Kevin Smith - Re: Bruce Willis
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2012
- San Diego Comic-Con International 2012 - Hall H - Kevin Smith Panel
Saturday, July 14, 2012
I got to ask Kevin Smith the last question at his Comic-Con panel. Ended it strongly, indeed. Ironically, I had asked Joseph Gordon-Levitt about Bruce Willis the evening before.
(Jeez. I sound like Jesse Eisenberg when I speak.)
Thanks to Russell for recording this. 
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"Life's too short, kids. Do the shit that makes you happy!"
What a dude.
Drugged out, disgustingly obese, moronic CA leftist. Maybe it's not the best advice for life, kids.
2019 and Kevin Smith's Bruce Willis stories never get old.
2020 as well.
They were old years ago. It's just tired waffle now.
ngc 5139 hi Bruce 👋
@@bcdside 2022 same here love that guy
2022 reporting in
I love how such an amazing director always speaks like a fan.
I will say this about Bruce Willis. When it comes to famous people to run into. He’s been one of the coolest I’ve met. I’ve heard otherwise but he was awesome with me. I just asked to shake his hand (and this was before good camera phones), he literally said “is that all, you want a picture?” I was speechless. I didn’t have a camera on me and a pedestrian literally took the shot and emailed it to me. Can I find it 20 years later. Nope 😔
I think a handshake or a fist bump is the best way to go these day.
I've wondered if Bruce's hearing loss has people thinking he's a lot ruder than he intends to be. If you can't hear people, they think you're being a dick and ignoring them.
Kevin is too over analytical with not taking criticism with his films (nobody should give negative reviews or hate his films or him but give a constraint opinion and compliment) and Bruce is very social with people and Kevin Smith needs to see this.
"Can you give us a Comicon exclusive?"
Me: No way he does it.
*sees 6 minutes left in video*
Me: Its. About. To. Go. Down.
Honestly this is why you don't meet your idols. They always let you down.
I very nearly met Samuel L Jackson years back, he was signing autographs in London & I bolted across the street & in my excitement I missed the curb & landed flat on my face. My face covered in blood first thing I did was look up praying he didn't see me as I climbed to my feet, luckily he was still busy with fans & I hobbled away with a napkin I was going to get him to sign to stem the bleeding :(
Stewart Damien I bet if you had walked up to him he'd have taken you aside and signed whatever the fuck you wanted, lol.
I've met multiple actors/celebs who have all been chill and cool as hell.
Stan Lee didn't
Don't live your life by this rule, cause you will loose many fantastic opportunities.
I'll scream "Hudson Hawk!!!!" At him.
i saw his nob in that film. not the greatest time i've ever had tbh
STORY OF US! WOO!!!
Or the whole ten yards
@@TheBC313 Which head was balder?
I don't see how that's bad lol if I was as famous as him can't go anywhere at anytime with out people screaming shut at you. As appreciative you would be to have fans that shut would drive you nuts he's been famous for 30 years lol
Amazing!! Legend Silent Bob!! Thank you!!
"....some of that sh**..you know, I'll wait until he's gone and sh**. He deserves his life and he deserves to be happy." Kevin you almost beat Bruce there. ;)
If only Kevin did a movie with Steven Seagal. Imagine the stories that would produce lol
Kevin Smith is the voice of reason when it comes to liking your movie star heroes. Kevin is pretty cool.
“Never meet your heroes.”
Sad, but usually true.
2:07 for the actual question.
Have a friend who worked at the Royal York downtown Toronto. It’s TIFF, and stars are galore. She’s working the check-in desk and who happens to stop by but the man not mentioned in Kevin’s story. Needless to say, she says this man, not mentioned here, is by far the most arrogant SOB she’s ever met. Cooler than school.
Great ending question!!!
For an update look up "Kevin Smith on Bruce Willis after aphasia announcement, WONDERCON 2022" any animosity they had is now gone.
I would’ve thought Bruce’s comment was hilarious if I was there. So cantankerous lol, love it.
Yeah, I don't see the big problem.
When Kevin tells a "what-if" story... It actually happened. Make pretend if you will
Oh really?
I love Kevin Smith.
Holy shit this hits different now.
Not really Bruce wasn't senile then, just a dick
Bruce Willis strikes me as an actor who is bitter about the fact that he does not have a varied career. In his early days, he did a lot of different stuff - but since the nineties, he has been type-cast as an action star, and we only really see him in stuff that is either already associated with him... Or an action role. And I don't think he's had a break-out successful film in a while.
