One Paragraph Movie Review: Clerks

Eighty-second film: my second ever viewing of 1994’s Clerks. This is a way, way better film than I thought it was the year it came out, which sounds like much more of a compliment than it is, because I thought it was three types of garbage then. Now I’m old enough to understand that the writing is great, that it’s a pivotal and quintessentially Gen-X piece of film-making, and that not every film can be Girls Just Want To Have Fun. I now understand the charm of the slice-of-life, aimless, 90s-typical responsible-burnout mentality and what it’s truly like to work in retail. Still, the acting is woeful, but that just doesn’t matter. After all, they’re not even supposed to be here today. Two and three-quarter darkened toilet corpses out of five.