"I know what effect such horrors have on the delicate psyche of an angelic being!"
Archangel of Death Azrael by @umulata
So he was teased a little in chapter 3. To my surprise, a couple days after I posted it, Umu messaged me with the final product! I'm telling you, they did wonders on this thing. Off of barely anything too.
SO! Azrael! For those who haven't seen Dogma, Azrael is a demon who's kinda working behind the scenes to erase all of existence. There's more to it, of course, but you know. I've played around some with his character in Good Dogma. For one, he's an Archangel here. The name Azrael wasn't his original name, but it's more of a title at this point. As is the status of Archangel, but you'll see.
He has a role he needs to play. Luckily, he knows how to play the system.
Here's a little spoiler I kinda wanna give... Many years from now, he's gonna start calling Crowley 'Beloved'. "Because you are oh so loved."
“Ladies and gentlemen, you have been judged guilty of sinning against our almighty God, and I promise you, you shall pay for your trespasses, in blood!”
“Dogma” (1999), dirigida por Kevin Smith, es una comedia satírica que explora temas de religión y fe con un toque irreverente. La película sigue a dos ángeles caídos, Bartleby y Loki, interpretados por Ben Affleck y Matt Damon, quienes encuentran una laguna en la doctrina católica que les permitiría regresar al cielo, pero a costa de la existencia misma.
So, as of tonight I have watched every movie in Kevin Smith’s Askewniverse. Here is my official ranking of all of them:
Dogma - this movie was so fucking good! It’s so smart, so funny, and the cast is incredible. This is a new comfort movie for me, and one of my all time favourites. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as Loki and Bartleby are so so good, Chris Rock is so funny, Alan Rickman as the Metatron is maybe the best thing ever, plus Salma Hayek and George Carlin! And Alanis Morissette is god!
Mallrats - this movie is the one I watched first and will always have a special place in my heart. It’s so delightfully silly and the characters are so great. Plus all the comic book stuff, ugh, I love it. And Stan Lee!
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot - all the references to the other movies, the cameos, the way it’s almost a more mature version of the other movies. It also definitely improved on the first one. I was also not expecting the emotional punch this movie would make, with all the Jay and Millennium stuff. And it made Chasing Amy so much better with that scene with Holden, Alyssa, and Amy.
Clerks II - a definite improvement on the first one. With Rosario Dawson, how could it not be? I loved the way they transitioned to colour. They also had some of the most beautiful dialogue I’ve ever heard (etc. “if anyone could do it, it would be you” and Randal’s speech to Dante at the end about them being friends).
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - a silly fun movie that is packed with cameos and references, which are definitely the best part. A lot of the jokes haven’t aged well and make me cringe, as with all of Kevin Smith’s movies.
Chasing Amy - this movie would’ve been improved by 100% if Kevin had been told about bisexuality instead of making it into some kind of “straight man turns a lesbian” thing. Alyssa is delightful though, and if they’d just been friends or she’d just been bi, their relationship would’ve been absolutely lovely. Silent Bob’s monologue is beautiful and some of the best dialogue in any of these movies, though.
Clerks - okay, I know that the whole point is that it’s supposed to be boring, but holy fuck is it boring. There are some good parts, and I do like Dante and Randal, but jesus. I don’t think I’ll ever watch it again.
The clown that once ran @painted-piggy-ships-archive has now taken up residence here after feeling exhausted with my very first self ship blog. It served me well for almost three years (the blog itself turns 3 in February of 2023). Can you believe I only joined Tumblr in 2020?
Anywho, the name’s Gabriel/Corey/Clownie and I am mostly attracted to a vast selection of fictional villains, but my other consistent interests include the arts (particularly film and writing) and the horror genre. This blog will be a mix of self shipping content and personal ramblings. I don’t often post straight up ns//ft content but my sense of humor can be raunchy at times and the content I’m interested in often tends to be gory/violent if not also sexual in nature so viewer discretion is advised.
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Hiccup's like, "you also have your own pesky habit" and it's Johann talks A LOT.
To use parlance from The Incredibles, he monologues. (Which reminds me of another movie in which Jason Lee is the villain, Dogma, which I need to rewatch again because it's in my top 10 and is awesome. But like, Jason Lee's character is like, nope, I'm trope savvy I've seen Bond movies)
Featuring Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Brian O’Halloran, Joey Lauren Adams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill, Justin Long, Penn Jillette, Richard Linklater, Judd Nelson, Jason Reitman, Michael Rooker, Scott Mosier, Grace Smith, Donald Smith, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Harley Quinn Smith, Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, Vincent Pereira, John Pierson, Janet Pierson, Trevor Groth, Betty Aberlin, Brian Quinn, Joe Quesada, Mark Bernardin, Raquel Castro and Lily-Rose Depp.
Directed by Malcolm Ingram.
Distributed by Mercantile Instinct. 115 minutes. Not Rated.
“When we made Clerks, I didn't even dream about going to a film festival,” Kevin Smith told me a couple of years ago on the red carpet at the Philadelphia Film Festival screening of the documentary on his life called Clerk. “We were dreaming about going to the independent feature film marketplace. I didn't think the film was festival-worthy, let alone Sundance. While we were making that film I never once thought, ‘Oh my God, what if somebody makes a documentary about me one day?’ That’s mind bending.”
Yes, Kevin Smith has had a long, strange trip in the last thirty or so years. This film, directed by former film journalist turned documentarian and Smith’s long-time friend Malcolm Ingram, gives a pretty good overview of the life of the head of the View Askewniverse.
