Friday, February 10, 2006

movie reviews: elizabeth town

a fantastic film concerning the meaning of 'making do with what you have' and different family beliefs clashing together unexpectedly making for a rioutous result. kirsten dunst plays a spunky, quick-witted character, who is secretly in love with orlando, a boxer-clad tortured artist with a distinctice jaw line going for him. the basic outline is that orlando wants to go to greece to take art lessons and kirsten thinks it's a complete waste of money. growing up, kirsten's family had always been penny-pinchers, wheras orlando grew up in ritzy LA, where risking outragous sums in casinos and bars was a daily activity. the only stink was when kirsten...

ok nevermind i have to eat supper. i haven't seen the film yet, btw.

8 comments:

Hannah said...

i really want to see that movie.

Acoustic_Veget said...

ok now i've seen it and it's ok. kirsten dunst was really good in it and orlando bloom was kind of annoying and johnny depp could have played him very nicely.

Hannah said...

yeah. only because johnny depp is like the sexiest actor ever. lol.

Hannah said...

ok. well mom got it for me for valentines and i didnt like it. i dunno why.

happy at powells said...

I didn't like it that much either. It was like, there were no twists and turns.

the_original_smith said...

I heard it was good but i bet orlando bloom kinda messed it up.

indie knitter said...

I haven't seen it but I generally don't really think much of orlando bloom...

TheGoddessOfCatan said...

it was an ok movie. i just kept waiting for the plot to kick in. never happened