re: Mallrats Rewatch

The Stink palm stuff (on YouTube) is nasty.

Favorite comedy of all time. Use to be able to quote it word for word in high school. So many great ones. Superman not being able to bang lois, the hydraulics going out on the airplane so brodies cousin walter and everyone on the plane start “beating it like mad”, and silent bob winning the 8th grade science fair by turning his moms vibrator into a cd player using some chicken wire and shite.

Not to mention all the great scenes with jay and silent bob trying to bring down the game show while trying to avoid la fours

I love Mallrats but I love almost any and all of Kevin Smith's movies. For me, Jeremy London's acting was the most annoying. Just never been a fan of his.

The guy is kinda infatuated with superhero genitalia huh?

First Stan Lee cameo.

Mallrats was and probably still is my favorite Kevin Smith movie. It may be because I saw it before Clerks, but the cast is just much better than Clerks and maybe Smith's best casting job of his career.

Mallrats was a teenage staple of my group of friends. One guy I know in junior high actually stink-palmed a coach that he hated in a handshake line at the end of the season. It was one of the funniest fricking things I've ever seen in my life.

We were 15. It was our world. We quoted the shite out of Mallrats and Clerks, but mainly Mallrats because of Jason Mewes and Jason Lee. Between Dazed and Confused and Mallrats, we probably watched those movies 200 times as a teenager.

It also was the first time Stan Lee was highlighted as a god among comic book kids in mass media. It was the height of the 90s Marvel comic book boom and it was perfect, long before the brand was corrupted by Disney.

In saying all that, I watched the film again recently for the first time in probably a decade or more. I laughed. I was amused, and it brought back phenomenal memories.

But it was basically just a cartoon and I can't believe anyone other than 16-20 yr old boys enjoyed it when it came out, and I think that's how Kevin Smith wanted it.

Overall, it is what it is: a time capsule when a movie like this received a theatrical release and had a cult following from cable and VHS.

I miss the innocence of those days dearly.

“But Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.”

Easily one of my favorite movie lines of all time. As a kid playing a lot of NHL hockey in the early 1990s you really couldn’t have written a better line for my enjoyment at the time.

Chris Chelios, Jeremy Roenick and Ed Belfour TYFYS.

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Still quote it a good bit.

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It's just so weird to me how in hollywood, you can go from hot to nothing seemingly over night.

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Not really. The casting couch is a real thing in LA and there is always a younger, hotter version coming along.

Everybody I knew on High school rented Rules of Attraction thinking it was some light, late 90s/early 00s fun teen date movie. And eveyone I knew also then said , "That shite is not what you think it is. Don't ever rent it."

To this day, I have still never seen it.

Shame on me.

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Shannyn Sossaman

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I think she got market-corrected by Angelina Jolie. Forlani probably a little hit, too, but especially Sossmana because she had so much of the same Angelina vibe to her looks.

Jolie was absolutely one of those actresses until Tomb Raider came along. She also probably wasn't nearly as tied to Casting Couch type of stuff because of who her dad was.

Of course Mallrats is not a masterpiece, and Clerks is Smith's jewel. However, I love Mallrats! I've probably seen it 50 times.