 was so boring and unfunny. Couldn't stand Elis in this one, just unfunny cringe. I'll stick with the first 2 films and the animated series.

[@georgehernandez2156]

And Randall is stuck with him till he dies.

[@alleahsasseville]

Couldn't AGREE with you more.....not a fan of this. The first one....CLASSIC

[@Insaneian]

You perfectly summed up how I felt after watching Clerks 3. And I saw it in the theater surrounded by Kevin Smith fans! (It wasn't one of the Roadshow screening with Kev, it was the Fathom Events one, but still.) Everyone (well, most everyone) seemed to be laughing and enjoying, and I was dumbstruck. Were we watching the same movie? And then, halfway through the flick, it dawned on me what the ending was. With Becky being dead, my mind flashed to the trailer, of Becky and Dante watching a movie in a theater...and she grabs his arm. This ghost, that he has not interacted with physically in this movie, will suddenly be able to touch him. I knew then that Dante was going to die, and I thought that was what ruined the movie for me. But it wasn't the knowing...well, not *just* the knowing, but the whole movie leading up to it. I've been a Kevin Smith fan since jump. I even used to write for MoviePoopShoot back in the day when it was a real site. But this left me so disappointed. You nailed exactly why. Bravo.

[@shatteredsoldier81]

I loved clerks 1 & 2, but 3 was a big disappointment. It was really depressing and not fun to watch.

[@owenlindkvist5355]

Sadly, Smith lost his talent years ago.

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Oh wow. I had no idea that Clerks 3 existed. I think that I will just pretend that it doesn't from now on.

[@nettack]

A bit harsh and shortsighted to make your decision off of one person. Republican and Anti-Vaxxer by any chance?

[@youngimperialistmkii]

@@nettack Uhh...what?

[@jacks910]

@@nettack This is the gayest comment I’ve ever read

[@BishopWalters12]

Skip it and be happy with Clerks 2.

[@mattfoley4406]

I enjoyed it enough (you have to take Kevin Smith with a pinch of salt these days) but it felt like a massive waste of an opportinity.

[@mrmusickhimself]

Kevin Smith actually became worse when he started smoking weed. I prefer to pretend that Clerks III never happened, I'll stick with the animated series. I felt like I was watching a "How to Prevent Heart Attacks" PSA, I get it, but dammit, Dante didn't deserve all that. I believe he's still doing a Mallbrats movie, and I'm not looking forward to watching Brodie get assassinated by Zack Snyder.

[@seewhativescene]

Smoking weed doesn't make someone cool or uncool: he got older(it sucks,don't recommend), had a kid, became wealthy and deathly ill

[@thomasplummer8103]

@@seewhativescene I would argue that it is less that he aged, and more that he sold out.

[@mrmusickhimself]

@@seewhativescene Oh don't get me wrong, I would HATE to blame weed but....there's a correlation. The minute Seth Rogan handed Kev his first joint, his work has suffered.

[@gottfriedosterbach3907]

I don't think he sold out. It was always about elevating himself, we just bought into his geek story of being one of us when really he was just using us because we were the only group that would listen.

[@mrmusickhimself]

@@gottfriedosterbach3907Now THAT is the best answer.

[@map3384]

I had a heart attack a year before Kevin Smith had his. When he decided he was going to make a movie about the experience and what lies after survival I was thankful. Lots of my friends died in their 40s of heart attack. I and Smith survived the big one. I was expecting a movie about life going forward and doing the things we dreamed of doing our youth. Not going back to our 20s which isn’t possible. I’m sad for this movie. Killing of Rebecca was stupid. Then they kill Dante off? Why? It should have been serious but funny. To bad he didn’t ask advice from Mel Brooks.

[@Burtlocker]

It's the end of clerks, it's supposed to be a final thing. Or did you really want to continue untill all actors are behind strollers? His films always got a lot of flack thus I'm more inclined to give him the benefit of doubt. To me the movie is fine but I get people expected more.

[@map3384]

@@Burtlocker Contrary to popular belief life doesn’t end at age 50. Yes he should have grown old to see his kids and grandkids grown up. People should enjoy the fruit of their labor into old age. They earned it.

[@Burtlocker]

@@map3384 So you do agree? Although you seem to care more about the characters in the film then the people acting in real life.

[@map3384]

@@Burtlocker They’re actors playing a part. What does it matter to them?

[@Burtlocker]

@@map3384 a lot if you know the backstories of these people and realize half of them aren't actors at all.

