Oh, Dogma WAS indeed heavily protested. Kevin Smith not only anticipated it, he actively PARTICIPATED in the protests :D Incognito, of course. There's footage of this on KZfaq.

Yes, this movie was *heavily* protested when it released...Kevin Smith actually joined one of the protests, mostly just for the laughs, and ended up being the guy interviewed by the local news team that showed up to cover the protest. As for Silent Bob, he's mostly silent but usually has 1-2 lines in each movie.

Kevin Smith actually helped Affleck and Damon get their big break. Affleck was still an up-and-coming actor when he appeared in Mallrats and Chasing Amy back in 1995 and 1997, and Damon was even less famous (he has the briefest cameo in Chasing Amy). They had sold their screenplay for Good Will Hunting to Rob Reiner's company Castle Rock a few years previous, and Castle Rock wanted to make it but without Damon and Affleck in the lead roles. They gave them a 30-day deadline to find another buyer who would pay Castle Rock back their investment, or Castle Rock would own the script and make it without Damon and Affleck. Affleck gave the script to Smith, who gave it to (yeah, yeah) Harvey Weinstein, who immediately agreed to pay Castle Rock's fee and make the movie with Damon and Affleck playing their parts. They even asked Smith to direct it, but Smith insisted they find a "real director," leading to Gus Van Sant directing instead. In the mid-2000s, when Affleck was married to Jennifer Garner, there was a public falling-out between Affleck and Smith that lasted for several years. Smith is a very candid speaker and acknowledged that he probably told some stories about Affleck that weren't his to tell, and that doing so got him in hot water with Affleck's then-wife Jennifer Garner. A few years ago, Smith suffered a near-fatal heart attack and subsequently got back into shape, and thanks to a reporter who asked Affleck about being interested in working with Smith, the two finally reconnected and Affleck has been in Smith's last two movies.

17:58 "No ticket" is a reference to the airship scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I've never felt that culturally different than Canadians but the fact that neither of you know what skeeball is is making my head spin

Alan Rickman as Metatron is delightful and weird. I love how he mentioned the multiple "Adams" they went through before figuring out the whole "Voice of God" thing. Chris Rock as the Thirteenth Apostle is also super fun.

Just in case nobody has mentioned it, Jason Mewes was so nervous to be in a film with all these A-list actors that instead of just memorizing his own lines, he memorized the entire script including everyone else' lines just to be sure he wouldn't mess up

"There's a lot of dialogue in this movie" Yes, Kevin Smith movies are all about the dialogue.

Jay and Silent Bob are generally side characters (Clerks, Clerks 2, Chasing Amy, Mallrats). In the actual "Jay and Silent Bob" movies, they are, of course, the main characters. They're Kevin Smith's comedic version of R2-D2 and C-3PO.

Silent Bob was supposed to be completely silent but ended up speaking one line in Clerks out of necessity. The line was supposed to be Jay's but he was having trouble with it and, due to limited cash and film, Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) did it. From that point it became a running thing that Silent Bob would have a line in every movie

Matt Damon sneezing trying to give Anyone a chance at that office meeting to say “God Bless You” was hilarious, the look of “well, I tried” 🤣

I’d watch the Jay and Silent Bob/View Askew-verse in order. Clerks and Mallrats are hilarious. As is Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. But I think the real jewel is Chasing Amy, that movie is funny but also dramatic and poignant in a way Kevin Smith’s previous films weren’t. I consider Chasing Amy a top ten film for me.

Per your question at 9:27 The "View Askew-niverse" is a series of films that all take place in the same universe but are only tangentially connected. Jay and Silent Bob show up in each of them, but they only really have "starring" roles in three of the films: Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. The other films use Jay and Silent Bob as scene transitions, save for Chasing Amy which only has a single scene with the boys. I'm not sure how unaware of the View Askew-niverse you may be, Silent Bob is played by Kevin Smith, the write/director of the View Askew-niverse. And Jay is played by Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith's childhood friend. The films are very well written (and also extremely profane), but they are all shot and composed like an amateur indie film. Kevin Smith (again, the writer/director) will be the first person to tell you he has no idea how to set up a shot and film a scene with kinetic energy. The camerawork in Dogma is significantly better than the rest of the shared universe, only because the studio forced Smith to use a cinematographer.

