elizabethtown. (with a rant about movie theatre etiquette.)

[aliyaskie]

first things first: the rant. why the FUCK were there so many goddamn teenyboppers at elizabethtown? oh, right, fucking orlando bloom. okay, fine. so orlando bloom is hot and has an average audience of 14 years old. why the FUCK don't said 14 year olds know how to behave in public?!?! i know that when i was 14, i sure as hell wasn't sitting there

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[ginevra_alessa]

I was reading this and the ad for it came on in the middle!!!

Ahhhhh!

Psychic Twin-ness again!

"I think we peaked on the phone"

It looks like "Garden State" to me from the ads and I guess it's a place name and....a quirky romance....is it anything like Garden State?

[aliyaskie]

.....i've seen that comparison a lot of places too, and i don't think so.

for one thing, the movie by and large doesn't focus *exclusively* on either the romance *or* drew's (orlando's) "growth". it's pretty evenly balanced. i personally felt like in garden state, large's growth was inspired by/incited by sam. (shit, that's natalie's character's name, yes? my mind's retarded tonight.) i felt like large wouldn't have developed as he did had it not been for the Love of (his) Woman. elizabethtown isn't, in my opinion, like that.

for another, the music isn't incidental to the film at ALL. i kinda felt like, in garden state, other than the scene with the shins and "the only living boy in new york" (which i actually felt took away from the scene more than helped it), the music was kind of incidental to the plot. in this case -- as with every other crowe film -- the music *is* the plot. it drives it.

finally, the visuals in this film are far more impressive. as pretty as garden state was, this film is a visual *masterpiece* in

[ginevra_alessa]

mwahs and jaye!

i'm the luckiest girl evers :)

well i never saw jerry maguire.

and "almost famous" wasn't my favorite.

but cameron crowe did "singles" no?? i really do love "singles".

[aliyaskie]

he did do singles, though somehow i've never managed to get through it. haven't really ever actively tried, tho, either, so that's something.

see, i loved almost famous. so there's that.

wow, did we find somewhere our brains aren't identical?! fuckin' eh, yo! LOL

i think it's certainly worth seeing, especially if you like kirsten/orlando/both. there's a lot of pretty roadtripping scenes, which if nothing else is something. just don't see it surrounded by 14 year olds, otherwise you're liable to want to walk out. (and i have NEVER walked out of a movie theatre. ever.)