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Sep. 2nd, 2006 02:28 amAh, orlando. You sure are pretty. It's a shame that Elizabethtown wasn't Garden State, though, cause you would have had better lines.
Mostly, I wished for the invention that Andrea should be working on, where you can just eliminate everything else in the movie but the character and thus, for example, watch Christian Bale run around naked and carrying a chainsaw. Or in this case, just Orlando standing around looking tragic and mornful and a little confused.
I'm not sure it would have helped very much though--I kept feeling like I'd accidentally skipped a chapter on the DVD that explained everything out, instead of making me guess. Cause, really, you have to care to guess, and I just didn't care. I managed to watch it until just after the two of them go to look at the sunrise (and ohmigod, most boring on-the-phone scenes ever. EVAR. Go watch The Truth about Cats and Dogs and come back and apologize for the bad things you have brought into the world. (and I'm not even saying The Truth is even the best choice. It's just better) ), and then I decided that clearly, the movie ended with them saying aloha.
At least, for me that's where it ended. I think what I hated most about it was how I *felt* the real story under the surface, and kept thinking, 'If only you hadn't decided to be Garden State 2, maybe this could have been good." Cause really, Garden State was lovely. But the only saving graces of it were good writing and humor (and the fabulousness of the soundtrack), both of which were missing (in addition to all the things that GS had also been missing like continuity and sense and backstory) from Elizabethtown.
Mostly, I wished for the invention that Andrea should be working on, where you can just eliminate everything else in the movie but the character and thus, for example, watch Christian Bale run around naked and carrying a chainsaw. Or in this case, just Orlando standing around looking tragic and mornful and a little confused.
I'm not sure it would have helped very much though--I kept feeling like I'd accidentally skipped a chapter on the DVD that explained everything out, instead of making me guess. Cause, really, you have to care to guess, and I just didn't care. I managed to watch it until just after the two of them go to look at the sunrise (and ohmigod, most boring on-the-phone scenes ever. EVAR. Go watch The Truth about Cats and Dogs and come back and apologize for the bad things you have brought into the world. (and I'm not even saying The Truth is even the best choice. It's just better) ), and then I decided that clearly, the movie ended with them saying aloha.
At least, for me that's where it ended. I think what I hated most about it was how I *felt* the real story under the surface, and kept thinking, 'If only you hadn't decided to be Garden State 2, maybe this could have been good." Cause really, Garden State was lovely. But the only saving graces of it were good writing and humor (and the fabulousness of the soundtrack), both of which were missing (in addition to all the things that GS had also been missing like continuity and sense and backstory) from Elizabethtown.
