Zack and Miri Make a Widget

Shameless Plug / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | October 2, 2008 | Comments (28)

We don’t generally pimp the shit out of movies before they’re released or before we’ve seen them (in fact, we have never done so to my recollection), but this is Kevin Smith we’re talking about. You could say we’re “in the tank” for Smith (at least a few of us, anyway).

I have absolutely no reason to post this, except that it allows me to once again shamelessly plug Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It’s a widget. Widgets are fun. They’re like little advertisements that we don’t get paid to run, except in Karma. And the cool thing is, if you have a blog, you can embed it, too! And it doesn’t cost you a thing to be cosmically connected to a Kevin Smith product.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno opens on Halloween. So, you know: Fuck the kids and their candy. Kevin Smith needs a big opening to lubricate the studio pocketbooks, so they’ll distribute his evangelistic horror flick.

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It's too much effort to watch the trailer for this. Who's stupid idea was it to enter my birthdate? Like kids under 18 can't lie?

Posted by: BWeaves at October 2, 2008 9:31 AM

Say what you will about Kevin Smith (and I find him charmingly self-effacing and enjoy his movies) but he's also quite sex-positive and his female characters act like people instead of some crazy other species.

So yeah, I'm looking forward to this movie.

Posted by: twig at October 2, 2008 9:32 AM

I love this widget!

Posted by: Sofía at October 2, 2008 9:39 AM

I hate Kevin Smith but despite that, the trailer actually looks pretty funny. Interest has definitely perked up a bit for this.

Posted by: Alex the not so odd at October 2, 2008 9:43 AM

Jesus Christ, Kevin Smith should be in your 10 Worst Working Directors list. He's never written a likeable character and he's obsessed with the literal and figurative sucking of his own dick.

Posted by: Frank at October 2, 2008 9:46 AM

Fuck those who don't like Kevin Smith! Fuck them up their stupid asses!

Posted by: Sofía at October 2, 2008 10:02 AM

I really, really want to see Red State.

Oh, and fuck you, Frank. You amputated foreskin dripping with blood and baby smegma. And Alex. I just noticed you too, you fat, hemorrhoidian asshole.

Posted by: Lucas at October 2, 2008 10:08 AM

Kevin Smith and Diablo Cody should have a child, so finally hipsters would have their personal Antichrist. He's the same kind of filmmaker as Richard Linklater, only he's actually got clever dialogue. They both captured the slacker elite of the 1990's. But no, Smith's a hack because why? He's a surly douchebag? That's makes him one of us, you fucking buffoon.

Posted by: insertclevernamehere at October 2, 2008 10:12 AM

Dear Lucas,

Kindly back the fuck off of Alex, who is not remotely a fat, hemorrhoidian asshole. She is wee, and hot as hell, and at least eighteen times more awesome than you have any hope of ever becoming.

Love and a swift kick in the nuts,
Sarina

Posted by: Sarina at October 2, 2008 10:15 AM

Ah yes, Kevin Smith, who made that classic film with Ben Affleck and H-h-h-heniffer Lopez.

Posted by: Chris at October 2, 2008 10:16 AM

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Posted by: garnd at October 2, 2008 10:19 AM

Dearest Sarina,

The Alex to which you refer is Alex the Odd, who is all that you described and more. The Alex who is writing, who may or may not be a fat hemorrhoidian asshole, is actually Alex The Not So Odd, who is in fact a dude, and despite his horrifically wrong opinion, a pretty charming one at that.

Save your nut kicks for the people who need them.
Brian Prisco
The Society for Prevention of Misplaced Nutkickery

Posted by: insertclevernamehere at October 2, 2008 10:24 AM

Hahaha! I thought that was Alex being funny with her name. Nevermind, carry on, I don't care anymore.

Posted by: Sarina at October 2, 2008 10:31 AM

Cheers Brian. A fat hemorrhoidian asshole ? I prefer to think of myself as ever so slightly 'podgy'. And indeed I am ' not so odd ' as my similarly monikered female namesake. I just don't 'get' Kevin Smith, sorry my fellow pajibans.

Posted by: Alex the not so odd at October 2, 2008 10:35 AM

Wow, my eight and six year olds are going to be disappointed that Halloween got cancelled.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 2, 2008 10:38 AM

OK, so I lied about my age and watched the trailer. I've seen it before. What's new? And it's not dirty. If I see a redband trailer I expect to see some T&A. Just saying "Fuck" 10 times in a sentence is NOT DIRTY! It's just using a word like a comma.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 2, 2008 10:38 AM

I just can't seem to keep up with you guys. Is "hipster" an insult?

Posted by: Todd at October 2, 2008 10:42 AM

Hipster is OK. Hipster Douchebag is not. There's quite a distinction.

See, e.g., this definition.

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at October 2, 2008 11:01 AM

Todd, it's only an insult if you choose to take it as one. Do I mind if people call me a hipster because I collect Chuck Taylors? Uh... no. Not because I don't consider myself a hipster (I probably am), but because I don't think I can be defined in such narrow terms.

Posted by: Sofía at October 2, 2008 11:30 AM

Wait, BWeaves is under 18?

That's not Ms. O'Brien?

Yeah, I saw him yesterday, and maybe before, and thought Alex had reached some new stage in her life after that pupal vacuum of comments from her.

Well, aren't I learning things today!

Posted by: Jay at October 2, 2008 11:40 AM

Sorry, I hate Kevin Smith too. I particularly don't like his female characters that resemble no woman I've ever known. Chasing Amy was awful. This movie seems a little Chasing Amy-esque. Vote no.

Posted by: CR at October 2, 2008 11:44 AM

Fuckin A I love me some Kevin Smith. Even Jersey Girl. He's great, if somewhat inconsistent, and almost always writes strong female characters.

Also, can I be on the board of directors for The Society for Prevention of Misplaced Nutkickery? While I have no real world experience, I've always been quite judicial in my distribution of theoretical nutkicks. I could do education outreach for young women about when is the right time to kick someone in the nuts, and when a simple nutflick will suffice.

Posted by: Marra at October 2, 2008 11:46 AM

Jay: Nah, I lied older. My point is, what's the point of entering your age AND checkmarking a box that says you're over 18 when there's no way to verify it and you can just enter anything. We're just teaching kids to lie. They probably already have their drinking fake ID, do we have to teach them lie on everything? And the worst part was that there was nothing, NOTHING, R-rated about that trailer. I've seen racier stuff on ads for Nip/Tuck.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 2, 2008 11:57 AM

We're just teaching kids to lie.

When was the last time a kid needed to be taught that?

Posted by: twig at October 2, 2008 2:35 PM

Twig: MY POINT EXACTLY! I was being ironic. Oh, nevermind.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 2, 2008 3:07 PM

I don't know who pissed in everybody's cornflakes this morning, but there is some bitterness up in this bitch.

I like the trailer; I want to see the movie.

Posted by: Nicole at October 2, 2008 4:22 PM

I usually like Kevin Smith movies, but I don't think he's a very good director. Really, he should probably be a writer and have a partner who smoothes out his dialog. A writer with a great deal of say in the making of the movie probably. But he's just so ham-handed as a director and apparently does not recognize good acting performances. Also he has a case of the smugs, and annoys me by fixating in his commentaries.

Posted by: Eep at October 3, 2008 11:22 AM

If a hipster movie has lots of dick and fart jokes and nobody who sees it gets off, is it porno?

Smith / Gilliam '08

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at October 3, 2008 1:33 PM

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