Just perfect...

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Great Film overall

As Good As It Gets

This one holds up much better than the other 90's work by Smith, but by no means is it a good movie. It could more aptly be named "Exposition: The Movie" as it features long winded dialogues of characters explaining Catholic dogma and history in order to service the plot. This might work fine in a comic book, but in a visual medium like film, it bogs everything down and makes the movie more tedious than it needs to be. There's some funny stuff in here and, in a weird way, a decent little examination of faith, but it's told very amateurishly and without any visual flair or even decent composition and lighting. Essentially just point and shoot and get the wide shots. It's not as noticeable as his other work which is just sub-student film level, but it's not up to snuff either. Sad thing is, the guy never bothered to try to learn this stuff and so you get no obvious improvement in technique four movies in. So long story short, this movie is okay, but forgettable.

Dogma, 1999. *Spoiler/plot- Humanity is put on trial for it's 'humanness' by the heavenly powers. *Special Stars- Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, M. Garafolo, George Carlin, Star & Writer & DIR: Kevin Smith. *Theme- Only suckers believe in spiritual matters from the Bible.*Trivia/location/goofs- Satire film on organized religions. This film and Kevin Smith is very much loved by the college and university crowd.*Emotion- If your a cynical person and anti-spiritual, you'll love this indictment of the Catholic Church from one of it's early initiates, this film's writer, star and director, Kevin Smith. Humanity is helped along by human assistants made up of the most trite biblical characters. These helpers spend their screen time with juvenile toilet jokes and extensive unnecessary cursing using God's name. A total waste of your time to learn anything positive about dogma or biblical or spiritual matters. Just cheap and boring sectarian tripe from a wise-ass dolt who shows you his hatred of Catholic matters by mocking them at every turn.*Based on- Media driven sectarian biblical matters

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven. Although it repeats the stupid humor and Kevin Smith's over the top direction Dogma is actually one of his most underrated one sure it has problems and the 3rd act although action packed it just weird especially when Ben Affleck doesn't act anymore but he pretends that he plays a villain and not a great one unfortunately. The best thing about this film is Alan Rickman bless his soul he is amazing in this film and he mostly steals the show alongside Linda Fiorentino who did a nice job as well everyone else were just OK nothing really great although Affleck and Damon have a really great chemistry together two thumbs up. I give Dogma a 7.5 out of 10 and a B+

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.This is a much-loved part of Kevin Smith's universe, with many people considering it his best film. For me, I always thought it was his worst. After the strongly-scripted trilogy of "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy", suddenly we start getting some strange things like a giant poop monster. Really? That right there negates all the clever ideas you tried to add to the script.This is also the point in Smith's career where the budget was getting too big. The films got bigger than they needed to be and the casts got more famous. And why? This did nothing to improve the core of Smith's work, which does not succeed on larger scales.