Not absurd, but boring.

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2005)

Terrible jokes, "the bad kind of genius" cinematography, and too many mixed metaphors and plot twists make BJM a mess. Just because it's art doesn't make it good. Honestly, when it was over, I felt cheated.
Don't believe the hype. It's an honest movie with a somewhat neat idea that gets so bogged down in metaphors and imagery and camera work and stuffy philosophical ideals and egos and ids and projected ideas of self and... Sorry, I nodded off there for a second. It's got so much baggage it looses the story and worse, the audience. The ideals are lost on most people and they end up thinking it's quirky, absurd, or funny. Not like Frank Zappa weird, but Tom Green weird. I'm a professional artist and I have friends who love this movie. I make a living by making connections others don't. I got the ideals of the movie, I just don't think is anything close to "the best movie of the last 10 years." If you want odd, see "Blue Velvet" (odd and disturbing) or "Pete & Pete" (odd and funny) re-runs.