Not only does this dvd contain the original movie and the deleted scenes from the first dvd, which show you how much miramax compltely redid the original film before producing it,

but it also contains a FULL, newly edited, dolby enhanced, digitally remastered cut of the film, as kevin wanted it originally.

http://newsaskew.com/dvd/mallrats10/



I'm REALLY excited about this. Oh, and clerks 2, "the passion of the clerks," starts rehearsal in a few weeks!

http://viewaskew.com/news/clerks2/

[Edited on August 29, 2005 at 9:21 AM. Reason : .]

8/29/2005 9:21:07 AM

God, I cant believe its been 10 years already. I feel old

8/29/2005 9:50:52 AM

They are actually doing a Clerks 2?

I hope to god it doesn't suck.

8/29/2005 10:26:37 AM

I think if they toned down the really goofy humor and kept it like Clerks, it should be ok.

8/29/2005 10:29:04 AM

That hispanic chick can't act.

8/29/2005 10:29:37 AM

What hispanic chick?

8/29/2005 10:38:49 AM

Dante's girlfriend.

8/29/2005 10:39:12 AM

Yea, they dont need to bring her back. Most of the acting was bad in that film though.

8/29/2005 11:00:52 AM

Marilyn Ghigliotti?

8/29/2005 11:02:40 AM

ooooooooooooh, imma go pick this up

8/29/2005 11:07:40 AM

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"They are actually doing a Clerks 2? I hope to god it doesn't suck."

read up on it a little; I honestly think it's going to be good.

it's not a money grab or anything I don't think, it seems like he was doing the clerks X dvd and just REALLY wanted to do it. fell in love with the characters again

8/29/2005 11:38:15 AM

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"ooooooooooooh, imma go pick this up"

try not to suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot

8/29/2005 11:56:40 AM

^ that's the first thing that's actually made me laugh out loud at work online. gg.

THIRTY SEVEN?

[Edited on August 29, 2005 at 12:51 PM. Reason : .]

8/29/2005 12:50:42 PM

IN A ROW?!

8/29/2005 1:30:35 PM

Awesome.

I'm glad that even though they're making Clerks 2, we'll also be getting an animated Clerks movie. The animated series was excellent.

8/29/2005 2:29:50 PM

[agreed]

8/29/2005 3:01:12 PM

i approve this thread

8/29/2005 8:53:45 PM

no wonder mallrats has been really hard to find on dvd

8/29/2005 8:56:42 PM

the cartoons were funny

8/29/2005 10:29:56 PM

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"The animated series was excellent. "

Huh?

8/29/2005 10:59:05 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210413/

Its quite funny for a TV show, too bad ABC killed it.

8/30/2005 6:18:09 PM

Actually Universal released this film, Miramax had absolutely nothing to do with it. Besides, Im fairly certain the theatrical cut is still the definitive cut, I mean this extended cut is supposed to have ALL of the deleted scenes added back in, and I seriously doubt that was Kevin Smiths original vision.

8/31/2005 12:09:15 AM

I'm not sure I completely understand your comment, but if you watch the firs mallrats dvd or read the explanations online, there's a whole beginning scene to the movie that was removed, which then leads to some other points of the film that had to be cut or dubbed.

The initial scene includes the explanation for why svenning calls brodie his "neighbor," and some other things that don't make sense. Remember the guy who walks up to TS in the parking lot and says "hey aren't you the guy who got dumped by brandi svenning" or whatever? What he actually said was "hey aren't you the guy who tried to shoot the mayor?"

Teh whole beginning scene was TS on the roof of a building, dressed in colonial garb with a fake rifle, talking to Brandi, etc. Someone sees him up on the building with his rifle and thinks he's trying to shoot the mayor, who is visiting Mr. svenning's little production that he's putting on. TS fucks up the whole thing, which is one of hte reasons that svenning hates TS so much.

Brodie's shirt in the movie:

is a compilation of the faces of characters who were completely removed from the movie, such as the mayor and her assistant. From what I remember, smith was made to redo the film and make all these changes by the production company before it was released.

