Only 5 minutes in and the exposition is horrible. The news broadcast was dreadfully amateur and the classroom teacher was embarrassing. I watched this when it first came out and I liked it a lot, but now I'm re-watching it, and I'm instantly turned off by Smith's lack of any realistic or natural sounding dialogue
shareI enjoyed the movie despite its flaws and was surprised it was by Kevin Smith. The overall look, direction, pacing and dialogue were very straight-to-download. The debrief between Goodman and the 2 FBI guys looked like a rehearsal. Kevin Pollak was wasted (he does a great Christopher Walken impression btw - tho' not in this movie), Goodman looked ill, but Michael parks was great. I thought the pastor was played by Robert Patrick until I saw the credits.
shareThe classroom was hilarious, not really in a good way. I laughed hard when the teacher called her student gay, but my laughter was more in a "wtf did she just say?" and less than a "hahaha that was funny!" way. It was so strange and off-putting, and even moreso when she kept talking!
shareIt was horrible, but unfortunately realistic of american education system.
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