I get he has geek cred, but I'm not really sure why he's held in the esteem that he is. I enjoyed his early stuff, but I think everything after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has been varying degrees of boring and/or insufferable.

There's a reason why I said "mildly interested", because there was an outside chance he might do it right based on what he initially said. Obviously he was lying through his teeth.

Back in the day, he was "one of us". Dude had geek cred in spades, on top of being an indie movie darling. He was a comic book fanboy extraordinaire. J&SBSB was the zenith of his career, and he was still riding high on that into the 2000s.

That's when he started sniffing his own farts and got all pretentious with his vanity projects. He bought into his own fame and started hobnobbing with Hollywood elites. He still paid lip service to his fandoms, but the exterior was cracking. When he had his heart attack, he went full-vegan, full-woke, and fully annoying.

Much like you, I can't see why people still watch his movies. Everything he has done since 2001 has gone down in quality - I mostly wrote him off after Clerks II was a hot mess. When I heard they'd tapped him to do the He-Man revival I had a "maybe this won't be so bad" moment, but I guess I got my hopes up. What bugs me even more about it is the "bullshot"-tier promos they're releasing. We already know that it's going to be woke trash. High-quality trash (It looks a hell of a lot better than the She-Ra revamp), but woke garbage nonetheless.