We don’t spend a lot of time here on Cinema Blend tooting our own horns, but when something this cool happens, I have to say something.

It’s 2AM and I just got back from Wal-Mart. I don’t know about the Wal-Mart near you, but mine’s a pretty scary place at 2:00 in the afternoon, let alone at 2 AM in the morning. Why was I fighting my way through crowds of crack dealers to spend my money at a store that I loathe to my very core? I had to buy a copy of Clerks II.

Hey it’s good movie and I was going to buy a copy eventually anyway, but long time friend of Cinema Blend Bill Beyrer instant messages me an hour or so ago and adds some urgency to my buying imperative. He’d been listening to the third commentary track on the Clerks II disc and stumbled on something shocking: Kevin Smith talking about Cinema Blend.

It happens at 50 minutes and 20 seconds in. Pop in your DVD, turn on the third, discarded podcast commentary track, and skip ahead to that spot and you’ll get this:

Kevin: “When we announced we we're doing the movie was when that Clerks X DVD came out. And one of the first things that came out, at that point, about it was that it was called "The Passion of the Clerks". So the general consensus on the internet seemed to be "yay a sequel...boo, what a horrible fuckin' title". Then of course there were just people who were like "boo" the idea of Clerks II and people were like "oh he's just scared and going back to the well" and all this fuckin' shit.

So you've had like, you know, a year and change from the time it was announced and the time it's now coming out where people like people who were into it were of course supportive without seeing a frame but people who were against it were just so fuckin' vocal. And there was this one website in particular...um...I think it was called Cinema Blend, where the dude was just goin' off on like "what a horrible fuckin' idea" this dude is like "Smith has fuckin' lost it. He's so fuckin' cowardly he's goin' back to the well and do a Clerks sequel" and blah blah blah..”

He’s right. I was all over him. You can read the worst of it here.

Kevin: “Over the time...from the time we announced to the time the movie's comin' out, slowly some of the websites have like turned around, based on seeing the online trailer or based on hearing reaction outta Cannes, I remember seeing some critical notices or whatnot.... The weirdest turnaround though was on Cinema Blend. And the same guy that wrote that story, when we put the posters out online, like the poster images of Jay & Bob and Dante & Randall and Elias & Becky, that dude posted another story goin' like ‘You know I'm on record saying that Clerks II is... I’ not fond of him going back to do it, but I gotta say these posters make me really wanna see the movie. And I’m like, you’re fucking kidding me dude. A poster image is what turned you around? Like, that’s what did it? Who knew? I’m happy to have him turned around, and, I’m sure he’ll go see the movie and just bag on it anyway. But like the fact that he would turn around for a poster I found very strange.”

Kevin actually got some of the poster article he’s talking about right word for word, but he missed on the idea that the posters changed my mind about the movie. Not quite true. Read the original poster story here. Who knows why he got it in his head that the posters turned me around on the movie. I actually never needed turned around on it. From the beginning I said I expected it to be good, I was merely disappointed that he wasn’t trying something different. But who the fuck cares, close enough. Seriously, I just got discussed by Kevin Smith on a DVD commentary track. Sorry, that’s eight kinds of cool. I wouldn’t care if he called me the goddamn anti-christ. It’d still be cool.

Note to Kevin: I never did bag on the movie. As it happens, someone else ended up reviewing it for us, but I loved it, and have had nothing but good things to say about it on Cinema Blend since seeing it. Great film, your best aside from Chasing Amy. Ok I still wonder what might have happened if you’d done Green Hornet, but barring that, it’s great to have this.