Kevin Smith Says Star Wars Episode VII Has Pushed Batman Vs. Superman Into Second Place

For the last several months, Kevin Smith has been singing the praises of Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Director Zack Snyder gave Smith an early peek at Batman's new costume, and Smith was more than pleased with what he saw.

Of course, Snyder wasn't the only director to give Smith the inside scoop on a highly-anticipated upcoming film. Star Wars Episode VII director J.J. Abrams invited Smith to visit the set while he was in England recently. So did getting a glimpse of Star Wars Episode VII change Smith's perception as to what upcoming movie he's looking forward to the most? During an appearance at the Neuchatel International Film Festival, here's what Smith had to say about visiting the Star Wars Episode VII set.

What I saw blew me away. I was…up until then the movie I couldn't wait to see, of course, Batman Vs. Superman. Number one I love Batman. Number two I know the guy playing Batman this time, and you know [pointing to his Fat Man jersey] Fat Man. But that just took second place. Suddenly, the guy who was like, 'Yeah, Star Wars, I liked that as a kid.' That dude is now this dude, who's like, 'Star Wars still means the world to me.'

We've embedded Kevin Smith's full speech at NIFF below. The Star Wars Episode VII part stars at around the 35 minute mark.

While Smith didn't give away any major spoilers, he did talk a little bit about J.J. Abrams style of filming. Smith said, "What I saw, I absolutely loved. And it was tactile. It was real. It wasn't a series of f***ing green screens and blue screens in which later a bunch of digital characters would be added. It was there. It was happening. I saw old friends that I haven't seen since my childhood, who aren't really friends, but I love them more than some of my f***ing relatives. I saw uniforms. I saw artillery that I haven't seen since I was a kid. I saw them shooting an actual sequence in a set that is real. I walked across the set, there were explosions. And it looked like a shot right out of a f***ing Star Wars movie."