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  • If any of your friends say anything about wanting to see a movie called Ghost World, knock them out cold and stomp on their genitals. If that doesn't do the trick, run very, very, very fast.

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #46401  by Kupex
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 9:51 am
<div style='font: 10pt tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If any of your friends say anything about wanting to see a movie called Ghost World, knock them out cold and stomp on their genitals. If that doesn't do the trick, run very, very, very fast.</div>

 #46403  by Chockboard
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 11:21 am
<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>What about Ghosts of Mars? It's got Ice Cube, the chick from species, and martian ghosts. How can you go wrong?</div>

 #46406  by Kupek
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 11:31 am
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That also looks dumb, but I'd probably rather see that than Ghost World.</div>

 #46407  by G-man Joe
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 12:42 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>What's Ghost World? Never heard.</div>

 #46412  by Eric
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 4:11 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Errr, bah. I'm gonna go see It's all about the Benjamins. :P</div>
 #46414  by Kupek
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 4:40 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's about a girl who just graduated-well, almost-from high school. She grows a bit distant from her best friend, meets a dweebish older guy (played perfectly by Steve Buscemi, who was the only redeeming part of the movie) and just ends up getting into a lot of akward circumstances.

The movie just has no real point, and it's somewhat painful to watch, despite some witty dialouge (mostly from Buscemi's character). Afterwards, I just felt plain bad. Not the kind of bad one feels after seeing a tragic story such as Romeo and Juliet or maybe even Braveheart-just bad.

Here's an unfortunately positive review of the movie. One thing he gets <i>completely</i> wrong is the best friend is "willowy and boyish." As a friend said, if that's boyish, sign me up for homosexuality.

<a href=http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/ ... l</a></div>

 #46416  by Stephen
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 5:00 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>That's the one with Steve Buscemi, right? I heard it was really good.</div>

 #46419  by SineSwiper
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 5:05 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Netscape for Linux sucks ass. Get Mozilla.</div>

 #46426  by Imakeholesinu
 Tue Aug 14, 2001 10:09 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Sorry, 'Vampires' was horrible.</div>

 #46427  by Kupek
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 12:53 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That was at work, not worth it for multiple reasons, the main one being that tomorrow is my last day.</div>

 #46428  by Kupek
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 12:54 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Ya heard wrong. Really wrong. Someone can argue up and down about how well made it was, whatever commentary it made, or how different it is from mainstream movies, but that doesn't change one thing: I felt really bad after watching the movie.</div>

 #46435  by S.Cody2
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 10:23 am
<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>What are you 'supposed' to feel like?</div>

 #46437  by Kupek
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 11:24 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Damned if I know. Like I said, the movie doesn't have a point.</div>

 #46444  by Blotus
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 5:05 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Yo, you leave Cube alone, foo!</div>

 #46455  by S.Cody2
 Wed Aug 15, 2001 10:26 pm
<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Well, it is based on an avant-guarde comic.</div>

 #46488  by Nev
 Fri Aug 17, 2001 4:34 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Dude! Johnny Mnemonic's got Keanu Reeves, and computers, and cyperpuck thrillers, and a huge special effects budget! How can you go wrong?</div>

 #46491  by SineSwiper
 Fri Aug 17, 2001 5:17 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>It was a decent flick that didn't quite go the distance. Reminded me of Total Recall.</div>

 #46494  by Kupek
 Fri Aug 17, 2001 5:39 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That doesn't excuse it from not having a point.</div>

 #46503  by S.Cody2
 Sat Aug 18, 2001 5:02 am
<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Sure it does. It just doesn't excuse your expectations.</div>

 #46520  by Kupek
 Sat Aug 18, 2001 8:03 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Eh? Expecting some sort of a point from a movie is very reasonable.</div>