Who laugh as loud as I have when we watch Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back?
Our Kevin Smith retrospective reaches the film that was supposed to mark the end of the View Askewniverse, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back… Published on Aug 6, 2009 “Why in God’s name would I wanna keep writing about characters whose central preoccupation are weed and dick and fart jokes? I mean, ya gotta grow man. Don’t you ever want anything more for yourself?” – Holden By the time 2001 rolled around, Kevin Smith was ready to make what he thought was his final step into the ‘View Askewniverse’ and go out with a bang with the two characters who had featured in every film of his to date: the unstoppable duo of Jay and Silent Bob. After finally being banned from standing outside the Quick-Stop by Dante and Randal, Jay and Silent Bob find out from old friend Brodie (Jason Lee) that Bluntman and Chronic, the comic based on their likenesses, is going to be made into a movie. Angered that they haven’t received any type of payment for this they decide to hunt down Holden (Ben Affleck) and get
By the time 2001 rolled around, Kevin Smith was ready to make what he thought was his final step into the ‘View Askewniverse’ and go out with a bang with the two characters who had featured in every film of his to date: the unstoppable duo of Jay and Silent Bob. After finally being banned from standing outside the Quick-Stop by Dante and Randal, Jay and Silent Bob find out from old friend Brodie (Jason Lee) that Bluntman and Chronic, the comic based on their likenesses, is going to be made into a movie. Angered that they haven’t received any type of payment for this they decide to hunt down Holden (Ben Affleck) and get him to pony up the cash. Having sold the rights to his partner Banky (Jason Lee…again), he no longer is involved but he does mention to the both of them that they and the movie are getting a negative response from the Internet movie site chat forums, prompting the two to decide to go to Hollywood and shut the movie down to save their good names or at least get a royalt
By the time 2001 rolled around, Kevin Smith was ready to make what he thought was his final step into the ‘View Askewniverse’ and go out with a bang with the two characters who had featured in every film of his to date: the unstoppable duo of Jay and Silent Bob. After finally being banned from standing outside the Quick-Stop by Dante and Randal, Jay and Silent Bob find out from old friend Brodie (Jason Lee) that Bluntman and Chronic, the comic based on their likenesses, is going to be made into a movie. Angered that they haven’t received any type of payment for this they decide to hunt down Holden (Ben Affleck) and get him to pony up the cash. Having sold the rights to his partner Banky (Jason Lee…again), he no longer is involved but he does mention to the both of them that they and the movie are getting a negative response from the Internet movie site chat forums, prompting the two to decide to go to Hollywood and shut the movie down to save their good names or at least get a royalt
