I've not watched this yet, and am kind of dreading it - but I will, out of obligation.
I'm the only person I know who has actually seen Yoga Hosers and it was, without hyperbole, among the worst films I've ever seen - and I've been a Kevin Smith defender more often than not. I know weed and podcasting has seemingly ruined Smith as far as creativity goes, but he's still lucid enough to the point where you'd think he'd have a couple of decent, low-key ideas knocking about, and he certainly has the ability to get them made. If he could make something like Clerks (which I maintain is decent) with $30k of credit card debt in the 90s, I can't figure out why he's incapable of executing an idea like that anymore. Did anyone see Hollyweed, that pilot he wrote/directed/starred in for yet another failed "audience-powerd" startup media company
[1] (after it was already rejected by a much bigger one)? It was shite to the nth degree, and I can't imagine he spent more than a day writing it, but even the shitest things take significant time and effort to actually produce. I guess my question is why is he wasting his time on stuff that is absolutely, objectively shit - as even he tends to acknowledge with a couple years' distance?