I liked it 20 years ago
But then I grew up.
shareFor sure. Hard to watch now.
shareSeems like we've all grown up. Not so sure about Kevin Smith, however.
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MovieChat Forums > Mallrats (1995) Discussion > I liked it 20 years ago
Must confess. I've been putting off rewatching it for just that reason. Sometimes movies make better fond memories.
shareI guess I wasn’t lucky as you guys because I never watched it then. So I don’t have any lukewarm memories or nastalgia. I think I would’ve liked it more back then. Now watching it for the first time while in my 40s I find it rather more irritating than funny. Yeah, it was at least amusing and fun to see all these actors young. But man, hate Jason Lee’s Brodi character. He is such an annoying twat in this film. I wasn’t rooting for him at all, and the dude gets the girl at the end, lol.
shareI'm having that same experience with Crocodile Dundee right now. I'm no longer finding Mick so charming. He's kind of a creep.
shareI know what you mean. I can watch the two Clerks films into infinity, but most of his other stuff I can't get back into the headspace of my younger self. There are a lot of films and shows like that for me, actually.
shareWhy does growing up mean you can't enjoy things from your youth?
I'm in my 40's now but can still watch and enjoy everything from when I was younger. My body may have grown older but i'm still the same person with the same tastes and enjoy the same things.
Agreed. I liked it in 1995. I still like it in 2021.
shareSo it’s a typical Kevin Smith movie? You like it when you’re a teenager or college student, then you grow out of it.
shareI grew out of Kevin Smith in the middle of seeing an Evening With Kevin Smith. I didn't even stay for the whole show. I was glad I didn't pay a lot for the tickets.
shareYou were watching him live and decided to leave? What made you get up and walk out like that?
shareProbably listening to him going on about anal sex with his wife. This was around 20 years ago, and I just wasn't finding him funny anymore.
I should add, I'm not a prude. I don't mind someone talking about sex of any kind, but I think it was just that there wasn't much else, or any substance to what he was talking about. Nothing new.
I can see that. Let me guess, he was high while banging his wife? Because he gets high. Not sure if people know that he gets high, so I have to tell people that. Y'know, because he doesn't mention it.
shareEven my ex, who still enjoys Smith, was okay to leave. It might have just been an off night, but yeah, it wasn't good.
shareIm watching it now. And frankly i think Brodie is just a bad protagonist. There nothing interesting about him, hes just a dick. And TS is also kinda annoying. Just let her do the game show and ask her to marry you after. Personally don't think a movie about two guys getting dumped by there girlfriends is the most interesting subject matter in the world. At least with clerks a lot of the humor came from the insane customers. Plus Dante isn't nearly as unlikable.
shareI'm going to give credit to Jason Lee. He's the only actor who had Smith's dialogue come off as natural. The rest of the cast sounded like they were reading paragraphs.
That's why Dante and Randall worked better. They were more natural with the dialogue. The other actors had the paragraph reading aspect that made those two work. Mallrats didn't so much.
True.
shareI watched it when I was in jr high and have enjoyed it ever since. Sure I realize London's acting kinda sucks in this movie, and the story is weak. But it is what it is. It's not trying to be serious. I like it despite the flaws.
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