Elizabethtown
2005 Directed by Cameron Crowe
Synopsis
It's a heck of a place to find yourself
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
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Berken's 30 Countries Challenge,film #2-USA
There are film-makers that know how to use music in their films and then there is Cameron Crowe. I'm a little biased as for me Crowe can do no wrong. He may well be a director/screenwriter/producer but his obvious love is music. Maybe being married to a former rocker herself in the shape of Nancy Wilson helped him in his brilliant song choices for movies that have touched so many,who knows? Now divorced,his next move will tell us just how much.
Elizabethtown has been a polarising film for many. Adam Cook a writer I respect enormously doesn't have much time for this film and makes a good argument as to it's faults. I fully understand… -
I liked this, but I didn't love it. I did, however, relate to it, but not to the characters; I related to the dialogue. By that I mean I related to the characters' discussions, but not to them or their situations. There are a number of brilliant quotes which is what kept drawing me in, but whilst it certainly has its moments, it wasn't anything particularly impressive overall. I'm really starting to enjoy Kirsten Dunst's roles though, and Susan Sarandon was a nice addition to the cast, too.
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Almost Famous is my favourite film and Cameron Crowe is one of my favourite writer directors.
However even watching this for the second time since its release I feel it comes along way short of Almost Famous. I still like a lot of this just not as much as that film.
Some reviewers have mentioned Orlando Blooms lack of acting but I think he captures the the mood of a man who has lost both his job and his father. At the time this was released Kirsten Dunst was described by film critic Nathan Rabin as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and she is just that; the original, imitated but never bettered.
When I saw this originally I had both…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Keine Ahnung, warum Crowes Elizabethtown von so vielen nicht als "gut" wahrgenommen wird, denn er IST es. Orlando Bloom verkörpert den vor allem beruflich gescheiterten Nach-oben-woller, der plötzlich erfährt, dass sein Vater gestorben ist. Nun muss er sich im Alleingang um die Beerdigung kümmern und lernt im Grunde auf seinem Tiefpunkt eine junge Frau kennen, die ihn überrascht. Zunächst ist da nicht viel mehr, außer dass sie anders ist als es zu diesem Zeitpunkt überhaupt alle Menschen zu ihm zu sein scheinen. Es dauert zwar, bis die vorsichtige Liebesgeschichte zwischen den beiden in Gang kommt, aber: Das ist gut so - ich mag das Vorsichtige. Der Soundtrack ist überragend, jeder Song könnte nicht passender gewählt worden sein und ...was soll ich sagen? Dieser Film ist sehr sehr schön.
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Damn you, Cameron Crowe. You go make "Almost Famous" and "Jerry Maguire" and get everyone to watch the rest of the melodramatic dreck you put out over the next 11 years. Granted, "We Bought a Zoo" was worth it, but only because of @WeBoughtAZ00.
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While it doesn't do anything new or particularly memorable (or even particularly interesting), there is an unashamed sincerity about Elizabethtown that I actually really appreciate. This is a film that knows what exactly what it is and really doesn't have any pretence of greatness - and yet isn't ashamed of that fact. While the romance tropes used throughout the film are all stale as can be, the unabashed presentation of those tropes is enough to make you forget that, and it's enough to make the overall experience almost refreshing.
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Berken's 30 Countries Challenge,film #2-USA
There are film-makers that know how to use music in their films and then there is Cameron Crowe. I'm a little biased as for me Crowe can do no wrong. He may well be a director/screenwriter/producer but his obvious love is music. Maybe being married to a former rocker herself in the shape of Nancy Wilson helped him in his brilliant song choices for movies that have touched so many,who knows? Now divorced,his next move will tell us just how much.
Elizabethtown has been a polarising film for many. Adam Cook a writer I respect enormously doesn't have much time for this film and makes a good argument as to it's faults. I fully understand… -
This film seems like a romantic movie that a couple would watch within another movie. It's overly romantic in an almost parodying way. However it's still a pretty good film and I would recommend watching it.
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this movie was a big fart.
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What went wrong?
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Two things I like about this movie: 1) the main character is supposed to be from Portland, and 2) the main character is Orlando Bloom. Win!
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Halfway through the movie I had the option to finish it or go out and get Mexican food. I went with the latter. Some might say I can't have a full fledged opinion on the film, that I can't rate it. They'd probably be right but I don't care.
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Certainly understand I am in a small minority in loving this film. Love Dunsts role in this and Bloom is effective enough. My second favorite Cameron Crowe film.