Ghost World

I am so utterly baffled by you.

This movie fuckin rocked. I loved it. It was so true to the "comic".

"This is America man, learn the rules!"

Know this. This movie was one of the 10 best of 2001 hands down.

A wonderfully funny and true film!

Deal with it!

Poxy, my opinion exactly. Enid in particular was such a rotten, sullen bitch that I didn't give a rat crap about her. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

Was she really, or are you not looking beneath the surface?

Maybe not, but it was a miserable experience that I don't care to revisit.

This film was so good. So what if Poxy doesn't like it?

But i'll tell ya, I never connected with a girl in a film before on a true emotional level, but this did it for me.

I really need to buy this movie.

Well geez, I need a god damn job. frown

I was disappointed as well. Not all that funny, nothing terribly insightful. It just sits there for me.

The thing that I didn't like when the film first began was after the graduation when the girls flick off their school. Seemed out of character because people who did things like flip off their school were, in my experience, posers. Exhibitionist posers.

But I really liked much of what came after in Ghost World. The film brought me back. I think the characters were all sympathetic, but in a truly anti hero sense. I mean, there was a lot of sarcasm at many types of people's expense. Much parody (the redneck guy with nunchucks - sp? - and, my favorite, "Blues Hammer")...basically like people sitting around a mall bench and privately ridiculing whoever walked by.

Still, there was the story. Girls growing apart and one kind of floundering after high school and the other wanting to defect to the other side, sort to speak. Haven't seen that kind of stuff specifically too much in movies, if at all.

I didn't feel like there was really an ending. It brought Enid to a decision getting on the bus where the old man had sat...I liked that aspect a lot. Poetic, really. But there really wasn't a sense of completion to the film, which was a little of a disappointment.

That doesn't change the fact that I had a good time with Ghost World and laughed my ass off many times. "Hey, guys, how 'bout some reggae!"

If you liked,or didnt like the movie, doesnt really matter, you need to pick up the graphic novel. It is amazing. Oh,and by the way, I loved this movie.

I loved this comic in Eightball and thought the movie was surprisingly faithful while being very different at the same time - a highly unusual feat. I don't think the girls are meant to be likeable or hated; I think instead they are meant to be possible, and in fact they remind me of many, many girls I have known in the last 15 years of my life - some who totally annoyed me and some who I fucking swooned for. I found their falling-out as friends really sad, and entirely believable. the movie's temperament is what it is, ennui mixed with angst mixed with strange humor and the pain of getting old, and it's definitely not for everyone

I want this DVD.

This is an amazing, funny, sweet, and sour movie. I know girls like Enid and Rebecca and sometimes feel a lot like Semouyr so a lot of it hit very close to home to me. Suffice to say I was in a situation similar to the one where Semoyur gets set up at the diner...so that was kind of painful to watch.

My only problem is the ending. I don't get it. Was it supposed to be symbolic or something?

Yessir. I'm partial to <a href="http://www.believe-me.com/reviews/ghostworld2.htm" target="_blank">this theory</a>.

Good theory. I also see it as two people who to a point had embraced everything they came into contact with, physically or emotionally, with sarcastic hipster-irony. Suddenly being thrust into situations where they are forced into feelings sincereity, they react to it differently. Wheather it is Rebecca embracing it and becoming sincere about getting a job and making a future or Enid being confronted with it in her ability as an artist and with her realization that she is feeling attraction and empathy (sincere emotions) for those who previously would be the butt end of her ironic wit. Enid's unpleasantness and attude are a mask she wears to disguise her fear of her feelings and what lies ahead, so to speak.