Writer: Jonathan Sullivan
Despite his less than stellar career (and rant against critics) as of late, I consider Kevin Smith to be a personal hero. When I was 14, I had seen a little bit of Dogma and after some internet (slow slow 56k) research, I found that this was the fourth movie in a series known as The View Askewniverse. This was a group of films that had central characters and all existed in the same world, and they were all the brain child of a man from Jersey named Kevin Smith. Being the OCD person I am, I had to now watch all of them in order as quickly as possible, so I headed to my local mall and bought the movie Clerks on VHS. That night, I settled down to watch this movie and to find out just why my sister and other older kids held these movies in such high regard. After finishing the movie, I proceeded to rewind it, and watch again. When that was done, I rewound it and watched it, in its entirety, once again. Soon enough, the sun was coming up and I had just spent all night watching and re-watching one movie. That is the time I can point to where I truly fell in love with film in a less childish “oooo that explosion is big!!!” way.