Elizabethtown

[abcdefz]

ELIZABETHTOWN. Oh, my, this movie's bad.

After over an hour in two shifts I finally decided enough's enough.

It's like... an entire movie of meet-cute, movie style. Suicide-cute, loneliness-cute, urn-shopping cute, widowhood-cute... And none of it works. None of it.

This is worse than Vanilla Sky. I mean, at least that one was really ambitious. Where the hell does Cameron Crowe live, anyway? It's not even an attractive world, but he really, really thinks so. This makes The Breakfast Club look like an imperial font of wisdom and observation in comparison.

Kirsten Dunst is pretty painful to watch being quirky/wise. Lines come out of her mouth that... I mean, if her character turns out to be delusional in the end, then we're okay; but Bloom's character is written to being responding very positively to her, saying how wonderful she is. I'd be running fast in the other direction, or maybe shopping for a restraining order.

That's a little strong.

Orlando Bloom, man... he's really, really bad. Other than Kamikazes, he's the least depressed suicidal person ever. And some stuff that's so simple -- asking his cell phone to ring, for instance -- he can't even pull that off. Evidently, his acting in Black Hawk Down was a sheer fluke, and the job he did in Lord of the Things was pure casting, because this... this is simple stuff, Oreo. Wow.

Don't bother with this one. It's got a smidgen of train wreck value, but it's the flattest, softest train wreck on record.

[Nuzzolese]

Are there at least attractive scenes and nicely shot images? Would you watch it with the sound turned off the way I can enjoy Wicker Park?

[abcdefz]

The colors are pretty solid; it's got a nice palette. But... no; there's no very interesting imagery, and what's there is very blandly framed.

Dunst has looked better in almost anything else she's done, except in Little Women, where, she's, you know. Pre-pubescent and dying. Bloom is a good looking guy, but his hair color looks fake and that's a little distracting. Sarandon's made to look pretty neurotic and homely, which is unfortunate.

[Qdrop]

yeah, it was pretty terrible.

the final "drive" was mildly romantic/emotional and fun to watch....but that's about it.

Dunst is among Hollywoods worst actors.....i always ask "why is she famous?"

Bloom did nothing with the script...and i think he really could have. the scipt was weak on story, but not on character. Bloom just didn't fish it out.

the biggest failure of this movie was that it was set up to be a "find yourself/redemption" movie....
yet they never explained WHY he found it?
cause he went on a cross country drive with this dad's ashes? that fixes everything?

uh huh...

[na§tee]

oh god!
i agree.
i didn't even stick it out to the very end. i texted this service we have in the uk called 63336 where you can ask them any question and they answer immediately [it's someone with broadband who just googles it i hear, but useful in pub quizzes nonetheless] and asked it "be honest, isn't elizabethtown a total piece of crap movie or what? go on, say the truth!" but the person disagreed with me. they thought it was "charming".
it was just so DULL. dulldulldull. orlando is so CRAP.
yeah. crap and dull! so eloquent, claire!
:)

[Nuzzolese]

It sounds a lot like Garden State.

[abcdefz]

It sounds a lot like Garden State.


Imagine Garden State without any of that pesky good stuff.

[Extra Cheese]

yeah this was just like garden state and just as awful. and theres another movie coming up that that takes the same awful formula,,, what has zack braff started?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/lonesomejim/trailer/

[cosmo105]

It sounds a lot like Garden State.
when i saw the preview - man goes back home for a funeral, meets girl, bad dialogue ensues - i thought, didn't they already make this movie?

it looked like such a load.