Elizabethtown

Before seeing this movie I had read bits of a couple reviews online and saw people ripping it apart for all they were worth. Nobody seemed to have much good to say about this movie. I really wonder what these people were expecting when they went to this movie. Maybe they wanted to see Orlando Bloom or Kirsten Dunst. Maybe they were expecting to see a classic romantic comedy or maybe they weren't expecting to go into a chick-flick. Now I personally wouldn't classify this as one, but when myself, Liz, Sara, Lex, Robby, Heather and Carol went to see this, Robby and I were the only guys in the theater. We walk in looking for the others saving our seats and Robby stops, looks around and says, "Chalupa....we're the only guys in here." He then whispered really loud to Sara - "Hey! We're not gay!" That got some laughs out of a few people. anyways...the movie....I'm personally a big fan of Cameron Crowe films. I haven't seen one I haven't liked yet and the music is always amazing. Even though a lot of his films do decently well in the theaters, Liz pointed out that they're kind of independent. They definitely don't follow the norms for the genres they are. That's perfectly fine with me and maybe that's why not everybody loves them right away. I thought Orlando Bloom did an excellent job in this film. I think people would agree he hasn't been extremely successful in some of his latest films, but he did great in this one. Maybe he does better away from the time pieces. Kirsten Dunst also did a good job here. She kind of reminded me a bit of Natalie Portman's character in Garden State. There were also some great supporting roles played by Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill, Loudon Wainwright III and others. One of my favorite parts had to be when Drew sat down Samson and showed the video he got from Claire; finally getting the kid to shut up. For some reason everybody just loves seeing something get blown up. Other scenes I really enjoyed were the memorial service and Drew getting caught stealing beer from Chuck and Cindy. It was also nice how the end of the movie flowed so well with everything else. It's not like it was this hangnail sticking out and being tagged onto the end just to have it. I'd highly recommend this film but it definitely won't be loved by everyone.