Smith gets a lot of shit, and fair enough (Jersey Girl, Cop Out, etc.), but Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy? The Clerks cartoon? Even Clerks II? And his spoken-word DVDs? Solid stuff, and pretty defining when it comes to some pretty big parts of '90s cinema. The guy's hardly bulletproof, but I'd watch his Preacher in a second.
Smith's C, M, CA, C2 were all, and are still, good. I know it's become de rigueur to poop all over his work but no one's done the combination of totally dumb and rather smart/insightful like him. If anything, it's given backwards baseball cap-wearing dudes a sense of purpose. And he seems to have public appearances down pretty good, despite all the weed. If he ditched that and preserved his functional capacity, he could do something cool again.
You're right that it should have been a series, and the only man who could bring it justice is Wim Wenders. Think about it.
There, I said it. It's been said.
My Copy of Gone To Texas has a laudatory quote from Smith on the cover: "More fun than going to the movies!" he said.
Reportedly someone later said to Smith "Well, maybe one of yours."
Nowadays Cronenberg would have been a sweet choice. He's done a good comic adaption too, which is one more than most people.
Sooo...yeah.
Wake me when someone starts mangling Hitman.
Now if you'll excuse me I have a middle school full of children whose musical tastes need to be scoffed at and insulted.
B: An HBO miniseries would have been nails
C: 10 years of fanboyz and suprisingly girls talking about the ideal director, actors, and medium? Looking forward to that stopping.
D: Why now?