The entire film is fantastic, but my favorite line is Loki reassuring the woman in the elevator at the start. Damon delivers it perfectly.

The scene when Alan Rickman first appears felt so Pratchett-esque, for years I thought this movie was going to be the nearest we'd ever get to an adaptation of Good Omens

This is my favorite Kevin Smith movie, the entire cast is great. R.I.P. George Carlin, Alan Rickman

I love how much George appreciates George Carlin.

As someone raised Catholic and who did 12 years in Catholic schools, the last 4 in Supermax; this movie is pure gold. Also Loki (Damon) became human and died...but IIRC he did NOT go through the arch. So Heaven is not on his itinerary.

In the case of Kevin Smith, New Jersey plays a big role in his movies because that's were he's from and he likes to write about the places he knows well.

Did anyone catch the Indiana Jones reference on the train? After Silent Bob throws the angels off, he turns to the lady and says "No ticket". That's from The Last Crusade. Indiana punches a man hard and throws him off a blimp, turns to a couple and says "No ticket". Then everyone on board starts showing their tickets.

Jason Mewes memorized this entire script because he didn't want to disappoint Alan Rickman.

"One strip club in a middle of nowhere just has Salma Hayek as a stripper" Two, actually. You haven't seen "From Dusk Till Dawn" yet, I guess.

Fun fact! The scene where we meet the angels in the airport, they say it is Wisconsin, but it is actually Pittsburgh International. Also, the scene were Metatron and Bethany go to get tequila, that is a taco place around the corner from my mom's in Pittsburgh! This is my favorite Kevin Smith film. And Silent bob only has one line in every film. Originally, Kevin Smith wrote the roll of Jay for himself and Bob "When this came out, were there protests?" Yes, even one that Kevin Smith went to himself to join in. The news recognized him and interviewed him, but he said he was someone else.

A LOT of this movie was actually filmed in my hometown, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Kevin dated a girl who went to college here before he started making movies. So he had spent a good amount of time here visiting her and developed some affection for the city and surrounding neighborhoods. I believe some of his other movies have bits that were filmed here too, but arguably most of this one was. The most notable locations filmed at probably being the church, the skyscraper the Mooby headquarters was in as well as the boardroom interior, ALL of the restaurant scenes including the Moobys (it was an old Burger King), and the Airport. Kevin did a premiere here for his last Jay and Silent Bob movie a few years ago and he actually stopped in the comic store I manage. He was SUPER nice. He let all of our staff ask questions, took pictures with us, and he even let me pitch him on my favorite graphic novel at the time and he actually bought it. It’s my proudest accomplishment as comic book store manager. lol I love you guys, keep up the great work on your great channel!

The film was protested like Life of Brian, and again by people who hadn’t seen it. Though religious institutions were gently mocked, Christianity was treated with nothing but love and respect. In the film God is real, Jesus existed on earth, and the Holy Bible is mostly true (errors inserted by flawed human beings, who brought their own prejudices or pandered to the prejudices of others). There’s very little for a religious person to be offended by (unless they’re very thin skinned) and lots that makes religion attractive. God is nice, faith is rewarded, weaknesses are forgiven.

When I was like 6 or 7 in the early 80s I mistook "Euthanasia" for "Youth in Asia". I remember overhearing the news and my parents and aunts and uncles discussing it. Debating whether or not it should be allowed. I thought they were complete sociopaths even questioning if youths existing in Asia should be legal or not. My little brain imagining asian kids being sent to camps or having to move to a non-asian country. Tricky word for a Kindergartner.

There were protestors for the movie, and as a joke Kevin Smith protested with them without telling them who he was. You can see it online

Clerks was Kevin's big break, it's filmed in black and white but you don't really notice because the dialogue is so colourful, I highly recommend you check that out next.

