IF YOU HATED "DRAWING FLIES..." by Dane Youssef
Guys, this is the thread forum. You hated it all-over, I get that.
But if you want to write a review--you wanna strike down your wrath upon it as scorned movie-geek, hell--go to the "user reviews" section and put your comments down THERE.
But since you opened up this topic, I might as well chime in my two cents:
Yeah, quite a big chunk of folks who watched this just out-right hated, hated it. Hated it to death. Hated it with a white-hot passion. Hated Smith for funding it, even appearing in it--albeit very, very briefly. And they just had to ask... "why?"
Why would he get this thing made, put his name on it--as well as the "View Askew" seal of approval? You know what that is. The clown with a 5 o' clock shadow laughing good and hard.
Look, guys--I know Mr. Smith has his loyal followers. The legion of good people who just want to see so much as anything he's associated with. ANYTHING! Anything Kev might have glossed over in passing. His fans are loyal, dammit! He has his cult and they're like those lemmings in Jamestown in '78. They'd drink the spiked punch for him. They'd follow him out to the farthest, highest peak and leap right off the cliff for him, anything. Hell, I'm one of them!
They'd pay to watch him use the toilet. People hated "Tail Lights Fade," "Vulgar" and this. I know they love his "Clerks" shtick--people like Dante and Randal, Brodie, Walt and Steve-Dave are his audience.
But this isn't a Kevin Smith film. At all. This was not his movie. The two responsible (maybe even to blame, you be the judge) are Canadian filmmakers are Matthew Gissing and Malcolm Ingram. I have to say, I was disappointed too.
NOT BECAUSE Jay and Silent Bob were absent or because I wanted to see these guys hanging out at Quick Stop and R.S.T. But because it's started out like it was really going somewhere. But then once the plot of Sasquatch comes into play... as well as the "Diaper-men," I was rolling my eyes. Like these four travelers, the movie lost it's way very, very badly.
The association of Kevin Smith himself got people to tune in, but then they were disappointed--furious even when they found out he wasn't really there. This one still has some fine points. But without the good hand of Kev, this thing might've just sat on the shelf collecting dust and cobwebs.
Should it have? What are YOUR THOUGHTS on "The Files." Draw your conclusions.
--A Believer In The "Askew," Dane Youssef
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