ELIZABETHTOWN, shot by painful shot
Add comment July 22nd, 2009
When the question “What were the best movies of the 21st century?” is asked, the answer you don’t expect is “Elizabethtown.” Generally viewed as a BIG step down for writer-director Cameron Crowe, it’s the movie where he let his tendency to be too cute and loveable run just a bit too wild. ALMOST FAMOUS? Charming. ELIZABETHTOWN? Cloying.
Nevertheless, the movie does have its fans, and two of them teamed up for a shot-by-shot liveblog of the movie as it ran through their DVD player. You can read the whole thing here, and if you’ve got the DVD (and I’m guessing you can get it really, really cheap), take another look. Maybe it’s not as quite as bad as it seemed.*
(I’m no fan of ELIZABETHTOWN, but admittedly, I didn’t see it under the best circumstances. I was several thousand feet above the Arctic, slipping in and out of a restless sleep, jammed into an airplane headed for Hong Kong. Heck, maybe I should give the movie a fighting chance.)
* Actually, as the intro to the liveblog section explains, Vadim Rizov didn’t really think this was one of the best movies of the decade. He just wanted to give it another look.
