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Whalestails at 1/26/11 9:10 p.m.

For a long time I've had a major issue with the way Kevin Smith has conducted himself, both as a filmmaker and semi-popular personality. He's tries to play up this surly bad-boy geek whose on the fringe of culture - filled with criticism of various mainstream topics including film. But he's not. He's an established personality that works in the system as much as outside of it. I feel this recent action of his just kind of justifies things for me. It's easy for him to buy his own movie for so cheap because he's already made a good amount of money on his past films, his radio show and his comic books.

He's already got that built-in audience that will gobble down whatever he's shoveling so it's all extremely disingenuous (as the author of the article had cited). His exposure is already established. I felt the same way when Radiohead let you name your own price for their album "In Rainbows." Sure, it was a cool, revolutionary concept, but it was coming from a band that was already well-es...