Creeva’s World 2.0

Chas­ing Amy is my favorite Kevin Smith of all time.   I remem­ber back before it was released fol­low­ing all the news on the View Askew web­site to find out when it was com­ing out.  I missed the announce­ment.   At work the fol­low­ing Mon­day one of my co-workers (another Kevin Smith fan) men­tioned that he saw it over the week­end.   It was out?????  IT WAS OUT???!!!??   I imme­di­ately jumped on the Inter­net using Netscape (this was before it was just the intrawebs and pre­dates a blo­gos­phere of anynote) and looked up the time it was play­ing.   The next show­ing was at 3:30  — I had to work until 6 — grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I decided then and there that I was leav­ing early to go see this movie.  I ran it by my boss and she gave me the go ahead.   This was the fisrt time I had ever seen by myself, it just wasn’t any­thing I really did by myself.  Since then I’ve only really seen 3–4 movies on my own.   I went in, bought a pop­corn and a coke, found a seat in  the mid­dle of the the­ater and set­tled in for some Kevin Smith good­ness.   In the the­ater there was also a guy in his for­ties and two ladies in her fifties.

The movie rolled through — I seemed to be the only one out of the four of us in the the­ater laugh­ing out loud.   It was that awk­ward kind of choked out­burst of laugh­ing that you do when you real­ize no one else around you is laugh­ing.  I thor­oughly enjoyed the movie in every way.   I man­aged over time to take 6 friends to the the­ater to see it, once in a small art­house the­ater in Cleve­land, the other a mid­night show­ing at a local cin­ema.   I think this is Kevin’s best work.

F’ing tracer.

You can buy it now from Ama­zon.