10 Movies Nobody Wants To Admit Suck

Not unlike the fourth Matrix, the third Clerks was such a long-gestating affair that fans were initially willing to overlook some serious issues simply because the film finally got made.

Kevin Smith's apparently final entry into the slacker comedy franchise coasted hard on dew-eyed nostalgia for the prior films, but once it was all said and done, the end result was a profoundly empty, oddly depressing experience.

For starters, the film is bookended by two extremely divisive and questionable character deaths, clearly motivated by Smith's own near-fatal heart attack in 2018, and yet casting a hugely dark cloud over a threequel that's brutally lacking in laughs. Elsewhere the film's relentless shilling for NFTs has already aged like milk and will only further date it in years to come. 

For while Clerks III will probably wring tears from most fans' eyes by the end, that doesn't make it a good movie. 

As wonderfully off-the-cuff as the first two movies felt, this one feels like a forced victory lap that gets a little too real for its own good - a reality many fans are still struggling to accept in lieu of its shocking ending.