I watched Elizabethtown last night and I really enjoyed it. Original critical reviews, which were based on an uncut version, were bad. But reviews based on the released movies were far better and I agree with those. Yeah, the movie does drag now and again, but it's a good character study (and not a boring thriller re-cast as a character study ;-) ). The writing is excellent and the acting is solid. Though Kirsten Dunst does a lot of the heavy lifting for Orlando Bloom who plays it down almost to the point of not playing it at all.
I'm predisposed to like this movie. I love the Cameron Crowe movies. Almost Famous is on my top ten of all time. So I like the combination of mood, music, and elements of both stark realism and over the top silliness. For example, some of the early setup scenes are brutally insightful on a very realistic level. While other later scenes, like Susan Sarandon's show at the funeral, were the standard movie fair that seems oddly out of place in this context.
Anyway... In the end a fun movie that was unfairly dissed because of a bad preview showing that only reviewers got to see.
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