Garden State occasioned my favorite line of movie criticism ever, issued by Jonathan V. Last, I believe:
"Never before has a film tried to dive so deep into so shallow a pool."
8.19.2008
abyssmal
I think this is one of the worst movie scenes of all time:
Garden State occasioned my favorite line of movie criticism ever, issued by Jonathan V. Last, I believe:
"Never before has a film tried to dive so deep into so shallow a pool."
Garden State occasioned my favorite line of movie criticism ever, issued by Jonathan V. Last, I believe:
"Never before has a film tried to dive so deep into so shallow a pool."
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Gee, and I just thought it was a movie with a cute love story. I didn't know it was supposed to be "deep" or anything.
I guess knowing that I was supposed to get a deeper meaning from it that what I did marks the movie as an abject failure.
;-)
Yelling into a chasm followed by kissing Natalie Portman in the rain…that has some aesthetic value, I think. I'm with Jay, I though the movie was cute, some of it very funny (dodging arrows), but not particularly deep. What makes this one of the worst movie scenes?
My favorite movie review quote:
"…generates about as much excitement as watching two snails on a collision course with fifty yards between them."
I think this scene especially highlights the inability of the director to say something profound without being totally obvious about it. It's so contrived.
I also think the point he's trying to make is stupid.
They are celebrating nothingness, they are celebrating that their lives are ultimately meaningless.
They are Nietzsche's last-men
I don't think it was a bad movie or scene. And it has the redeeming quality of being set to a Paul Simon tune.
blue
check out this Neuhaus lecture
http://www.veritas.org/download/media/A96YALE01.mp3
i think this movie is advocating for a certain debonair nihilism
the lecture gets at it towards the end.
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