I love that the nun at the beginning is played by Betty Aberlin, who played Lady Aberlin on Mr Rogers' Neighborhood for years.

I am so excited for this! Thank you both so much for watching! Thanks so much to the patreons, y’all are the real heroes.

As Kevin Smith said, Jay Mewes was totally on his game for Dogma. Mewes was told that Alan Rickman was a proper thespian and wouldn't take any funny stuff, so Jay learned all his lines perfectly, and also learned everybody else's lines. His reasoning? "I didn't want to piss off that Rickman dude".

A scion is a descendent of a notable or aristocratic family. In this case, she is the last descendent of the line of Jesus.

Back in the day I gifted a Buddy Jesus figure to my mother, who was working for the church. She loved it. 😇

One of the great little (ie. long but good) stories I just had to share about this movie. Kevin talking about Jason learning all the lines in the script and for what reason. Pieced together from the words of Kevin Smith himself, give or take. (Hes such a great story teller, really sucks you in. I loved his "Evenings with Kevin Smith") - For months, I’d impressed upon him the importance of learning all of his lines in advance, as this time around, we were gonna have real actors in the flick. “What, like Ben?” Mewes asked. “I said REAL actors,” I corrected. “Like Alan Rickman.” "Who the fuck's that?" "Alan Rickman. You know, from Die Hard, yippee-kai-yay?" "Bruce Willis?" "No. The other guy. Alan Rickman, he's the villain." “What’s so special about him??" “He’s British. And Brits invented acting. So he won’t put up with any of your ‘Snootchie Bootchies’ bullshit. He’ll tear you up if you’re not excellent, because he’s Alan fucking Rickman. So you’ve gotta know all your lines. We can’t be asking people to leave the set because you’re nervous, like we did on ‘Clerks’. This shit’s serious - because Rickman will go ballistic if he smells blood in the water. You’ve gotta come correct.” - As with all the other films, I rehearse with all the actors separately... and Mewes I start with by himself and then work him into the group. So I sit down with Mewes to start rehearsing. And he comes in, no script. I'm like, “Where’s your fucking script, asshole?” “I don’t need it.” “You don’t need your script for rehearsals? Right. Take mine and let’s get going.” “I’m telling you, I don’t need it. Go ahead. Try me.” - So I turned to the first Jay and Silent Bob scene and fed him Bethany’s lines, and without looking at my script, Mewes delivered Jay’s lines in a letter-perfect fashion. “Alright, so you’ve got the first scene down,” I allowed. “Let’s mix it up and try a scene from later in the flick.” - So I fed him his lead-in lines from the church exterior scene, and Mewes spits out the Jay responses without hesitation. “You memorized all your lines already?!” I demanded, shocked. “Uh-huh.” “All of ‘em?!” “Yeah. Everyone else’s, too.” “Yeah, right” “Try me.” - I read him Loki’s lines from a Jay-less scene, and amazingly, he responded with Bartleby’s lines. I was dumbfounded, to say the least. “You memorized ALL the lines in the script?!?!” “Even the girl parts.” “What’re you, fucking ‘Rain Man’?! Why’d you memorize the whole goddamn script?!” “I don’t wanna piss off that Rickman dude.” .

You have to watch all the movies in order... but I'm dying for yall to see JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK

Trivia bit from memory; Kevin Smith wanted to be in his first movie "Clerks", but he didn't like the sound of his own voice. That's how Silent Bob was created.

The "Jay & Silent Bob" thing started as an inside joke, as Jason Mewes (Jay) was actually very shy in real life, and Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) never shuts up. 😁 And yes, you two absolutely do need to delve further into the View Askewniverse!

