Thread: [movie] Garden State

I have to give this movie high marks, it also deserves its own thread because natalie portman is so hot.

Good flic. Definitely fun. For Natalie Portman hot - Closer

Is it funny?

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. It was a GF pick, so I was expecting full-on chick flick. JD from Scrubs wrote, directed and acted in it. Given that it was his first time doing two of the three, I gotta say that he did a great job.

Is it funny? Yes. It gets sappy towards the end, but even then there's some good comic relief.

Good flick. I liked it as well. Zach Braff did a good job. Natalie Portman does nothing for me. That chick is annoying and her mouth goes weird whenever she tries to express any sort of emotion. The lower corners of her mouth drop and make some not normal looking face. That and she is annoying as hell. BTW did I mention she is annoying as hell. Also the ending was extremely weak." Oh wow I got off the plane and went after the girl, how original." The rest of movie kicked ass though.

Good Movie

New Ending:

He gets on the plane and it crashes........

haven't seen the movie but the soundtrack kicks ass

. Don't Panic - Coldplay
2. Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
3. In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
4. New Slang - The Shins
5. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
6. Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
7. Fair - Remy Zero
8. One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
9. Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
10. The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
11. Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
12. Let Go - Frou Frou
13. Winding Road - Bonnie Somerville

Some of the movie was over produced, but overall was really good.

Originally Posted by Woodsy

haven't seen the movie but the soundtrack kicks ass

The soundtrack to Garden State is so good that it makes the movie good. All of the atmosphere and feeling is created by the music.

Originally Posted by Woodsy

haven't seen the movie but the soundtrack kicks ass

. Don't Panic - Coldplay
2. Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
3. In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
4. New Slang - The Shins
5. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
6. Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
7. Fair - Remy Zero
8. One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
9. Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
10. The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
11. Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
12. Let Go - Frou Frou
13. Winding Road - Bonnie Somerville

indeed a good soundtrack, but unfortunately the movie is aware of it: "hey listen to my headphones...it's the shins, they're the greatest..blah..blah" it felt name drop we're coolish.

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

indeed a good soundtrack, but unfortunately the movie is aware of it: "hey listen to my headphones...it's the shins, they're the greatest..blah..blah" it felt name drop we're coolish.

Braff got the movie deal in part based on the soundtrack - when he sent out the script he sent out a copy of the soundtrack he'd picked out.

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

Good flick. I liked it as well. Zach Braff did a good job. Natalie Portman does nothing for me. That chick is annoying and her mouth goes weird whenever she tries to express any sort of emotion. The lower corners of her mouth drop and make some not normal looking face. That and she is annoying as hell. BTW did I mention she is annoying as hell. Also the ending was extremely weak." Oh wow I got off the plane and went after the girl, how original." The rest of movie kicked ass though.

^^what meat said.

Originally Posted by Odin

Good Movie

New Ending:

He gets on the plane and it crashes........

That would have been so much better.
The party and following morning are the best parts of the mivie for me. I totally feel the same way when I go home and that knight is ridiculous.

I thought it made some intereseting points and observations on life. Maybe nothing new, but interesting to me none the less. Aside from the end dragging a bit, I thought it was glorious.

Just saw this recently. I enjoyed it for the most part. It felt very much like a first movie to me (and I don't mean that in a bad way). It reminded me of University - not in a real, physical way, but in the sense that when I was that age and in that time, this is the kind of movie that I would have imagined myself making (if I was at all in the position to do so). There's a lot of searching going on and it was always nice to believe that the answer lay in another human being you were bound to randomly run into.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and put me in the liked-the-soundtrack-and-thinks-Portman-is-hot camp),
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I quite liked it too. The opening scene was pee yourself funny really. I didn't know that was Natalie Portman. Didn't really pay attention I guess. Sappy ending so big chick flick appeal but still good.

Great movie.

The composition of the shots had an awful lot to do w/ the atmosphere too. The soundtrack did some carrying of the movie, but not all of it -- this would seem reinforced by the fact that the movie fits so well with the soundtrack ...

Natalie Portman is damned cute -- but I agree the movie could have been much better if they'd found an actress who had a little bit of depth, or could at least effectively fake it.

liked it. thought it was :-/ as it turned off but realized its one of the better movies i've seen recently by a day later.

Wife bought it as a chick flick. thankfully it was more of an art film.
Best scene: annoying actress from that southern ladies interior designer sitcom plays the skanky mom of the main guys friend: When she takes a deep pull off the bong I gained new respect for her as an actress.

Originally Posted by Core Shot

Best scene: annoying actress from that southern ladies interior designer sitcom plays the skanky mom of the main guys friend: When she takes a deep pull off the bong I gained new respect for her as an actress.

OR MAYBE SHE WAS JUST A STONER?!?

Originally Posted by Woodsy

OR MAYBE SHE WAS JUST A STONER?!?

Check out the extras on the DVD. Zach Braff explains how he and Peter Sarsgaard had to explain to her (Jean Smart) what a bong was and how to use it.

The knight thing freaked me out.

Finally got around to watching this movie over the weekend. Gotta say I hated it. I can't recall laughing at anything and the ending was cheesy as hell.

^^^ agreed. it felt like a waste of time. i guess im just not hip enough

The girlfriends favorite movie, I liked it somewhat. The "balls on your face" scene was a riot, and the seeing eye dog humping his leg was pretty good too. I'm not a big fan of the soundtrack and the ending sucked but the rest was strong.

Originally Posted by PaSucks

the seeing eye dog humping his leg was pretty good too.

When the best scene of a movie is a seeing-eye dog humping someone's leg, you ain't got much of a movie