>This was one of the funniest
>movies I've seen this year.
> Zwigoff's subversive take on
>life after high school and
>coming of age was genius.
> I put it up
>there with films like _Election_,
>_Rushmore_, & _Welcome to the
>Dollhouse_ to name a few.

Definitely. You could have a little Nerd Film Festival.

>>GHOST WORLD is dark, biting, very
>>depressing and outright hilarious. A
>>lot like Okayplayer.
>
>Except this movie didn't get on
>my nerves as much as
>OKP does every now and
>then.

LOL! True.

>You could've mentioned how funny Illeana
>Douglass was. This was
>the best performance I've ever
>seen her in. Everyone
>had to have that condescending
>art/music/film/drama instructor who played favorites
>like retirees play the lottery.

Yep. She's good. I had one of those teachers in practically every subject. And I was rarely the favorite.

> Plus that guy who
>looked like Aaron Eckhart in
>_Nurse Betty_ was just ridiculous,
>especially when he gets beat
>up by...oops, can't give that
>away. You have to
>stay until the very end
>to catch that one.

HA! I know a lot of people left before that when I saw it. I was laughing my ass off.

>It was very interesting seeing how
>race was dealt with in
>the film. I remember
>seeing a review of _Crumb_
>on Siskel & Ebert when
>it first came out, and
>it showed how he made
>demeaning caricatures of Black people.
> That's what immediately came
>to mind when I saw
>the Coon's (Cook's) Chicken logo.
> It makes you wish
>that this film came out
>before Spike made _Bamboozled_, which
>I hate to say.

I've commented before (perhaps in this thread) that the whole Coon's Chicken subplot made a stronger point on that subject than the whole of Bamboozled. Lack of subtlety ruined that movie for me.

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