"have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? no! i dont even have dreams with dwarves in them! the only place ive seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "ohh, make it weird, put a dwarf in it!" everyone will go "woaah this must be a fuckin dream, there's a fuckin dwarf in it!" - peter dinklage in this guy's next movie

johnny ('91) is a throwback cuz hes really into ricky nelson's "travelin' man" ('61) which means the 2020 version of this dude would be obsessed with his fav oldies "i wanna sex you up" "gonna make you sweat" and "(everything i do) i do it for you"

Did Brad Pitt's hair in this movie inspire Johnny Bravo? I tend to think so!

There's been some speculation that Sir Bradoff Pittler's portrayal of Johnny Suede inspired the character of Chad Palomino (James Le Gros) in director Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, but there's denial and debate in there. Judge for yourself.

This is one of those little movies that defies all genres by quirk-addled accident. Not funny enough to be a comedy, not dramatic enough to be a drama, not wacky or gross enough to be whatever it is that John Waters makes. Johnny Suede would be just a cute throwaway movie if not for the immense talent taking shape right before your eyes in Brad Pitt and Catherine Keener. Even so, it's barely worth a watch to see them, albino Nick Cave, and a brief glimpse of Sam Jackson, because there's not much else to find.

Another weird combination of collaborators. Brad Pitt, Link Wray, Samuel L Jackson, Catherine Keener, Nick Cave with bleached hair and eyebrows

Crummy, cracked everywhere-nowhere coolsville with a caseful of Pomp and Love in all forms. The 50s characters retreading their kaleidoscopic tropes like ghosts while the world around them has broken and worn down into a bleak weeded pavement baron townscape. Feels like the single pleading death of the 80s obsession with the 50s.
The films constant lust for shoes as an important sexual/status/dream achievement symbol somehow makes this film feel post-apocalytpic too.

It starts with a young guy (Johnny Depp looking like he is 18 although he is allready 28) with a funny hairdo. All of a sudden his desired pair of shoes falsl on his head.
UNfortunately I have watched the movie in bad quality. I´m guessing it would be worth watching it again because the camera looked promising to me.
The plot is mainly about Johnnys awkward attempts to grow up and make music.
Samuel Jackson plays a little side roll as bass player Bebop in Johnnys Band.
There have been a few scenes that reminded me atmospherically of "Permanent Vacation" (the aimingless meandering and the apartment)

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It’s not as good as DiCillo’s follow-up, Living in Oblivion, but it was a bizarre little independent rockabilly comedy where Brad Pitt looks like Johnny Bravo. I’m surprised how much I enjoyed this and not surprised to learn that Tom DiCillo did the cinematography for Jim Jarmusch’s first couple films because this feels a lot like his style but wackier.

This was seriously a chore to get through. I got a few good laughs out of it.

Plus you need to see Brad Pitt’s hair piece in action. Jesus.

I don’t mean any offense, but I’m really curious if Catherine Keener really grabbed Pitt’s balls when they were in the bath.

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Den här filmen ramlade över mig utan att jag visste ett smack om den, men redan efter dom första bildrutorna kände jag Jarmusch vibrationerna. Det är på alla sätt starkt inspirerad av Jarmusch tidiga 80-tals filmer. Efter att ha sett filmen googlar jag Tom DiCillo/Jarmusch, och då förstår jag. DiCillo och Jarmusch gick på New York Universitets filmskola samtidigt. Dessutom var DiCillo fotograf för Jarmusch på 80-talet.
Jag gillar filmen och dess konstiga karaktärer, musiken och de skitiga ofta ödsliga miljöer som bjuds. Alltså precis som en Jarmuschfilm.
Brad Pitt spelar Johnny Suede på ett fantastiskt sätt.

Habiendo visto dos películas de Tom DiCillo, puedo decir que tiene talento para un par de cosas: reunir un cast siempre cool y emplear a la talentosa Catherine Keener en los protagónicos. En esta, la primera película de Di Cillo, se nota la influencia del humor deadpan de Jarmusch, con quién colaboró en sus películas como actor y director de fotografía. También se nota alguna influencia de Lynch en escenas entre oníricas y absurdas. La película está bien, es despareja pero fluye. Mención especial para el copete en el peinado de Brad Pitt y el platinado que encandila de Nick Cave.

Much better than i ever expected it to be. It is very much what it is, but is not nearly as kooky or kitsch as i feared. Pitt is great in the lead, and Keener steals the whole thing.

Well before True Romance, this forgotten indie is when I knew Pitt was more than just a pretty face. The alluring young Keener doesn't hurt either, plus fun cameo from Cave.

God, does this not hold up.

The film solely exists as fodder for writer/director DiCillo to craft the delightfully hilarious Living in Oblivion. That film deftly skewered the very indie films dripping with quirk DiCillo himself made. See Johnny Suede.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The “Midtown” song alone earns it a whole star

Brad Pitt is Johnny Bravo, and Nick Cave for some reason tuns up.

Brad Pitt's hair