[@leadsin99er]

Clerks should have ended at 2. Just as Devils Rejects ended on a good note, but Rob Zombie had to ruin it and make a senselese 3rd film.

[@philkjimenez]

Yea third one was dumb for sure

[@RaveRaptor7]

Clerks 3 didn't work at all because Kevin Smith went full Hollywood. He lost every and all touch with the regular person, he's been making movies of this quality for a while like Yoga Hosers and up.

[@nettack]

He caters to his audience. Not one of his movies since Cop Out has been anything remotely Hollywood. Many were four walled. He knows what kind of movies he wants to make and his fanbase appreciates and adjusts his budget accordingly.

[@BishopWalters12]

@@nettack LOL, most of his fanbase has disliked his movies in more recent years unless you're a blinded fanboy with no standards.

[@map3384]

Absolutely.

[@BareBandSubscription]

I really don’t think that has anything to do with it. This is just a creatively bankrupt and misjudged movie.

[@BareBandSubscription]

@@IoiniEverson He-Man was made to sell toys. It was always some corporate BS.

[@seanturner1197]

I watched clerks 1 and 2. And mallrats and Jay and silent bob strike back. And dogma. But never clerks 3 and it looks like I've dodged a bullet with clerks 3.

[@KahnuevsKrake]

I liked the movie because it was kind of a natural progression from the first two. Clerks 2 had an aura of melancholy to it because there was this theme of life moving on, getting old and feeling like your life was going nowhere, yet I still laughed uproariously throughout, whereas here it gets really morbid and deals with death and not taking your life for granted, which makes for a good story, but unfortunately the movie lacked the laughs even if it had the substance. Dante losing his wife and daughter pretty much immediately after the events of Clerks 2 felt like what they did with Alien 3 and Terminator: Dark Fate. The ending was an emotional gut punch, and I think it was Smiths best film since Zack and Miri, but it was probably the most depressing comedy I've ever seen, and considering the first two were uproariously funny, this felt a tad out of place, even if it did feel like a natural progression.

[@MrBlink1980]

It was not the natural progression for Randal to be a dick to his best friend while being the only constant in Dante's life. The movie didn't need a Happy Ending and Dante could have still died. However, he didn't need to end with realizing he wasted his life with a dick of a friend. You can have a sad depressing ending that is just written better. Clerks 3 was not..

[@KahnuevsKrake]

@@MrBlink1980 I believe the point in that was that Randal, after his heart attack, had this newfound drive in life and became so focussed on making the movie, he took his friendship with Dante for granted. But then when Dante suffered a heart attack himself, it knocked sense into him. The film really is about how you can take your loved ones and your health for granted, kinda like how a married couple sometimes do. Yes, Randal did come across as a bit self centred and micromanaging when it came to directing the movie, but I'd put that down to his drive to make the movie at the expense of everything else, including Dantes feelings. Whether that makes you root for the character is very debateable, but that's how I interpreted it.

[@gabrieljewett4042]

The scene in the graveyard contradicts the ending and Dante’s conclusion. It implies that he should want to move on and then he just doesn’t? Kinda strange

[@mayotango1317]

The ending of Clerks 2 is kinda sad, even Dante feel regret.

[@crazyforgg]

it's just c_uck f_etish crap. it doesn't have any meaning beyond that.

[@anonconspicuous6910]

This is the first time I've even heard about Clerks 3. I used to watch in anticipation for a Kevin Smith movie. Now the most entertainment I get is cringing from him crying about EVERYTHING. Dude is a joke

[@brokentardis]

So what was Randall's movie for?? Like, what function did it serve the story, other than to provide countless 'member berries' for the audience to goon at? We never see a premiere or a screening or a physical release or a streaming deal or anything. All we're left with as an ending is Dante dies miserable and now Randall and everyone else are miserable. Forever. Boy, thanks for that one, Kevin. It's almost like you subconsciously hate Clerks so much, that you had to kill it. And once again kill off Dante because you don't know how to end the movie.

[@PatrickPaul1203]

I saw something completely different when I watched the movie. I saw the making of the film as a terrific plot device. You have an inciting incident, you have the actions taken after the incident and a conclusion. The move is the actions taken. As far as if it made it to theaters or not I don’t see as relevant to the movie by the end. It’s about these two people and the lives the led inside the quick stop. I also think it’s both of theirs best acting, they really showed a lot of range that wasn’t there before. It’s absolutely fine if you don’t see it that way, but that’s what I saw

[@gregarganda]

Aw man I loved the ending of II with Rosario Dawson. I do not know if I "should" watch 3.

