Ghost World made itself at home in my Netflix queue for quite some time. Maybe some subconscious part of my brain would always push it further down the list for a reason. I should listen to that part of my brain more often.Enid and Becky are two social outcasts by choice. They think they're better than everyone else and the day they graduate is their ticket to freedom, if freedom meant getting crappy minimum wage jobs and hating the world. Meanwhile, Enid befriends the oddball Seymour, after the two girls pull a prank on him when they find his personal ad in the local paper, unbeknownst to Seymour.
Okay, so I'm feeling like a mega slacker today, and not really in the mood to put forth an actual review of a movie I couldn't care less about, so instead I'm just going to list 3 things I hated about the movie and 3 things I kinda sorta liked.
3 Things I Hated
1. Main Characters-Enid and Becky are just bitches, plain and simple. They hate everyone and everything for no reason at all except to "be different." I've known many people like this over the years and I hated them in real life too. I could understand if they were horrifically bullied or something, but they weren't. So when Enid's life starts to fall apart toward the end, I felt happy.
2. Plot-Was there one? All I saw were two bitchy teenage social outcasts who liked to make fun of people and complain about how awful the world is. Wait ten years, then you may have some cause for complaint.
3. Genre-Ghost World is listed as a Comedy/Drama on IMDB. I think they label movies this way when a movie is neither funny nor sad, but just blah. I didn't laugh a single time and the "drama" was just whiny emo/goth/punk teenage crap. I get more entertainment out of watching my dog sleep. (Seriously, my dog can be really funny in her sleep.)
3 Thing I Kinda Sorta Liked
1. Steve Buscemi-The man can do no wrong. Watching him play the oddball Seymour is the only reason to waste almost two hours watching the flick.
2. Wardrobe-I loved Enid's clothes. As much of a bitch that she was, I still envied her fashion sense.
3. Something Completely Irrelevant-Bob Balaban played Enid's dad and Teri Garr played his girlfriend, whom Enid despised. As an avid "Friends" fan, I find it humorous they played a couple when they both played Phoebe's screwed-up parents on the show, but never appeared in an episode together. Like I said, it's completely irrelevant to Ghost World, but I still got a chuckle out of it.
I guess the film just tried so desperately hard to be so...indie. And it showed.
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3 pieces of fan mail:
I watched this about a year ago after having found in under comedy at Blockbuster. I didn't laugh once either. This movie is just too much for me I guess.
I have the same problem with my Netflix queue. I basically removed anything that had fewer than 3 stars, cause people who'd actually seen it decided it wasn't worth trying. If people like you review something I'd cut, I'll add it back. Thank you for saving me the time on this one. Still haven't seen it, and now won't.
Blake-Yeah, it's a pretty hard sell when the film's not funny and has very unlikeable main characters. Movies like this I can't even begin to understand how they gain popularity.
Jess-I did the exact same spring cleaning about 2 months ago in my queue. Obviously I didn't do enough trimming. And I'm flattered and happy to have saved you the pain and suffering:)
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