Funny Pages

I know there's some romantic / magic deep meaning with the ending, but I think if they made another type of ending, this movie would be much better.

For me that's just what lacked, a proper ending, more development between the characters, a next chapter, a continuation... A moral ending, or not, but we needed to get something in the end. But unfortunately, nothing really happens... And with that I just can't give a higher rating... But I really enjoyed the rest of the movie, amazing acting, great writing. I love the 90s vibe, very well done. And yeah, I love comics too.

The scenes with Barry are hilarious by the way.

I totally appreciate the bizarre vibe and humour.

I was chuckling every time a new character appeared (nothing worth a loud laugh though..).

Unfortunately, besides a couple good scenes, there's nothing else than a collection of really freaky looking and acting people, that don't have much to do throughout the movie.

The beginning makes the viewer think that the main character will be fighting hard to get what he wants, which is very clear, but he only goes around not doing much to achieve his goal, chasing an absolutely obnoxious character who never get what he deserves.

The ending is so bland and anticlimactic that I couldn't help but feeling that this was a complete waste of a chance as a movie.

The cinematography adds to the retro vibe, but it's nothing new and it doesn't help to redeem the lack of an actual story.

There are a few interesting scenes, but the weirdness of characters push too much to the side of boredom more than entertaining, funny awkwardness.

Wouldn't recommend it.

A coming of age story about a rebellious teenager who hates his parents for wanting him to go to college and be serious about his studies, when all he wants is draw cartoons and become an artist.

A lot of nerds. A lot of whining parents. And a lot of frustration suffered by teenagers. We have seen it all before. Is it any good?

The good; I must say that this is an honest movie with true to life characters. It'll do as a nice coming of age portrait, BUT...

The bad: this is not a new teenager classic, because it is lacking spark and punch and the actor's aint particularly great.

Not bad, not great either....

In the early 2000's when I was the same age as the protagonist in the film, the world of underground comic books was a universe I loved dipping my toes into. The grot, the beauty and the ugliness of Weirdo magazine and Bagge, Clowes, Pekar and Crumb. It's an enchanting scene, full of strange curmudgeons, men who smell and collect jazz records. I used to love going to a now defunct "comic-mart" convention, marvelling at the stench of body odour, the lack of civility and obsessed desperation of the men that permeated these events, despite being the privileged youth who went back home afterwards to a clean, household of love and affection. To say this film resonated with me is an understatement.

At times hilarious and ridiculously niche, a really interesting little film that makes me excited to see what Owen will create next.

"Funny Pages" is a movie about a boy that decides to leave school, in order to chase his dream to become a professional comic book artist. The trailer is very misleading: I thought that this was going to be some sort of coming of age comedy, with a nice plot. Nothing really happens in one hour and a half: there is no character development, no story evolution and no interesting or useful messages. Some scenes are just messy and poorly directed and the story does not make any sense. The ending is so disruptive and I wondered what was even the point of this film. I could not empathize with the protagonist that for the whole time was just behaving like a spoiled brat, I really hated him. Acting was sloppy, not even Josh Pais, who took part in important projects such as "The Joker ", could not save this mess. Out of this experience, I just understood that the director deeply hates the world of comics. He painted all the fans of this media like losers that do not have any ambition in life. I don't know the comic book industry well, but I am pretty sure that there are many talented and successful artists that have brilliant careers. This stereotypification of the nerd culture is old and pretty annoying. There is not one single person that is normal in this film, they are all social misfits.

I appreciate the fact that A24 is giving the chance to beginner directors to show their work to the world, but I think that there should be a better quality check when they decide to distribute something, because honestly it is becoming harder and harder to justify these awful releases.