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A complete and utter mess of a movie

posted 16 years ago by kevin-53
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What is this?

There's a semblance of story, but the thing makes jumps all over the place in character development like they were running out of time. Jerome is earnest, then makes this big turn to jaded and cynical with nary a breath in between. "I'm a schmo! No...wait...I'm cynical! I'm jaded! I'm...willing to go to prison?"

And what is it? Dark comedy? OK, for the first 2/3s maybe. Then there's a sudden turn and the movie tries to be something completely different. Again it's like there was a way to resolve the movie, but they ran out of time and slapped something together.

Just infuriating.

[–] alexcool79 15 years ago

agreed

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[–] georgiegerbil 15 years ago

Yes. Watching this reminded me of watching the movie Pumpkin - I had high hopes for both that were quickly dashed when they became an unfocused mishmash of genres, rendering them almost unwatchable

[–] ReasonlsOutToLunch 14 years ago

It's worse than a mess. It's boring.

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[–] apqlwodkeisjtug 14 years ago

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[–] osully67 14 years ago

Agree with OP. It was pretentious and confusing and boring. And every character (except maybe Audrey) was an a**hole! Why was everyone shouting at each other all the time?

The murders came out of nowhere and had nothing to do with Jerome's objective to get with Audrey (which was originally the point of the movie, and a big part of why he decided to go to that certain art school.)

No one seemed to care about the murders at all! When Jerome was being taken away in the cop car, the students were just mad at the cop for fooling all of them. Not at Jerome for possibly being a serial killer?! And whyyy would Audrey visit him in jail and kiss him through the glass, why?!!

Very annoying. Wanted to watch this as an expose of life at art school, which seems interesting, but then got this crap.

[–] torpedoboy4 13 years ago

I've spent all of my adult life attending or teaching at art schools, and I'm a HUGE Dan Clowes fan. I must say, I was disappointed by this movie on all fronts.