A single film which changes the way movies are made is rare, and as an independent film shot for under $30,000, as influential as Clerks has been, it is unique.
If you doubt that this movie has been influential, I propose that if there was never a Clerks, there probably never would have been a Good Will Hunting, and there probably never would have been a There's Something About Mary. The idea that a movie can have nothing going for it but a brilliant script, and still turn out to be such a masterpiece, has encouraged other movies to do the same.
Clerks is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, a true cult classic that cuts to the core of culture that defines "Generation X," so much so they've never even heard of it. The dialogue is sharp, right-on-target, wildly inventive and purely hilarious, and the movie's serious side is more profound than a lot of movies not a tenth as funny as this one is. If you haven't seen it, it should be the next movie you watch, to observe a movie as on-target about a culture as any ever have been.
If you doubt that this movie has been influential, I propose that if there was never a Clerks, there probably never would have been a Good Will Hunting, and there probably never would have been a There's Something About Mary. The idea that a movie can have nothing going for it but a brilliant script, and still turn out to be such a masterpiece, has encouraged other movies to do the same.
Clerks is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, a true cult classic that cuts to the core of culture that defines "Generation X," so much so they've never even heard of it. The dialogue is sharp, right-on-target, wildly inventive and purely hilarious, and the movie's serious side is more profound than a lot of movies not a tenth as funny as this one is. If you haven't seen it, it should be the next movie you watch, to observe a movie as on-target about a culture as any ever have been.