[@yaknow8493]

I thought the movie sucked pretty hard but I LOVED the ending. It was beautiful in every way.

[@PaulRizzo]

I’m a massive legacy Kevin Smith fan and follow everything he does and I completely agree, Clerks 3 was a MASSIVE misfire.

[@jasonabc]

Yeah sort of the same boat. I really didn't like clerks 3 at all. I don't even think I laughed once and fast forwarded through a lot of it. I bought a copy of it just to support Kevin but this one was just trash. Still a KS fan and probably always will be but he was never able to surpass the original clerks and that is fine. He did more than I ever did.

[@mayotango1317]

Clerks is not a comedy. Is real life.

[@crazyforgg]

the fact that this is even a question just goes to show how truly devoid of taste people are

[@JaeTheGent]

The movies he'd been releasing LONG before this signaled his waning capabilities... The Jay and Silent Bob reboot was poorly written dumpster juice, he had the he-man debacle. Kevin Smith is a woke Hollyweirdo stripped of his Jersey authenticy for a long time.

[@djcruiselover3827]

I appreciated this movie from a nostalgia perspective because I’m a really big fan of the first two movies and the rest of the universe but unfortunately I can rewatch those movies. I have no interest in re-watching this movie.

[@philkasafir.]

I actually quite liked the movie to be honest 😂 and I'm a die hard fan of the first two movies! But respect where it's due, I enjoyed your video because you're constructive with your criticism and you aren't just spending 20 minutes going "this movie sucked balls" 😎 I suppose the third movie isn't for everyone but I thought it was pretty decent, it's not his best film by a long shot but way better than Yoga Hosers 😂 I like to pretend that movie doesn't exist! I think clerks 3 definitely highlights Brian O'Halloran's skills because he really got me in the feels in the 2nd half, he needs some recognition for that 😎

[@philkasafir.]

@Vee_Infusoo scammer.

[@miastobojstwo]

I laughed once at the "god holy ghosted me" line.

[@colewilliams9432]

Not enough comedy for a comedy

[@BareBandSubscription]

It got a couple little chuckles and smiles out of me. The two biggest problems, I think, are that A) there’s simply not enough comedy in the movie to begin with (it’s more of a tone deaf drama), so coupled with the insanely dark and depressing story directions, the movie just feels largely humorless, and B) Kevin Smith has apparently reached a point where he equates “cute” with comedy. You can see it in his performance as Silent Bob now and in a lot of the cornier humor that crops up more and more in his movies. He’s not telling jokes or writing funny lines of dialogue anymore, he’s just making everything light and cutesy and using that as his humor substitute a lot of the time. Also, a lot of the dialogue is just bad, questionable, or groan worthy. There were also zero Clerks-style, stop-and-talk conversations sprinkled with funny observations. Not one. That’s like the entire hook of a Clerks movie, and even Clerks II attempted it in places. There’s also like one lame running gag about people thinking Randal’s movie is an “adult film” that just feels lazily dropped in places. There’s no funny timing with it like there was with the shoe polish gag in the first movie or anything. So all in all, not a very good comedy film to say the least.

[@WingsOfAgeOfConsent]

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[@drpeppaerdrpeppaer5434]

Clerks 3 was a slap in the face to all of the fans. Horrible writing and bad directing. He needs to stop doing drugs when he writes

[@nooodles939]

I totally agree with this video. I really had to force myself to get to the end of clerks 3. The first 2 movies are classic, and kevin dropped a big steaming stinker for #3.

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

Probably best one doesn't make a "tribute" to their own work. Especially decades afterward when everyone has grown into significantly less cool people than they were. Not to mention the whole Kevins alienation of more than half own fan base.

[@m.hreels9822]

I just watched clerks three yesterday. Obviously, I think the first one is the best, the second one I find is actually pretty brilliant and pretty good and I like the ending of the second one but the third one just felt like Kevin Smith ran out of ideas so he thought having the characters go out and shoot the first movie would be compelling enough. I understood the first heart attack for Randall, but I thought the second heart attack for Donte was a little bit pointless. I think he could’ve come up with another way to get those messages across instead of having one of the characters die off. I just feel like Kevin Smith really didn’t know what he wanted to do with the third film, which is a shame. I was really hoping the third one would be a lot better. 🙏🏻

[@BishopWalters12]

It would've been interesting if Dante and Becky were pretty happy with kids. Randall has a heart attack, it finally hits him that he's a 50 year old man with nothing and he doesn't just want to be a Clerk in NJ for the rest of his life. There was a story here but Kevin dropped the ball.

