Is Kevin Smith okay?

Unfortunately, Kevin’s tailor still uses the ultra obese measurements.

It’s the lighting, OP. But you knew that.

He had a heart attack and became a vegan after it. Looks like a typical guy his age.

Some people who lose weight go to the other extreme where they lose too much weight.

Plus, most people are used to seeing them as fat so it's almost like their body frame is accustomed to the fat that it looks weird when they lose weight. I had a friend who was like this. She lost weight and although she has been skinny for years, it never looked right.

Jason’s wife looks like a friendly Megan Fox

He really had to wear the hat? Looks like someone with special needs.

R2, why does nobody else look sickly?

Comments from the wedding register included phrases like “Embalmed…corpselike…”

Mrs Smith looks like a corpse.

Explains their hideous daughter

It’s fairly well known he lost a ton of weight after his near fatal heart attack

Was Kevin Smith a '70s rock 'n' roll princess turned gigantic '80s junkie?

Another motivator for him to lose so much weight was having to buy a second seat on a flight because he was spilling over.

He’s a walking parody of himself. Always wearing the stupid backwards cap, oversized hockey jersey, gaucho pants, and always making that same constipated face whenever mugging for the camera.

He’s not a good person from what I’ve heard from people who’ve worked with him and will probably screw you over and take credit for your original idea because he hasn’t had a good one since “Dogma” and desperately wants to be relevant again.

Did they stop by Costco to get those wedding duds? Kirkland brand for sure

[quote]"Six months ago from right now, I was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack I’d had the night before. When I went to my Doctor a week later, she told me, 'The best thing you can do for yourself now is to lose 50 pounds.' Half a year later, I can report that I followed Doctor’s orders: I started at 256 and now I weigh 205. This is the lightest I’ve been since high school! My hope now is I can slowly lose another 10 with #weightwatchersand get down to my birth weight of 195! But for now, I’m ecstatic to have reached this chunky milestone!"

Apparently none of us care about Kevin Smith because this is old news.

November 2019:

[quote]In February last year, Kevin Smith performed 90 minutes of standup for a TV special, padded back to the green room and started to worry that the joint he had smoked before the show was too strong. He was sweaty and nauseous, which was not entirely out of the ordinary. But after he lay down on the tile floor and vomited, he was rushed to hospital, where a doctor broke the news that Smith was having a massive heart attack.

[...]

[quote]“I was a fat kid,” he continues. At 14, he joined Weight Watchers, but felt awkward being the only teenage boy and left after a month. As the third child of parents who were strapped for money and time, the only health food he saw was tinned spinach. “That’s why I don’t like vegetables.”

[...]

[quote][bold]He marketed himself as a character – the happy schlub in a hockey jersey – and literally became a cartoon, [/bold] as Clerks went from indie movie to comic book to sequels to animated series. Success, Smith notes, gave him an extra padding of protection.

He still dresses like a big guy and has retained the cartoonish mannerisms that no longer work for someone his size.

Interesting he had the heart attack after losing enough weight to go from 5XL to XL. A cautionary tale about crash diets and not losing muscle mass from the heart. It’s better to lose weight sensibly.

He also talks regularly about fasting. He will try to fast for days and days. His obsession with food has just flipped from eating too much to the oppisite.

I knew he'd list weight, but he took it too far

[quote] He really had to wear the hat? Looks like someone with special needs

I’ve met him and chatted with him, and he is 1) shorter than you realize, which means that 2) anyone 5’9” or taller can look down and see how fucking bald he is on top of his head. He had the rest of his hair gelled and spiked in a futile attempt to disguise it. I’m sure that’s why he does the hat.

So he's an anorexic

He lost the weight after the heart attack

Jason looks good. So does his dick

Snoochie boochies r23

Why don’t bitches suck in their stomachs anymore when getting a photo taken. I don’t care if you’re thin, you look inelegant.

The other guy looks good.

Ron Howard also pathetically hides his baldness under a baseball cap - You know, that look that says "I'm just a boyish millionaire over 50."

Did Kevin Smith get the stomach staple? He looks like a melted cancer victim, just like Star Jones, Al Roker, and Lisa Lampanelli.

Kevin Smith claims to have only lost 51 pounds. There is no fucking way.

He was more than 300 pounds at one point, and he looks like he's maybe 200 now. Why lie about how much he lost? It doesn't make sense.

It sounds like he still isn't eating healthy, though. No breakfast, junky vegan food like Impossible Burgers or nachos for lunch, a "two-foot wide bowl" of vegan snacks he dips into all day long, and more junky vegan food for dinner. No mention of actual vegetables or fruit, just highly-processed soy and tempeh meat substitutes.

