I saw it for the first time as an inflight movie and caught a few minutes of it this weekend. I can't get over just how bad this movie is. Everything about it from the script to the casting to the ridiculous scenes with Susan Sarandon. I was secretly hoping that the movie would end up in a bloodbath.
shareYou know what this movie feels like to me? It feels like that first, honest laugh you have after you havent laughed in a long time because you lost someone. And that feeling is a good thing. Who cares if its ridiculously unrealistic and the dialogue may not be believable? It's a chance to laugh at how stupid and ridiculous life can be sometimes. It's telling you to take a break from reality and not look at things so seriously. And weird people like the weird characters in the movie do exist, trust me. So everyone lighten up.
shareAnd whats more, I think the best theme of this movie is just to start living again. When someone dies time stops. Then one day, you wake up. You wont ever forget that person, but you realize you have your own life to keep living. So if you overlook all the mistakes of the movie and get to the heart of that message...thats why I love this movie. its about death and life and just starting over.
shareAbsolutely! I can't believe I spent 2 hours watching this movie. The only things I liked about this movie:
1. watching some hot Orlando Bloom
2. It reminded me how much I missed "moon river" and its been a long time since I've listened to that song.
the rest was the most unrealistic crappiest thing!
"Garden State" had the same themes as Elizabethtown and was done about 1000 times better on a much smaller budget.
shareWords can´t express how much I hate people complaining because they "lost 2 hours of their lives" watching a movie... even if the movie is really bad, and this is not the case.
shareAgreed. It was awful. Nothing like I thought it would be like. Orly with an American accent? Bleh!
How the hell is this movie rated 6.4 at imdb?
Being a person who lives in elizabethtown honestly this was the worst movie ever. they filmed only 2 days here for a few shots. more than half the movies was filmed in versailles. there is no 60B to get to louisville. this movie so pissed me off because it was so fictionally. it also made it look like neone from here is a hick who walks around barefoot saying ya'll all the time. HAH! i have no accent and ive lived in elizabethtown my entire life. i am a grammar freak. i hate those country words like ain't and ya'll. seriously an awesomely bad movie. and u dont go past the towers or over the bridge after u leave the airport to get here! ARGH! like i said so fictionally.
share>i am a grammar freak.
Nice! I see what you did there.
Get over it. They do that with most movies based on realistic names.
And for a grammar freak, you sure don't like spelling out your words or capitalizing.
Oh pls it was a cute little film.
shareIt's interesting how polarizing this film is. Yes, it's poorly written, directed and acted. Yes, Orlando Bloom is a bad, wooden, vanilla actor. Yes, the soundtrack is over-stuffed, self-indulgent and distracting. Yes, very little of the story is believable or emotionally engaging in any meaningful way. Yes, Susan Sarandon's memorial service "variety show" monologue is cringe-worthy and brings the movie to a painfully screeching halt.
But is it the worst movie ever? Is it Plan B From Outer Space? No. It's just a bland, 2-star miscalculation from a director who is capable of much, much better work. A big disappointment.
> But is it the worst movie ever? Is it Plan B From Outer Space? No.
Well put. I always find it extremely funny when people refer to a below average but overall decent movie as "worst movie ever". There are so many really, really bad movies out there, a movie has to be truly appalling to earn that title.
BTW: In my opinion Plan 9 from Outer Space (that's what you meant, right?) isn't the worst movie, either. The IMDb agrees with me, it's not even in the Bottom 100 list.
Ulrich
i couldn't agree more. this is most definitely one of the worst movies i've ever seen, along with "how to deal" and "sisterhood of the traveling pants"
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They shouldn't have cut the movie the way it was edited. I saw the full cut before it was released and the cuts did make the film suffer. But to say that this was like Garden State and that Garden State was better is about the worst insult that anyone could give this movie. At least after watching this my wife and I thought "that was cute" vs. "that was depressing". Especially when this is another personal film from Crowe.
It just seems that some people love to rush in and stomp on director once they make a certain amount of good movies. Once they make one that is a bit flawed, folks find an opening that's all she wrote....
Okay, I can agree with some of the intelligent criticism of this movie, but half of you guys don't even give reasons, let alone intelligent ones. I know you don't have to have a reason to hate something, but anyway...
I think part of the key to understanding this movie is understanding the culture clash that happens when "Yankees" go to Dixie. I'm from up North, and I lived in Tennesse for about two years and I can honestly say, I know people like the Baylors. My best friend lives in Kentucky, where she goes to school, actually in the Elizabethtown area. Both of us often comment on how we feel like everyone knows and is related to everyone else. While not all the "Hillbilly" or "Redneck" stereo types are true, we have met people who seem like they came straight from a cartoon (to us anyway). So to those who say that it's completely unrealistic to portray the South that way, to those of us who didn't grow up there, sometimes, that's exactly the way it feels.
Also, this movie isn't supposed to move fast. When I first saw it, the thing I thought of most was that it was a melodrama, like real life is. Most of life is really stupid boring, but every once in a while something happens, a death, a birth, a wedding, meeting someone, going somewhere, a failure, or even a success, and for a few days our lives are vibrant and colorful and wondrous. Crazy things happen, and we either laugh at ourselves or we depress ourselves. I thought that it was this aspect of life, it's unpredictablity and the way we react to it was what Crowe was trying to emphasize in making this film.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think.