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Summary: Just another "Clerks"
Review: Hardly hilarious movie attempting to be angst-ridden ironic social satire. Steve Buscemi turned in a good performance in an unusual character for him, but all others were quite bland. The main character was nothing but a self-absorbed teenage loser, bulldozing through other peoples lives, blissfully scornful of the damage she was doing. If you liked Clerks, and many did, you'll probably like this, but, if you, like me, found that movie also to be boring and self-involved, then you won't like this one much either. ...
Rating: 
Summary: So Bad!!!
Review: I'm not very good at writing review, but I bought this DVD because of all the stars I saw here. And this is one of the worst movie I ever saw. SO THERE IS MY 5 STARS WARNING : IT'S BORING!!!!
Rating: 
Summary: So I'm bailing this town...
Review: I watched this movie only after it was released on video and because my brother recommended it so highly. I had absolutely no idea what the movie was about, apart from that it was a comedy, so what I got was a pleasant surprise when much of the comedy here is not only biting but tinged with loneliness and despair. The film follows two girls, Enid (Birch) and her best friend Scarlett Johannson, as they graduate from high school and slum it through the summer vacation. Playing pranks on the boring people of the Nowheresville where they live Enid suddenly finds herself attracted to an older man (Buscemi) who collects records obsessively. Gradually she finds herself leaving her best friend behind for this older man and discovering that slumming it isn't a possibility for the rest of your life.It's difficult to sum up exactly what the movie is about other than to say that it's basically about life, love, hope, despair and tragedy. However, the caustic comedy lends this an edge that few other films have, not to mention a sometimes overwhelming honesty that is often incredibly moving. Despite being billed as a comedy (and, indeed, it is very funny at times - in particular in its comments about modern art) this is really more of a drama with comedy in it. The performances are all top notch, and Thora Birch really sets herself up as the next big thing with a beautifully understated performance that is well matched by the likes of Johannson, Buscemi and the fantastic Illeana Douglas, in a small but instantly recognisable role. The thing with this kind of movie is that it's intelligent, and certainly doesn't belong to the 'American Pie' ilk of teen movies, but in fact is a much more mature little flick that is destined to become a cult classic given enough time. Sure there are parts of it that are slow, but the emotional weight of the movie is undeniably, with an ending that is either hopeful or tragic given your point of view. It only really hits you a few days later how good this film really is, and speaking as someone who watched it during the summer vacation before I went to university, it sums up perfectly the fears, dreams and hopes that becoming an adult entails.
Rating: 
Summary: Good relationship film
Review: Director Terry Zwigoff has avoided the dreaded "sophomore slump" by sticking with the same theme as his acclaimed documentary Crumb--comics. Choosing to adapt Daniel Clowes' graphic novel, he has taken it to a whole new level while retaining the original's charm. The film taps into the relationships of Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlet Johansson) and their days just after graduation. They want to get an apartment together but don't yet have the money. Another obstacle is that Enid has to retake an art class in summer school. Their relationship begins to crumble when Enid decides pull an anonymous prank on an unfortunate-looking fellow named Seymour (Steve Buscemi), sitting back to watch from a distance. Afterwards, she begins to regret it and looks to learn more about him. She comes to spend more time with Seymour than with Rebecca, eventually causing the downfall of her friendship with Rebecca, Seymour's career, and her own happiness. The acting here is first-rate. The relationship between the two girls felt absolutely genuine from the start. I was immediately pulled into their lifelong friendship, never once thinking that these were simply two actresses working together for the first time. Steve Buscemi gives one of his best performances here as the collector of records who sabotages his relationships with women. Brad Renfro's role is a departure, the opposite of the normal disturbed teens he usually plays. Josh is simply a down-and-out teen with a crap job whose sole role in this film is to give the girls someone to hassle and bum rides from. The ending breaks from the real-feeling style of the film into fantasy, but in retrospect, it seems to fit. Zwigoff has put a lot of effort into making his film a true portrait of a post-high school summer, and I for one never doubted these characters' existences for a moment.
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Summary: Very well written, acted and directed.
