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Film: Garden State

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I liked the movie. I hadn't seen previews for it, or heard anything about it before hand. I sat down in the theatre, drunk, and watched with no high or low hopes and I thought it was very good!
 
The film lived up to the trailer. Also i was wondering where i had seen that chap before, of course it was scrubs.

i think this has to be my all time favourite film. I dont think the end should be critised so heavily (dont want to say too much) but i think it was handled well
 
Haven't see it yet, but I like both the starring actors. How was what'shisname in a serious role?
 
Yeah, on thefacebook.com you can make your own groups, I'm in "I'm currently in love with the Garden State soundtrack" group. :)

Garden State was my favorite of 04.. probably.

The scene where Baff is sitting amongst friends, on drugs and just sitting really hits fucking home. Well, that scene and the one where Natalie is burying yet another of her pets, and crying about it, made my heart ache with familiarity.
 
Very nice movie....lovely!!!! One of the better movies about young love that isnt sappy nor overbearing and corny (it reminds me a bit of A Cool Dry Place and Gas, food Lodging )....just the general atmosphere of the movie.
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ONE OF THE 10 WORST FILMS OF 2004

I was with this film for the first 15 minutes before the depressing
reality that it was nothing but another "slacker Sundance young
director" clone sank in. Zack Braff--from SCRUBS, the only sitcom
that I watch--stars, writes & directs this painfully derrivative
flick about a bunch of aimless & quirky twentysomethings who stumble
aimlessly through life while treachly awful alternative folk music is
strummed & bleated from the soundtrack. Natalie Portman seems to be
channelling her former costar Jar Jar Binks as the most annoying
person in New Jersey (& NJ is a state that produced both Joe Piscopo
& Jon Bon Jovi) while Peter Sarsgaard barely maintains his dignity in
the well worn cliche of the wise, quick witted & jaded loser/stoner.

How many cliches can you jam into one movie? I stopped counting at 18
but that's only because I picked up a magazine & began reading it
during the film's last 10 minutes. I just didn't care anymore what
happend to these cartoon characters & only left the movie on in the
vain hope that there would be another scene with Sarsgaard shirtless
(there wasn't).

Jeezus, didn't they stop making movies like this back in the 1990s?
Unfortunatley this turd got some decent reviews, awards at Sundance &
did OK box office (for an indie) so I guess we can all look forward
to another slew of inoffensive, slice of life, twentysomething,
slacker, disaffected, quirky, smalltown yarns with neo-folkie
alterna "rock" cooing from the soundtrack.

Suddenly an Adam Sandler/Meg Ryan marathon doesn't seem so
unendurable
 
cydonorb~ did you actually write that? either way someone did and it's too bad (for me) that being bored and jaded didnt push he/she to suicide 5 seconds before churning it out so i'd have been saved the trouble of reading it...:|

awesome film. i cried like a baby. i was extremely impressed by portman, she could tell a story with here eyes and facial expressions alone. i loved the way that humor coexisted with the introspectiveness and seriousness of the plot rather than cheapening it or otherwise detracting from it.... the ending MAY have been a little campy but @ that point there could've been a robot dance scene *ponders* and i'd have been just as pleased.
 
I loved this movie, and I loved the soundtrack. I liked that this movie was subdued and subtle, honest and simple. No frills, if you know what I mean. Just a basic heartfelt story about the times in someone's life. :) Funny, endearing, and akward at all the right moments.
 
I saw this film a few weeks ago when I was on vacation and enjoyed it, but didn't really pay attention. I rented it again yesterday and watched it last night. I was very impressed by the attention to detail throughout the film and a lot of the situations the characters were placed in. If you have the DVD, I recommend going through the deleted scenes as I have a much better understanding of some of the scenes and characters than I did before watching them. Excellent, excellent film. These sort of movies usually depress the hell out of me, but for some reason, this one didn't.

The soundtrack also fit my current mood extraordinarily well...just the type of music I've been into lately.
 
I just saw this movie and liked it. I thought that the concept was pretty believable and it was very well done. The acting was pretty good too, seemed very natural. The soundtrack was great too, Thievery Corporation, Shins... all pretty good stuff that fits perfect to the movie.
 
I bought this on DVD the other day, because it was only $9.99 and I had heard such good things about it that I figured I'd love the movie.

I couldn't even finish it all in one sitting :\ I can certainly see why others would like it, but it just didn't appeal to me. So now I have a DVD I'll probably never watch again :p
 
i really, really, really liked this film, yet i still think that the review that cydonorb posted is perfectly valid. sure this film is full of cliches and at times it's quite trite, but it's also got some nice bits of droll humour, some pretty good performances and at least it's entertaining. the reason cliches are what they are is because they make a lot of sense in the first place, and though the overuse of them means this isn't one of the greatest scripts ever written, it is still full of those little life-affirming truths that seem to occur after the kind of epiphany that braff's character has.

i liked it a lot :)
 
I didn't really like it. I thought it was about a notch above your standard MTV release. Sort of like the MTV movie for the college kid who actually has more than three working brain cells.

It started out rather promisingly (except for the random Coldplay song and silly medicine cabinet shot) and I thought it might turn out to be a nice black comedy in the same vein as Harold and Maude or something. But alas, after about 20 minutes the movie turned to shit. This film is so full of melodrama and adolescent navel gazing, I highly doubt anyone over the age of 30 would enjoy it. Yuck, it just made me cringe -- especially the bedside scene with the father and the terrible ending that felt like it was just thrown together in haste.

Also, what was with the humor? I thought it was also really stupid. Oh, the kid doesn't know who Aldous Huxley is, how cute and witty. Gee, there are voyeurs paying to watch people have sex in a hotel room...Method Man says titties. Silent Velcro? What the fuck?

The soundtrack is good on its own, but I hated the way the movie was kind of formed around it. It's almost like the director was daydreaming while listening to the songs, envisioning what would look cool to them, and it ended up remarkably superficial and weak -- like a music video. The music should not be so prominent and should really only serve as a complement to the film. It felt like I had a college radio station blaring in the background as I watched the movie.
 
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