8/31/2005 10:12:36 AM

What I mean is, if you were to ask Kevin Smith which version of Mallrats he prefers, Im fairly certain he would say the theatrical cut. Even he knows that the majority of those deleted scenes arent even remotely funny, so Im honestly not sure why he would sign off on putting all of them back in, unless this was Universals idea. I havent seen any info to indicate that the theatrical wasnt what he had in mind or that there has been a huge outcry for an extended cut...hell, seems like the majority of the Kevin Smith worshippers are 50/50 on buying this as well. Besides, notice its called an extended cut and not a directors cut...should be a hint.

Also worth noting, this is a DVD-18, ie, dual-layered and dual-sided...it screams cheap. Universal apparently is notorious for releasing defective DVD-18 discs, so buyer beware.

8/31/2005 3:29:33 PM

i'd say the fact that he has publicly apologized for the theatrical cut means it probably wasn't really up his alley

8/31/2005 3:34:33 PM

^ yep

8/31/2005 3:42:36 PM

The shirt is actually a mashup of three guys who tried out for Brodie.

And i think it was the governor, not the mayor.

8/31/2005 4:14:06 PM

are you sure? i really thought it was the people who were left out of the original beginnings. You may be right though, upon further searching. One common answer I've seen is that it was people who tried out for different roles, not necessarily brodies - but that may be the case

but I think you're right, it's the governor

[Edited on August 31, 2005 at 4:19 PM. Reason : .]

8/31/2005 4:17:50 PM

i will buy this

8/31/2005 4:20:54 PM

it's the gov'r
i wasn't gonna mention that
the network suits ask svenning if this is gonna be a blowup like the gov'rs event

8/31/2005 4:51:19 PM

I watched like 10 minutes of the TS on the roof beginning and I turned it off

It wasn't very good at all. Hopefully, somehow, what they're about to put out will be better than that.

8/31/2005 6:05:38 PM

Bought the DVD tonight and watched the new version.

What I found was crazy was just how much the movie was changed. All the scenes were still in order, but there were a lot of scenes added into the flow that change the main conflict of the story, but not the plot.

The movie starts with the Governer's Ball (no story from Brodie) and an "assassination attempt". I actually enjoyed the new intro a lot (it felt like I was watching a completely different movie at first, to be honest), but I do miss the Cat in the Ass story.

The interesting omission to the story in the new version is that they don't mention Julie Dwyer at all, even though she's mentioned in both Clerks and Chasing Amy (IIRC).

It's like $17 this week at Best Buy. If you're a big fan of Mallrats, I'd suggest you pick it up.

9/22/2005 3:46:43 AM

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"What I mean is, if you were to ask Kevin Smith which version of Mallrats he prefers, Im fairly certain he would say the theatrical cut"

He and Mosier say so on the DVD intro to the extended cut. Smith talks about how this was the only movie of theirs they never got to cut and 2 hours into cutting it realized he'd made a mistake and that the theatrical cut was the best possible cut of the movie, but he went on and finished the extended edition because of $$

9/22/2005 9:32:25 AM

The Q and A session under the extended version side special features was pretty funny. Kevin Smith mentioned Pot being the gateway drug to coke, heroin, ect.....then there was silence and the only person laughing was Jason Mews, it was classic. What was the deal with that french girl? She was born in Texas, but lived in Paris but talked crap about Canadians and Texans. One guy on the stage was like, "I'm from Texas." Haha, I was waiting for the audience to stone her.

9/22/2005 10:29:29 AM

Quote :

"He and Mosier say so on the DVD intro to the extended cut. Smith talks about how this was the only movie of theirs they never got to cut and 2 hours into cutting it realized he'd made a mistake and that the theatrical cut was the best possible cut of the movie, but he went on and finished the extended edition because of $$"

that's on the intro to the extended cut, but before that, he said that the extended cut was his favorite. He says the theatrical cut was his favorite, as you just mentioned, after he's tried cutting the extended version.

9/22/2005 8:34:09 PM