Convicted Cinephiles #48 - I am a Noble Rabbit

When Michaela's away (on vacation) the boys will get View Askewed with a fully Kevin Smith dedicated episode. With the help of In Development's Kyle Brown and Eric Kimelton, Stevil and Matty get to talk about one of their personal favorite director and podcaster with four pivotal films in his career. Before our panel discusses Kev's cinematic universe, they talk about the trailer debut of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice and Matty gets old and ornery about the rumor of Marvel Studios splitting Avengers 3 into two films. It's a new fandangled technological world and Old Man Dubs is shaking his fist at the young'ns! 
 
These are our Staff Picks!
 
Kyle's recommendation, The Skeleton Twins, has Stevil jealous because it hadn't hit Canada yet. It also brings up the hilarious gaff a Denver talk show made when the interviewer asked stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig about a full frontal nudity scene that was actually in another of Wiig's films. Matty proceeds to make everyone uncomfortable as he dreams of what this scene could entail.
 
Simply put, Eric brings us a story of revenge. After the murder of his entire family, a dolphin sets his sights on the man parading around the disembodied tail of the love of his life. Does he have the drive and fortitude to exact his brutal revenge? Is he strong enough to rise up and destroy this formidable villain known as Harry Connick Jr.? Your resolve will be put to the test in Dolphin Tale 2!

 
Stevil's pick this week was something Kyle Brown had been on his case about for close to six months and, finally, he sat down and watched the damn thing! An endearing and Academy Award winning film about, let's face it, crazy people in Philadelphia, Silver Linings Playbook is a movie Stevil is kicking himself for never having checked out. Have you seen it? Don't make us send Kyle after you!
 
Matty brings us some classic sci-fi horror from a Canadian icon and treasure David Cronenberg. Continuing the Cinephiles obsession of Criterion, he picked up the new reissue of Scanners and implores the masses to do the same. He then tests our American friends, to see how far they've traveled down this director's long and twisted filmography.
 

For the main subject of our episode on Kevin Smith films, our panel explains why they made their choices:
 
"Choosing a Kevin Smith movie is like picking a favorite kid. You like all your kids but on certain days, maybe you like little Timmy better than Sarah because Sarah is doing the tango on your last nerve. I don't know your kids, don't judge me. What I do know is I picked Dogma.
 
Dogma, however, wasn't my first pick. Chasing Amy is always my go to. I don't know if there has been a funnier, more true look inside relationships ever written.
 
But alas, I too would be Chasing Amy as the Cinephiles had just reviewed it on their Criterion Collection cast.
 
Dogma was my pick and is probably my second favorite Kevin Smith flick. As it stands, I think it's also his most well-rounded film to date. A fantastic story, one that couldn't get green-lit for under 100 million these days, with an AMAZING cast. Dogma is the whole package and would probably be the movie I used to break a non-Kevin Smith fan's cherry as an intro into what Kevin can do.
 
I wouldn't be where I am (Los Angeles) doing what I'm doing (writing this email ... also trying to break into the business) if it wasn't for Kevin Smith. He's my personal Gretzky, especially since I don't watch the Hockey, and this is the pinnacle of what a guy like Kevin, and I'd like to think like me, can attain when at their best. A smart, inventive, hilarious take on a MASSIVE social issue that can make you laugh and make you think all while keeping you entertained. Dogma. Watch it.
 
Plus ... fucking Affleck, come on, what are you waiting for?" - Kyle @makebelievekyle
 
"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, mother-mother-fuck, mother-mother-fuck-fuck, motherfuck, motherfuck, noise noise noise.
 
It was a super easy choice for me. Jay and Silent Bob was the first Kevin Smith movie I ever saw, and it's also the Kevin Smith movie I have seen the most. I've probably seen it 15 times, conservatively. It set the comedy bar in my tight group of friends during high school and we incorporated the word "Snoogans" into our everyday vernacular.
 
I'll go ahead and say it - Strike Back is the smartest stoner comedy there is. Strike Back's just an all-around, quotable, funny as hell movie and fulfills my appetite for George Carlin, hitchhiking head and the C.L.I.T. Smith gets his fans, but doesn't alienate people new to the dinner party." - Eric @makebelieveeric
  
"When I had initially thought of doing this podcast, in my head I had picked Matty's choice. As soon as I posted the message between all of us, Matty swooped in an threw his down. Sucks for me, well played for him. So I decided to bring a movie that gets a lot of ridicule and hate, all of it unwarranted. Jersey Girl is a beautiful little sweetheart of a film that explores the love and devotion it takes to be a father. It came out at a time in my life that coincided with some of it's themes. Plus, it's Kev wanting to make a John Hughes style flick, how can you not appreciate that?" - Steve @thestevildead
 
I didn't just pick Red State to steal Steve's movie. Their might be a little truth to that statement but I wanted to showcase Kevin Smith's ability to make something other then dick and fart jokes. He accomplished it with this dark and intense movie." - Matty @mattydub604
 
What is your favorite Kevin Smith movie? Do you or did you enjoy our picks? Listen to the episode and let us know what you think in the comments below! We leave you with this classic from these brilliant businessmen.
 
http://youtu.be/F5bW8H-kNZs