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."

6 comments:

Pro Ecclesia said...

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.

;-)

Kyle Cupp said...

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?

Kyle Cupp said...

My favorite movie review quote:

"…generates about as much excitement as watching two snails on a collision course with fifty yards between them."

Zach said...

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

Ol' Blue said...

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.

Zach said...

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.