Now, I don't think from this or anything Kevin Smith has said that we should make Bruce Willis out to be some evil person. In fact, I think if we add the context of that bitterness...the "prick-ishness" of Bruce Willis starts to make a lot of sense. We all deal with being unhappy in different ways. I'm not saying it's sympathy-worthy. I think in this situation, a fan has the right to be heart-broken. And there are actors and other celebrities out there who will sign every autograph with a beaming smile. But I don't think we can hold everyone to that standard.
I didn't read it all BUT, sixth sense, unbreakable, glass(if it's good) , the one with JGL as young him to kill the old him, theresamy but, I do actually agree, just not with the 90s timeline, more like early/mid 00s, but yeah, I do agree.
Dude could go prove himself dramatically in a high budget TV show, but let's be honest, Smith's comments only confirmed rumors of him being a grumpy old man and hard to work with.
Naw man, its not that.
Its the fact that you are stuffing Demi Moore in her prime, and she leaves you for fucking KELSO.
That shit is hard cos you go "I was stuffing Demi Moore man" and they go "yeah but she left for fucking Kelso".
Wouldn't you be bitter? Willis was already huge when that happenned, Demi was just starting out i mean can you name a big movie with Demi in it?
Yeah. I didn’t get any of that from how he spoke.
Like, not just an action star, he has been in a few movies that were not Die Hard, but the character he played were very clearly influenced by his John McCain portrayals. But he does seem kind of pissed off in general, he has given interviews where he got pretty pissy about being asked about his political views.
It's weird, because Hudson Hawk is not some super original awesome thing, and as I recall Bruce was involved in the writing and shit. Many of the roles he has clearly voluntarily taken reference that he has played John McCain and that he he is kind of the badass like that. The Whole 9 Yards took that slightly satirically (him talking about his tomato plants and shit) Kevin tells another story about Bruce being kind of proud to be the "gatekeeper" of Diehard lore and fighting with studio executives over it. He tells another story about Bruce being pissy about channelling a previous performance in his career (from some TV show that is before my time). But Bruce keeps going to this cash cow of playing John McClain or some version of him, and then he kind of whines about it. But then he also whines about being asked about his political opinions, and granted, he is not a politician, so it should not matter too much, and nothing he has voiced is overtly radical (he likes small government that has nothing to do with his private life and does not tax him much). I mean, my opinion, if I have an opinion on something and it is not something grotesque, then voicing and stating that clearly repeatedly is a good thing. If you are afraid of voicing your own views on things, you should probably think about changing them. If you hate the performances you have given, change it?
I love how he put that kid in the spot like that. XD
Like, he was clearly prepared to bail him out of the question was bad, but then the kid rose to the occasion with that "comicon exclusive" but. Fantastic.
That kid brought it home.
I absolutely love Kevin Smith. You can actually tell that kevin is a absolute gentleman. And one of the first to call Bruce Willis out for his B S.
Woe heartbreaking. What a sad moment
If you where as famous as Bruce for over 30 years,you would get tired of people yelling at you know matter how appreciative you where to have the fans.
true.. but that's what he signed up for... to a b a fuckin movie star.. thats what comes with it..
If the worst thing in you're life is to have peoples adore you're work by screaming you're movies, i think you'll be ok
To be one of the most privileged people on Earth... To live in luxury. I'm playing the world's tiniest violin for little Bruce Willis
@@MrFoolD no matter what your life is like eventually everybody goes back to a base level of normal, so imagine just wanting to be a person but now you have people yelling shit at you every freaking day of your life, dude I would go insane! i have a question about myself that people ask all the time and just that alone drives me nuts
Has the comics book men come out on dvd
There are, for me, a few pop culture figures who have seemed more like family that doesn't visit very often rather than celebrities. Robin Williams, Dr. Suess, Mr. Rogers and I also include Kevin Smith.
Slow clap for you....👏
That is a wired list
Fucking hell this could be a 30 second story
Whoever's seen this obviously now shouts Die Hard if they ever see Bruce Willis.
kevin smith is the man
Andrew Logan I met him 2 weeks ago.
sometimes people are different with industry insiders than they are with fans. we are different with fellow employees than we are with our clients. I would happily call bruce "harry stamper" in a heartbeat and from what i have heard of his reputation with the way he treats his fans, he would probably smile and wave. i think for kevin, the movie business is an obsession and that is truly wonderful, but for some actors it is just a profession they enjoy.
tremendous!