You can lose weight on such a diet, but be quite unhealthy and malnourished in other ways. I think that's partly why he looks so bad although he's a reasonable weight. He isn't getting the nutrients he should be getting.

R13 nails it, that fucking backwards hat and that dopy ass expression...it's embarassing. I've had sufficient Kevin. I think I like his daughter better.

His mother Kate weighed even more.

He looks like Roger Ebert when Ebert was dying.

I was embarrassed when I heard there was another Clerks movie coming out. I would be the original film's demographic, and I have no desire to see a moment of the new one.

R32 The "straight man" actor from Clerks (Dante?) is a terrible actor, as is Smith's wife. They both read lines like a ten year-old in a bad school play, yet he keeps casting them anyway.

Is he an Asian design major? Or a design major of Asian descent? We'll never know.

Aren’t the ugly clothes part of his “ regular comic book store guy” appeal to his regular-comic-book-store-guy fans?

His audience is not urban elder gays so it’s no surprise that Datalounge hates everything about him.

R35 Who is his audience, then? Shitheads? Burnouts who look like they smell like Fritos?

A talentless, one note hack best left in the mid nineties.

Everyone in his movies sucked. And his screenplays sucked too. It's kind of amazing that he was successful

I always wondered that, too? After seeing part of Tusk. I think he should been kicked out of town. And you would think after losing that weight. He would wear clothes that actually fit him. And don’t remember asking for his opinion on every comic book movie. Do you?

The late NZ performer was attractive.

Doesn’t Ben have more celebrity friends? Than Matt and Kevin.

Is that his wife?

😬😬😬

He looks like a smug arsehole with all the mugging for the cameras and elder-douchebro clothing.

Aw I actually think Kevin Smith is a very nice guy. I have had a few run-ins with him over the past 25 years and he is always nice.

Jason Mewes looks great! Good for him. People were dragging anyone in the Colin Farrell thread who said he isn’t aging well, but Jason is two years older, a former drug addict and he looks so much better

JFC!

Kevin looks absolutely FRIGHTENING!

Like Chucky, but with a sharper jaw, and horrible tastes in formalwear & hags!

Is that a VPL I see in Jason Mewes’s pants snaking down to the right in OP’s photo?

[Quote] I think I like his daughter better.

I did not expect her character from Cruel Summer to be the least insufferable.

[Quote] He’s not a good person from what I’ve heard from people who’ve worked with him and will probably screw you over and take credit for your original idea because he hasn’t had a good one since “Dogma” and desperately wants to be relevant again.

Really? I always assumed he was one of the more down to earth types in Hollywood.

How did these 2 has beens get an invite?

They go way back, and it is also possibly an eff you to Jennifer Garner, who did not like Ben’s friends including Kevin Smith and that whole crew

R47, Harley Quinn Smith kind of shows the one positive of nepo babies. She’s weird and oafish looking in a way that casting directors try to avoid, even for quirky parts. She’s unpleasant to look at so she stands out from people who are TV usually. She has a strange energy too. It made for a surprisingly effective performance in Cruel Summer.

R49 Can you blame her? These people are loud and untalented, and look like they smell like a bowling alley.

Kevin Smith is twice as pretentious as Quentin Tarantino, only with a tenth of the talent. The greasy fuck probably NEVER shuts up about auteur filmmaking, and makes snide comments about network action dramas like "Alias."

R51 WW! So true. I wouldn't want to hang out with them either. I'm sure all Kevin does is remind you he's seen Star Wars 800 times and talk about films. But saying he has 1/10th of the talent is an insult to Tarantino.

🍉 diet?

What is this gesture he’s making with his hands?

He has the lollipop bobblehead melted look, as noted above, like other gastric bypassers. Nothing wrong with it, and many of them do intermittent fasting and small portions to maintain it, after.

Kevin Smith has never been okay.

While I guess it’s good he lost alot of weight, he still doesn’t look healthy. His mugging worked when he was fat but just looks odd now.

R54 He's always making a gesture like that in photos. And a weird facial expression, too.

Google Images him. He does this way too often. It's like Kanye's scowl.

Yeah it was like a cool twenty something kid thing (he thought) in the 90's and now it's fucking pathetic and lame.