[@laurenced2916]

Would love to hear you talk about Dumb and Dumber. The first is a masterpiece but the prequel and sequel were terrible.

[@seewhativescene]

Sometimes it's best not to support your favorite films throw it all away for cheap nostalgia. I'm never watching Indy4 or 5

[@Burtlocker]

I loved Clerks 3, I think a lot of people are missing the point and that's ok. Those more familiar with his earlier work understand it and appreciate it. Thank god it's not a Marvel movie.

[@Simgor2]

I really enjoyed the first 2 Clerks but I refuse to watch Clerks 3 because they truly did Dante dirty.

[@jmarx3943]

I loved Kevin smith's movies growing up, up to and including clerks 2. Honestly, I just decided to leave it there. I have zero interest in watching this movie. That's not a knock against smith or his movies...I'm glad he's still making movies. My interests have just changed as I've gotten older. Best of luck to Smith and the cast. My head canon ending to the characters is clerks 2

[@jacks910]

“Same minds behind Clerks 3” is a wrong statement, Scott Mosier wasn’t involved in the production.

[@fireflow726]

What clerk? I don't have any clerks!

[@thefilthyrhombus3856]

Personally, I would say Clerks died with Clerks 2. Don't get me wrong, Clerks 2 is a good movie, it's very funny, and as you said, it retains the heart of the original. However, my observation of it was that: Clerks equals mid-20s slackers, aren't they adorable. When will they get their lives together? Clerks 2 equals late 30's/early 40's slackers, and that's just kinda sad. I remember the part about Randall saying he buttfucks high-school girls and I was thinking, that that's just creepy and gross. How fucked up is New Jersey that high-school girls want to have sex with shlubby middle aged losers? Also, while the dialog is funny, there's just something ridiculous about watching middle-aged guys talking and behaving exactly the way they did 20 years ago. Nevertheless, Clerks 2 does end on a high note and progresses the characters, so while it starts off fairly pathetic, it at least ends with Dante and Randall finally growing up. Lastly there's no way around it, these guys are fucking old and they look fucking old. Yeah, they're not "get off my lawn old," but damn they got grey hair, turkey neck, jowls, etc. and if watching 40 year old guys behave like 22 year Olds was ridiculous, then watching 55 year olds do it would be outright pathetic. That's why I plan on passing on Clerks 3, I'd rather have Dante and Randall go out on a high note with their dignity still intact.

[@shep6489]

In Clerks 2 they're 33

[@thefilthyrhombus3856]

@Shep The actors were 34 and 35 at the time of filming, but they looked closer to 40 than 30. Kinda like how now they look closer to 60 than 50.

[@blastedquinn56]

I loved clerks, mallrats, chasing amy, dogma, jay and silent bob strike back and clerks 2. I love clerks the animated series. I didn't like a third movie and I'm ain't a fan of clerks 3. I'm a fan of clerks 1 and 2.

[@harryshuman9637]

Clerks 3 got same quality of cinematography as a crappy Nostalgia Critic skit..

[@blujaebird]

I like the original ending with Dante being shot. Not that I didn't like the character, but for a movie on its own, without the legacy that came after it, it was a perfect, brutally ironic ending. It was definitely art.

[@Hatchbasic]

I haven’t seen clerks 3 yet and this is disappointing. I thought Jay and silent Bob reboot was awful myself

[@saltysteved3831]

If they had to make a third movie this was actually a great setup. It could’ve lead to a loving tribute to independent filmmaking, how that’s changed over the years and the profound impact making such a film could have on a person’s life. It was basically the setup for the ultimate thank you to Kevin Smith’s fans. Instead it just needlessly crapped on everything fans could’ve expected from this movie and only paid tribute to the series in the laziest ways possible.

