Day 46- Movie 45. Mallrats (1995)

Like most of Kevin Smith's movies, Mallrats is fairly polarizing. Some people love the movie, while others hate it. I've never been the biggest Kevin Smith fan, but I certainly respect him as a director. I believe Mallrats is a solid effort, and a pretty funny movie.

Smith's greatest talent has to be writing dialogue. He is a gifted writer, and the rapid-fire conversations here are really funny and entertaining. I could just sit back and watch his characters speak those beautiful, foul, controversial words all day long. Bad dialogue ruins far too many movies- many good scripts are spoiled by the awful, wooden dialogue uttered by the characters. Smith's films never have that problem.

Mallrats is a fun, quirky story that never really amounts to much, but is still fun to watch. I love how Smith connects all his films through character and themes, and this film is more effective when looked at in connection with movies like Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and others. That's a cool way to approach film making, and another of the traits that makes Smith a unique director.

I figure at this point, most people have seen this movie, probably multiple times, so there's no point in elaborating further. I'd give this film a solid 7/10.

I'm also going to end this one short, and try to get some sleep. It's now after 1:30am. Since I've started doing this 100 movies in 100 days, I've found that the whole thing has really decreased the amount of sleep I get. If I'm not staying up late watching movies and writing about them, I'm watching movies earlier in the day (when I normally get other things done), pushing those things back later in the day, requiring me to stay up later. Either way, this whole thing is making me very tired.

On another note, the hardest thing I've found in doing this is that every single day, when I wake up, I'm already 1 movie behind. It's relentless. I love watching movies, and in many ways, it's been enjoyable trying to cram so many movies into such a short time. But, I don't normally watch movies every day. It's nice to be able to take a day or multiple days off from watching any movies at all. However, I can't do that now. I have an obligation to watch at least one movie every day I'm able. I'm getting close to being halfway done, and I am looking forward to the day when there's no pressure- if I want to watch a movie, I can. If I don't, that's fine too. 54 days left...