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Summary: Realistic, but not entertaining
Review: It's not a movie that will make you laugh, and one that isn't terribly entertaining, either, though I had huge expectations for the movie (I'm a huge Buscemi fan) and read excellent reviews for the movie.Honestly, it seems like this movie makes fun of the people who watch it and call it 'brilliant'. A girl gets fired from her job at the theatre for not conforming to socially acceptable behaviour...and seems to lose her friend, keep herself from getting a boyfriend, and gets confused in every area of her life because of her boredom of conformity. What makes this brilliant? 'The dialogue is so real'. Big deal. I could watch a flower blooming on a movie screen, but even though it's 'real' doesn't make it entertaining. Some reviewers have shown excitement over the old man at the bus stop scenes in the movie, where he'd basically tell our hero to shut up and go away every time she'd try to convince him that the bus stop is no longer a part of a bus route. This can be compared to the art teacher's reaction to one of her student's scribbling as being a remark on feminism. The makers of the movie put unspectacular characters and unspectacular dialogue on a screen, throw in a few overboard characters to try to create a laugh, and they're hoping people would see the hipness of such blah that they'd convince themselves that they're smart for figuring out the brilliance of the movie. If you're not into kidding yourself about what you're watching, here's what you'll see: Steve Buscemi in his most boring role...as unspectacular as his character from 28 days. Thora Birch, a cute girl with a baby face on a woman's body, dressing in interesting clothing and making negative comments about everything. The negative dialogue is probably supposed to be funny, but it isn't. It's not annoying or upsetting or anything. It's just kinda Blah. Her friend in the movie is Blah. The events of the movie are blah. There's a freaky lookin' guy who frequents the local AM/PM and keeps spouting his American Freedoms. He was pretty funny in outrageous he was, as was the stereotypical greek AM/PM owner (Apu of the Simpsons). Like the movie it's trying to copy, American Beauty, we have a wuss of a parent, some bitter teens, and some freaks. We don't have American Beauty's dialogue. I have no idea why the father was so afraid of his daughter, but to be honest, I really couldn't care less. I didn't care that his daughter had a crush on a boy that clearly wasn't an example of non-conformity (he was just a good looking, hardly-speaking boy). You have two ways to go with this movie. You might be like me and feel like this movie is a waste of your time and not interesting in the least. It had a few funny moments, and I did laugh out loud about three times in the movie. I didn't hate the movie. It just wasn't interesting or entertaining and I'll never see it again. You might also be like those who finds independent films brilliant just because of the fact that they're independent films. You'll analyze this movie to death and make much more out of this movie than is actually there. I suppose that's what the makers of the movie probably want from you. And I think that's what they're trying to make fun of. Pigeon.
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Summary: whats with the glasses?
Review: I think this movie was one of the best movies ive ever seen Thora Birch play in, she did a excellent job. At first i thought the movie was gonna be some washed out comic book movie, but after i watched the first 10 minutes. I was totally hooked. Ive watched the movie countless of times, i borrow my friends VHS of it, i rent it almost everytime i go to hollywood video, i love enid's accent and how shes a "1977 style punk" which you rarely ever see anyone like that in the movies. I didnt understand the glasses though, cause most people who have thick rimmed glasses are the ever so popular 'emo' but we wont go there. after watching it 28 times i can say that this is a great movie.
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Summary: .
Review: Clumsily scripted skeleton of a movie with so-so performances. If you've seen the trailers, you've pretty much seen everything you need to. There's not much here. The film itself adds little to what the trailers established. The only well-developed character in the cast is Seymour. The problem with that is that he's obviously a Zwigoff/Crumb self-caricature. His part in the original Ghost World comic book is, as I understand it, quite minor. His far more major role in the movie smells of self-pitying wish-fulfillment on the director's part. There are a few good laughs if you can trudge through the cliched, Daria-like quips which, unfortunately, DO in fact make up 90% of the dialogue between the two girls, and -- equally unfortunately -- serve as a lame substitute for any attempt to actually establish a meaningful (or even interesting) relationship between them. But after Zwigoff's work on the exceptional documentary Crumb, I expected more than "a few good laughs," and Ghost World simply doesn't deliver. That so many self-professed non-conformist teens lavish this disappointingly two-dimensional flick with praise speaks volumes about their own gullibility and, perhaps, the degree of their desperation to find entertainment that "speaks to them." Poor souls.