[@artis1969]

Oddly, the way the first movie is described here in the first two minutes might have sounded more geared to 2023, with the weirdness and oddity. Problem is that it's no longer 1994. Indie film makers get to do this one time. Anything beyond that, and you're venturing down the path of self-parody. Smith got away with it in the sequel, because it ties things together in a semi-dramatic way. To me, that's where the story ended. I had zero desire to see the third installment because I knew part two was straddling that line close enough for me. The trailer alone felt like a waste of time. It also didn't help that so many years passed between each one. Smith clearly felt he had to play to younger audiences in both sequels, and in C3 it became outright pandering and a very clumsy reach. If I had to compare it to something, the first thing that comes to mind is Stephen Colbert. Brilliant satire/parody followed up by unoriginal virtue signaling to a pre-determined demographic that can only live ironically in past successes. The street cred brought people in, the comeback found people vicariously living in the past.

[@georgehernandez2156]

Clerks 3 was awful

[@spdrwrtr]

For me Clerks ended with the second movie.

[@burningempire666]

Haven't seen Clerks 3 yet, but I HATED "Reboot"

[@briandunlap8534]

sorry, i loved all 3 of these movies and i'd have a hard time picking my favorite between II & III

[@brianbiswell7591]

After watching a few diff reviews of clerks 3 I refuse to watch it ever have my own head cannon I will follow

[@shayZero]

Kevin Smith was a very lucky, mediocre talent and that became very clear in about 1995. The problem was he was popular with the 90s Gen X audience. But that was three generations ago. Now all he does is cry. I say this as a former huge fan, who listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts over many years and seeing his movies in empty cinemas also for many years. This is relevant because I have a clear memory of when he was making Zack amd Miri, on the podcast he talked about Clerks 3 and he would make it when he has a good idea where to take the characters because currently (and I quote) "The only thing I can think of was them making a movie in the QuickStop, so it shows I dont know where to take them!" And then about 15 years later: this.

[@salvadorromero9712]

Wow. I'm glad someone said it! This is actually even harsher than I would have put it, but no lies detected. I would have said, he's someone who has severely overreached his talent, and has become decreasingly aware or even remotely likeable about it.

[@philkjimenez]

Jay and silent bob are stupid characters that only work in small doses. A third rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted, if they were real I would kick the shit out of them. They are fucking clown shoes!

[@cyborgrex]

Outside of the happy ending override which is a trope I hate, the worst aspect of Clerks 3 for me was Elias. I found him kind of annoying in part 2 but in this one he was unbearable.

[@condemnedto4093]

I cried at the end of Clerks 3, not because Dante died but because it ruined the original, and the sequel for me. I’ve literally had to take a couple months off of not watching or listening to anything Kevin Smith related just so I can remember the original Clerks and love it again for what it was and what it meant to me, I’m just going to pretend this third movie never happened (and I really wish every time I went on KZbin I didn’t keep seeing these reviews of the movie reminding me of its existence)…

[@biguy617]

Kevin’s career died when he did the Tusk, Red State and Yoga Hoosiers trilogy then ruined He-man. I hate Kevin now.

[@tfuenke]

Red states good tho

[@mattreedah]

Clerks 2 is way good

[@PurplePaddy]

First time I saw this movie was at like 1 in the morning as a kid when it said it was supposed to be an animated DC movie I think at the time it was Justice league a new frontier and then it turned out to be a black and white movie that I thought was a commercial to start with 😂 I spent probably 10 mins wondering when my movie would start before my young self clued in that this was the movie I was watching ahha and I’m so happy that teletoon at night had that little mix up

[@MWMTEE]

Clerks 3 is so bad it feels like it was the first film dont know how they got worse at acting

[@thesaltnation5570]

I disagree i love all three movies all for different reasons

[@jellygiraffe]

I watched this last night and I have to agree, which really saddens me. I love most of Kevin Smiths' movies, with the only exception being Jersey Girl, Cop Out, J&SB reboot and now, sadly Clerks III. The Clerks movies were my go to movies when I was feeling down. They would always cheer me up and seemed to put the world right in my mind. Clerks III did not do this for me, at all. It's slow, morbid and worst of all not funny. For me about 10% of the jokes hit, the nostalgia felt very forced and I found the whole thing just depressing. Why do this to Clerks? I get that KS wanted to make a movie about how his heart attack affected his life and his perspective on things, and that's fine, but, make a another movie. The Clerks movies were fun and while the characters were always stuck in dead and jobs and complaining all the time, it didn't matter, because they were funny and it was their bond to each other that kept them going. Now we open with *Spoilers Ahead* Becky dead off camera and their child dead along with her. Then Randall, who didn't feel like Randall at all, having a heart attack and Dante all morose an unable to move on with life. Then, instead of Dante's arc being one of acceptance and moving forward, he falls out with Randall and then Dies? WTF, I don't think anyone wanted this. Hugely disappointed with this movie. At no point did this feel like a Clerks movie. Seal the well Kevin. Leave Clerks alone.

