Chasing Amy, like all of Smith's films, never did much for me. It's one of those movies that's pretty good most of the way through, then goes so completely and utterly off the rails at the end to such a degree that it sucks everything that came before into the black hole that the ending becomes. I think my main problem with Kevin Smith is that he's good with the dialog and that's about it.
Well, there's also that Holden can't see what a colossal prick his best friend is even though the Lee character makes it perfectly clear again and that he isn't really much of a friend. Jason Lee is so good at playing a thoroughly hateful bastard that he needs to be on screen only for a few seconds for me to want whoever he's playing to die a horrible, painful death at the end.
I don't mind stylized dialog at all. I'm fine with it being entertaining rather than realistic.
My contribution:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3c...eechmalice.mp3
It misses the wicked line that follows:
Quote:
Jed: I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.
Tracy: Ask God how many shots of bourbon he had before he cut me open.
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