Review: This movie will appeal to artists, writers, thinkers and other "square pegs" who at one time or another felt completely disenfranchised with the world at large. The story involves two displaced teens inhabiting that zone between high school, college, or that slacker, $7.00 an hour job. That zone where you have to face the music and decide who you really are, what you want to be, and how you are going to get there. In other words, do you capitulate amd do the safe thing by listening to everybody else? Or do you face the consequences of potentially screwing up by just being yourself. (The odds, as we know, are stacked against being yourself.) It took me a while to "get" this movie since the environment itself plays a "character". That is to say, convienece stores, cell-block apartment buildings, trendy coffee shops, the local movieplex, and even an adult store. Subsequently the environment becomes this constraining factor in all of these people's lives thus illustrating how our environment shapes us. Thora Birch's performance is flawless as was all of the other actors. Her wardrobe is awesome. (Every outfit she wore from head to toe must of cost a thousand bucks but it looked like you could put it together from a thrift shop.) But then again, Thora Birch is definately not hard to look at!!! The music was good, lot's of blues and silly pop. ... The dialog is intelligent, though the story is not your standard issue plot. This is not a "two-dogs-but-only-one-bone" type of story line. The story is about choices and consequences and how the environment itself has a say in it. Another neat point is that the daughter of R. Crumb, the counter culture comic book guy did all of the artwork in the lead character's sketchbook. (She draws a lot like her dad.) It's worth owning, for sure!
Rating:
Summary: terrible
Review: this movie was so bad that my girlfriend revoked my renting privileges. we both usually like lesser known comedies but couldn't get into this one at all. the art class scenes were amusing, but that's about it. we kept waiting for more, and it just wasn't there.
Rating:
Summary: Very good comedy with a good script and great acting
Review: I kept putting off seeing this movie as the people who were recommending it to me liked so many "Hollywood product" type movies that seemed to be nothing but formulaic teen comedies. When I finally saw it, I was impressed with it as I had been with few movies in the last year. The acting was perfect, the comedy fresh and edgy, the script an intelligent and sincere approach to the theme - not the usual annoying end-product of marketing that Hollywood excels at vomiting out. As the film nears its end, it becomes a heart-filled story of maturing and growth. Enjoyable, funny, touching.
Rating: 
Summary: quite mediocre
Review: Ghost World is based on a comic book you may have seen if you read comics.
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Summary: One of the Greatest (Bleepin) Movies of All Time!
Review: I rented Ghost World because I never got to see it in the theatres.I never knew about it when it was in the theatres and one day just saw it at my local video store.One day I decided to just check it out and I was very very glad.The movie was filled with great things.The acting was great,the plot was great,the score was excellant,and just the combination of every thing put together.It all makes one great two hours of comendy and drama,and it just makes you think alot about things.Even though the movie is not a teen movie there are teens in it making it good for everybody who is a teen and above.The movie does have alot of profanity which makes it not for children but everybody eles is ok.The is definatly one of the greatest movies of all time. The cast is consisted to about 5 main characters.Those main characters are Enid who is played by Thora Birch,Scarlett Johansson,Steve Buscemi,Brad Renfero,and Illiana Douglas.Steve Buscemi and Scarlett Johansson are two of my favorite actors and they shine on the screen in this movie while Thora Birch who I never saw in anything didn't have me to much.Even though she was very good in the movie I just never knew how to rate her.Illiana Douglas I only saw on an episode of Frasier where in the credits I aroused myself to one simple question.Who the heck is Brad Renfero? The plot is focused around Enid(Thora Birch)and Rebbeca(Scarlett Johansson)who just graduated from hign school and are planning to skip collage and move in with each other.They are very different from other people and seem to always be in there own little world as they love to pester there friend Josh who works ay a grocery store called the Sidewinder where a trouble maker loves to hang out at and basecially cause trouble.One day they follow two Satanists and end up at a 50's theme diner.There they decide to call a man who wrote a ad in the personals asking about is some girl remembered him from a couple of days ago.They decide to call and pretend to be her and then they watch as he gets stood up by no one.Enid ends up befriending the man whose name is Seymour(Steve Buscemi)and one things leads after anthor and then by the end of the summer her whole life is turned upside down. Ghost World was very different then what I thought it was going to be like.One of the greatest elements of the movie was it's score which blew me away.Ghost World is almost perfect in everyway and I am proud to own a copy of the DVD. ENJOY!
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Summary: Not a teen movie
Review: It's been almost 20 years since I left high school. Seeing this movie brought back how I felt at the time I was at that age. The surprising bit is that I still feel the same way, more or less, about the world around me. Young people have the uncanny ability to see the absurdity and the hypocrisy in the "adult" world. Most of the young people, after they enter the world of adults, will become the "adults". The character Seymour perfectly captured the essence of that rare adult who still can see the absurdity and hypocrisies among his fellow men without being bitter or sarcastic. Sure, the world may see Seymour as a looser, but 1% of humanity will embrace him as something original. This characters, the passing commentaries between them, and the current consumer culture it portraits remind me so much of what I've been feeling all along. To me "Ghostworld" is not a teen movie, it's a movie that speaks to me and speaks my thoughts. Check out David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day" in book-on-tape form if you loved "Ghostworld". Sedaris, being in his 40's, is still an alienated teenage at heart and can see the world around him much like Enid did in this movie.
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