Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

winopaul Lets figure it's cast and shooting has started so we are stuck with the existing characters and actors. No way to edit out of this mess; it will take re-shoots. So the male lead is a bumbling passive insecure weasel, so he is now the antagonist. The fluff babe might carry the film but that is a risk, so that leaves the jock/cop. So lets go Hitchcock and let the audience know he is a cop right at the start. The snarky art-school send-up is no Zoolander and snark is boring and sophomoric. So lets stick with serial killer plot. Stick with Hitchcock too, so we know it is the art bum right from the beginning.So the flick starts out with the murder...no, two murders a few months apart. The jock/cop goes in to investigate undercover. The fluff babe starts to get suckered in by the whiny sensitive cockroach, until she sees how his art looks like the dogs you are supposed to copy to "win" entry in the comic book and matchbook cover art schools. Later she will see how needy and clingy he is, and then when the dweeb claims he wants to be the greatest artist in history, she can fleck him with spit as she laughs in his face and run to the arms of the jock/cop.They were nice enough to have the jock/cop's art get better, and we should make sure it gets way better so he is a decent artist by the end. The dweeb will tease and ridicule the jock/cop so we will be glad to see the dweeb lose.And let the dweeb lose big. Just as the jock/cop figures its the art bum that killed the students, the dweeb steals the bum's art and maybe burns the place down by accident and maybe on purpose to cover his plagiarism. The jock/cop can't prove the arson, so he frames the dweeb for the murders. Lets have some convicts break the dweeb's fingers as a welcome to prison, before marrying him to the man with the most cigarettes.Meanwhile the jock/cop is getting fed up with his bitch wife and jerk cop co-workers, so he gives into temptation and makes love to the fluff babe with the rich daddy. Then his art gets way better, he divorces his wife, and quits his job as a cop. We end the film with the dweeb in prison, his hands in casts, and walking bow-legged. He turns and sees the fluff babe and gets all excited until the jock/cop comes into frame and gives her a big wet kiss while roughly fondling her left breast. He laughs and says "Hey, enjoy life in prison you dork, and remember its illegal to make any money off your crime, loser." The fluff babe laughs with delight, sticks out her tongue at the dweeb, and grabs the jock/cop's butt as they skip out the door. The jock/cop looks over his shoulder and says, "Thanks for giving me a beautiful life." Eighty-five million domestic gross and the action figures and watercolor art set merchandising will clear a few million more.Oh, and lets not have a film about art students make fun of homosexuals and documentary film makers. Talk about stupid and self-destructive. I knew they were in trouble when they made out the scribble face portrait to be crap and it was the best thing in the whole movie. We can have the cop draw that as a portrait of the fluff babe at the end. He can unveil it at his gallery opening, explaining, "This is how she makes me feel."

rzajac Art School Confidential, the movie, is a sort of self-parody. This is a beautiful movie cleverly disguised as a movie that can't pull off the necessary airs to pass itself off as high art.The key to understanding the movie lies in your being able to home in on the most important factor: That Jerome just might be a great and true artist, bizarrely ensconced in an environment in which everyone is a poseur--and that includes the professors.It's like other Zwigoff movies; like "Bad Santa", for instance. Bad Santa may just be the greatest Christmas movie ever made; the one movie that really succeeds in delivering the truth of Christmas. And, satiric romp though it may be, Art School Confidential may be a window into the odyssey of a born artist, stuck in a nightmarish universe in which he is the only person who understands what beauty is, and therefore why it is truly important that he study it, learn it, and create it. When we understand this, *then* we can truly feel it when Jerome is subjected to indignities, and when he looks out a window and sees something so beautiful that it transports him.IMDb commenter/raters generally short-shrifted it. I suspect we need more Jerome-hearted people to watch it; it could turn the tide.

Christian_Dimartino Max Minghella stars in another Terry Zwigoff(Ghost world) comedic masterpiece, Art school confidential. I never saw his first,Crumb, loved his second, Ghost world, never saw Bad Santa, and his last movie, Art school confidential, almost tops Ghost world, which is one of my favorite films.Minghella plays Jerome, a artsy virgin who goes to Art school to achieve his dream and be like his idol,Picasso. He has the potential of being an artist. He is excellent,but the morons at the school prefer something more simple and stupid. Kind of like the portion of "Ghost world" which involves Enid at the art class.Jerome falls for a model(Sophia Myles) named Audrey, who poses at the school. But she soon falls for Jonah(played by Matt Keasler), who's crappy amateur art work draws everyone's interest for some reason. Amidst all of this, there is a serial killer loose on campus who is strangling everyone.This isn't quite as good as Ghost world. The ending isn't really resolved as much as it should, and though funny, the class is annoying. But Art school confidential is very interesting and funny. And fun.Some of it is a little too familiar on the Zwigoff side. The cast is excellent. It also includes John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Angelica Huston, and Steve Buscemi. Art school confidential isn't perfect. Ghost world is. But Art school confidential is still a good movie. See it.3.5/4

napierslogs "Art School Confidential" is a story about art and murder, and it's a comedy. Jerome (Max Minghella) is a freshman at an art college majoring in paintings & drawings. He is determined to become a famous artist, and paint beautiful naked women. He doesn't care how he becomes famous.Screenwriter Daniel Clowes definitely attended a school like this, because this film is full of artist-type characters, and non-stop jokes about the pretentiousness of art, art historians, competitive students and professors who never made it.The main issue with this film is that it is basically plot less. There is an aimless plot which gets introduced at the beginning but gets sidetracked for awhile and when it finally reveals itself, it's over much too quickly. There are quite a few jokes along the way but they are mostly just unconnected humorous musings on everything pertaining to art school."Art School Confidential" is certainly related to Clowes' and Terry Zwigoff's previous film "Ghost World" (2001) but I found it much easier to get into. I definitely recommend it to anybody who went to art school, is or will be going to art school, or anybody who knows somebody who did. I also recommend it for anybody who really wanted to like "Ghost World" but just couldn't, this might be more your cup of tea.