[@goodfellas1001]

Right!!! I keep saying he should have just went to therapy instead of ruining his universe. It's obvious that each character is him at a certain time in his life or even week and how he dealt with his mortality.... great for being depressing. But I like my comedies with humor. Same with Reboot. Ben Affleck became a cuck. Silent Bob's big I'm gonna talk moment was to say the KKK was bad. We are past the 60s Kevin we get......... And now Dante listening to his wife's soul tell him she has been having orgies in heaven... In Clerks 37 bjs ended his relationship. I'm happy Kev has come to terms with his sexuality. But I didn't know cuck was a sexuality... Too many dude's getting cheated on by women and being happy about it to not be his fetish...

[@joshjohnson6891]

You nailed what happens a lot in comedy movie sequels is they shift the focus of the first main character to the "best friend" or some other supporting character when I don't think it ever truly has worked out before. For example the American Pie sequels became more about Stifler and the spin offs started being just more about Stifler's family and it just becomes too much of that character 😆

[@markdenton3141]

And Jim’s dad for some reason had to be in them.

[@seewhativescene]

🥸Jim's dad cursed us up schitscreek, thanks a lot Eugene @@markdenton3141

[@D-Fens_1632]

Yeah that's called "milking a franchise." Cross reference "Walking Dead."

[@D-Fens_1632]

And it's actually pretty remarkable that there was actually a Stifler spinoff universe. I mean it's on par with Corey Feldman direct to video movies, but he really made a career out of MeToo, one of the last.

[@jasonlewis3742]

Hot tub time machine 2 did that too. Fucking mess of a film

[@amunago080]

Kevin Smith has fans like zelda has fans.

[@TylerPanzramCarlin]

Being that Kevin has said that he sort of sees himself in Dante. I really feel like the whole point of this movie,was tell his audience something. That something was that he hates his oldself, and hates the people who like that guy, so much that he killed him off. Still cried like a child at the ending, it came out on my birthday and am closer to 30 than 20.

[@Njbear7453]

I cried 4 times

[@turkish2515]

Your right about everything here but I did enjoy hanging with these characters agian. It was so strange to kill Dante and his wife especially since she shows up in a ghost scene, it was mean and tragic for what seemed to be just for the sake of being mean and tragic. I completely disagreed with Kevin Smiths decision on that one.

[@PatrickPaul1203]

She was only available for 2 days of shooting so that’s all they really had time for, it’s also to make the final scene more emotional as he finds himself in the theater with her.

[@nettack]

@@PatrickPaul1203 Yeah, but then they could have just killed her off, saved the money and invest in a teenage actor playing his child for the whole duration of filming.

[@BishopWalters12]

@@PatrickPaul1203 It was still pretty dumb, just have her home with the kids and that could easily explain why we don't see her that much.

[@PatrickPaul1203]

@@BishopWalters12 then we would have had to deal with her grief at the end. He can’t die and be with her if she’s alive

[@BishopWalters12]

@@PatrickPaul1203 I think you're missing the point, killing her or Dante off was dumb. Randal having a heart attack and wanting to do something for the first time in his life could've been interesting.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

YOU ARE SO CORRECT!! Sadly, though, Kevin Smith will never see it this way because too many of his paying "fans" have told the emperor they love his new clothes. I wish he would return to writing films like Red State & Tusk. I was happy with that career turn. Who knew he'd take that long back slide into rehashing his previous efforts? For a man who has been writing films for 30 years, his last few outings feel like they were written by an amateur!!

[@captassassin5680]

I have considered myself a die hard fan of Smith’s since he busted in on the scene with Clerks. But what he’s become and what he did in Clerks 3, no more! He’s lost all his comedic teeth, and now gets his marching orders from not only his wife but his daughter as well! Now he turns out lame woke scripts and cries on command to push whatever Disney+ programming needs his water works. I’m convinced that if early 90’s Smith would be overwhelmed with shame seeing him now.

[@lothar71]

Lol you were never a fan and are just a moron

[@Sindoku]

Now that Kevin Smith has stopped smoking weed. I think he should just try to remake Clerks III, only making it good. The only good part of C3 was the end when Dante dies, and that genuinely made me fucking cry. Please consider a remake Mr. Smith.

[@jacks910]

He’s still a libtard tho