Les Jones: Movie: Garden State

January 12, 2005

A&E > Movie: Garden State

The highest praise I can give this movie is that Melissa and I watched it Friday night, loved it, then watched it again Saturday. We've never done that before, and if you invite us to your house to watch it again, we'll be right over. I also told Melissa she could buy me the soundtrack for Valentine's Day.

Scrubs' lead Zach Braff writes, directs, and stars in the movie. He plays an unassuming character like the one on NBC's sitcom, but stretches out a little here. Natalie Portman's performance as a compulsive liar is amazing. Nothing in her previous roles prepares you for how good she'll be. The situations and dialog are inventive and the characters and situations are complex. An absolutely amazing movie.

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You know that goofy dude from scrubs has a blog:

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/gardenstate/blog/

Posted by: SayUncle at January 12, 2005

Great movie. I like different movies for different reasons. This one was great because one scene featured the main character with the word "Balls" written in magic marker on his forehead.

I like to say the word sandwich pants.

Posted by: Velvet Mantis at January 12, 2005

Uncle: that's awesome. I wish my blog got 2500 comments per post. Or maybe I don't. I forget which it is.

I was reading on IMDB that he went to Columbia High School with the guy who did the voice for Jar Jar Binks. Oh, and the bellhop was Method Man, but I think everyone but me already knew that.

Velvet: did you see all of the stuff that was written on his chest when he went into the MRI later that day? I really liked the Handi-World scene with the awkward guy who was trying to get them into Amway or whatever. That guy looked like he had a promising career as a funeral director.

Posted by: Les Jones at January 12, 2005

I thought the moive was awsome also.

one problem i had with it was that the song at the end was not played constantly throughout the moive.

another problem, was that it was roughly cut in some areas.

the story was nice, sweet, and ended got, the actual shots in the moive were top notch, but not as good as in Hero

Posted by: cube at January 12, 2005

I loved this movie. It was very dark when it needed to be and less at times when it didn't go too far. Plus, I love Natalie.

Posted by: Teddy at January 19, 2005

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