Garden State

[bithez]

so, garam, did your mate's film have a butterfly wrangler or was it CG?

[aaaaaaaaaargh!]

I really liked Ghost World and hated this, and a friend really hated Ghost World and loved this. We're not so friendly anymore. It's mean spirited, but I'm really tempted to put up a 'screenplay' he did for his film studies class in which a butterfly landed on his hand and he has some sort of epiphanie.

I don't like your friend either.  Love the screenplay though

[clareQuilty]

Garden State isn't on it but this thread reminded me of a mean spirited (but quite accurate) amazon list I read the other day:

//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/16E3K2KCD6H9W/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/026-9360168-4526822

Possibly written by someone who frequents this board?

Anyhow, I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with Garden State, it just
seems to appeal to a certain type of person who thinks they like 'independent film' but  really, really don't.

[Go With The Flow]

I thought it was awful, especially Natalie Portman's "Shop Bought Kookiness" character. I was hoping it would be like Scrubs though.

[Dark Sky]

A piano based song plays and we cross cut between PAUL walking through the wood and images, such as these, of striking beauty.

A piano based song, eh?

How about some Scott Joplin?  That'd work.

[Garam]

He ended up doing a film where he walks around in a trilby hat really slowly. The he went nuts; "RENDER! RENDER!! RENDER!!!" and made it black and white. The teachers said it was impressive, I kept schtum and grinded my teeth down to powder.

And yeah, that idiosyncratic DVD collection is pretty accurate. Missing out on some Lynch and Wes Anderson though. And it's more likely to be Bill Hicks or Eddie Izzard than Gervais.

[Hans Resist]

No Requiem For A Dream neither.

[Dark Sky]

Great, it's starting to sound like my DVD collection now...  What should I do?!

[amputeeporn]

Requiem for a Dream is the most unbelievably preaching piece of minus heart ever comitted to disc. Even if it HAD to have those outcomes to secure the back-patting of execs, surely it would explain the addictions more  accurately if we saw the characters actually enjoying drugs? It's a cold piece of spin trying to be art, and compared with that, Garden State's a warm and realistic treat.

[Hans Resist]

Someone else who finds "powerful fable" Requiem For A Dream a preposterous exercise in punishment porn and misogyny? Good: I was sure I was going to be doused in petrol for that, it's such a sacred bloody cow.

[monkhouse terror]

You do know it's based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr.? Those outcomes weren't done to "secure the back-patting of execs", since it was written in like 1977.

[amputeeporn]

You do know it's based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr.? Those outcomes weren't done to "secure the back-patting of execs", since it was written in like 1977.

Hah, thanks for shitting on me! I didn't realise, no. I stand by its joyless, preaching nature though (in the film adaptation, at least)