Kevin Smith on Newsnight Review - part 1 of 4

[ekeb1]

That lesbo at the right was really annoying. Interupting and shit.

[Pilkie101]

Didn't realise he was so big...wow....big guy!

[themanwholikesducks]

By the way I just read Natalie Haynes new book and its great, and Jeanette Winterson is a great novelist so they know what they are on about!

[themanwholikesducks]

Im a geek. I watch about 1000 films new to me a year, read cultural journalism, read classic literature... yet I don't smoke weed, I hate television (yes I saw the wire and west wing but its an inept storytelling vehicle), I hate star wars yet love real sci fi, I hate comic books and although comic book films may be good I can't get past their roots and don't understand them.

So am I not a geek? This rise of 'geek culture' makes me mad, its not a rise of geek culture but stupid culture!

[KroliggBloodhoof]

@themanwholikesducks im not attacking you but what problem do you have with comics? also, there are so many kinds of geek that you probably fit into one category or another :)

[Terbyn]

@themanwholikesducks Dude, you need a girlfriend.

[AustinTassletine]

@themanwholikesducks I'm glad we've never met. You sound very dull.

[ska2808]

Why is the Twilight book in the Science Fiction section at 0:35?!?

[existenceisrelative]

@ska2808 Because there's technically not a dedicated "inexplicably popular crap" section in most bookstores.

[ska2808]

@existenceisrelative Tru dat.

Although I was in a bookstore the other day and Twilight has its own stand/shelf!

[existenceisrelative]

@ska2808 Oh, good. They're on top of it then. Now they just need to funnel some o' them "mangas", "self-help" books and books about war down that way.

[DB3457]

@ska2808 technically it would be deemed a Sci-Fi in the sense of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein being the "original" one. As a result you had books like Bram Stokers Dracula, and as a result of that Twilight. I think it fits the genre as well as fantasy, but it is sometimes difficult to specify as lots of novels fall under more than just one category

[Keepyeo]

@ska2808 euh .... because unless vampires are real it's part of the science fiction world. Now it being good is a total different matter ^^

[ploopplooppleepap]

I love kevin smith, but feet off the table man. Slowly turning into my dad . . .

[JD1010101110]

wow those women are so pretentious

[townsjim]

Kevin Smith knows his shit, but apart from clerks and chasing amy, his films are very overrated. Remember Mallrats? That was fucking terrible

[sidekickdaz]

@townsjim I loved Mallrats, each to his own I guess...

[manoljo]

maaaaaaan, Kevin has gotten so fat, he's sweating like a pig under the lights : /

[trentkill]

At the beginning Kevin is just sitting there like looking around like..Fuuuuuck. LOL>

[Hermy1138]

These women are more geeky than Kevin!!! a complement by the way

[diefortacos]

religion IS the dark ages (and vice versa)

[timba11]

omg, snore!, How did Kevin get stuck in the middle of these propper, boring cows? What this interview needed was Kevin to break out some c ock talk, anything to livin up these stiffs!

[TheConciseStatement]

Kevin Smith knew what type of programme Newsnight Review was and chose to go on, so he clearly likes it.

It's an arts show where critics dissect the cultural highlights of the week. Your all-out objection to the format reads very similar to Jeanette Winterson's objection to that action-oriented comic strip simply for being violent.

If you don't like what it is, then it's your problem to find something else to entertain you. Not for them to fundamentally change what it's supposed to be.

[FendRhodesticles]

Damn you're smart and well spoken. Yeah i don't know what else to say...

[TheConciseStatement]

Seriously though, what were timba and sethmusic expecting? Kirsty Wark and Natalie Haynes exchanging amusing anecdotes about anal fissures? Some people.

[FendRhodesticles]

lol

[sethmusic]

@timba11 ...yeah...this is pretty rough. how boring can you be?