Impressions before seeing it
Kevin Smith is one of the most interesting storytellers on the planet. The first Evening With Kevin Smith was basically four hours of nothing but Kev talking and telling funny stories, and it was completely fascinating. It's impressive that someone can go on and on for that long without ever being boring.
How was it?
Another four hours of talking, and once again I was not bored. I don't know how he does it. For much of it he wasn't even talking about working on his movies, he was just speaking of mundane things like watching Dora the Explorer and getting caught by his daughter while boning his wife. Yet the dude is always captivating. But I do think that his best stories are his behind the scenes tales of movie making. Maybe that's just because of my personal interest in the industry. But again, it doesn't really matter what he talks about because I'll be listening.
One improvement over the first DVD: I was kind of annoyed by the druggies who always came up to the mic and asked stuff like "Hey man, wanna come party with us after the show?" or "Let's go get high, man!". I might be sounding prudish here, but those fools are just wasting everyone's time by asking that instead of a thoughtful question that would provoke interesting answers. Furthermore, as cool as it would be to hang with a celebrity it's probably not likely that they'll oblige, either for security reasons or because they just don't know you. But yeah, there weren't any of those dudes on this DVD. I also kind of liked how the two discs/parts were separated into two different events, as opposed to cutting between several like last time.
Recommendation
If you're a Kevin Smith fan you've probably seen this already anyway, but you definitely gotta watch these DVDs because the dude is just incredibly entertaining to listen to.
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