Boooring.

kind of cool and very boring

I don't think Jim knew how to turn his nothing into something yet, so a lot of the scenes come off as boring and pretentious rather than captivating. This is apparently Parker's first time acting and it definitely shows. He has the look down but nothing else about him works. There are a few good moments though: The dance, the movie theater, John Lurie with a saxophone!

Worth seeing for the tour of the Lower East Side, and a few beautifully Hopper-esque scenes, but it feels most like a messy workbench.

'Permanent Vacation', Jim Jarmusch's debut in the cinema industry, is much like a five year old kid's painting: ugly, pretentious, pointless, and something only a mother could like (or in this case, an indie-preaching asshole). This is pretty much the kind of pretentious films that could only be produced by a film student who takes arthouse way too seriously for his own good. Avoid, unless you want 75 minutes of everything you can see in your local film festival being slammed into your face.

Some good characters and a sign of Jarmusch's later style but it's quite meaningless and boring.

Only for Jarmusch fans. Has some elements of his style but lacks the substance. John Lurie plays the sax.

Awesome Lower East Side location work, New York as a post armageddon interzone full of junkie squalor crazies, which is handy, as the film itself is boring small scale wanderlust.