Kevin and Bruce are friends again! Check out the latest Fatman Beyond.
best part of the video is when jason comes back to snatch kevins name card 9:43 wonder if thats going on ebay or in a collection.
Legendary
I am going to scream “Unbreakable” at him and see how he reacts
Haha that was the first thing I thought of too
That’s a great flick! I’d be pumped to hear some glacier trucker scream that at me
Or where’s Bruno?
Not NOW!!! 🤣🤣🤣
He gave you a comic-con exclusive that was in the book.
"Oh shit it's SPIKE THE DOG MAN I LOVED RUGRATS GO WILD I GOT THAT SHIT ON VHS"
It's odd that he frames this telling of the glazier truck story as a fantasy when he had previously told the story as something that happened. It would have been nice to hear a "fantasy" that might have been legally tricky.
I wish this video would go so viral that from then on anyone who recognized Bruce would scream nothing but "DIIIE HAAARD!!"
I saw once Kristen Stewart at a red light in West Hollywood and instantly I got smiley and excited to see her live next to my car, realizing I made some portraits of her some years ago. And I thought: oh damn is that girl I made the portrait of, how cool, I smiled and waved like a kid, and in response she rolled her eyes and tured away.
Really so sorry for you .
I think Kristen was beautifully and pure .
Hollywood is full of idiot .
Alright so plan B I'll scream moonlighting at him.
Recently on comedy central their will be a roast of Bruce Willis!
mike nillos What?
You know why actors get that way? Because people idolize them so much. When all they do is pretend to be other people.
oh no it's almost like they 100% decided to do that. And it's almost like most actors have one actor that they idolized that motivated them into becoming actors.
I think the whole De Niro vs Trump thing just showed how little Americans really care for actors, which is very encouraging to see.
Bret .Maverick still doesn't make it right, I think if you have a fan base that will pay there hard earned money to see you on the big screen in a franchise that should have died in the 90s Id learn to be pretty fucking grateful.
also they're spoiled little bitches...
Eh it's not just actors though. Like Micheal Jordan is notorious for being a prick to people. Also there are actors like Keanu Reeves who by all accounts is a stand up guy. So shitty people come in all shapes, and forms, and so do good folks.
Skip to 1:57 to avoid the pre-amble.
You the real mvp
God he’s long winded
We're getting closer to BWT being over
He should feel fortunate to have succeeded, where other talented people try for decades and fail. He should be humbled he was in an iconic role that shot him to fame, and people still love, not bothered by the fans that made him.
Kevin should feel fortunate that Bruce didn't tell him to STFU.
Yeah sure, and that woman with a great job, she shouldn't complain about sexual harasment, cause a lot of people would like to have her job right? Do you realize the stupidity of your logic?
@@porflepopnecker4376bruce is a tard now LOL
Back when Kevin Smith actually didn't like something or someone that's come either directly or indirectly out of Hollywood.
Someone should shout out to Willis, "I see dead people!!!"
we don't say that about batman when he's out fighting crime.
The more I hear these stories the more I love Bruce Willis.
You can’t tell Keven Smith isn’t pompous. No wonder Howard Stern doesn't want him on his lame show any more.
5:26 went all Blair Witch for a sec...what is happening?!??!!
I'm from Idaho. There is a ranch dealer up north that sells Bruce all of his supplies. One day way back when he and Demi Moore show up to pick up said supplies, and of course people want autographs, which Demi Moore was MORE than happy to give. It's Idaho it's not like there is crowds at the ranch supplier. So while she is signing a handful of autographs he's paying the supplier (who didn't seem to know who Willis was) a few people kind of line up next to him for an autograph. After he pays the man he just PLOWS by the people like they didn't fucking exist, in a B line straight for his truck.
Thats a particularly rough one, considering I have it on good authority from someone who was a personal chef to a certain Hollywood financier who prepared dinner for Demi and Bruce when they were married, and he described Demi as "the most insufferable cunt I have ever met" (his words, not mine).
I believe you, too; she may have been unbearable as a guest, but Bruce is absolutely unapproachable as a person. (side note, Bruce and Demi split shortly after the aforementioned meal.)