I love this movie. I saw it in the theater, and an older couple left during the start when it was just the text on the screen. I assume they thought it would be a more wholesome, biblical movie when they entered. One of my favorite scenes is when Affleck and Damon exit the bus, and Damon has that satisfied smile on his face and starts singing "who's house? RUN's house" :D

Yes Kevin Smith is from jersey but he loves Canada

one of my favourite films. personally i think the platypus text should be added to the begining of every religious comedy

"Yes, Gale. Gag us ALL with a spoon." - Mr. Handerson, 1985

Trivia nugget: The Nun at 3:20 is Betty Aberlin, Lady Aberlin from Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Matt Damon had pretty well no comedic acting experience at this point and was actually nervous about taking the part, worried he wouldn't be funny enough. His friends Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith assured otherwise and Damon of course knocked it out the park.

Janeane Garofalo played "The Bowler" (daughter of Carmine The Bowler) in the superhero movie "Mystery Men". It was also stocked with improbably good actors playing improbable heroes and villains. You should try it if you haven't seen it.

Silent Bob’s gimmick is that he’s silent throughout the whole film, save for one time, in which he either delivers a comedic line or a moral lesson. In Dogma, he breaks that rule and speaks a second time, for which Jay immediately hits him. But as others have already told you, you need to watch the Askewniverse in order to get the full effect. Clerks Mallrats Chasing Amy Dogma (you skipped way ahead) Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Clerks II Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Clerks III There’s also an animated Jay and Silent Bob movie, but I think you be better off watching Clerks: The Animated Series.

Fun fact: The nun that Loki "de-converts" at the beginning of the movie is played by Betty Aberlin, who played Lady Aberlin on _Mr. Roger's Neighborhood_ .

I met Jason Mewes manyyy years ago and he was just the sweetest and so kind.

Clerks, Clerks 2 and Mall Rats are all pretty solid View Askew films.

Definately watch Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike back. Clerks has sequels to!

I believe the sneeze was an intentional attempt to get an excuse to kill EVERYONE in the board room at Mooby's, but Bartleby still wouldn't let Loki kill the woman who was free of sin even though she never said "Bless You" when he sneezed.

1:00 “Faith is a funny thing.” Is another tagline I remember being part of this film.

Kevin as Silent Bob usually says two lines per Jay and Silent Bob movie (there are exceptions). One is usually a joke line (“no ticket”) and the other is usually thoughtful, sometimes helpful and important for to the protagonist to hear, and in the instance of the first Clerks movie he basically says the moral of the story as his one utterance towards the end of the film.

Yes, finally! This movie is still hilarious. Arguably, Kevin's best film. Harder to find these days, too. As for the tagline, Touched by an Angel is a reference to the popular CBS drama that aired for nine seasons and 211 episodes from 1994-2003. Angels would appear to people who were at a crossroads in their lives and provide guidance from God.

On the DVD commentary, Kev said that he cast Alanis because he felt that if there were a God, he was sure that it would be a Canadian.

I am a rare owner of a physical copy of Dogma not only that over hours worth deleted and expanded scenes

Gotta hand it to Jason Mewes, his firing a sub machine gun face always cracks me up

27:47 You actually reacted to two 80s movies that had those same end credits style: Top Gun & Predator.

Thank you for being the first ones to notice the genious of george carlin cast as a cardinal 😊

I think you guys would like all of the movies that Jay and Silent Bob are in. They all exist in the "View Askew-niverse". They're mostly just side characters early on, like in "Clerks", "Mallrats", and "Chasing Amy", but the movies themselves are great and fantastically well-made, because Kevin Smith is just a great film maker. Even the non- Askew-niverse movies are great. Although, I haven't seen "Tusk" or "Yoga Hosers". I've been watching his films and have been such a huge fan of his since I saw "Mallrats" when I was 15, in ol' '97.

So my grandma has always been a huge Christian but this movie and paul she loved with a passion, buddy christ is actually a hit to almost anyone with proper faith, even in paul she called out the jesus chick with "humans arent the only life in the universe just the only ones with sin" and it made me realize the difference between faith and religion as a sophmore 😂

I love Kevin Smiths dialogue

seeing alan rickman just brings me so much joy

"There's a lot of dialogue in this movie" You'll find that Kevin Smith is a big talker, and he writes all his movies in the same way as very dialogue heavy.

