It has been a while since I wrote a movie review, it just so happens SD and I went to go see one of the most lauded and praised movies of the year last Saturday ...
Garden State REVIEW: Huh?!?!?!
It's kind of interesting reading reviews of this movie. In fact, a great number of people who get paid for their movie criticism (actually I believe statistically it is 88%) --- 88% of published reviews thought this movie was good to best of year
Well, never to be one to lead the Empire ... ha -- Yes, I am part of the 12%
Let me tell you what I did not like about the movie ... well, I can sum it all up into one word -- DULL!
Characters -- wooden
Situations -- contrived, lifeless and ultimately pointless
Now, a lot of people thought it was laugh out loud funny -- I did laugh 2 or 3 times, but it did not live up to it's expectations of being billed as some offbeat comedy
The story was about the return of a young man to his hometown and how his life changes over his stay -- the storyline is not exactly the most original, as you can see -- the characters are each in their own way flawed, but none of them endears themselves to you -- so to me that equals I could give a crap about them
It's like okay, the character was away for 9 years -- and seemingly the way people react to him, it was like he went on a Roberts Overnighter -- umm, ok
At the end of the day, the movie is well shot but it's basically unwatchably DULL -- I guess you have to be too cool for the room to GET IT -- yeah can I get my money back?
It's kind of funny because we saw SD's good friend and her husband at the movies -- and they thought it was GD brilliant, go figure
Your mileage may vary.
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