Review: “Elizabethtown”
Posted by jamesviscosi on July 21, 2008
Well, the soundtrack was pretty good.
Gina reminded me that in my desire to be pithy I left off my rating scheme, so here it is: Elizabethtown put my wife to sleep in about an hour and a half. This does not mean that she liked it; she just kept shaking her head and muttering and making unfavorable comparisons to some of her other “favorite” movies such as August Rush and Hope Floats and giving me sidelong glances and saying “How did you pick this, again?”
Gina said
I think that means don’t see it. hehe Did your wife sleep through it? Paula Deen didn’t save it?
Amanda said
Hahaha…I thought the same exact thing. And then I wondered why I just wasted a couple hours of my life
Alyson said
No, Almost Famous IS good (particularly because of the main role played by …?) but I think Cameron thought he was on a bit of a roll…and he wasn’t.
Shadow said
the soundtrack was good? okay, then buy the cd instead, hee hee hee
Jana Wachsler-Felder said
Almost Famous is AWESOME. Elizabeth town…not so much.
canyon cottage said
I watched it just cuz I wanted to see Paula Deen in her first movie role!! LOL! She had a whole episode on the food network about the making of it. I confess I am a food network junkie (shhh).
oh2btigger said
I’ve never seen the movie, so I can’t say one way or the other, but I’ll agree with your wife that Hope Floats is a good movie. I’ll have to check this one out, just for the sake of checking it out!
Around The Funny Farm said
My hubby buys me a drink for every rejection letter I get. I guess that is why I fall down frequently?!
Around The Funny Farm said
Story of my life. Wrong place. lmao
Around The Funny Farm said
NO.. right place, wrong post. And boy am I laughing now at mentioning DRINKS!
Hahaha.
Nevis said
I manage to sleep through a lot of movies. Its sad, really. I don’t mean to…it just happens.
Kristen said
Are you kidding? You mean the cliche quirkiness of Dunst’s character and the trying-too-hard-less-is-more effect of the movie overall (and which is mirrored in Zach Braff’s “Garden State”) didn’t impress?
Kristen said
Not if you have a high tolerance the cutest, quirkiest, coolest girl character ever invented by a writer/director, or profoundly complex and deeply thoughtful males who need the quirky cool girl to provide that perfect balance. Nope – if you like that kind of thing, leave it in your queue. (Who the hell invented the spelling of the word “queue”!?)
Have you seen Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Now them’s good movies.