They needed to be human, go through the arched way, and then die. They both became human but died before they went through the archway. So they both went to Hell. They had to go to heaven to end the world.

Years ago in my teens one Sunday after church I showed this movie to my parents. My dad who I get my sense of humor from I knew would enjoy it but I was expecting my mom to hate it. I dont know if she was in some weirdly good mood that day but she laughed to the point of tears at several points. Apparently her favorite character was Jay, the one I expected her to dislike the most due to constant swearing 😂

Kevin Smith is from New Jersey. His first 3 films are known as the Jersey trilogy and are set in Red Bank New Jersey. Near Asbury Park New Jersey (The Boardwalk at the beginning of the film). Kevin also has a Comic book store in Red Bank called Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. They used to film the TV series Comic Book Men there. Ohhh! Kevin Matt and Ben are friends. Kevin was coming off his success with Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. The last two staring Affleck. Kevin had a good relationship with Miramax. He helped get Good Will Hunting made. Since than both Matt and Ben have at least a cameo in Kevins films.

There's a pretty hilarious hidden joke in this movie that most people miss.... "Somebody sold their soul to Satan to get the grosses up on that piece of s*&!" She's talking about Home Alone.... which was written by..... John Hughes.

One of my favorite films! I've had my own little Buddy Christ mini-fig since the movie came out. It reminds me never to take anything TOO seriously.

I went to High School across the street from Buena Vista studios (a catholic school) and the protesters outside Disney were the reason I found out about the movie. I don’t know why people suddenly started reacting to it, but I’m all in. I hope this means the movie will be out of rights hell soon and start streaming somewhere. Edit: The protesters were dressed like angels as well, so they really stood out.

The carpark scene between Loki and Bartleby is possibly my favourite scene ever in cinema. Besides the viewer's sudden realisation that they are talking about Lucifer, and that these two would have been present for that event, but there are so many little details. "Morningstar", another name for Lucifer, is not well known (at least before the TV series Lucifer). The speech echoes but also in the background there is a roiling noise that sounds like many voices in torment, almost demonic. Plus the framing puts the carpark lights over their heads, like halos. It's such a well made scene with two great actors.

Alan Rickman killed it in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. My favorite film of his

"I wanna get little horns" -- Simone, are you a tiefling player? And George, man, give yourself some credit for your singing! I'm not a religious person, but I like it when a religious person makes a film about their beliefs (or ideas, as might suit Smith's mentality better) in a way that has universal appeal. I didn't like it quite as much as I did 20+ years ago, but still, not a bad time. And little by little, going through Matt Damon's filmography, I've come to realize that he's become one of my favorite actors.

please please please do the rest of the Askewniverse! they're all awesome movies and a real good time

Dogma is in my top-10-films-ever list - love love love the entire vibe of it. Also, Jason Lee (Azrael) is as close as you can get to Ryan Reynolds without being Ryan Reynolds.

Big props to George for gettint the Six Million Dollar Man reference! Kevin is from Jersey but has spent a lot of time in Canada starting with a short stint at the Vancouver Film school.

Kevin Smith did do a Body Horror movie called "Tusk". Never seen it, but the few scenes I have been exposed to still give me nightmares to this very day.

I literally got kicked out of catholic school for writing a report on the Carpenter and the walrus as being an indictment of organized religion. This was in 1982, and I was 11.

The opening scene is shot on the Boardwalk between Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. Ocean Grove is part of my hometown. And our graduation ceremony was a few blocks away in Ocean Grove. Though when I was a teen, Asbury Park was where to go to get beer without ID or where friends went for their drugs. Kevin Smith is from NJ, about 20 miles or so from where I grew up. He's only a year behind me. We actually know a couple of the same people as he went to school with a fraternity brother of mine. Bem was in Kevin's second film, Mallrats. He read their script for Good Will Hunting and gave it to Harvey Weinstein. If you look he and his producer Scott Mosier are executive producers of Good Will Hunting.

