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Ghost Town (2008)
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"and I was the only one audibly laughing. Puzzling me no end. How could anyone not find Ricky Gervais dead funny? He makes this movie click, lifting it above the annoying silliness which usually emerges from such plots. OK, the writing helped. I enjoyed Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni. The one vague disappointment was not getting to know a little more of the other ghosts' stories, particularly the nurse and the naked guy. But never mind. I'll probably see this a few more times and get the DVD. Just to watch and listen to Gervais in action. "
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"Forget that the story of Ghost Town is an overly-familiar Scrooge tale about a grumpy man who learns to love again with the help of a few ghosts or that the film itself often feels like a mawkish, mid-nineties romantic comedy following in the (then) successful wake of Nora Ephron films. Focus, instead, on what elevates the film from a standard but well-executed programmer to a howlingly funny film: Ricky Gervais. Viewers of the British version of The Office or Extras know that Gervais is a master at spinning comedic gold by playing sad little men, and his work in Ghost Town only further confirms this. He imbues the curmudegonly stuff with an unrelenting sweetness that belies the bruised, aching heart at the core of the character, but he also plays the lovey-dovey stuff with a cynical, aware edge. This, by itself is valuable, but doesn't even get into how delightfully, devillishly funny he is. His use of the phrase "fait accompli" when discussing the results of a laxative woul ... "
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"Sometimes I really wish David Bordwell’s blog permitted comments. Mostly it’s better that it doesn’t, but the man’s last post has made me want to discuss the art of movie titles for a whole week now. And it didn’t help that coinciding in time with Bordwell’s post was another one of those sidebars in Entertainment Weekly pointing out some new movies with misleading titles. Yes, Lakeview Terrace does sound like a period romance, as do many other badly titled films (Elizabethtown and Wicker Park come to mind). This weekend also sees two new movies employing the method of borrowing song titles, which are typically not appropriate (Ghost Town seems more like a horror western hybrid, while My Best Friend’s Girl
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"There is heart in "Ghost Town." It might not be terribly deep or revolutionary or explored as thoroughly as it could have been, but its there. Co-writer and director David Koepp saves it for the final scene, a sequence between Tea Leoni and Ricky Gervais which allows the film to go out on a positive note. See, Frank (Greg Kinear) was cheating on Gwen (Leoni) and, through a twist of fate, is killed by happenstance. He has unfinished business on Earth, so he asks Bertrum Pincus (Gervais), a man who was technically dead for a couple minutes and can see dead people with similar unfinished business, to stop Gwen from marrying a seemingly good guy. The problem with Pincus, though, is that he's not a people person. To put it mildly. Much will inevitably be written about the first Hollywood starring vehicle for Ricky Gervais. And all that press should be positive, based on his performance here. Gervais is eerily at ease playing a recluse, someone who says all the wrong things at the worst ... "
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"If you took one look at the existence of the new movie Ghost Town and dismissed it on account of its familiarity, you’re ignoring the potential of one of the most valuable plot devices available to fiction. Sure, the employment of ghosts in a narrative may also be evidence of laziness, as the device is just as much a convenience as it is a useful tool for storytellers. Not everyone can be Shakespeare, and of course there is a lot of redundancy and (excuse the pun) lifelessness in the majority of movies involving ghosts. However, ghosts can also be highly representative and/or serve a film on a deeper level than the surface story. To use another pun, ghost movies are not always so transparent. Like zombies, their plot-device sibling, ghosts have a way of signifying greater ideas, subjects and themes, and aren’t always merely about scares and talking-to-thin-air gags. In a conversation with Cinematical’s Erik Davis, Ghost Town director/co-writer David Koepp had this to say about the ... "
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