That kid is awesome.
Im 76 years old & love Kevin Smith,i used to love Bruce Willis until i heard how he is in real life twords the people he works with,i can understand his hatred of his fans simply because when your as big of star as a Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis you cease to be a person to your fans,insane fans stalk mega stars & will interrupt a mega star having dinner with their familys for stupid shit,ive seen it in person when Frank Zappa was mobbed at the dinner table with his wife & kids,i watched him fake it for his fans while the familys meal got ice cold & was ruined,so i can sympathize,however,when working Bruce isnt around insane fans so his outbursts are childish bully shit that any regular man would get his face blew out for talking shit ,Tom Hanks is another mega star who treats people badly .
what's "calm E Comm"
When I hear people say that they don't know if Between Two Ferns is real--if the guests are really that off-put or angry--my eye-roll rivals Liz Lemon's. But after hearing some of Kevin's stories about Bruce, I kind of wonder about his appearance on it.
Who is the guy Kein Smith is talking about ?
Kevin Smith, What a Dude, Funny As Fuck . . . . : 0 )
Well now that Bruce's mind is gone to lunch I suppose Kevin has more wiggle room to spill some of these stories hopefully.
In my imagination, Bruce sounds like a DB!
I would feel the same way as....Bruce Willis. That would drive me insane.
Respect for Kevin Smith just went up and I imagine if this story was about Bruce Willis I imagine I would lose respect for him. Obv I haven’t but I imagine I would. If it happened. Which it didn’t.
dont because its total bs, cause bruce was kidding around and also offended that they didnt even call him by his name and kevin smith took annoyance to that and saw it as a negatie backlash and his onset treatment towards bruce on cop out was very animosital and bruce was trying to help him and gave him advice but kevin was annoyed by it all and bruce had no place in being around that type of environment for himself and thats why his story though understandable from his pov is completely understanable from Bruce`s POINT OF VIEW MUCH MORE!
I'm the same way. I love seeing people being passionate about stuff they love. I mention it a lot, but there's this one video on the Elders React channel about Elvis that gets a smile out of me every. single. time. It's the one old lady gushing over Elvis the whole time, you'll know her when you see her. I hate the Fine Brothers, but that's one video I'll give them a view for over and over.
And if that happened, which I'm not saying it did because it totally didn't surely, I wouldn't want a thing to do with the prick either.
I still enjoy his films, though. This is why I don't really like knowing too much about celebrities and it's kind of my own fault going down this rabbit hole to find this out, but most of the time it just ruins your enjoyment of their content. Fortunately being a prick isn't enough to ruin his films for me. If he had done something *truly* heinous, like Bill Cosby levels of horrible, though, it could ruin it for me. I don't blame others for trying to push past it and enjoy something they always have despite it, but when it gets that bad, I just can't.
I’m 100% on Bruce Willis’s side on this one.
It takes an amazing amount of energy to meet everyone’s expectations all the time.
This is an incredibly weird thing to hold against someone. The way he set up the story i thought he (kevin) was going to say Bruce shoved him in front of the truck or something of that magnitude…
Nope. He just didn’t act in the way that Kevin wanted him to act. He wasn’t flattered by being objectified.
This is not unlike a woman who gets catcalled on the street, and when she expresses she doesn’t like it, gets called a bitch by her so-called admirers.
Basically, why should Bruce enjoy never being called by his name but inly being called the movies he’s been in? That does sound annoying. Like being reduced to a consumable. He resisted it. And he actually was letting Kevin “in” to his actual human experIence by answering him honestly, “no, i dont
like being yelled at, being reduced to the title if a movie I acted in. Thats not me.”
(In the same way a woman might say, i don’t like having strangers yell out “nice tits!” Thats not me. )
The main thing Kevin is angry at Bruce for is not acting like the “consumable” that the fans wanted him to be. I dont blame Bruce for resisting this. It actually shows WHY he is such a great actor. He is holding on to his humanity and resisting buying into the façade and reduction that people want to make him.
Treating someone more than human is a short distance from thinking of them as “less than human”. As this resentful rendition makes painfully clear. I’m embarrassed for Kevin Smith. Who clearly is tellint this out of a place of great neediness and insecurity, even in the midst of his accomplishments.
Kevin should take his own advice: the sanctimonious and very judgey: “do what makes you happy; life is too short.”
