Cop Out - Prediction

[Sheridan Passell]

Anyone else think Cop Out is going to get terrible reviews? I've seen a couple of clips, it's horribly shot, amateurish in places, and the humor isn't really working. I though the trailer was good, but some of the laughs in the trailer are in the clips and don't work in context.

[dalmatianjaws]

Critically panned and hopefully it will bomb at the box office if it's truly awful.

It's a tricky thing cause it's part spoof, part true cop comedy. I think you need to go full spoof or find something to breathe new life into that "genre"

As it is, it just feels like a direct-to-dvd carbon copy of Lethal Weapon, 48 Hours, Die Hard 3, etc

[dnwilliams]

Kevin Smith hasn't made a good movie since Mallrats, has he? Has he EVER made a popular one?

[Sheridan Passell]

Good call on Mallrats, that's one I do love that most seem to think was a lowpoint.

Also, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back should have been so much funnier.
Just thought I'd throw that in.

[dalmatianjaws]

Chasing Amy is his best film I think. Clerks is a great first film, it has an incredible vibe to it, and Mallrats is hilarious but too silly for critics.

Dogma is his most "cinematic" and I personally love the satire. I couldn't sit through Jay and Silent Bob, loathed Zack and Miri (all but the reunion scene) and have never bothered with Clerks II or Jersey Girl.

[Sheridan Passell]

Cop Out has 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Variety said -
"Smith's directorial style is far too slack for this material"

New York Press -
"Smith’s staging, composition, editing and humor mark him as utterly incompetent."


Knew it.

[dalmatianjaws]

[Sheridan Passell]

How the HELL did you get my passport photo?

[dnwilliams]

Is that a Morlock? Random...