IMDb user comments for
American Splendor (2003)

photos

board

trailer

details

2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Sitcom for the Converse-wearing Crowd, 26 August 2003

Author: bluesdoctor from A Place is Just A Place

"Independent" and "alternative" are hollow terms denoting only one type of consumer product as opposed to another. This is a movie for the Converse-wearing disenfranchised comic-book reading crowd, the self-fashioned "underworld." Unidimensional, dingy to look at. Woody Allen schlepism reductio ad absurdum. Same offbeat downbeat deadbeat territory as "Ghost World." Interesting for its mix of real characters on which the movie is based and actors. Use of comic book frames less successful. The basic problem here is hypocrisy: a character and culture which eschew convention and the establishment, glory in the common man and the banal, find legitimation in fame and celebrity. The only reason this schlemiel, Harvey Pekar, made it to the screen is that he was taken up by R. Crumb and David Letterman, proving "Independent" and "alternative" are hollow terms denoting only one type of consumer product as opposed to another.

Ps. "Crumb" is a much better movie and representation of this culture.

Add another comment

Related Links