Clearly this objectifying and hero worship and judgeyness and resentment does not make Kevin “happy” . Maybe he should stop.
you should stop hitting the pookie.
it's what made you type all that out...
as well as being what made you think anybody would read it.
go to bed.
I agree!
@@SIX6SIXer She is right and you should go to bed.
@@CliffuckingBooth but i just woke up. Cliff.
YES YOURE RIGHT APRIL JEAN!!! KEVIN, TAKE THIS TO HEART DUDE! YOULL NEED IT GOING FORWARD WITH YOUR ENDEVOURS!!!
I love Bruce Willis even more
And now Bruce has lost his memory
Karma
"yippee ki yay'"
Kevin is a movie genius!
Hes a cool guy but thats it, his movies are average at best
Ya know I love kevin Smith I actually put him on a level for different reasons with bruce willis meaning I would actually value meeting both of them about the same. I would say tho generally speaking I would absolutely personally hate having to deal with the amount of attention either of them get from random people on the street. It would be so cool for like a year and then I would just dread going out for a pack of smokes lol. So I really dont blame this fictional bruce willis for being annoyed the guy has been dealing with that stuff since before I was really a conscious being and that shit gets old lol.
i literally just wrote the same comment. I can kind of understand this pretend Bruce.
100% I agree. Your comment shows a level of empathy that Kevin seems to lack. What a waste of ‘imagination’ to use it to construct a story that tears down the reputation of another person? I was really sad for Kevin hearing him tell this with such enthusiasm ans bloodlust… he is carrying this around like a weight… bruce willis isn’t.
It must be a special kind of hell to have strangers judging your every move. Even when you act just like a normal person, you are reported to others aa being obnoxious ans rude and an SOB. Just becasue you dont LOVE being clawed at by people who want something from you every time you go out into the public. They even hold that against you. Sheesh. Humans are weird.
Wine cooler commercials?!
He’ll never tell the rest of the stories now I guess! 🤣
In summation...Fuck Bruce Willis? YES?! O>o
How's Kev feel about Bruce supposedly having early onset dementia?
Bruce has been a little %$#@! for awhile. It doesn't matter how Kev feels.
Kinda think that was hilarious Bruce said that
Hey Bruno!!!!!
He mentioned this in the book
He mentions that in this video
lol that poor guy having to stand there while Stoned Kevin Smith talks on and on ^_^
The one thing I will say about Bruce Willis, is that I was watching an interview with him and other famous actors, and the narrator asked Bruce if he had any advice for actors trying to make it in acting. I will never forget his response, as it applies to everything in life. He said nobody is there to tell you to get your a$$ out of bed and go on auditions. He said people complain how hard it is to make it when hard work is what you need to succeed.
@Aquarium Gravel dats racist
Audiences dictate the actors. Clearly, even minorities (which are barely minorities anymore) want to see white guys in movies.
Sounds like Willis is making the classic bullshit assumption that hard work will always lead to success.
Here's a clue: it won't. Not necessarily. You also need that lucky break which may never come, no matter how hard you work.
Why don’t you try it first and see?
Classic rightwinger Just World Fallacy right there
@Clippy So stupid... Blacks probably get higher percentage of casting than represents their percentage of the population these days.
Yeah and I guess karma is a bitch too. That's what you could said to Bruce Willis. But he might not understand what you're saying now.
It's funny how you don't realise just how much of a piece of shit this makes you sound like
chris stuckmann
Break it down for me
It was OLD it was HEAVY!
Break it down for me
This was something i already suspected about Bruce. Im not a fan of his or die hard much anyway. But after hearing this i lost what little respect i had for Bruce. I understand being a celebrity is hard asf and you cant do normal people things etc and get talked too and asked for pics etc daily. But thats what you signed up for. And you should love and respect your fans who are the sole reason your a celebrity in the first place. If they dont like you or buy your films and work then your nothing. So you should love and respect the fans you have imo.
I'd imagine 30 years of people yelling at you in public gets old. Novelty at first and fun but probably gets old.
B Taylor I wouldn’t get tired of random people noticing me
i would, but as Kevin said in one of his podcasts, he worked his ass off for that recognition.
You work your entire life for a role like John McClane and he hit it early on and it makes his entire career, life, wealth, fucking 10’s and you hate the people that adore your work? And Die Hard is one of my favourite movies, but let’s be honest, it’s not a well developed character. He got lucky w an action flick that hit well w the every man. You dance w the one that brought you, and Die Hard brought him. Fucking conceited bitch Bruce Willis really is!
