I haven’t been that excited about Elizabethtown apart from one name, Cameron Crowe. I really do like his movies, personally I think Say Anything and Singles are the best, and I expect to be shot down in flames with the cries of “Vanilla Sky or Jerry Macguire“. Give me Abre los ojos any day.
Anyway, I like his movies. They’re real but injected with fun, warmth and a couple of big messages. In this movie he’s played the guy card and going for the father-son relationship hook…it’ll always get a guy, Field of Dreams catch scene anyone? However he’s also gone for two stars who I just don’t get that excited by, Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Strangely though, I found Bloom quite engaging during the trailer, and I’m now interested to see his performance, Dunst, well…let’s say I’m interested in seeing Bloom’s performance!
Still, it has Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon, which should redeem a lot, and from the trailer there look to be some funny moments. I couldn’t help but laugh at the end of the trailer, I really couldn’t. See what you think of it, and the comments above.
Hiya there Winston. ;-) Glad you agree.
I think its this ability of Crowe with the help of his just as uber kewl wife Nancy Wilson (formerly Heart’s lead singer) to combine a feel good movie with just as many feel good songs. I have just as many soundtracks of all Crowe films in my collection. *winks*
I’m gonna echo Simone, Almost Famous is my personal favorite of Crowe’s.
The “Tiny Dancer” scene in that movie is one of my personal all time favorite scenes in a movie, I just love it.
The trailer for this movie, quite frankly, is uninspiring. But take the time to download the Internet First Look and watch it. It’s about 7 minutes long, cut by Crowe himself, and set to an Elton John song.
It makes you want to see the movie a lot more than the trailer does, I promise you. I’m anticipating this movie quite a bit.
Rich, you forgot to mention “Almost Famous”, that’s also one of my fave Crowe films. ;-) Hey what’s wrong with “Jerry Maguire”???
Agree with you about “Singles” (got the soundtrack too!) and “Say Anything”.
I love the director and the actors!
All I can say is, this looks like the big Hollywood version of “Garden State”.
I saw this in theatres when I went to see War of the Worlds. And it just seemed so…
…Tired.
None of the comedy worked, the actors (from what I saw) didn’t impress me at all. Instead of e characters ‘Drew’ and Claire’ that I’m supposed to be attached to and like. It came off compltely as ‘Hey, Legolas has a thing for Mary Jane’. I’m not saying Bloom and Dunst don’t have talent, they just haven’t shown it to me yet.