Clerks II is a guilty pleasure. I stopped watching his stuff after that. That said, he really is pathetic and destroyed his reputation by becoming a greedy hack. He was this hip indie director who did capture some of the 90s slacker fuck y'all attitude. But he slowly became greedy and rehashes Clerks, Star Wars and Jay and Silent Bob for money. He hasn't had an original idea since Dogma. Like so many Gen Xers, he became a sellout.

VPL on Jason.

The sad part is that he is/was actually an insightful film critic. He knows the craft, and usually knows the source material anytime a novel or comic book is made into a movie. He was a solid guest critic on things like "Ebert and Roeper," and when his ego was in check he had useful things to say.

I love his early films - a true original American voice. Jason was always cute - and hung. Did the Jay and Silent Bob film ever get made?

He's definitely intelligent and had talent but got arrogant and greedy. Happens to many who go from nobodies to famous with little transition. He definitely peaked before 2000 yet he acts like he's still making masterpiece after masterpiece. Chasing Amy is so problematic now and it was uncomfortable to watch.

[Quote] They go way back, and it is also possibly an eff you to Jennifer Garner, who did not like Ben’s friends including Kevin Smith and that whole crew

I was surprised Kevin and Jennifer did a movie together. It wasn't completely terrible, i'll give some of the credit to Timothy Olyphant.

[Quote] He definitely peaked before 2000 yet he acts like he's still making masterpiece after masterpiece.

He seemed pretty happy to working on a CW show. Can't say i expected to see Jay & Silent Bob make a cameo on The Flash.

He looks perfectly healthy to me.

Clerks was a fantastic movie. Never watched the other ones.

But why are his eyes constantly bugged out now?

Maybe his face is saggy when he relaxes it.

Man, I would tear Jay up.

R19, classic eating disorder symptoms

I think he looks tremendous!

He probably didn't dare eat in case he shit his pants wearing all white. A side effect of the weight loss surgery.

He’s freaky looking

Jason Mewes dressed well for the hot weather. Kevin would have been better off with a loose white shirt and white slacks, he must have been sweating his ass off in all those layers.

[quote] He knows the craft, and usually knows the source material anytime a novel or comic book is made into a movie. He was a solid guest critic on things like "Ebert and Roeper," and when his ego was in check he had useful things to say.

R62 a breadth of knowledge is definitely there. Unfortunately, there is no depth of feeling. And it is difficult to listen to his smug, affected, pretentious, faux-intellectual, vocal-fried cadence when he does impart any wisdom. The epitome of a smug, mansplaining, incel burnout asshole. Just because you say things in a smokey tone and use all this lazy drawling slang and mug for the camera because you're so self-aware and rebellious doesn't mean you're on the cutting edge.

And he was wrong about Ryan Gosling attaining A++ Brando-level megastardom and acting prowess. What was he smoking that day..

Kudos on the weight-loss and health changes, though. Can't have been easy, especially as a celeb people like to mock for being XXL.

He probably has a lot of loose skin, hence the silly outfit.

Kevin Smith had the widow maker. The widow-maker is a massive heart attack that occurs when the left anterior descending artery (LAD) is totally or almost completely blocked. His was 100% blocked. The overwhelming majority of people who have that type of heart attack survive. Only 10-20 percent survive and they have heart damage. I had similar situation with chest tightness with shortness of breath and a feeling of extreme anxiousness. Fortunately I did not have a hear attack, my LAD was 80-90% blocked, and they gave me a stent. Three years later when I took a stress test it showed irregularities and I ended up getting a triple bypass. I'm now 50 pounds lighter and the healthiest I've been in at least 15 years.

Kevin was 400 pounds at his heaviest, he's now under 200, so we're not used to seeing him so thin.

R78 Correction: The overwhelming majority of people who have that type of heart attack DO NOT survive.

Woa r79 so he was extremely lucky and probably panicked of another one , hence the strict eating etc

I respect the fact that he lost the weight and then kept it off even if he looks odd without all of it.

He looks odd because he doesn't lift weights and still dresses like shit. If would gain some muscle and start dressing better he'd actually be a relatively nice-looking man.

Serious question, asked out of concern and morbid curiosity and wish to understand, not to mock: practically, how does someone cope for years with day-to-day life weighing over 250lbs? Just getting out of bed and walking to the bathroom or kitchen must be a damn Herculean struggle.

Like, my 5”6 frame has been 150lbs or a little bit over almost all my adult life (I have glucose problems, my bones are big and my tits are Ds, give me a break). At my heaviest during the depressed years in College when I was bulimic and ate like shit all the time and drank and had horrible deficiencies, I was pushing 190lbs, and everything felt hard to do—I got winded just walking downstairs from my dorm to get breakfast. It felt like I was dragging heavy pillows around with me constantly. And that was only 40 or so extra pounds on what I would normally carry. Ever since those days, I’ve been terrified to get to that weight again.

