Elizabethtown

[jazz]

Cameron Crowe is so overrated. Yeah, I think Kirsten has one of those "slappable face". Paris Hilton has one too.

[tydomin]

Bottom line, for me at least: a clumsy folly, but it has some startlingly good passages: that all-night session between Drew & Claire on the respective cell phones--Crowe gets that exactly right. But he loses it in that finish, where he sends us on a travelogue none of us want to take. Isn't the point of a road trip to embrace serendipity? A good road trip is one long detour, where the wind takes you...NOT where Claire's obsessive-compulsive-too-much-time-on-her-hands prepackaged plans for Drew haul him. And jeez, how the heck did she time the CDs so perfectly? Did she have him set his cruise control?

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Some GOOD NEWS - well, at least in my opinion. Box Office Mojo reports that E-Town has now edged The Fog out of first place at the box office after receipts were tallied for Monday & Tuesday! (Be interesting to see how well it holds up when the new batch of films arrive on Friday. Doom is no doubt set to draw in all the 'fanboys.')

[londonaster]

The shoes squeaked? Is it weird that I love that? Just the thought of people buying them and then thinking 'wtf is that noise?!" makes me giggle. Plus it makes Baldwin's line about bare feet so much funnier.

[forever1267]

A mixtape for a road trip in search of a movie.

Instead of letting Orlando act, we're given musical cues to how he's feeling thoughout. Orlando sad, play Tom Petty. Orlando drunk, play The Turtles....

The main point of the story seemed not to be Orlando's relationship with his dad, but his budding relationship with Kirsten. And only because we know so little about Dad, except that he was a nice guy and they liked road trips.

And Kirsten's character! She's just a male fantasy figure. She's Mommy to make everything better, she's the tomboy who can hang out with the guys and party, and she's the hot chick that he can sex with very soon, because she's totally into him at the sacrifice of everything else in her life. Does she even have friends, family, a career?

Jerry Maguire is one of my all-time favorite movies, because I know guys who are just like him. But this film left me nothing with a pretty good soundtrack, and some precious acting from Dunst and Sarandon, and the blank (but very, very pretty) face of Orlando.

[emersende]

forever1267 said:

And Kirsten's character! She's just a male fantasy figure. She's Mommy to make everything better, she's the tomboy who can hang out with the guys and party, and she's the hot chick that he can sex with very soon, because she's totally into him at the sacrifice of everything else in her life. Does she even have friends, family, a career?

I haven't even seen the movie, but that is so true.

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And Kirsten's character! She's just a male fantasy figure. She's Mommy to make everything better, she's the tomboy who can hang out with the guys and party, and she's the hot chick that he can sex with very soon, because she's totally into him at the sacrifice of everything else in her life. Does she even have friends, family, a career?

Ugh, this more than anything makes me not want to see the movie. Do male film-makers really think that women live their lives purely in relation to the men in them? Do we only exist to help men find themselves? Men get to live lives, and we're only here to help them sort themselves out?

Screw that and screw this movie if that's all KD's character is.

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I just sat through this movie, and I'm still deciding whether or not I liked it. Orlando was very pretty, and depsite the British accent seeping through here and there.

I hated Susan Sarandon in this movie. Really, did she realise she'd been part of this movie without a great big scene or something, because the funeral speech was too embarrassing for words.

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Well, the film's just been released here in Germany and I watched it tonight. It was so good to see Orlando being...alive and...animated. Unbelievable, who knew he had it in him. And The Hair was in control for once.

The film could have been better, though. Some parts were truly great, some truly sucked. I hated Susan Sarandon's speech. The only thing I liked about that scene were the reactions on her children's face.

And yes, the doctor's character is probably every guy's dream.

[shriekingeel]

too embarrassing for words.

Couldn't agree more. I could tolerate the rest of the movie as a sort of low-speed screwball comedy. But the Sarandon speech was unbearable. Does anyone believe that an audience of small-town Kentuckians (with their small children) would be thrilled and amused by someone talking about "boners" and getting frottaged? Please.