Ghost World

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Pros: 1. The comedy is hilarious and it produces quite a few memorable quotes. 2. Both Steve Buscemi (Seymour) and Thora Birch (Enid) give really good performances. 3. The soundtrack and the score are both very fun and playful which helps to add an appropriately youthful charm to the film. 4. Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi both display entertaining chemistry with each other. 5. The movie serves as a touching, and somewhat relatable, look into a young person's uncertainty regarding their future after high school. 6. The ending is really sweet and neatly rounds out Enid's story as she finally takes a step into the unknown. Cons: 1. Scarlett Johansson (Rebecca) delivers a somewhat flat performance. 2. The relationship between Enid and Rebecca is rather poorly developed and thus the rift that occurs is a little underwhelming.

WHY does everyone like this movie so much? I don't get it. Both my friend and I gave it a 5. The couple next to me talked, yawned and joked through the whole thing. If this movie had come out 5 years ago, perhaps it would have been new territory, but now we have Darla on MTV(who seemed remarkably like Enid right down to the glasses) and on the big screen we've had "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and several other movies that have depicted teen angst in a more original and entertaining fashion. I think that Enid, the main character, was a metaphor for this whole movie i.e. LOSER.

A little weird; off beat funny and deserving of a cult following. A cynical high school grad Enid(Thora Birch)and her gal pal Rebecca(Scarlett Johansson)think it would be fine to play a prank on Seymour(Steve Buscemi)a forty something reclusive record collector. Rebecca finds it easy to join the world. On the other hand with the prank back firing, Enid slides into a hero worship of Seymour and feels it is up to her to find him a girlfriend. Her obsession of Seymour soon leads to a changed outlook on life. Edith still sees the world a little differently. Terry Zwigoff directs this piece of counter-culture based on Dan Clowes comic book.

Zwigoff's quirky film about two outsider girls who change their outlook on life after high school. The film is written very well by the adapted book's author and director Zwigoff, i liked the screenplay a lot, direction was also good. The cast was also very good especially Thora Birch perfect in the lead as well as Johansson. Buscemi is good as a middle-aged guy the girls choose to prank but Enid (Birch) starts to find him interesting and becomes friends with him. The film is a very good look at certain teenager's lives, it was pretty realistic and funny to me. A definite recommendation. ---IMDB Rating: 7.8, my rating: 9/10

An austere, gripping character piece about the future. Highlights include an excellent scene in a club that nails the American outlook on life; and it being a gritty, hard movie about gritty hard people, but it's also intelligent. The acting is very effective. From an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn't think were totally needed. They do however drive the story, which seemed to be their purpose, so I can accept them. Buscemi was unfairly overlooked at awards time. The film is unrelentingly dark, both in camera action and in storyline. The cinematography is stark and bare, with only the soundtrack adding some effect.

If there were ever a female Ernie Douglas (from "My Three Sons") look-a-like, Thora Birch pulled it off in this movie. But that was the only thing she pulled off. Enid (Birch) is a young lady just-graduated from high school. She is one of those people who thinks that the world owes them something. She tries a couple of different jobs (she's even lucky enough that one of them is handed to her on a silver platter), but just can't seem to find her place in life. She likes to have her fun at other people's expense and when she gets told off, she always finds some way to blame them and not accept any responsibility, herself. The problem with this movie is that it gets old real fast. The shocking thing I found out about this movie was that I actually managed to sit through it! This is a story about a girl who waits for life to come to her. In the meantime, I am waiting (& waiting & waiting & waiting) for this movie to come to me (like either of those ideas are going to happen).

After reading all the critical raves, I had high hopes for this movie, and once again, I was let down. I wanted to like this movie, and I tried to, but it fell short. The acting was excellent, but I found the situations unrealistic and the humor lacking. A rather dreary outing. Not horrible, just completely average. 4 out of 10.

What a waste of time. Why are the meaningless blatherings of a spoilt middle class brat supposed to be funny? I had a hard time keeping my eyes open. There was very little to hold the attention. The central characters are a void with nothing interesting to say or do. Enid's so called rebelliousness against corporate capitalism is nothing more than a five year old's temper tantrum.

The two main characters enjoy making life miserable for those around them. They are supposed to be "outsiders"... But who do they torment? Not the in-crowd... but people that are outsiders like they are... anyone that stands out in the slightest. This is the critical flaw in the movie. They care so much about being individuals, yet when it's someone else that is slightly different from the crowd, they step all over them. How selfish... The characters never see their hypocrisy. These aren't really "outsiders". They're just bullies. The outsiders are the ones that are being tormented by these two vicious characters. The main character is the most selfish, juvenile character ever to be presented in a movie. When will there be a movie that has teens that act like human beings...