As noted above, this film has been making the rounds of film festivals for a couple of years (which explains why Clerk ends on Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, not Smith’s more current film Clerks 3), but now it is being released on video. (For hard copy fans, VHS and Blu-Ray copies of Clerk will only be available for purchase via Mercantile Instinct's website – www.mercantileinstinct.com.)
Clerk takes a good look at Smith’s life – an aspect which fraught right off the top because his professional career is so wide-ranging, in subjects, in different mediums and even in quality. (After all, this is the guy who wrote and directed Yoga Hosers and Tusk.)
The most interesting part of the film, somewhat naturally, looks at Smith’s early filmmaking career, and how he was learning as he went on making such classics as Clerks and Chasing Amy (as well as some more problematic films like Mallrats and Dogma).
Looking at his halting steps towards film stardom – as shared by Smith and members of his regular troupe like Brian O’Halloran and Jason Mewes (surprisingly there is no appearance by Jeff Anderson) as well as some of the then-unknown actors Smith helped to break (including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Joey Lauren Adams) – makes for some intriguing looks behind the scenes.
However, while his career as a writer/director (and sometime actor) pretty much peaked in those early years, he has worked in an interesting if sometimes disappointing group of films ever since. (He briefly retired from filmmaking after a traumatizing experience working with Bruce Willis in Cop Out.)
However, in the mid-late period of his career, Smith has branched out and reinvented himself as the ultimate fan boy creator, taking on such diverse interests as comic books (creating and selling), opening and running stores (including reopening the original Clerks store), social media, podcasting and finding what seems to be his true calling as a public speaker, doing long lectures and Q&As on his passions and his career.
Of course, one of the great dramas of his life happened after one of those appearances, when Smith had a major heart attack and came close to ending. It has led to many changes in Smith’s lifestyle – a great loss of weight, a new seriousness of purpose and a decision to throw himself more fully back into filmmaking. (In Clerk, Smith acknowledges that he did not want to die and have Yoga Hosers be his last film.)
Still, in the long run, Smith is happy with the path his life has taken.
“I'm sure if I go back in time and tell the young me like, ‘Hey, keep this up. They're going to make a documentary about you,’ he’d be like, ‘What did we do? Who did we kill? Why did that happen?’” Smith laughed to me when I spoke with him at that red carpet interview. “Just you live long enough and fucking they make a documentary about you. But yeah, there's a lot of things I would love to tell that kid. I wouldn't change a fucking thing, because all of his choices led to this moment for me, which absolutely rocks.”
Clerk shows many of the moments which absolutely rocked him.
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Directed and Written by Kevin Smith
Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Bud Cort, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Alanis Morissette, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Kevin Smith, Jeff Anderson, Brian O’Halloran.
Deeply comedic take on religion, where two fallen angels, Bartleby and Loki, (Affleck and Damon), who have been stuck on Earth for a couple of…
Wherein we cover an entire season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast over the course of a week
Space Ghost Coast to Coast #50: “Hipster” | November 7, 1997 | S04E17
Hey! It’s another one of them conceptual episodes of Space Ghost that will likely leave you cold. In this one we see the return of Chad Ghostal, the evil version of his brother Tad. He has a goatee and a swingin’ personality. He has guests The Millionaire from Combustible Edison and band leader Sam Butera, the originator of “Just a Gigolo” popularized by David Lee Roth.
Combustible Edison is a somewhat forgettable novelty band that got a surprising amount of play in the 90s. Their music can be heard in the film Four Rooms and the trailer for The Truman Show. They were a self-described “Tiki Band”. The Millionaire’s interview is a definite low-point for the series. But: DID YOU KNOW: HE USED TO BE COOL??? In the 80s he and Liz Cox (also of Combustible Edison) were in a lightly-ironic post-punk trio called Christmas, and they were fantastic. “Vortex”, their final posthumous record, is a masterpiece and should be listened to immediately after you get done with this post. Okay? Promise me. Anyway, Combustible Edison is not for me, and I often derisively refer to them as a “Viva Variety act” to… well, myself, mostly.
DVD Note: This one features a music replacement: Sam Butera sings a few bars of “Just a Gigolo” and it somehow wasn’t able to be cleared for the DVD release, so they dubbed over it with… I don’t know what. I’m guessing that’s somebody from the Space Ghost staff signing a made-up song in a falsetto.
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I only know BooBooKitty from something Jason Mewes said in one of the Kevin Smith movies. I think Jay and Bob Strike back?
I remember when he said that. It pissed me off. Man, that movie, it really did blow. I was a mega Kevin Smith fan and that movie was so grating. Dogma and that really were like, my Star Wars prequels that I had to pretend to like.
looks like he done did more than flirt with disaster, if ya know what i mean
Can I also come clean here and admit that I legitimately really liked Silver Linings Playbook? I think people were down on it only because it was nominated for Academy Awards. Like, it was an above-average Hollywood romantic comedy with Bradley Cooper doing an impression of Brody Stevens, and I respect it despite whatever other flaws it might have. Also American Hustle might be the biggest gulf between GREAT TRAILER and BAD MOVIE I’ve ever seen. That whole movie felt joyless and rushed to me, but man, that trailer made it look incredible.
The movie, "Dogma", is Free on Youtube, FYI via /r/atheism
The movie, "Dogma", is Free on Youtube, FYI
For those of you that never heard of it, it is an all star cast that is funny and, (from the YT notes:)
"Dogma is comedy made in 1999. A bit raunchy, irreverent and hilarious. Two fallen angels (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon) want to return to Heaven but will cause oblivion. Stopping them are a cast of characters, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman , Jay and silent Bob, Christ rock. Includes Jason lee, George Carlin, Alanis Morissette"
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVEe_5Fo1Q
Submitted October 03, 2022 at 07:55PM by Luder714
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