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Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith – Review

There are very few movies in which a person can stand on stage and answer questions for over four hours and be engrossing. Oddly, Kevin Smith, the director and writer of numerous films in which he often only speaks a few short sentences is just the man to perform such a daunting task. In “A Threevning With Kevin Smith” Kevin Smith discusses elements of his life as well as numerous stories from the movie industry. For those who enjoyed his first two Question and Answer type movies, “An Evening With Kevin Smith” and “An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder”, this third film is done in the same style, but the answers are much more drawn out and there is only one venue from which Kevin Smith performs this Q and A. For those who have never seen the Evening Withs, the film is basically one long hilarious roller coaster of funny stories with a few important tidbits of information strewn throughout. This is not really a film you can sit and watch and expect to learn anything about the art of writing or directing, but a person can take away something about the experiences one may expect to have while working in the movie industry, maybe.

One of the major focal points of the Q and A centers around the Clerks 2 film, where Kevin Smith discusses the shooting location and the antics of Jason Mewes. One thing to note about this film is Jason Mewes is absent from it, so for those expecting to hear someone other than Kevin Smith answering questions, this film may disappoint. By no means does this hinder the work, rather I found Kevin Smith to be very thorough and vulgar enough to make up for Jason Mewes’s absence. While much of Threevening centers around Kevin Smith’s work as a writer and director, He also talks about his work with Bruce Willis in “Live Free or Die Hard”. Going thorough his process of becoming an actor in the film to what actually happened the day he was called out to do the scene, including the ridiculous demands of the “gate-keeper” Bruce Willis.

Although the film does talk about Kevin Smith’s career, the Evening With films have always had sections about Kevin Smith’s personal life. Which some might expect to be boring, but Kevin Smith does not disappoint. Although for fans of Smodcast the Shecky story is rehashed in this DVD, but even though it is the second time the story is told, this retelling was much more elaborate and detailed. From a much longer explanation of how he obtained the dog to more details about the stretched out labia. Of course the story I found most enjoyable but also the most disgusting was the anal fissure story. While some may think such a topic should not be discussed in public, it is a great tale filled with anal and jury duty agony, but all the while humorous.

There are some downsides to the film, particularly if you are not a fan of Kevin Smith or any of his films. While you may find the humor enjoyable some of the things he discusses in regards to his films are probably not going to be as riveting to someone who is a big fan of Kevin Smith’s work. Also it is rather long, so not everyone can schedule out five hours to watch the film. Yet even though I did watch the film in one sitting, I never found myself wanting to do something else, but then again I am a Kevin Smith fan. One downside which some may not notice is the lack of questions, while in previous DVDs Kevin Smith answers a lot of questions in sometimes only a few minutes, he spends a lot more time on each question, meaning many of the topics in the film stem from the same question. As is the Cool Shite custom, this film needs a rating, and I think it is definitely a cool plus for those who are huge fans of Kevin Smith’s work, and maybe just a cool or meh plus for everyone else.

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Genuwine Jon Hammer

The self proclaimed "Genuwine" Jon Hammer, currently a student studying at Digipen Institute of Technology to be a programmer. I am a huge pop culture nerd, so movies, music, tv, podcasts, and games are all important to me, in fact if I often post about such topics on my twitter.

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  • Posted: Thursday, February 26th, 2009
  • Author: Genuwine Jon Hammer
  • Filed Under: Review,TV
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4 Responses to “Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith – Review”
  1. Ted Ted says:

    Cool Plus all the way from this Kevin Smith fanboy!

    February 26, 2009 at 10:12 pm
  2. Gorio Martillo Gorio Martillo says:

    Great review. I will see the movie becuase of this…

    February 27, 2009 at 7:23 am
  3. auntie cheryl auntie cheryl says:

    Hi Jon, enjoyed the review. One question, though: who is Kevin Smith, and who is Jason Mewes? aloha, auntie

    February 27, 2009 at 9:12 am
    • David Quinn Q-Dog says:

      HA HA! fantastic, we love it when the family gets involved!

      well, Kevin Smith is a very funny dirty large man, and Jason Mewes is his filthier smaller compadre. They make films with lots of swearing in them.

      Here endeth the lesson.

      thanks for chiming in Auntie Cheryl!

      February 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm

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