Comments on: Real Life on Film http://www.worrad.com/2005/06/19/real-life-on-film/ family, parenting, politics, government, and other random thoughts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: accurate review of garden state at jimboy-dot-net http://www.worrad.com/2005/06/19/real-life-on-film/comment-page-1/#comment-4562 accurate review of garden state at jimboy-dot-net Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:45:06 +0000 /?p=45#comment-4562 [...] i’m not a critic on any level. i have absolutely zero ability to analyze anything. luckily for me, the internet exists. if there were a way to express why i loved garden state so much, ramon darrow nailed it. i know many of you didn’t like it, but it really is a great film. it definitely isn’t one for the masses, but it very well could be if you can look past the fact that it has no special effects, or shit blowing up every two seconds, and what not. i would compare this to mystic river (an excellent movie by the way) in the way that it was shot. when you have a good story line, coupled with some good acting, there really isn’t a need for special effects. // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = ""; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = "none"; } [...] [...] i’m not a critic on any level. i have absolutely zero ability to analyze anything. luckily for me, the internet exists. if there were a way to express why i loved garden state so much, ramon darrow nailed it. i know many of you didn’t like it, but it really is a great film. it definitely isn’t one for the masses, but it very well could be if you can look past the fact that it has no special effects, or shit blowing up every two seconds, and what not. i would compare this to mystic river (an excellent movie by the way) in the way that it was shot. when you have a good story line, coupled with some good acting, there really isn’t a need for special effects. // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

]]> By: D. Goodmanson http://www.worrad.com/2005/06/19/real-life-on-film/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 D. Goodmanson Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:04:28 +0000 /?p=45#comment-3060 "I think it is one of those rare films that can connect with a whole generation" This film does an amazing job presenting the existential (ie. postmodern) worldview that most people our age (20's-30's) hold to. The climax of facing our 'nothingness' in the abyss is exactly what most people spend their whole life trying to reconcile. A great movie that shows another side of this is I Heart Huckabees. Where Garden State presents the meaningless of life as the beginning of hope (which I would argue is really hopelessness), Huckabees takes these philosophies to their extreme to show the absurdity of this worldview. “I think it is one of those rare films that can connect with a whole generation”

This film does an amazing job presenting the existential (ie. postmodern) worldview that most people our age (20’s-30’s) hold to. The climax of facing our ‘nothingness’ in the abyss is exactly what most people spend their whole life trying to reconcile.

A great movie that shows another side of this is I Heart Huckabees. Where Garden State presents the meaningless of life as the beginning of hope (which I would argue is really hopelessness), Huckabees takes these philosophies to their extreme to show the absurdity of this worldview.

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