Garden State

[Samwise]

I feel like I'm not supposed to like this movie, but I do.  Maybe even a lot.

[K9]

Zach Braff is great.

[UnSub]

It's a good switch-brain-off indie film.

[Selby]

I didn't care for it one bit.

[Lucas]

Natalie mutherfuckin' Portman is my favourite young actress (Jodie Foster still tops my list), and she's just too adorable in "Garden State" (but she's better in Vendetta and Closer). Love the movie :)

[HaemishM]

I love it. Don't get what any of the hate about it was. It's just a laid back, sweet indie flick.

[Tannhauser]

Good film, great soundtrack, Natalie Portman I like it. 

[Brogarn]

I thought it was pretty damn good.

[Hawkbit]

Not that any of my life is anything like that character's, but I really identified with it.  I'd wager a lot of the last GenX and the first GenY folks felt the same. 

The whole scene where he goes back to the high school party after being away for 10 years.... I know, for a fact, that if I went back to my hometown it would be exactly the same.  Same people doing the same dumb stuff.  The drugs, the everything.  I felt like I was watching some part of my life that could happen. 

It's actually one of my favorite films, for the 'coming of age' experience.

[eldaec]

I didn't care for it one bit.

That's fine. It just means you're wrong. Happens to everyone.

[Samwise]

For some reason I very strongly identified with the scene of him on the couch at the party, watching everything happen around him.

[Zane0]

It feels like a movie you should be sneering at for all the indie post-modern what-does-it-all-mean coming on a little too thick -- but Natalie Portman gets that male protective instinct all riled up and is too freaking adorable to not enjoy.

[Tale]

Yes, I remember I liked this. It works.

[schild]

I was managing a theater during its run. It took me 3 sittings to get all the way through it.

I wouldn't have if not for Peter Sarsgaard.

[chargerrich]

Just caught this flick... good no doubt but I was more captivated by the soundtrack and more specifically the song "in the waiting line" by Zero 7. It is the song playing as he is reacting on the couch to the ecstasy, that song is amazing!

Fake Edit - Makes me wonder with a TV and Movie child board, why dont we have a Music board?

[Hoax]

We'd have to ban some of our longtime posters first or it would be filled with annoying shit.  Similar to why we don't have working in retail or service industry boards.

This somehow made me think of Schild's MS Paint GoDaddy stuff, man that was good shit.

[Gobbeldygook]

This movie was well-received on release, but faced a vicious backlash.  The primary critique is that it was overly focused on being just so quirky and twee and different that it forgot everything else.

"Aww, isn't it just so adorable how she keeps all those hamsters?"
"Heh heh, I bet no one foresaw how his mom died!"

It also spawned a thousand overly quirky indie romances, each one worse than the last.

[HaemishM]

I liked this movie a lot, but even during watching it, I realized that no matter how fine she was, if I had to live the rest of my life with Natalie Portman's character, I'd have stabbed her in the clavicle after year 1.