Just Watched The Movie "Elizabethtown" and Loved It...Anyone Else?

The Great Escape

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Sun Apr-16-06 01:10 AM
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Just Watched The Movie "Elizabethtown" and Loved It...Anyone Else?

It almost seemed as if it is the same movie as "Garden State," set in a different locale. I loved "E-Town," but I am the only person I know that did not get into "Garden State."

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DesEtoiles

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Sun Apr-16-06 01:50 AM
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1. Me too, that movie was underrated. & OB is hot!

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Skittles

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Sun Apr-16-06 02:05 AM
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2. one of the few movies I walked out on

I absolutely hated it

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yellowdogintexas

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Sun Apr-16-06 01:35 PM
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3. haven't seen it but I have been there a bunch of times.

I think the film was actually shot in Elizabethtown Kentucky

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southlandshari

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Sun Apr-16-06 01:48 PM
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4. I liked it

It may have been the company I watched it with as much as the film, truth be told, but I thought it was a sweet (if slightly uneven) love story.

I especially like the travel scenes towards the end, particularly the "journal" KD's character put together ahead of time for whatshisname.

:D

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yvr girl

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Sun Apr-16-06 01:50 PM
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5. I enjoyed it

But it wasn't well reviewed.

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Iniquitous Bunny

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Sun Apr-16-06 04:16 PM
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6. I'm glad you liked it.

Edited on Sun Apr-16-06 04:18 PM by Iniquitous Bunny

I usually love Cameron Crowe films, but this one just seemed too full of itself somehow. Not horrible, but I'm glad I only saw it on DVD rather than having paid full price.

I did like Garden State though.

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Radio_Lady

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Sun Apr-16-06 04:22 PM
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7. I missed that one -- I think I'll rent it from the video store.

Hubby is preparing for a routine colonoscopy and is on a two-day liquid diet and other lovely "clean-'em-out" delicious (!) liquids. Boom-boom-BOOM!

We have to stay close to home (and the "chamber pot") until Tuesday afternoon.

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gollygee

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Sun Apr-16-06 04:24 PM
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8. It's here right now from Netflix

Maybe this is tonight's entertainment :D

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Pale Blue Dot

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Sun Apr-16-06 04:36 PM
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9. I hated it, hated it, hated it.

I usually like Cameron Crowe, but I found this one to be a self-indulgent mess. The acting was terrible, most of the characters made no sense (and that goes double for Kirsten Dunst's, a walking deus ex machina), and the ending was just endless. I could go on and on for paragraphs about everything I loathed about that movie, but I don't want to ruin it for you, and I feel that to each his or her own. You can find someone who loves, or hates, just about every movie.

For the record, I loved Garden State.

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ForrestGump

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Sun Apr-16-06 04:47 PM
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10. I loved it

Especially the traveling bits.

It resonated...

:D

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fishwax

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Sun Apr-16-06 07:14 PM
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11. I liked it better than I thought I would

I put off seeing it because it looked, from the previews, like a half-hearted knockoff of garden state, which I really liked. But I actually did like it when I saw it, particularly the trip at the end, as I've a particular interest in road movies, etc.

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realisticphish

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Sun Apr-16-06 07:58 PM
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12. I thought it was terrible

It took a possibly interesting plot and loaded it up with a hundred thousand cliches. And Kirstin Dunst's character irritated the hell out of me the whole time.

Some people would regard the work she put into that book thing cute and sentimental.

I would be changing my name, and fleeing for Mexico

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Monkey see Monkey Do

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Sun Apr-16-06 09:03 PM
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13. Ken Korda, the film's quirk regulator, talks about Elizabethtown

Edited on Sun Apr-16-06 09:04 PM by Monkey see Monkey Do

http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/2005/11/21/ken-korda-reviews-elizabeth-town/

Of course Ken Korda isn't real! He's actually a character by the fantastic comedian Adam Buxton who was commissioned to do a series of short bits on weekly films. This is one of the weaker ones - you can get the rest through this link:

http://www.lloydyweb.com/blog/2006/01/ken_korda.php

I think I'm going to wait for Elizabethtown to come to TV - it's far from a priority and I've had enough of that type of film for now (especially after a very bad experience with Me and You and Everyone We Know).

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