Creeva’s World 2.0

I saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri­day night, it wasn’t that good.  I won’t say that it’s bad, it’s just wasn’t what I was expect­ing.  I expect a nor­mal Kevin Smith movie to have heart and an echo of real­ity through out it.  I liked Jer­sey Girl, and my favorite is Chas­ing Amy — both of these showed me a glimpse of who Kevin Smith is. Zack and Miri didn’t show me that.

Let’s look at the oppo­site side, I also love Seth Rogen movies for the same rea­son.  But the glimpse of truth that is shown his movies is dif­fer­ent then the one that Smith pro­vides.  I can iden­tify with Freaks and Geeks as much as I can with Clerks.   Just it’s a dif­fer­ent way that binds them both to me.

So what’s the problem?

This is one of those times that two worlds shouldn’t col­lide.  I think Smith haves actors he nor­mally works with that fol­low a cer­tain speech cadence and dia­logue flow, Rogen can’t per­form that.   I’m sorry Seth, it just isn’t your style.   Though in the final prod­uct it felt more like a Seth Rogen movie then a Kevin Smith movie.   The only thing that felt remotely Smithesque was the fight between Zack and Miri in the back right before Zack dis­ap­pears.   This was the only time it felt like a Smith film.

He seemed to be chas­ing the dream of Chas­ing Amy in the film, but for that goal it fell flat on it’s face.  Part of my prob­lem maybe  was look­ing for­wrad to this movie too much and my per­sonal didn’t live up to expec­ta­tions.   Either way I’ll look eagerly towards his next movie.

I would have got­ten this write up done sooner since I saw the movie on Fri­day night (pre­miere night), expect Sat­ur­day my writ­ing wsa wrapped up in NANOWRIMO.