Movie Reviews in Five Words or Less: Elizabethtown (With Apologies to Jeff Goldstein, from Whom I Stole Both the Concept of the Movie Review in Five Words or Less *and* the Concept of the Post Title That Goes on Forever and Is Far Longer Than the Post Itself) (and with Subsidiary Apologies to the Screenwriter of the Film “The Incredibles,” from Whom I Stole the Post Itself)
Lame, lame, lame, lame, LAME!
P.S. Okay, the film had its moments, especially the car tour of flyover America near the end. But I expect better from Cameron Crowe. “Vanilla Sky” was one of the best movies of the last 10 years. But this? Meh.
Vanilla Sky was one of the best movies of the last 10 years.
better than the original?
[Mmmm . . . different. I liked both very much. I probably liked Vanilla Sky a little better. But Abre Los Ojos was great, and The Sea Inside was even better. — Patterico]
actus (6234ee) — 4/6/2006 @ 8:00 pmThe title is so long that if only three or four people leave comments, it will take up the entire Recent Comments window on the right side.
JVW (c5e186) — 4/6/2006 @ 8:09 pmMaybe.
RJN (c3a4a3) — 4/6/2006 @ 8:31 pmHere’s my initial pop culture quote quiz.
We wuz robbed.
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
“Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.”
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
Those are my principles.
If you don’t like them, I have others.
I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.
A Liberal is a Conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. (ok, that’s a gimme)
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
CraigC (8e5f52) — 4/6/2006 @ 9:32 pmCasey Stengal, Henry Ford, don’t know, Richard Daley, Groucho Marx (Henny Youngman)?, DN, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, dn, dn
RJN (c3a4a3) — 4/6/2006 @ 10:46 pmThe metaphysics one sounds like Steven Wright.
And Patterico, I skipped over the title and read the post first, and I immediately recognized the Incredibles. Do your kids watch it over and over and over and over too?
jinnmabe (0fb1ed) — 4/7/2006 @ 12:19 amYou leave Elizabethtown alone!
Gbear (6a100c) — 4/7/2006 @ 8:48 am12932
If you had really wanted to honor Mr Goldstein, you’d have done your review in haiku.
[The movie review
Dana (dd8e7e) — 4/7/2006 @ 4:43 pmIn five words or less is just
That. Not a haiku. — P]
Of course Elizabethtown was bad. As Mr Cranky said:
Haven’t seen Vanilla Sky though.
Leigh (3af625) — 4/7/2006 @ 7:25 pmCraig C:
We are dyin’ here. ?????
RJN (c3a4a3) — 4/7/2006 @ 7:27 pmCraig C., Comment #4.
nk (4cd0c2) — 4/7/2006 @ 7:53 pmFirst, sounds like Casey Stengel. The second, attributed to the Ford Model T. The “gimme”, Ronald Reagan. I actually heard it and ran for the bomb shelter. The second to last, Woody Allen.
I just googled craig c’s list and the answers all popped up right at or near the top. What a country.
RJN (c3a4a3) — 4/7/2006 @ 8:28 pmJoe Jacobs, Henry Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Stalin, Groucho Marx, Tom Lehrer, Frank Rizzo, Ronald Reagan, Woddy Allen and Groucho again.
RJN (c3a4a3) — 4/8/2006 @ 10:43 pmI actually didn’t think it was that bad — of course it could be that I was distracted by both Kirsten Dunst and Jessica Biel.
I also liked Susan Sarandon getting eaten by the car.
Hoystory (15d1aa) — 4/11/2006 @ 1:08 am