Kevin Smith is American from New Jersey. He went to film school in Vancouver and was (is?) a huge Canadaphile.

Honour Amongst Thieves is a BRILLIANT movie.....& an amazing D&D film.

I love, love, love this movie! But HOW did you get your hands on this?! You can’t rent/buy it ANYWHERE anymore…due to copyright issues about the soundtrack, I have heard. Is it back on the market somewhere?

Angels wearing hoodies, they're their halos

Thanks for the review! My personal highlight is that Alanis Morissette played God, that was soooo sweet.

Matt Damon's character is named Loki in this. And I just now realized that Matt Damon's only appearance in the MCU is as an Asgardian actor in the last two Thor movies. In Ragnarok, the actor appears in a stage play... portraying Loki. ITS ALL CONNECTED PEOPLE

Seen this movie no less than 50 times and not once did I notice the Angels all wore a blazer with a hoodie. lmao Simone.

One of my favorite stories from the shooting of this movie involves Carlin and his love for his wife Sally. He wanted to keep his wedding band on while still portraying the cardinal. Kevin allowed it and Carlin wore a band aid over it, to hide it. It's sweet af.

I saw this in the theater. The place was packed, and it was so crazy how many people used to flock the theater for movies like this. I love George Carlin! Believe it, or not, I was lucky enough to see him 3 times live before he passed. R.I.P. George Also, wanna see an insane Kevin Smith flick, watch "Red State" (2010). That

"Touched by an Angel" was a sentimental tv show in the 80s and 90s where Angel's came to help people with their troubles in life. So the movie is poking fun at that. I am from New Jersey. It's a beautiful place, best beaches on the East Coast. I got the gell out of there az soon as I could anyway. There is a reason that the unofficial state anthem is "Born to Run."

This is one of my favorite movies...seen it sooo many times, and not once did I ever notice the drunk nun in the beginning in the background 😂😂

"No ticket" - it's from "Indiana Jones"

One of my favorites from my childhood. I’ll always love this film, so incredibly quotable.

In response to Simone’s opening… GAAAAAAAIIIIIIIILLLL!!! Anywho, my personal favorite of the Jay and Silent Bob cannon of movies. weirdly this movie found me in my very early teens right as I was starting to realize the hyper religious upbringing I had wasn’t exactly the coolest experience a kid could have, so this movie has a very special place in my heart.

Who's house? Run's house! I said who's house? Run's house! Who's house?! Say what! Run's house! Say what?! MARTIN! MARTIN!

There was an alternate poster tagline that I liked better than the "get touched by an angel" one. It was just "Prepare Thyself." Not sure why I prefer that one since it's not really a joke or anything, just kind of setting a mock biblical tone. Anyway I just like it more and was never a fan of the other tagline.

Okay, somebody covered this but… Smith is from Jersey. He grew up with Damon & Affleck. Most of his early work was set in NJ. And Smith’s Cinderella story of becoming a successful filmmaker and his career is kinda part of the great thing about his films.

It's insane I saw this as a kid on comedy central lol. This movie was my first time ever seeing Alan Rickman too.

(Not sure if I already left this comment on another account and forgot about it so forgive me if its a repeat 😅) I expected my dad to find the humor in this movie but expected my mom to be offended. Especially as I showed this to them on a Sunday right after church. I was taken by surprise when my mom found it funnier than anyone. Especially Jay, she found him utterly delightful despite his cursing. She thought he was cute. I was so confused. I think I got her on an unusually good mood. Like one of those once every 3 years sort of days 😂

Clerks and Clerks II are both so fucking good. Highly recommend, and Mallrats too- People tend to overlook Mallrats, but it's a great movie too!

Kevin Smith gave Affeck his first LEADING ROLE I believe in Chasing Amy (which also has Jay and Silent Bob) Could be wrong. Think Affleck mentioned that in a speech he did

Silent Bob only has 1 voice line per movie. It's also a gag why at the end of THIS movie when Bob says "thanks" - Jay hits him because that's the 2nd time he's spoken (the first time being the train with "no ticket")