the last kiss?

[mcshutup]

Has anybody seen The Last Kiss? Want to give me an idea of if it's worth paying for gas to go to the downtown theater for? Is it somewhat unique or did you think it was kind of generic? I dunno, I got all free time this afternoon, so I may go anyways =-P Thanks for any info, tho.

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[michaelallroy]

i've still not seen the original! :p

i'm a sucker for zach braff, as conflicted as i feel about saying that or as lame as it might make me. and this appears to be another touchy-feely 30ish life-in-crisis-of-purpose/how-will-he-grow-up? role...this time he's even got my name! 99% chance of tears here. :(

[mcshutup]

I haven't seen the original, either. I guess it doesn't have the plot about the heroine's parents, but it's more up-tempo.

Maybe the general feeling, in the American version, of being a passenger thru life rather than driving towards self-destruction was built around Braff. It's very different from Garden State in every way except his performance, which places an existential walk in the park where a fast-talking jerk goes ;-P. Which is a good thing for the movie, I think... with someone older in the role, it might have less weight or sense of emotional distance traveled.

But there's an element to his blank stares which invites projection, a mirror.... and I just don't relate. Something about the sense of financial comfort and "why are these feelings so strange?" that he has, an expectation of safety that doesn't work for me. I don't know, every time I watch a "star" in a scaled down role I find it a litle disorienting. Like if I went to a different town and everyone had the same faces as the people I left behind ;-).

haven't seen it yet

[shshaw_shshaw]

if you hit it up before I do
let me/us know how it is

xo!

Re: haven't seen it yet

[mcshutup]

I liked it overall, certain parts were pleasant surprises. Plus seeing a movie at a theater at night tends to lend it an immediate emotional impact I don't always get from DVDs.

Sometimes it's hardest to analyse a movie right after seeing it because the swarming thoughts take in other things on my mind at the time...I end up writing about what the movie isn't instead of what it is. In 04 I think I wrote mostly bad about Garden State, I Heart Huckabees and Saved!, and in hindsight GS is good and the other two are great, I just needed months or a year or repeated viewings to see them on their own terms. Some detatchment and comparison is neccessary, I guess.

Which is to say, I take my writing too seriously and, I think, I take the movies not as seriously as they deserve. =-)

I take my writing too seriously and, I think, I take the movies not as seriously as they deserve.

[shshaw_shshaw]

I can relate.

Also, I found Garden State to be really good from the first viewing on. I found I <3 Huckabees to be amazing, also from the first viewing on. Saved! didn't impress me much - though I must say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

xo!