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Summary: Stupid [Junk]
Review: Bad acting highlites a story of a girl who is not ony sarcastic, cynical and deppressed, but [messes] up everyone elses life around her. Of couurse, shes deep, so shes not responsible. A horrible mix of cliches- it felt like 10 hours long.
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Summary: Stupid [Stuff]
Review: Bad acting highlites a story of a girl who is not ony sarcastic, cynical and deppressed, but screws up everyone elses life around her. Of couurse, shes deep, so shes not responsible. A horrible mix of cliches- it felt like 10 hours long.
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Summary: slice of someones "life"
Review: apart from being a very very dark snapshot of a lonely life, it has some very funny aspects., "Doug" is a scream and frightening at the same time. the clickishment of high school, the utter whimpishness of Enids "parents", and the fat people slowly crossing the street.Enid starts her entering of adult life by starting to respect someone whom she had once considered a "dweeb".The old man waiting for the bus at a stop the had been eliminated two years ago, but tells Enid he is leaving town anyway and she sees him get on a bus that is empty, and later when her world is starting to crumble about her she sheds her combat boots for what looks like flats and catches that same empty bus that has no lighted destination header on it.escapeing her "plastic" world, and crossing a dark bridge, a bridge that will hopefully lead to a world she will fit in.when I first rented this DVD I watched it 5 times.I will buy the film.
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Summary: One of the best films of the year
Review: A study of contemporary alienation among the young and not so young that alternates the sad and funny and often mixes the two. The film's central character (played by Thora Birch) graduates from High School to find herself floating in a summer adrift in the adult world. Uncommonly alive and intelligent, she realizes the conventional search for happiness asks not too much but too little. Although she might recoil from the description, she is an idealist who finds it hard to contort herself into society's compromises. She blurts out things like "Everyone's stupid!" and even starts to grow apart from her more level-headed long-time friend. She meets a soul mate of sorts (Steve Buscemi), older if little wiser who is at least functional even if he hardly fits in. Together they search for the authentic and novel in life and art, disdaining the narrowness of "success" be it money, status or the praise of a High School art teacher. Both are dismayed with the soullessness they see around them and both have little idea of what to replace it with other than nihilism and withdrawal. After all, what is alienation but a lack of empathy? Instead of reaching out she strikes out and he buries himself within. This is the sadness of the picture that ends up overwhelming the comedy, effective though that is. The film didn't make me laugh as much as Election (also starring Miss Birch) but the quality of its internal scenery makes it equally worthwhile.
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Summary: a dark riot
Review: This movie sort of sneaks up on you and grabs hold when you're not looking. Funny, insightful and in the end rather sad, this is one film that stuck with me long after viewing. Certainly not for everyone, but a great piece of film for those looking for a quirky, memorable movie!
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Summary: Incredible Vision of Small City America
Review: I had to watch Ghost World twice to really see its genius in showing the very absurdity and hypocrisy of American society. One of my favorite bits is the art teacher, who challenges her students to get controversial...but of course, when Enid really DOES no one can truly handle it. The first half is some of the best condensened filmmaking I've ever seen-the second half is a bit less astounding...but what can you expect?
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Summary: A Movie about Teenagers that is not a "teen" movie
Review: "Ghost World" is one of those movies that manages to leave you feeling unworthy of writing a review of it. It is one of those quiet little movies that get some attention from the more clever reviewers, but in the realm of big-budget blockbusters gets virtually ignored. It is quirky, smart and utterly fabulous. It is not only emotionally true to itself, but it never loses its edge. Thora Birch positively shines in the role of Enid, a newly-highschool graduated girl who has to take an art [her passion] class over again because of a failing grade. She and her best friend Rebecca have spent their lives ridiculing and loathing the "normal" people, the living terrors that are happy all the time and wave goodbye with both hands simultaneously. As the summer progresses, the girls start to go their seperate ways, Rebecca becoming comfortable in her new job and slowly becoming "normal". Enid has made friends with a middle aged man [Steve Buscemi] who's life-long passion is music, and together they start to look for a suitable match for him. As much as I do not like to use the term, "Ghost World" is a coming-of-age story at its best: two girls who are at the beginning of the rest of their lives start developing and becoming what they will eventually be. A beautiful and wonderfully made film that I highly recommend seeing.
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