Okay. Fuck it, this is the Internet. I’m gonna spend a few minutes as a Kevin Smith apologist, while I take a shit.

Please don’t take any of this seriously, but I’ll share it in case it helps you enjoy his films more.

I hope he’s not murdering anyone while I type this up.

“People like that movie (Clerks)? That’s craaaazy”

I think Kevin Smith has some crazy impostor syndrome.

Maybe I missed it, but i haven’t seen him ungrateful at his success, just surprised.

And it’s pretty normal to think one’s own earlier work isn’t as well done as ones own later work.

• It’s often wrong*, but it’s a pretty normal comfortable belief.

He wants nothing more than get into the disney money, that’s why he can’t say a bad thing about the new star wars movies, he praises them.

The only creative works I have ever seen Kevin Smith be critical of are his own. I take it as professionalism, and it fits his brand.

Kevin accomplished a lot for weed legalization, under the banner of “we should just let people enjoy things”.

That slogan has become a big part of his public brand, and I don’t blame him for sticking to it.

Now let’s pause and admit that in this entire defense of Kevin Smith, I didn’t actually really say anything nice about his movies.

I will say that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of Kevin Smiths movies.

Sadly, by many people’s standards, I still haven’t said anything nice about his movies. It’s pretty easy to verify that I have bad taste in movies.