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When I said drama, I was thinking more of the end in both movies when Dante and Randal go at it. I thought those were well-written scenes. The drama in this movie just seemed forced by needlessly killing off Becky and then Dante.
At least Jay and Silent Bob Reboot didn't kill off characters unnecessarily just to create drama. The Ben Affleck Chasing Amy scene towards the end was better drama than anything in Clerks 3. And while Jay and Silent Bob Reboot did rehash jokes from Strike Back, they at least put a different spin on them unlike Clerks 3.
Clerks and Clerks 2 had dramatic scenes. I had no problem with having dramatic scenes in this movie, but rather how they were executed. First, they killed off characters just to create drama. Second, the drama overwhelmed the movie's comedy.
Daniel pulled the water spraying stunt when tensions had cooled and Johnny and his gang weren't bothering him.
When they fought for the very first time at the beach, they were BOTH acting out of line but it was clear Johnny was actually holding back and trying to let Daniel off easy.
I don't think Daniel was the bully, but he was far from innocent.
I really like both. Clerks 2 wasn't as good as Clerks but it was still pretty good.
I actually liked this. I watched Clerks 3 last night and really disliked it but everyone seems to have liked it. So I guess I'm contrary, which I often am when it comes to individual films within franchises.
It was worse than I expected, and I liked Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
I wouldn't have killed off Becky for starters. And then to kill Dante too...wtf?
After actually seeing Clerks 3, I wish Smith had just stopped at 2. Clerks 2 wrapped things up nicely. I was up for seeing Dante and Randal one last time, but this movie was such a disappointment that yeah I wish it had stopped at 2.
True, none of them turned evil, but Johnny obviously never got over it like the other two and was living a pretty crappy life when the show started. He never apologized to Daniel...he just had to concede that both he and Daniel had different sides to the same story and that the truth was somewhere in-between (Daniel had to concede this too).
But yeah, you're right that Barnes' arc felt just like Chozen's.
What was bizarre was just how quickly they wrapped up that whole storyline, but it was probably for the best.
I think the way each of them said "grandfather" and "granddaughter" brought home the point they aren't actually related.
I did at least like his bond with Tory...he did seem to genuinely care about her even if he was using her a bit too.
Keep in mind we the viewers didn't actually know until this season that Daniel's wife is Jessica's cousin and that Jessica had basically set them up.
The first four seasons didn't say anything about how Daniel met his wife...we just knew they had been married awhile is all.
Yeah, it was a real realistic ending. Rosario Dawson and Brian O'Halloran are dead in real life so they should be dead in the movies.
Oh wait a minute...
Iran-Contra was about trading arms for hostages and diverting profits to the contras...where did you get drug smuggling from that? Where's the proof that the CIA funneled the drugs into black neighborhoods as the show suggested? It's been investigated and debunked.
Lied about what? There still has not been proof that drugs were smuggled into black neighborhoods as the show suggested...it's just a conspiracy theory. Show me the proof.
Investigations run by Democrats and left-meaning media have said otherwise.
The 3rd episode presented a (at least somewhat) discredited left-wing conspiracy theory as a fact.
I think I'm done with this show too...the writing is starting to get as bad as the comics.
That house seemed too opulent even for Saul!