Ghost World

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Ghost World

 

I had been wanting to see it for a while cause a couple people I knew wouldn't shut up about it.

 

I liked it as a whole, not a masterpiece, but something I could definatly watch again. Good performances all around. Although I know a few people who act just like that in real life, it's almost trendy now to just hate people at random. They seemed to over do it a little though, hard to put into words.

 

The shirtless guy hanging around the party store was great, it's been bugging me not knowing who that is though. I can picture him perfectly, just don't rememeber where I saw him, it's a recient thing.

 

And Thorn Birch pulled off that look pretty well, kinda hot in a freakish, broody way.

 

Thoughts?

[Guest J*ingus]

I agree with you almost 100%. Oh, and the shirtless guy WAS Metal Ed, making his onscreen debut.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Fear the mullet!

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Metal Ed...

 

Dammit that sounds familar...was he just in a music video or movie or what...fucker's gonna haunt me.

[Guest MDH257]

He payed Deputy Doofy in "Scary Movie".

[Guest Lethargic]

Metal Ed...

 

Dammit that sounds familar...was he just in a music video or movie or what...fucker's gonna haunt me.

He's the cab driver in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers video.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

He's the cab driver in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers video.

Dammit! I so should have known that! That's where I remember him from.

 

Thank ye

[Guest NoCalMike]

Ghost World is pretty good. I rented it awhile back and it is on as we speak on one of the movie channels. The part where the music store clerks razz her for being "punk" was hilarious. This movie was pretty different, but right now with all the bullshit coming out of hollywood, different is USUALLY good.

[Guest TUS_02]

Metal Ed...

 

Dammit that sounds familar...was he just in a music video or movie or what...fucker's gonna haunt me.

He's the cab driver in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers video.

He was also Dufus from Scary Movie... AND he was one of the dudes from Buzzkill, the old MTV show.

[Guest godthedog]

my favorite movie of 2001. better than 'the 400 blows'. beautiful ending. captures the "what do i do now?" high school angst and fear PERFECTLY.

[Guest El Satanico]

nevermind

[Guest converge241]

ive raved about this movie numerous times here so ill be short and sweet

 

one of my top 20 movies all time

very real and very sad in parts

Buscemi is god in the movie

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I thought the ending was weak.

 

Not going to live with her dad cause the bitch is back.

Growing apart from her friend who didn't want to live with her anyway.

And Seymour got too clingy after they did the deed.

 

Then she says something about just picking up and leaving at random, little predictable, maybe my least favorite part of the movie.

 

Still very good though.

[Guest converge241]

i think the ending was that

 

 

*spoiler*???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

she killed herself

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

I too have raved about this movie before.

 

right here in fact:

 

http://www.thesmartmarks.com/forums/index....e52bc9c07e19a4d

[Guest J*ingus]

No converge, that didn't happen, who fed you that plate of bullshit?

[Guest converge241]

thats what i get out of the movie, nobody said it

 

not that they are showing it but symbollically thats what shes doing..just my interpretation

[Guest chirs3]

Ghostworld was to movies what Metal Gear Solid 2 was to video games. A horrendously overrated load of crap that people are still creaming themselves over.

[Guest J*ingus]

And I'd disagree with you on both counts, chirs.

 

Converge, how did you get that? After all, what she did in the end was just what she'd mentioned wanting to do earlier, suicide was never even mentioned.

[Guest converge241]

i dont know it just seems like she has nowhere left to really go

 

and that bus is obviously not a "real Bus" and i got an afterlife like feeling of that last shot

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Ghostworld was to movies what Metal Gear Solid 2 was to video games. A horrendously overrated load of crap that people are still creaming themselves over.

Just because you are one of the few people who doesn't like the film, that doesn't make it overrated.

[Guest chirs3]

I have yet to find a single review that calls this an average movie, or a slightly above average movie, or points out any of it's many many flaws. 99% of reviews I've read call it a wonderful work of art that I should treasure forever and ever.

 

OVER-RATED.

[Guest Lethargic]

I have yet to find a single review that calls this an average movie, or a slightly above average movie, or points out any of it's many many flaws. 99% of reviews I've read call it a wonderful work of art that I should treasure forever and ever.

 

OVER-RATED.

You haven't pointed out any yet either have you?

[Guest chirs3]

I have. Just not in this thread. If you want to go digging into the way-back-whens, you'll find a rant on it by me.

 

If you want the short version:

 

It's not funny. It's labeled as a comedy, and it's not funny. At all. There is nothing in here that made me laugh.

 

And since someone so cleverly (sarcasm) pointed out last time that "so sorry it doesn't have fart jokes go watch an adam sandler movie", that's not the problem. I don't care for Adam Sandler movies or that type of comedy much.

 

It's just not funny.

 

And when I watched it again, this time viewing it as something other than a comedy, it still wasn't a very good movie.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

So in otherwords, you hate a movie loved by almost everyone else because you didn't get the humour? Oh man.

 

Btw, the film is hilarious. Too bad for you.

[Guest chirs3]

When did I say I didn't get the humor, C.H.U.D?

 

I got the humor. It wasn't funny.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

It was funny, but not haha funny. I really don't recall laughing either. They shouldn't have marketed it as a comedy.

[Guest godthedog]

lots of the anti-mainstream humor fell flat for me, and the movie truthfully did get quite a few things wrong, but the characters save everything and then some.

[Guest J*ingus]

Clarification: it wasn't funny to you, Chirs. Just because you didn't laugh doesn't mean "it wasn't funny". Just because I laughed didn't mean it WAS funny, either. Humor is a highly subjective thing.

 

As for glowing reviews, go back and read YNA's first post; he basically called it above-average, "not a masterpiece", and I agreed with him.

[Guest chirs3]

I was, of course, exaggerating with the 99% bit.

 

And I know just because I didn't find it funny, that doesn't mean it's not funny. '

 

But there is no way anyone here can convince me that this movie deserved praise like "In the name of all that's beautiful and brilliant, do not miss this movie," and "I don't care who you are or what you like, drop everything and see this film,".

 

Honestly, I don't care that much if I see a movie, hate it, and other people like it. I DO care when I see a movie, hate it, and am told by critics (see the quotes above) that there just MUST be something wrong with me if I don't like it.

 

If I see a movie and think it's bad, ok. But if I see a movie, and it's both bad and it's praise is blown horrendously out of proportion (this also applies to video games... I'm looking at you, Metal Gear Solid 2), then I have a real problem with it.