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non-exclusively, some stabs, mostly remembered from or inspired by Rosenbaum's review...A quote from the beginning of this review:
Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which I've seen three times, may be a failure, if only because most of its characters are never developed far enough beyond their mythic profiles to live independently of them. But if it is, it's such an exciting, prescient, moving, and noble failure that I wouldn't care to swap it for even three or four modest successes.
And from the end:
Jarmusch daringly uses Whitaker for the most part as a hulking silent presence, going about his business in purposeful and dedicated mime, but whenever the movie requires the character to be something more than a mythic icon, we don't know quite what to make of him.
...which is more or less what I've thought of the film. As I've said, I don't hate Ghost Dog, not at all, it is simply inferior to other Jarmusch films (with the exception of Permanent Vacation). Like the quoted reviewer, I appreciate Ghost Dog as a stylistical/mythical/cross-cultural (perhaps even allegorical) exercise, but it doesn't really touch me. An interesting failure indeed.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 28 July 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
one month passes...
I just saw Ghost Dog this week. It was pretty good.
The scene where all of the old Italian mobsters are sitting around the shop and the landlord comes and gives them grief for not paying the rent was pretty funny. I liked the way he went character for character in the room in the sequence, it is a funny lineup of old tough guys.
― earlnash, Friday, 26 September 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
one month passes...
And all this time no one's said shit about
Fishing with John!
"Why am I here?"
Jarmusch: "I don't think you should drive?"
Lurie: "Huh? You don't think I should drive? Why? What?"
Jarmusch: "I’ll drive."
Lurie: "You wanna drive?"
Jarmusch: "No."
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 14 November 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
three years pass...
i finally saw dead man. so grotesque but in a pretty/flimsy kind of way (not a bad thing), like each skull or crushed head was a trinket. felt v. filmic, aware, etc, but still pretty moving in parts w/ a lot of great writing going on. that ending is so dark. reminded me of dante and sergio leone. uh one part almost made me cry.
― strgn, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I really like Ghost Dog and Dead Man. One or two scenes in Night on Earth are ok, and I sort of like the one with Tom Waits, Lurie and Benigni (I forget the name). I think he's a filmmaker who takes some adjusting to.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
four years pass...
seven years pass...
ten months pass...
I just saw "the dead dont die" and I cant work out if I hated it, or it was really clever and dryly witty. I mean I'll happily watch Adam Driver drly remark "this is gonna end badly" on a loop for 2 hours, and the reviews make me think I missed something, but... enh?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 2 September 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
I know it wasn't loved by most, but some of my favorite people really liked this and I'm looking forward to it
― Dan S, Monday, 2 September 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
It was very Cohen Bros dry. I should have paid it a bit more attention (I didnt see it in a cinema, but at home *coff*)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 2 September 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link