Tusk (2014)

After finding a delightfully amusing posting on craigslist involving a man with a special request seeking a roommate. Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier decided to build a story out of it for fun on an episode of their ever popular podcast entitled "SModcast".

What happened instead was the creation of a genius screenplay that fully involved the fan's of the show. Kevin Smith simply asked his audience, if you want to see it tweet #WalrusYes if not then #WalrusNo. Plain and simple.

And of course the answer was an overwhelming #WalrusYes!

Starring Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment and Johnny Depp.

Wallace is the lead podcaster on the NOT-SEE Podcast and goes to great lengths to find crazy, unusual and hilarious stories that he can learn about and return home to record his findings while explaining them to his co-host Teddy. After making his way to a city in Manitoba, his lead story goes cold but quickly finds a replacement story that could either make his career or break his soul.

First off, I have to make mention to all the easter eggs in the film for fans of the different podcasts the SModcast radio network have to offer. If you are a fan of either SModcast or Hollywood Babble-ON you will be rolling around in tears laughing.

Now that I got that out of the way, I have to compliment Kevin Smith on the dialogue scene's between Wallace and Howard. They just seemed so natural and sucked me in right away, Park and Long definitely brought both their roles to life and kept me wanting more!

The costume was also something that I was shocked and amazed by but absolutely loved it, it was exactly what it should have been, grotesque, realistic and still capable of showing of Long's emotions even under all the rubber layers and makeup.

And finally, being Canadian and French (no I do not have the Lapointe accent) I could not stop laughing when Johnny Depp's character, Guy Lapointe, came into the film. He was absolutely hilarious throughout his entire time on film.

I was looking forward to this one since I first heard it on the podcast and could not get over not being able to see it in theatre as I did not have a showing anywhere near me. But I held my breath, caught the trailer minutes after it was released online and once again awaited patiently for it to show here in Canada.

I loved every aspect of it's originality and how he pulled this off was even more amazing which makes me appreciate the film more than I probably would have otherwise so I can not give this film anything lower than a 9 out of 10.

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To all those with Negative Comments toward people with a dream!

I do not understand why people are bitching about Kevin Smith and his work. More notably, his work in the film Tusk.

I'm not talking about the people who just plainly decided they didn't like the film in general, that's a valid opinion and everyone is entitled to like what they want. What I speak of are the people who decided to criticize some of the decisions he made in the film such as the casting his daughter and her friend (who just so happens to be the daughter of Johnny Depp) in the film as a set of female convenience store Clerks in a salute to his first film, not so ironically entitled "Clerks".

Now don't get me wrong, there were a couple things in the film I would have changed myself but I am not gonna go out into the world and bitch about the choices this man made. I personally found his idea to be excellent, especially considering where it ended up coming from to begin with.

The man took a simple idea that him and his friend were cracking jokes about and turned it into an actual film. And you want to know how he decided to follow through with this crazy non sense? He asked the people of the world if it would be something that they would want to see. That's all! He never asked if it would be something they would want to pay to see or if it was something they would throw money at. They were asked simply, if you want to see this film be made tweet #walrusyes.. Otherwise, #walrusno.

And didn't he get a massively overwhelming yes, only receiving one tweet stating #walrusno in which the person who tweeted it claimed he only did it in order to make it a fair vote and that he in fact wanted to see such a film. 

The point I'm trying to make here is that Kevin Smith saw an opportunity to do something that he thought would be awesome to see on the big screen and he went for it, not unlike most of his other films. Sure, they aren't going to be huge blockbusters but they will appeal to people that like his style of movie making.

He is always telling people to basically grab life by the horns and follow through with what you want to do no matter what people say. In reality most people are gonna be assholes about what you want to do if it's out of the realm of ordinary but we all have to say FUCK IT and go for it. 

Think about this for a moment. Are you gonna just settle for that minimum wage job or for letting someone surpass you at work, leaving the new guy to now be your new boss? If your boss at work is not seeing the sacrifices you are making in your personal life for them and doing things such as refusing to give you a well deserved and well overdue raise or bonus.

Now imagine yourself just saying fuck this. If I take a shot at this and I fail, the worse thing that could happen to me is being thrown back into the same position I'm currently in working for another jack ass. So what's the difference? There is only one and that would be either trying to do something or not trying to do something.

And this is exactly what Kevin Smith has done his whole life. He's tried and it has paid off for him in spades. Some things more than others but he has still become successful throughout his life. So before you decide to bitch and complain about somebody's idea or a dream they may possibly have or something they have already done remember, they actually poured their heart and soul into something and have come out of it stronger than they did going in,

So in place of judging somebody's art, how about supporting them instead. One positive comment honestly makes a huge difference to someone who is trying to express themselves. I know this from experience and suggest to everybody that they look for the positives in things as opposed to bitching about them, because you never know what you can accomplish one day by just staying positive about it.