Dogma: A Screenplay

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Summary: I loved this book. Some of Smith's best work.
Review: I found this book to be extremely entertaining. I found a script of it floating around on the Internet, and being a HUGE Kevin Smith fan, I couldn't stop reading. I give this my highest recommendation. I'd refer it to anyone. If you want to know where to get a copy of the script, you can email me at [e-mail].

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Summary: A wonderful read, provided you can stand gross-out humour.
Review: I'm in the precarious situation of not having seen the film but having read the screenplay about four times through already. So treat this as a pure book review.

Kevin Smith's writing is entertaining, often very clean (only seldom lapsing into the hyper-verbose ball and chain that many screenwriters like Shane Black fall victim to). Dogma may be one of the few screenplays which a non-film person will be able to read just as a dramatic work. The dialogue sometimes gets to be as dense as in a novel, which leads me to wonder how much of the script ended up on the cutting room floor, but the concepts are intriguing and the characters highly charged. Unfortunately the last portion of the plot is incredibly dense and hard to follow. But as befits a Kevin Smith film/screenplay, once you buy into his sense of humour, Dogma is very entertaining indeed, without the cranial deficiency that so many indie screenplays suffer from.

Rating:
Summary: A wonderful read, provided you can stand gross-out humour.
Review: I'm in the precarious situation of not having seen the film but having read the screenplay about four times through already. So treat this as a pure book review.

Kevin Smith's writing is entertaining, often very clean (only seldom lapsing into the hyper-verbose ball and chain that many screenwriters like Shane Black fall victim to). Dogma may be one of the few screenplays which a non-film person will be able to read just as a dramatic work. The dialogue sometimes gets to be as dense as in a novel, which leads me to wonder how much of the script ended up on the cutting room floor, but the concepts are intriguing and the characters highly charged. Unfortunately the last portion of the plot is incredibly dense and hard to follow. But as befits a Kevin Smith film/screenplay, once you buy into his sense of humour, Dogma is very entertaining indeed, without the cranial deficiency that so many indie screenplays suffer from.

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Summary: even better than the movie
Review: If Kevin Smith was gone, I don't know what the world would be like. This is the best screen play I have read yet. It is an awe-inspiring movie, which is an even better read.

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Summary: I always said he should write novels too
Review: If Kevin Smith was gone, I don't know what the world would be like. This is the best screen play I have read yet. It is an awe-inspiring movie, which is an even better read.

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Summary: As usual, Kevin Smith writes reality into fiction
Review: Kevin Smith does it again. First, he did a satire of the infamous job of being a clerk in a convenience store. Then he parodies the people who hang a mall. The he did his most true movie, chasing amy, telling relationships how they are, while making it funny. Now Kevin Smith has taken religion and turned it into a joke. If you are a true Kevin Smith fan, you will notice in all his other films, he puts in little jibes towards the Catholic church. In the movie dogma, that's all that he has. The entire story is telling religion how it could be, usuaing logic to explain some stuff, whilte disregarding other things. If you want to read an intelligent book and you aren't easily offended, this is the one for you.

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Summary: GREATEST SCREEN PLAY EVER WRITTEN
Review: Kevin Smith is an absolute genius. I didn't think he could get any better than Chasing Amy, but at least on paper it's absolutely, incredibly, amazingly, unbelievably ingeiusely, brilliantly written

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Summary: Dogma sucks
Review: Maybe the other stuff K Smith wrote was ok, but Dogma really sucks. The characters are boring, the dialogue pretentious, except for the utterly foul-mouthed pair of morons. This must have been directed toward 6 to 14 year olds. The movie was even worse. It's a wonder it didn't sink Damon and Affleck's careers. Even Ed Wood's movies are better than Dogma. K Smith should have left the m & a off the title.

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Summary: Dogma sucks
Review: Maybe the other stuff K Smith wrote was ok, but Dogma really sucks. The characters are boring, the dialogue pretentious, except for the utterly foul-mouthed pair of morons. This must have been directed toward 6 to 14 year olds. The movie was even worse. It's a wonder it didn't sink Damon and Affleck's careers. Even Ed Wood's movies are better than Dogma. K Smith should have left the m & a off the title.

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Summary: What are these people talking about!?!?!
Review: Smith isn't finished with the book yet!!! The SCRIPT, which can be found on the internet, is pure genius (5 stars) and I cannot wait to see the movie. However, the BOOK, which should be coming around the release of the movie, has not been finished and so I think it would be very difficult for anyone to review it.