Clerks III [Blu-ray]

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Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. This Blu-ray release may not be flawless, but it’s the best-quality version of the film available, and that’s saying something. Clerks is not only one of the funniest films of the 90’s, but it’s also a snapshot of a bunch of amateur filmmakers pulling off a pipe dream. To be fair, the film isn’t perfect; people flub lines, sound effects are a little silly and even the camera work is a little dodgy at times (not to mention the visual and aural quality). Despite all of that, it still endures. But Mars, as many of you fellow science nerds will know, is famously know as “The Red Planet.” In truth, it’s actually more of a rusty orange color, due to the presence of actual iron oxide and rust particles in the planet’s dusty soil. This was certainly well known in the early 1950s when director Byron Haskin made the film, and in fact Chesley Bonestell—the world-renowned astronomical artist commissioned by the filmmaker to paint the planet and its landscape for the opening of the film—not only knew this, having worked with NASA and painted the planet many times by that point, in fact he did paint it correctly for the film. There’s a great documentary on the artist, Chesley Bonestell: A Brush the Future, and you can see the same shot from the film in the doc below, with Mars rendered in the correct orange color... Stop, a production that will of course include many of the other characters who have been seen in the two previous Clerks outings.

Audio Commentary with Kevin Smith, Jeff Anderson, Austin Zajur, Brian O’Halloran, and Trevor Fehrmanobviously improvised stuff, like Justin Long's emergency room attendant, seem kind of forced and frankly not very funny. A longish montage of "big father's recriminations to his sons who prefer looking at map and direction giving apps to actually paying attention to what streets they're on and how We sincerely appreciate fans’ passion for War of the Worlds and their attention to detail. The scene that has been referenced as being more blue than red was taken from the original three-strip Technicolor negative. Paramount chose not to employ additional color correction, but instead consulted original IB Technicolor prints and matched the look from there.”

Dialogue heavy with a few pushes of stereo music into the sides and rears makes Atmos a bit of overkill here, but it’s still appreciated. Dialogue is crisp, clean and fun, and the song choices are always on point. Miss Sally Walk and Just Breathe really hit gut punches. Editor’s Update 9/26/22: Here is Paramount Home Entertainment’s official statement RE: the Mars color grading error in War of the Worlds (1953) on 4K Ultra HD: Plot: What’s it about? Video: How’s it look? Audio: How’s it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? Editor’s Update 9/29/22: Interestingly, I found this comment on Facebook from former ILM animator, VFX supervisor and film producer Peter Kuran, responding to Paramount’s statement: “The reason it would be blue would be theatrical IB tech prints are balanced for a carbon arc light source which is very yellow. Better to use a 16mm IB Tech print which is balanced for 3200-3500 more normal.” That seems a reasonable conclusion to me. –BH] Unfortunately, Paramount’s remastering team somehow missed it. However, I have informed the studio of the error and they’re now investigating.We’ve gotten our hands on Paramount’s new 4K Ultra HD release of War of the Worlds (1953) and unfortunately there’s a problem with the color grade. As it happens, it’s exactly the same problem apparent in their current 4K Digital version, and it also appeared on the Imprint Blu-ray release in early 2020 (see our review here): The opening shots of Mars are the wrong color. Specifically, the whole planet is blue. Here’s a projection screen photo of the 4K... I love the Clerks series and consider Clerks II to be Kevin Smith's best film, so you'll understand how excited I was to see this film. Smith did not disappoint me. While the film isn't as funny as Clerks II, it is emotional. It is about friendship and about the love of film. There was a gut punch in the first few minutes that hit really hard and then that ending. Wow. I was not expecting that ending. Per DP Learan Kahanov “Our main camera body was the Red Ranger (with Monstro chip), and our B cam was the Red Weapon (DSCM2).”

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Smith does a great job of taking some real life events from his personal life and integrating them into these two characters (after all, they were both based on different aspects of Smith’s own personality) and finds a commendable balance between the emotion and the carefree fun of its predecessors. Some fans may take issue with the overwhelming emotional aspect present at times, but most should applaud it for the most part, and only a couple of brief moments within feel somewhat unnatural in how they are approached, while the rest are anything but. It’s a largely enjoyable and fitting new chapter in the series that dares to do something different and fans of the series definitely won’t want to overlook it. names" auditioning for Randal's production may also pay mixed dividends for some. What is kind of interesting in that regard, then, is that the The Clerks III Documentary– Running just a bit shorter than the film itself is this (first of two) documentaries. If you’ve listened to the commentary, some of this is redundant, but essentially all aspects of the film are covered. outing also has a built in "meta" element in that a major through line of at least the second half of the film is that Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) has been killed (while pregnant) by a drunk driver, and that Dante is still recovering from that trauma.

The first part of the film is arguably a bit more shapeless, with Smith spending time letting the audience get reacquainted with this motley crew of actual human emotion that Smith exploits at several key junctures in the film actually rings true and gives the film a rather heartwarming spirit, enterprise like the two previous Clerks films have been, there's some "lump in the throat" emotion that definitely wells up as the story least, Clerks III has a lot of heart (in more ways than one, but more about that later) and the typically goofy Smith sense of humor. This I have seen a lot of people complain about the "META" stuff in the film. Because Randal is making Clerks, there are a lot of scenes from that film recreated here. Not only that, but Smith was able to get most of the people to replay their parts from the original Clerks. People said that Smith was milking nostalgia. Sure, it really does look like he is, but it runs much deeper than that. The fact that he could get the original Clerks actors is kind of a miracle. Sure, it might have been easy for Smith and company to find these people, but to get them to reprise their roles must have been fairly difficult. The way that Smith uses them is less about nostalgia milking and more about the ability to get these people while also giving Smith's fan something that only they will get. Every time there was another actor from the first film, I felt a bit special because I knew who these people were. I love the Bob Hawk scene. Not only that but the original actors in this film plays into how the film in the film comes out. So, get off of your high horses and join in on the fun for once.physical media a "must have" in this increasingly streaming day and age is someone to be celebrated. The good news is, for Clerks fans at disc boots up, he is an unabashed champion of physical media. "What are you going to do if the cloud goes down?" he says, somewhat echoing this Based on the upgrades to video capture and coloring, Clerks 3 is the sharpest and most colorful of the series by far. It’s a far cry from the grainy B&W of the original tho there are sequences that attempt to replicate that too. There is an extended sequence within the film talking about the look of the film and why B&W rules. Disc Rating: 9.5/10 – ‘Clerks III’ Arrives Home on 4K Ultra HD*, Blu-ray & DVD on December 6, 2022 & is Now Available on Digital from Lionsgate Home Entertainment All right, we’ll leave you this afternoon with a look at the cover artwork for a few upcoming 2-film 4K Ultra HD collections, for those who might be interested in getting a bargain...