Film: Garden State

Bony Maloney · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:44

Watched this last night. What a fantastic film, with the best soundtrack I have heard in years. If you enjoyed Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind you might like this. :cool:

Helium_Junkie · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:53

Havent seen ESotSM (what a title!) but I have Garden State sitting round here somewhere waiting for me. Must dig it out!

TheMagicPirate · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:57

Not a big fan of Garden State myself. I find it to be quite an 'empty' film.

Thats not to say that i didnt enjoy it, i just personally find it to be quite overrated.

A.N.Other · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:02

Superb film. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

InsomniaCalls · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:04

Fantastic film and I agree a great soundtrack.
Had it on my mp3 player for months after I saw the film.

Scam · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:21

Great film, loved the comedy in it too. The soundtrack is brilliant as well!

Definately watch Eternal Sunshine -- that's a good'un too.

semi-pro waster · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:21

I quite enjoyed the film but it is fair comment to say that nothing much happens in it. It just seems to putter along without doing anything much.

jakeke · 8 Jan 2007 at 12:16

Nothing much happens, but it's one of my favourite films. The soundtrack is near on perfect and the comedy is subtle yet hilarious.
Not for everyone, personally I really really like it.
Can't wait for Zach Braff to write/direct another film!

Dave · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:14

I have Garden State on DVD. I think the film is fantastic and so is the soundtrack

The_KiD · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:16

Hmmm really liked Eternal Sunshine, might have to give this one a look.

Big Chris · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:22

It was recommended to me by a couple of mates and sounded like the kind of film I'd really like, but having watched it I couldn't stand it! Barely made it to the end but worth watching once just to see what all the fuss is about.

TheOtherOption · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:38

Was going to say I thought it was the one "JD" directed - might be worth looking into in which case as "Eternal ..." wasn't too bad i didn't think

wedgie · 8 Jan 2007 at 22:09

TheMagicPirate said:
Not a big fan of Garden State myself. I find it to be quite an 'empty' film.

Thats not to say that i didnt enjoy it, i just personally find it to be quite overrated.

Same here, I expected more tbh.

Scam · 8 Jan 2007 at 22:54

TheMagicPirate said:
Thats not to say that i didnt enjoy it, i just personally find it to be quite overrated.

I think you have to be wary of all the Scrubs fans that knew it was going to be their favourite film ever, before it even came out

(I know, i was almost one of them)

Has anyone seen The Last Kiss? I dont think it rate very well but i'm quite interested as not only is ZB involved, but the guy who co-wrote Crash and Million Dollar Baby. I really rated Crash, but i havent seen the latter although of course it won the Oscar(s).

Sic · 8 Jan 2007 at 23:15

Big Chris said:
having watched it I couldn't stand it! Barely made it to the end but worth watching once just to see what all the fuss is about.

same here. it reeked of 'LOOK LOOK, I CAN BE A SERIOUS ACTOR' from Zack Braff. i tried to like it but i just couldn't. he got stupid in series 5 of scrubs too.

PardonTheWait · 8 Jan 2007 at 23:30

I liked it all the way through. It's not what you'd call deep, but it's enjoyable.

Raymond Lin · 8 Jan 2007 at 23:37

I love it, may be I am at an age closer to the character he is portraiting, or may be not. But I find the film to be touching, poignant.

Now Elizabeth Town is a boring film, it's by Cameron Crowe as well (I love his previous work on Almost Famous). On so many levels it's the same kind of story. A semi sucessful guy who is coming back home for a funeral, meets a quirky young, beautiful lady in his journey. When he gets home he feels out of place, seeing old friends, old family from his the life he left behind. And with CC on the helm it's bound to have a cracking soundtrack, except although it has lots of good ingredients, it just doesn't mix together.

Dave · 8 Jan 2007 at 23:51

Scam said:
Has anyone seen The Last Kiss? I dont think it rate very well but i'm quite interested as not only is ZB involved, but the guy who co-wrote Crash and Million Dollar Baby. I really rated Crash, but i havent seen the latter although of course it won the Oscar(s).

I've seen The Last Kiss (I'm a ZB/JD fan I'm afraid) and I thought the film was OK. Acting was good, plot easy enough to understand. I guess it'd be a lot more poignant to someone of that age or position in life though

IceBus · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:00

Raymond Lin said:
I love it, may be I am at an age closer to the character he is portraiting, or may be not. But I find the film to be touching, poignant.

Now Elizabeth Town is a boring film, it's by Cameron Crowe as well (I love his previous work on Almost Famous). On so many levels it's the same kind of story. A semi sucessful guy who is coming back home for a funeral, meets a quirky young, beautiful lady in his journey. When he gets home he feels out of place, seeing old friends, old family from his the life he left behind. And with CC on the helm it's bound to have a cracking soundtrack, except although it has lots of good ingredients, it just doesn't mix together.

Pretty much sums up how I feel about both movies. Garden State is one of my all time favourite movies and I can't stand most of Scrubs. It's just a great story, very well acted, funny and contains dialogue you might actually have with your friends.

Elizabethtown on the other hand was unbelievaly boring, smaltzy and just felt like a very poor Garden State imitation. I was really surprised as I've loved a lot of Cameron Crowe's other output, but this was just a chore to watch.

Northwind · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:51

I've never watched Scrubs, but I loved Garden State... Doesn't go anywhere, but it doesn't need to- and it's beautifully put together. Never heard a film and its soundtrack go so well together either.

Warning- the Frou Frou song on the soundtrack might well be absolutely fantastic, but it's just a trick to make you buy the extremely lacklustre album