I want to hear a round of responses from the Jersey/college people – did we like it? Was it good?
My opinion is best expressed as a horrifyingly Gallic shrug.
There’s a great exchange in Trainspotting discussing the ravages of age:
SICK BOY
All I’m trying to do is help you understand that The Name of the Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.RENTON
What about The Untouchables?SICK BOY
I don’t rate that at all.RENTON
Despite the Academy award?SICK BOY
That means fuck all. The sympathy vote.RENTON
Right. So we all get old and then we can’t hack it any more. Is that it?SICK BOY
Yeah.RENTON
That’s your theory?SICK BOY
Yeah, Beautifully fucking illustrated.
Poor Kevin Smith. You’ve declined to the level of ridicule reserved by ex-heroin addicts for Sean Connery.
It’s a terrible shame. I grew up with the Clerks. I was their age when the first flick came out. I’m their age now with the second. I savvy what they’re struggling with. I whine and moan as much as they do and I’m just as pissed off at a life which seems to be running away with me as they are. Dammit! I go to the movies to avoid contemplating my meaningless husk of a life, not to confront it!
Good for them. It all turned out sunshine and roses up the merry arsehole. How delightful. Now, I would like my cynical, anarchic, devil-may-care escapist Kevin Smith back, please. Sir Sean wants his lame-o throne back.