Garden State

I finally saw Gar­den State, and didn’t like it at all. I can for­give the sloppy edit­ing, but for me the char­ac­ters were all absolutely life­less, and the story was like stale arti­fi­cial sweet­ener. I think the movie inspired dead­ness in me because I in no way con­nected to the lives or prob­lems of any of the char­ac­ters. I’ve never been in love, so the love story seemed trite [per­haps this rea­son is why I don’t like romance movies], I’ve never been med­icated with mood-​adjusting chem­i­cals, so I can’t con­nect there, I’ve never been estranged from my high school bud­dies, no con­nec­tion there; I’ve never done drugs, no con­nec­tion… And that is just super­fi­cially. Every main char­ac­ter seemed paste­board cut-​out high school fresh­men. At least, if it is con­sid­ered a coming-​of-​age story for a 26 year old then per­haps that is why it seemed like every­one was so imma­ture to me. I grew up a long time ago. Maybe I’m just grouchy too. In any case, didn’t like the movie.

Comments on this post

  1. Genevieve

    Although I think it had sticky sweet moments, I really loved that movie…

  2. Genevieve

    And I didn’t see it so much as com­ing of age as it was that some­times you have to go home again to really break free from all the bag­gage you thought you left behind.

  3. Patrick

    Man, I keep telling you, you really like to at-​least-​pretend to like roman­tic (and roman­tic come­dies) movies in order to get a chicky ;)
    Go rent ‘Say Any­thing’
    The ladies will flock

  4. Jef

    I sug­gest that you fall in love and take some drugs.

  5. eric

    what jef said.

  6. Patrick

    With the proper drugs, it might be eas­ier the other way around.

  7. peppermintlisa

    such a cur­mud­geon.
    I’ve never been in love, proper, and I still liked the movie a lot. And other movies with love sto­ries. Gives that illu­sion of hope.

    And while I grew up in the many ways these char­ac­ters had not yet, I see many peo­ple my age or older who have not grown up that way yet. (sad, yes.)

  8. Lauren

    Do not fall in love or take drugs oth­er­wise you’ll just end up like THOSE two.

    And NO one wants THAT.

  9. Jef

    Lau­ren has taken too many drugs.

  10. harvey

    I finally got around to adding you to the lin­klist one f man.

  11. Jef

    Thank ye. I will pro­vide you with drugs whence I return to CLE.

  12. harvey

    You’ll try. hehe.