Don't give a fuck, you smile and deal with it, because you're a fucking millionaire because of those fans.
@Julia Mimi that's a bingo!
Bruce didn't admonish the people shouting it, was just honest with Kevin about how he felt about it.
I like Kevin but I am more inclined to agree with Bruce on the issues with filming Cop Out. Kevin has made movies but Bruce has been involved in a lot more movies.
I imagine a Director smoking weed at all during filming would seem like "all the time" because that is just not professional and should not be done at all.
Bruce is a fantastic actor but obviously a bit of an introvert who does not want that kind of attention where Kevin feeds off it. Kevin not understanding that is his issue.
I still like Kevin but I am with Bruce on this one.
Nah.
@@Wade.K.Savage Nah.
How is it that he has nothing but good experiences with Willis making Die Hard 4, but than Willis's personality seems to have totally changed for Cop Out?
He found out Kevin smokes weed. And Kevin was directing him in Cop Out with pretty much no experience so it's understandable if he was a little frustrated about that but he made things personal.
Ki-Adi-Mundi no experience? Dude had directed 8 movies by that point 😂
@@realrecognizereel3126 Well no experience with a Bruce Willis-type action comedy. At least, in his eyes.
@@Ki_Adi_Mundi doesn't everyone in Hollywood know exactly who Kevin Smith is? Of course he smokes weed. There were rumors that Smith never wanted to come out of his trailer, which he denied. I'm sure it's a typical divorced couple situation where they both say the other is terrible, but the truth is somewhere in the middle.
@@realrecognizereel3126 no experience in action type filmmaking and only did small or independent movies, NOT COUNTING THE FILMS HE HELPED write prescripts on.
Just make pretend guys.
You have to remember these actors are only pretending to be awesome. They aren't in real life. Actually they're the opposite in a lot of cases. Bruce Willis is that prick.
Kevin told me to imagine the worst possible thing Bruce could've said and I imagined that Bruce admit he just murdered, cooked and ate the last fan to shout, "Diehard!" at him after torturing him for years in his basement. Hyperbole is such a letdown. But I'm glad Bruce Willis isn't a cannibal.
all jokes aside i think bruce made racist comments
Wow! What a great imagination this guy has....but that sort of thing would never happen.
Are Kevin Smith and Dave Grohl actually brothers? Or perhaps different versions of the same person from alternate realities? 😆
Wasn't this story in his book?
I was thinking that as he told the story. It was.
maybe it was and maybe other people haven't heard it or read the book?
Good point Rob
althentik thanks.
+Rob Manley The whole point was to tell a story NOT in the book.
Kevin, I WOULD DO THE SAME THING!!!! ITS NOT INSULTING FANS, BUT IF THEY CANT EVEN SAY HIS (MY) NAME AND RECOGNIZE HIM (ME) FOR HIM (ME) THEN I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH HIS ANGER!!!!!!! SAY THE NAME NOT THE MOVIE TITLE AS IT OBJECTIFIES THE PERSON AND NOT IDENTIFIES THE PERSON!!!!!!! HE LOVES HIS FANS BUT HE HAS TO BE CALLED BY HIS OWN NAME, AND ABOVE ALL.... HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!!!!!!!
Okay, so that wine cooler ad Kevin references: ruclips.net/video/tqXnGf_y4og/видео.html - You're welcome, or I'm sorry, you be the judge 😅
Imagine if people yelled the same fucking movie title at you for 30 years everywhere you went anyone would hate that.
I can't believe kevin had a heart attack.
Kevin really blew this thing out of proportion lol what a baby
Any chance Bruce might have been being a tad sarcastic in this minuscule life moment that Mr Smith has decided to elaborate on so brilliantly but negatively?
Considering "this minuscule life moment" is one of the few things he was legally able to say under fear of lawsuit...no, I don't think he was.
he was sarcastic, he has that face of sarcasm throughout his entire sociallity, it is what makes Bruce NICE! He is not an asshole, its the PEOPLE who deem him an asshole who are assholes.
I don't get Kevin Smith. Here he is insulting Bruce Willis, but in this video here he's relating a story about Bruce being awesome on the set of cop out --> ruclips.net/video/TD6xszSHWhQ/видео.html.