Originally posted by Murray
I just visited Entertainment Weekly, and they gave it a rating of C+. Is it really not that great?
there are a lot of positive reviews out there too -- fromt he ones ive seen, elizabethtown is supposed to be awesome. dont worry. Crowe, Sarandon, Bloom, Dunst, and an awesome soundtrack?
no chance of failure. I predict #1 at the Box Office come monday. 💃
What a huge let down this film was. Both actors were given accents they just couldn't pull off. The story moved along only because cell phones were in every scene and the chemistry between Bloom and Dunst was barely believable.
This was a poorly done rendition of Garden State. Boy's depressed. Boy loses parent. Boy meets quirky girl. Boy find a bit of happy in his otherwise weird and crumbling life.
All in all, Crowe has an amazing ear for music and how to work it against a scene. Outsid of Almost Famous, I never really loved his work. I enjoyed Vanilla Sky a good deal, but never jumped on the Jerry McGuire train. Elizabethtown just felt like Crowe gave up on originality and prayed that a solid music background would drown out his formualic writing.