Best & Worst: Kevin Smith

15 years of highs and lows with the king of stoner cinema

Best & Worst: Jay And Silent Bob Scene
 

The Best: Beserker!

Film: Clerks (1994)

Why It Rocks:  It’s got everything. Bob sucking a smoke silently in the background. Jay yammering on like a kid who thought speed was sherbet in the foreground. A near-constant stream of swears. Really, all that’s missing is a nooch.

The mushroom-haired Russian may get the main yucks, but it’s Jay and Bob who command the screen; Jay’s awkward charisma is never overshadowed.

Scenes with simple originality and charm like this were sorely missed by the time the bloated Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back rolled around…

The Worst: The Diamond Heist

Film: Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Why It Sucks: The dope-slinging duo encounter a catsuit-clad girl gang – featuring Ali Larter from Heroes, Eliza Dushku, Shannon Elizabeth and Smith’s wife Jennifer Schwalbach-Smith.

Next thing our heroes are being framed for a preposterously acrobatic diamond heist that ends with Chrissy (Ali Larter) setting off the alarm with a loud fart. A stinker, in every sense of the word.

Next: Sex Act

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    • Gorty

      Oct 30th 2010, 1:02

      Wow, in another article you put Alanis Morisette as God as one of biggest miscasts in movies ever and here you praise it.

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