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As far as I'm concerned, Kevin Smith stopped being a filmmaker after he "discovered" marijuana from Seth Rogen on the set of Zack and Miri Make a Porno. He went pretty hard into smoking after that, and sort of developed that typical stoner trait of laughing hilariously at all his own jokes, no matter how unfunny they were to anyone else. And then swearing that he was writing the best material of his entire career while high. Which is not the best personality trait to have when you're trying to write comedic scripts.

I don't think he's made a single film since that I haven't found painful to watch. Which is more telling in my case, because I liked a lot of the stuff he did before that, as well as the Clerks cartoon (and let's be honest, he's a Jersey boy, we basically have the same sort of sense of humor in a lot of ways).

It also doesn't help that he started podcasting right around the same time. When you're essentially doing a weekly radio show - and in his case, eventually, multiple weekly radio shows - you wind up burning off a lot of humorous material and creative energy that would otherwise have gone into your scripts. So you've got less energy/interest/material to put into your scripts, which can come across feeling half-assed as a result (and he even said around that time that he felt way more fulfilled podcasting than he did as a filmmaker, so it's not hard to see where he was devoting most of his energy and interest).

Though honestly, it probably doesn't matter who they got to be part of the reboot. Aside from the fact that I've basically ignored all previous reboots of the franchise anyway (and wasn't likely to give a single solitary shit about one being made by Netflix), after recent fiascos like She-Ra, Voltron, or Jem, I've given up all pretense that anyone today is capable of remaking any cartoon property from the 80s that doesn't wind up being a hot steaming pile.

Hell, for that matter, that doesn't just apply to movies. I'd say the same about most 80s films and TV shows. To the point where when someone says something like "We're going to do a Big Trouble in Little China" remake, I don't get excited, I am filled with existential dread. Leave the past alone if all you're going to do is rape its corpse.
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