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Summary: AH! Yes, God Blessed Movie!
Review: What a wonderful way to spend a road trip. I was locked in a car wondering what I would do with myself when I suddenly realized...."Don't I have Ghost World? That movie staring Thora Birch?" Of course the answer was yes, I did have the movie. I sat there and watched it. My bottom got numb from sitting in the car seat, but the movie was worth it. I can hardly articulate how FANTASTIC this movie was. The ending, of course, was more real then most people could handle. I too once wondered why the movie was given such an ending. Didn't I deserve an ending where everything turns out just the way I didn't expect it to? The answer is no. The director or whoever came up with it, decided not to slap me in the face with an incredibly Hollywood ending. You know where the ending where the everything for the character turns out okay. Instead the movie gives me a greater, more beautiful ending then I could ever have imagined. Escaping from my own life would be jump that I could never make, but the character has nothing to lose and everything to gain. The ending, my friends, is a great one. That's not the only part of the movie, though. The rest of the cast has a their own story to tell. Every scene is filled colorful people. It truly is a gift from Heaven.
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Summary: exciting as a camode
Review: boring dumb sad movie thatll make gen xers feel older the acting borders on the movie cobra 1star
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Summary: excellent, in a different sort of way
Review: Ghost World isn't at all like what I expected after reading the back of the box, but in it's own way it was still very good. It was listed as a "comedy," and while it has funny moments, it's really a rather serious movie. The movie wasn't overly predictable, which wasa welcome change over most of Hollywood these days; the ending was neither terriblly happy nor terriblly sad, and I think it fit well with the nature of the movie. I think the fact that I could relate to the main character helped me enjoy the movie, but even if you're not a loser who's almost completely alienated from her peers you will probably still enjoy or at least respect this film.
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Summary: Dark and Funny
Review: I loved this movie especially because of the humor, darkness, a real-to-life plot, and mysterious ending. Thora Birch was excellent for this role. I also must comment on the music, very well done.
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Summary: Best movie of 2001
Review: Ghost World is truly the best movie of 2001. No film has ever captured the misanthropic teenage character so perfectly. Thora Birch plays the lead character, Enid. She is smart, witty, and full of angst towards the dull unoriginal suburban world around her. A lesser movie would have made her into a pretentious urban snob, but Ghost World sets her apart. She lives in the suburbs and knows that the Reggie listening, city living, starbucks visiting, pseudo intellectuals are no better than the sheep she went to high school with. She lives in her own world where originality and uncompromising integrity is all that is of worth. She finds this in Seymour (Steve Buscemi). He appears on the surface as a run down loser with negligible social skills. Enid begins her relationship with him as his tormentor. She is in danger of becoming what she despises, but her feelings for him evolve from contempt to pity to admiration. Seymour doesn't dress in the hippest clothes, he doesn't drive the nicest car, and he works at a pathetic job, but he has a spirit that Enid latches onto. Her pervious partner in crime, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) has begun to transform into the hipster coffeehouse person that Enid loathes. She is upset that her best friend is "growing up" and is starting to join the masses while leaving her on the fringe. As she gets closer with Seymour the inevitable happens. Credit go to the directing an the screenplay that avoids the cliché ending and opts for a more suitable ambiguous finish that characters that are written and played this smartly deserve.
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Summary: wtf is with the negativity?
Review: This is my favorite movie ever. It's truthful, and has a true-to-life plot, and wonderful acting. But why is everyone saying it 5u><0r5? I loved it. Also, check out the comics that it was based on. One final thing: I read a review for this were the reviewee said this: "UM...HELLO! Nobody lives like this!..."(or something to that extent). That is not true. I do.
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Summary: What you Did and Did Not Miss Here
Review: Yeah - fun movie - may be more endearing if you have a large need to be "different" (if you feel intolerance towards the all the world's morons mentioned above). There is no shame in discovering commonalities with Biff and Hap - try not to be your own little perfect creature - K?. Buscemi adds enough to keep the movie. Running off on a bus becomes an appropriate non-ending (who thought that one up?). The BIG THRILL on this disc is the 'mod-gone-wild' 60's stylin Indian Song and Dance Video - that extra is worth the movie ten fold! Should be twice the price So, if you were disappointed - check the bonus, before you march it off to the flea market!!
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Summary: What Did I Miss Here?
Review: Okay, someone tell me because I'd love to know, what the heck did I miss here? I must have missed something because the overwhelming belief of the crowd here is that this is a brilliant movie.
Here's my take.
The first thirty minutes impressed me, and I hoped for some real substance here.
The problem was, this boring piece of celuloid just went on and on and on with seemingly no real end. It just kept going, and I didn't care enough about the characters by the time it ended to say much more than, "Thank God it wasn't any longer." I can't be the only one who feels this way. Will someone please back me up on this?
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Summary: "We graduated high school. How totally amazing"
Review: Terry Zwigoff's "Ghost World" is an adaptation of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel and is quite simply one of the best films of 2001. All filmgoers who felt that Thora Birch was a mountain of potential after seeing her in "American Beauty" have had their assessments validated - she gives the performance of her young career. Her character not only reminds you of the exact things that ran through your mind when you were 18, but also shows how much more sophisticated the current generation of teens have become in verbalizing these thoughts. The current teen is a master of intermixing angst, irony, humor, and insight and Birch is their perfect embodiment. "Ghost World" follows the adventures of Enid (Birch) and her best friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson). After both girls graduate high school, the question both of them have is "what's next?" "What's next" is Rebecca trying to make a life for herself and Enid choosing to remain in her world of irrelevance and mischief. However, she soon reassesses her life when she starts to fall in love with a kindred spirit in Seymour (Steve Buscemi). Yet this love does not stabilize her life, instead it makes it more chaotic and leads Enid to make a fateful decision that closes the film. Birch and Johansson are great and Buscemi adds a new vulnerable dimension to the trademark neurotic supporting performance he so often gives. Special ackowledgement must also be given to director Zwigoff who makes a seamless transition from making documentaries to making a feature. All in all, "Ghost World" is a wonderful cinematic experience and an ideal candidate for future cult status.
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Summary: Powerful film to outrageous for liberals and conservatives
Review: Based on the serialized comic book tale by Daniel Clowes, the film is based on two ultra-hip friends (Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson) who spend their summer after high school together contemplating the future. As Enid and Becky talk snobbishly and cynically about the world ahead of them, they're being watched, unbeknownst to them, by another person. The film does have some foul language , but does a good job mocking the hypocracy of liberals and the double standards that they have created. Becky is forced to take a sumemr school art class to fulfill her high school graduation requirements. The glass is run by a pseudo intellectual clinton supporter like art teacher who falls in love with a piece of art submitted by becky. The piece is actually an old poster art ad for a chicken restaurant chain once known as "Coon'S Chicken" While the teacher does find artistic value and statement in the piece that is described as "found art" by becky. She is offered a one year scholarship to arts school , only to have the same liberal like first ammendment loving liberals be outraged by beckys "found art piece" . They cry foul and order the piece removed from the art show. The piece portrays a 30' era black man as a "coon" with bug lips and a clownish smile. The same type crowd who would cheer anti christian art an would applaud a flag burning are "offended" by the piece and order the scolarship revoked and beckys grade be changed to an f. The liberal teacher caves and the writer has done an excellant job with this in your face portrayel of liberals.
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