“Because his work is vulgar and has gained better backing, you don’t need to distance yourself from it.”

one thing i know about Sean is he doesnt jump off bandwagons just because something becomes popular. I fully agree with him that (even though I really liked Clerks II) that when Kevin Smith has made larger budget films, he has not produced his best work and that in general his writing style from film to film is so similar that a person could reasonably become sick of it. And even though I’m convinced he naturally cant stop swearing, the vulgarity in the films often comes across as forced.

You act like Sean is a fan who doesnt admit it, when perhaps what he says is simply the truth – that he enjoys some aspects of his work and Smith’s personality but doesn’t enjoy others. Is that snobbish and prudish? Hardly.

As for that Toronto show, if that indeed is the one on the “Evening Harder” disc, I definitely agree its not up to the quality of his first spoken word collection, which was edited from a number of shows. The Toronto crowd, embarrassingly, asked stupid question after stupid question, and too many about his last disc’s material rather than new goings-on, and on top of this “Jersey Girl” was new so most of the stories are about a film I (and for that matter, most of his fanbase doesnt even) care about. The UK disc is marginally better, but not by much. And both shows are horribly outdated as well when it comes to what he actually did in the ‘future’ of that time. A friend of mine is a true blue Kevin Smith fanboy and he even though the second “evening with” collection wasnt worth his money.