Does one get into the red zone above 200lbs and just think, “fuck it, what’s the point?”

R83 If you're carrying 40 pounds of excess weight, think of it as walking around with at least 4 gallon bottles of water everyplace you go. It's more of an effort to do most things, from just sitting up to walking, and think of the impact on your back and knees.

Kevin says he's a reformed 'sex addict'.

Really? I mean, numbers-wise, what could we have been talking here...

What’s his ethnic background?

He's 100% Douchebag

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Nope.He was much cuter fat.If the camera adds 10 lbs think about how gaunt he is in person.

R82 yes, I agree. Glasses, casual tailoring, and Pilates would do wonders. And ditch the cap and the jorts, before anything else.

I’m fat and I do not feel like I am lugging 40 pounds of water bottles. I am active. I walk a lot. I am strong. I can bend and lift heavy things. I can wipe my ass. I have an active sex life.

I may not be attractive to most people, but I exist perfectly well in my fat body.

This is for R83 and R84.

R91 My point was that I was over 40 pounds overweight and since I lost the weight I no longer get tired, I no longer sweat, my legs and feet don't ache. You can manage the extra pounds better when you're younger but once you pass age 50 it becomes a challenge and a health liability.

Jason Mewes looks great!

I'd like to see the 90s era Jason Lee and Jason Mewes and the guy who played Randal in Clerks in a threesome.

Damn Jason is throwing some meat ! Looks like hes free ballin too.

Some people just look better fat. Their facial structure looks weird when they are thin. Think of Oprah. Much more attractive when heavier. Thin, her wide set eyes look like they are on either side of her head, her face a grimace. Extreme weight loss in older adults seldom looks good.

Adele looked better heavier. So did Mo'Nique. And I can't see Jack Black looking attractive skinny.

Kevin's brand is basically being the king of the geeks. That's why he still dresses like that. I think he received his first real backlash from the nerd community recently for running the He-Man cartoon series that's all about Teela (voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar).

Yes, Kevin's a sell-out, but so would be anyone if Hollywood is throwing hot chicks (if you are straight) and money at him. Most of us are weak-minded, insecure, self-conscious (like weight), etc. and Hollywood knows how to push your buttons.

J-Lo had to invite Kevin Smith, since she and Ben met on Kevin's film project Gigli. It wouldn't look good if she snubs him even if the film was a total flop, and she was ridiculed for her performance.

Ben is friends with Kevin Smith. They've worked together since Mallrats.

R99 "Wouldn't look good?"

Who the hell pays attention to the deeper guest list of a celebrity's destination wedding? Unless it's a sloppy ex or Brad fucking Pitt, no one cares who is or is not at a wedding. When's the last time you heard about a B-list film director being absent from a double A-list wedding?

If anything, having this ape at her wedding would only remind people that she and the groom were once in one of Smith's projects, and it nearly killed all of their careers.

The thing is Ben worked with Kevin Smith in a lot of movies before he reached A-List status. Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, etc. So he has a strong sense of loyalty to him. Kevin Smith didn't do Gigli. He directed Jersey Girl that had Ben and J Lo. J Lo did shitty movies before and after Gigli, so that's her problem.

Oops, my bad. Kevin Smith didn't direct Gigli. I mixed it up with Jersey Girl as r102 rightfully points out.

R85 just one more thing Kevin has in common with Ben.

He doesn't look real.

Sex addict? He looked like he was the type to lay there and let the woman do all the work. Ugh I picture him as a sweaty mess.

That length of shorts on a man --any man, much less his age and height-- is hideous.

How can he and his True Love Ben ever find their way to one another if he continues to dress like a toddler?

Years ago I had a dream that I was giving Kevin Smith a blowjob. I had a similar dream about Richard Marx, & I’m not attracted to either, but post-dream I feel a weird affinity with them.

Kevin definitely needs to put a few LBs back on.

Off topic but Affleck does seem to be someone who keeps people in his life. Suggests loyalty and likability. I suppose it has to be mentioned that his being mega-famous and wired and wealthy make people want to keep HIM around, too.

I am surprised that Ben is still on good terms with Kevin after he shared some embarrassing anecdote of Ben telling Kevin how Steven Spielberg and George Lucas got all giddy about bad internet porn one time.

[Quote] how Steven Spielberg and George Lucas got all giddy about bad internet porn one time.

Fucking nerds lol