"Nobody peaks with their first film."

"Nobody peaks with their first film."
-Kevin Smith
Is this true?

Aye. He hasn't even begun to peak.

He peaked with his third.
Nolan peaked with his second.

PTA

kevin smith was way ahead of his time with that fit

*BLOCKS YOUR PATH*

Chasing Amy > Clerks

I just want to know the rest of that file name

mouse over it

OH N-

Mallrats was where he peaked.

It's amazing how INCREDIBLY fat Kevin Smith used to be. He's gotta have peaked at over 400 pounds. No wonder he had a heart attack, and it's a good thing he finally lost weight. Shame that now he looks like a corpse.

Clerks was actually his peak though. It's even true for Randal and Dante.

I'm supposed to believe Dante is dating a chick 9 years older than him? more like 370 dicks amirite?

Clerks Animated Series > Dogma > Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back > Clerks > Chasing Amy > Clerks 2 > Mallrats > rest I didn't see

Do you think the theory that Lucasfilm paid off Kevin Smith to talk up ROTS is true?

"Nobody peaks with their first film."
-Kevin Smith
Is this true?

Wrong

Clerks 1 is a good movie. good not great.
no other movie of his holds up
Clerks TAS is his masterpiece
I know he had writers. three writers. Dave Mandel, Brian Kelley, and Steve Lookner. But he was in the writer's room with them, and he let them take it in wacky directions and loaded it up with jokes. They didn't make it that way behind his back.

BIG AMELICAN PAHTTYY

CAH FULLA NINJAS

Orson Welles. Shut up about The Third Man, nobodies seen that.

the guy who made American pie and Ryan coogler come to mind

Dude was stuck in 1999 and long enough became fashionable again

That's just an expression
a robot expression

Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back is hilarious and badly underrated. I also think it's the high point of Ben Affleck's acting career.

He's turning into Cory

that outfit looks so fucking comfy

post the version where he's eating a block of cheese

The guy who directed Bloodsport never topped his.

more like 370 dicks amirite?

In a row?

A ton of directors peaked at their first film.

Spielberg with Duel

Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs (yes, really)

PTA with Hard Eight (yes, really)

Rob Zombie with House of 1000 Corpses

Charles Laughton only made one but I can't imagine him making another one that good

I think it's because you really only have so much creativity in you. Scorsese is hit and miss. Kubrick adapted other people's work and is a genius. Lynch did hardcore meditation for decades to cultivate ideas. It's extremely rare for someone to get better and better like in the case of Leone where his last film was arguably his best.

Dogma was his peak, you can't get better than that.

>Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs (yes, really)

RD is one of the worst movies he made. Utterly derivative and what a teenager would find "cool" with nothing else to offer.

Richard Kelly peaked with his first film then immediately bottomed out.

"Nobody peaks with their first film."

No.

I really miss the 90s-00s era nerdom

Happens pretty frequently with actors. Peter O'Tool being a prime example.

It's extremely rare for someone to get better and better like in the case of Leone where his last film was arguably his best.

OUATIA was his best because it's the first movie he made that actually had a good story and characters, because he picked a good book to adapt. The rest of his filmography is spaghetti slop with no substance, relying entirely on Ennio Morricone's music.

The rest of his filmography is spaghetti slop with no substance,

Pardon me?

that's more a case of cinema peaking as an artform overall lol