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Title: Garden State Post by: Samwise on April 13, 2009, 03:23:07 PM I feel like I'm not supposed to like this movie, but I do. Maybe even a lot.
(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/40386/Avatars/garden150.jpg) Title: Re: Garden State Post by: K9 on April 13, 2009, 04:47:00 PM Zach Braff is great.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: UnSub on April 13, 2009, 06:01:54 PM It's a good switch-brain-off indie film.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Selby on April 14, 2009, 08:43:39 AM I didn't care for it one bit.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Lucas on April 14, 2009, 01:12:32 PM 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 :)
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: HaemishM on April 14, 2009, 01:27:47 PM I love it. Don't get what any of the hate about it was. It's just a laid back, sweet indie flick.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Tannhauser on April 16, 2009, 03:12:25 AM Good film, great soundtrack, Natalie Portman I like it.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Brogarn on April 16, 2009, 09:31:22 AM I thought it was pretty damn good.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Hawkbit on April 17, 2009, 10:39:54 AM 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. Title: Re: Garden State Post by: eldaec on April 17, 2009, 10:55:05 AM I didn't care for it one bit. That's fine. It just means you're wrong. Happens to everyone. Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Samwise on April 17, 2009, 10:59:19 AM For some reason I very strongly identified with the scene of him on the couch at the party, watching everything happen around him.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Zane0 on April 17, 2009, 11:10:44 AM 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.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Tale on April 17, 2009, 02:50:47 PM Yes, I remember I liked this. It works.
Title: Re: Garden State Post by: schild on April 17, 2009, 08:06:02 PM 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. Title: Re: Garden State Post by: chargerrich on August 31, 2009, 09:43:21 AM 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? Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Hoax on September 03, 2009, 09:25:46 AM 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. Title: Re: Garden State Post by: Gobbeldygook on September 04, 2009, 03:54:16 PM 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. Title: Re: Garden State Post by: HaemishM on September 05, 2009, 09:37:27 PM 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.
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