i think it is still one of the most challenging movies made in the past 20 years and it would have not ever been released in the US even by an indie producer.

i have to put it at the top.

now the sequel was bullshit. pure $$$ garbage.

i think it is still one of the most challenging movies made in the past 20 years and it would have not ever been released in the US even by an indie producer.

i have to put it at the top.

now the sequel was bullshit. pure $$$ garbage.

most of the movies i picked were selected because either i loved the story to death or i felt the film was new and innovative in terms of film making, something i hadn’t watched on the big screen before.

ghost dog incorporated a lot of japanese style but in a western film. jarmusch is the first i’ve seen do this successfully.

but to answer your question, i think most people were expecting a mindless kill spree assassin movie which ghost dog clearly is not nor was it ever marketed to be such a thing.

people find it difficult to view something objectively in other words.

most of the movies i picked were selected because either i loved the story to death or i felt the film was new and innovative in terms of film making, something i hadn’t watched on the big screen before.

ghost dog incorporated a lot of japanese style but in a western film. jarmusch is the first i’ve seen do this successfully.

but to answer your question, i think most people were expecting a mindless kill spree assassin movie which ghost dog clearly is not nor was it ever marketed to be such a thing.

people find it difficult to view something objectively in other words.

I’ll have to see The Assassination… at some point. I also meant to see Ballast, but was never able. I would have liked to put some Lynch or Moodysson on my list, but they just didn’t make it. Morvern Callar was so close. (The addition of Time Regained from 1999 bumped it off the list. Maybe not fair.) Also, most of the comedies (except Songs from the Second Floor) like In the Loop, Ghost World, Anchorman, etc just couldn’t crack it. But I know I’m missing at least one thing I loved, and I just can’t remember what.

I’ll have to see The Assassination… at some point. I also meant to see Ballast, but was never able. I would have liked to put some Lynch or Moodysson on my list, but they just didn’t make it. Morvern Callar was so close. (The addition of Time Regained from 1999 bumped it off the list. Maybe not fair.) Also, most of the comedies (except Songs from the Second Floor) like In the Loop, Ghost World, Anchorman, etc just couldn’t crack it. But I know I’m missing at least one thing I loved, and I just can’t remember what.

i don’t know if when i’m infuriated by a movie as opposed to just “meh” about it it’s a sign that there’s “something there,” and i’m pissed it failed at whatever it was going for, or if it’s just that it’s a really bad movie.

for instance, i thought cache was lame and and derivative and totally stupid and obvious in its manipulations and indeterminancies, and children of men actually had me trembling with rage. so stupid! so simplisitc! shut up michael caine character, please, yr killing me. (battle scene was cool, tho.) most movies that attempt a “serious” response to the political scene provoke similar reactions in me.

i don’t know if when i’m infuriated by a movie as opposed to just “meh” about it it’s a sign that there’s “something there,” and i’m pissed it failed at whatever it was going for, or if it’s just that it’s a really bad movie.

for instance, i thought cache was lame and and derivative and totally stupid and obvious in its manipulations and indeterminancies, and children of men actually had me trembling with rage. so stupid! so simplisitc! shut up michael caine character, please, yr killing me. (battle scene was cool, tho.) most movies that attempt a “serious” response to the political scene provoke similar reactions in me.