A Ghost Story (2017)

What in the almighty hell is going on here ?? Shot of house 7 minutes. Shot of morgue scene 11 minutes. Shot of this moron butt pirate slogging a whole pie 23 minutes and then I quit. Are u freakin kidding me ???? What exactly is going on here ?? Has everyone lost their freaking minds ?? What is the director going to say ??--"it's never been done before " ????? Yeah - there's a reason for that is because anyone else in their right mind would know better. Stay far far away from this pile.

Fmovies: Saw it, and there is no way the high reviews and ratings are not fake. You can even tell by the join dates and number of total reviews. Also, even, if as the fake and/or pretentious reviewers say, this is a movie for those who "appreciate art" and can immerse themselves in "feelings"; there is no way they all just happened to conglomerate here, for this movie in order to overbalance the real reviews which tell you quite clearly, this movie is terrible. Who in their right mind can honestly say they are happy to have paid to be bored to tears? Sure, what is boring to one person may not be to another, but I think anyone would agree that watching people do mundane things like move boxes and eat for ten minutes at a time, no matter how you frame it, is still universally boring.

I cannot believe that the top-rated comment is so very inaccurate.

To begin, David Lowry's previous offering "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" being a hit, sounds more like a plug for that film than a true statement, due to the fact that it was not considered a hit at all.

Go figure.

Secondly, when worded so nicely in that 'this story is about a young couple who ... (insert all the stuff they supposedly do such as buy the home and the wife experiencing the moments of life without him, etc.), it sounds great, only that's not true either. It shows none of this, but rather concentrates on the most menial of actions without ever exploring more of either their relationship with each other or with anything else. Literally, you get no back story and no ending, and even if you did, you have nothing to hold the two together besides scenes of total mundaneness and dull, boring, tediousness.

I will admit that there are a couple of laugh out loud moments. The problem is that given the tone of the film, I don't believe these moments are supposed to be funny, which makes the film that more awkward.

In closing, one of the reviewers before me said it best: you have been warned. This is a bore-fest.

A Ghost Story fmovies. David Lowery is well and truly on my Shyamalan list of Directors to avoid at all costs.

I now have a fear of Pie and I can't trust the majority of 'Critics/reviewers' ever again. I certainly won't be letting the Wife pick a film for a while (please note - she wanted us to turn it off before I did, some 31 minutes in.)

Many of the folks giving it 10's (or even 3's) are assuming you have to be of a certain intellect to understand and enjoy this utter garbage. I don't trust anyone of you reviewers who gave it anything higher than a 2 - and I don't trust the 2'ers very much either. I would not go to the pub with you, I would not text you, I would not go to the sandwich shop round the corner with you and I wouldn't invite you to my party. Harsh I know, but true.

Some points I need to mention. The 'Masterpiece' reviewers, who assume we who loathe this twaddle are not in touch with the spiritual world or don't like Arty films, etc, have some common themes in their reasoning as to why they loved it:

'The power of their love/ Love is timeless' - As we saw the unhappy couple for all of ten minutes (probably in 2 x scenes) I got no great feeling of a deeply moving love story - AT ALL. In fact, Ghostyboy just stands there throughout, how can you tell he's hurting. Looks bored and useless to me in his big old sheet, barely portrays any pain or longing.

'Pie Scene' - I promise you..I absolutely promise you that I'm not kidding when I say it made me feel sick. The noise, the ridiculous amount of time it took, the pointlessness of it. the pretentiousness of it, the realization that the previous drawn out scenes were not yet done - the worst scene in movie history.

'Great performances' - Affleck is in a sheet FFS.

'Looks so deeply and cleverly at life and death, our time on this earth' - No it doesn't. It's just a boring story of a ghost trapped in a house trying to get to a piece of paper his pie scoffing wife left there one time. If this film made you contemplate anything on life, love and death on a major level then I suspect you overly think things and should probably stop trying so hard.

'The score' - Oh pleeeeeease, Big deal. It really wasn't anything to write home about and a score rarely makes a silk purse out of a sows ear. Certainly didn't here.

In summary - I LOVED IT.

Imagine a joke that takes 90 minutes to tell, you never get to hear the actual punchline, and part of the point is how long and incredibly boring it is to get there - yet it makes sense at the end, and in some strange way seems fulfilling. If this sounds like your cuppa joe, you might like this flick. I'm glad I watched it, but wouldn't watch it again, and can't recommend it.