The most boring and pretentious movie ever

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2004)

I wanted to like this movie. I knew it would be all talk, but I thought at least that the talk would be about interesting things coming from charismatic people who had real chemistry. I thought the writing would be fresh and different and challenge me. But I was wrong, very wrong. There were three good scenes in this movie, the one with Cate Blanchette, the one with Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan and the one with RZA, GZA, and Bill Murray. These three satisfied my expectations. The other eight consisted of people with no charisma talking about the same boring topics over and over again and even repeating the same lines over and over again. I really don't care about the fact that coffee and cigarettes is not a very healthy lunch but that Jim Jarmusch's friends are either too cool to care or have already eaten lunch. The truth is that this movie is not pretension with a purpose, like say the amazing waking life, but simply pretension for pretension's sake. After seeing ghost dog I have to think that Jim Jarmusch is too talented a filmmaker to have made this movie seriously, it must have just been a dare to make the most pointless and stupid movie ever and see if people still pretended they liked it because they wanted to seem hip or deep. A generation of people has come out to say "F**k the mainstream" and they don't care what kind of pretentious garbage they have to accept as their own. I haven't given up on indie movies because of this, I still want to see baadasssss, but Soul plane is looking really good after this movie. F**k the people who say "F**k the mainstream".