I dig Kevin Smith so I'm not just trying to rag on him, but he comes off like such a douche in this documentary, like he's speaking down to us. And whether he's just going for laughs or what, he insults several people for no reason.
I donno I just got this vibe like he was really high on himself.
Kevin does have a tendency to do that, but if you listen to a bunch of his podcasts you will I think, perhaps, understand he is not like that all the time, nor even most of the time. its almost like something he struggles with but never really talks about, but self deprecation and humility is a huge part of his personality even as arrogance sometimes makes an appearance. its a sort of fascinating duality.
the best thing is probably to listen to his smodcasts about the time he wrote three separate trollish hate-letters to a local newspaper writer when he was a kid, where he does talk about himself and his foibles.
if he didnt have that part of him that is arrogant then he probably never would have made all those films and put up with all the BS he has to do to do his work. but if he didnt have the non-arrogant side to his personality, he wouldnt have attracted so many great co-workers who have a great time working with him over the past 20 years.
totally agree with the other poster. besides his movies, i own two DVDS of kevin doing his famous discussion shows - "An Evening With Kevin Smith" & "...2: Evening Harder".
he definitely walks the necessary edge all successful individuals with souls do - knowing he has that arrogance and needing it to have gotten where he is, yet he tempers that in both word and deed: truly being loyal and loving to his friends and family, as well as having strong personal ethics (and dare i say spiritually/Catholicism...he has said it himself, in the credits of "Dogma").
kevin is a truly gifted man - both with talent and with self-awareness. he is one of the lucky few who is grounded enough in his own life and core beliefs to be a real person despite the plasticity of hollywood.