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Just watched all the deleted scenes and the director/cast commentary on the Dogma Special Edition CD. Much amused to discover that instead of the usual mutual backrubbing "you were great and we were great and..." (there's a bit, but it's not the fawning noises that the Shrek commentary had, for example), it's five guys sitting around and joking. There are so many tangents that it's amazing they make any comments about the movie at all. And that's cool; given a choice between Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith slagging each other off for two hours, or the same period of time spent by some people whose names I can't even remember saying how such-and-such did such a good job on such-and-such, I'll take the former, thanks.

It helps, I'm sure, that I'm something of a Smith fanboy, although I don't follow the website (other than having browsed around it a few times looking for reading material, such as his Arena articles.) But that aside, it's nice to watch a movie that's not made for people with an IQ that's not above the legal drinking age. And it's nice to watch a movie that has people talking the way people I know talk - this is mentioned in the Dogma commentary, incidentally - in that my peer group say "fuck" and "shit" as punctuation. Not as much as we did when it was, you know, the cool thing to do because you were being baaaaad, but that's called, um, growing up or maturity or something like that. But the point is that there's not a way to say "fuckload" or "bollox" that imparts quite the same meaning. Or maybe I'm just talking a fuckload of bollox.