Movie Polls

What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

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Sorry if anyone missed having a poll last week.  I was incredibly busy.  Well I still am, but I managed to make time this week.

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Movies referenced in this poll:
Art School Confidential
Bad Santa
Crumb
Ghost World
Louie Bluie

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

I've only seen Ghost World, but I liked it.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

Bad Santa is the only one I've seen... and it wasn't very good ^^;;

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

I have seen all of them except Louie Bluie.  I think I like Crumb the best.

Tom

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

Bad Santa is the better film here.   That may not be the most artistically sound answer (especially when considering all my friends refer to me as a film snob) but I am sticking with it.   Ghost World and Crumb are fine films but the audacity of Bad Santa combined with the creep Billy Bob makes for grade-A humour.   Zwigoff has yet to make a truly great film though.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

Although I missed Bad Santa, I'd say Ghost World is the best. While Art School was rather straight-forward and predictable, Ghost World caught me off guard. It was somewhat like Jane Austen's Emma--I read the book thinking that Emma was the heroine, and then someone said, "Re-read the first sentence" and I realized that the author was from the get-go critical of her main character. It's a fine line to do that and not get depressingly negative, not build hostility toward your central character. Zwigoff pulled it off in Ghost World.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

JimBell:

Although I missed Bad Santa, I'd say Ghost World is the best. While Art School was rather straight-forward and predictable, Ghost World caught me off guard. It was somewhat like Jane Austen's Emma--I read the book thinking that Emma was the heroine, and then someone said, "Re-read the first sentence" and I realized that the author was from the get-go critical of her main character. It's a fine line to do that and not get depressingly negative, not build hostility toward your central character. Zwigoff pulled it off in Ghost World.

That's a great comparison, Jim.  I liked the parallel you drew with Emma; that's really spot-on.

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I probably shouldn't have put in a vote, since the only one of these I've seen is Ghost World.  But as I quite liked it, it got my vote.  Crumb and Bad Santa are on my very loooong list of movies I want to see...

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

pippin06:

JimBell:

Although I missed Bad Santa, I'd say Ghost World is the best. While Art School was rather straight-forward and predictable, Ghost World caught me off guard. It was somewhat like Jane Austen's Emma--I read the book thinking that Emma was the heroine, and then someone said, "Re-read the first sentence" and I realized that the author was from the get-go critical of her main character. It's a fine line to do that and not get depressingly negative, not build hostility toward your central character. Zwigoff pulled it off in Ghost World.

That's a great comparison, Jim.  I liked the parallel you drew with Emma; that's really spot-on.

I concur.  That's a very interesting way to look at it.

I think my first Zwigoff film was Crumb.  I actually saw this with a bunch of people I was on the board with for our college film arts group.  We would have to preview certain films to decide if we wanted to screen them for a larger audience.  We actually ended up watching this in an extremely cramped little viewing room in the library.  It was all men except for one girl.  I think everyone felt embarassed because of that.  If you've seen some of R. Crumb's drawings, then you probably know why.  Still, this is a fantastic documentary!

Ghost World was a total revelation to me.  I feel completely in love with it.  Probably because I was infatuated with both of the characters and the actresses.  The beautiful Thora Birch and the then reletively unknown Scarlett Johansson.

I was first most excited about Bad Santa because of the Coen brothers' producer credit on the film.  I thought at one point they had a "story by" credit too, but now I'm not seeing that.  The movie is so hilarious!  I love the kid in the movie!  Too often kids in movies are too cute and precocious.  This kid was fat and dumb, but still a nice kid.  I love that so much more.

After all of this Art School Confidential was a bit of a disappointment, even though it still has some great moments.

I still have yet to see Louie Bluie, but it sounds really great.  I love that old style of music that Terry seems to be infatuated with as so do his collaborates like R. Crumb and Daniel Clowes.  It looks like it's available at my library on VHS, so I'm planning on checking it out soon.

Terry is one of my favorite current filmmakers.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Terry Zwigoff?

Ghost World and Art School Confidential are tops for me. 

Art School was actually not a favorite of mine after seeing it the first time but after a couple viewings I have grown to like it a lot.

Side note: I was channel surfing and Lifetime or one of those channels was running an advertisement for Ghost World and I really couldn't believe how they were marketing it. With Scarlett Johanssons growing fame since the films release, she was billed as the star of the film and it was made to seem everything revolved around her character despite the fact she really only has a minor role in it. Just thought that was kinda funny.