Watched Elizabethtown by Orlando Bloom and Kristen Dunst few days back.
Well, actually, Angie, Jane and Gina has adviced me not to go and watch, cos they say the show sucks. But i couldn't bear to see the complimentary pass goes down into the longkang, before Jack Neo brings his bunch of grown up kids and the Shop n Save ah soh aka Xiang Yun into the theatres in I Not Stupid Too.
Elizabethtown is another average flick from the man who brought you Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe. Bloom plays Drew, a shoe designer whose design of the latest sports shoe causes the failure of Mercury, his company, making a loss of a billion.
Drew attemps suicide, and just then, his phone rings. It was his sister on the line.
'Drew, dad's dead.'
Drew flew to Elizabethtown to settled his dad's funeral. In his journey, he met Claire (played by the grwon up Kristen Dunst) , an air stewerdess, who lightened him up, and both yakked on the phone for several hours, and they decided to meet each other the next morning.
They met, they kinda of like each other, they share the thoughts about love, they shop for an urn to collect his dad's ashes. He settled his dad's funeral, while at the same time, he decided to go for a road trip, since he almost cause his company to go bust.
Eventually, the road trip not only helps him to discover more about himself, his dad, but also, he found the love of his life.
Hmm...Dunst and Bloom looks so lovely here, but Crowe brings the boredom again. There are a few moments where i almost felt asleep on how Bloom handled his dad's funral. Yeah, seriosly speaking, it is rather dull and boring at certain scenes, that i almost fall asleep. Yawnz...
However, these are the few scenes that keeps me awake, or more rather, watchable:
He talks about his flashback on his failure of his career, how he missed his dad, going to a roadtrip to know more about his dad.......
And the apperance between both Dunst and Bloom. Didnt know that time flies so fast, that the girl who always mixed with Spidey now grows up to be a cute lovable air-stewardess. Oh yes, i've yet to seen her in 4 movies she acted in home videos, namely her 2 romance woith Spidey, her cheerleading comedy (Bring It On) and her relationship b/w Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Elijah Wood in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The last time i saw Dunst on a proper film was her 10 year old look in Interview With the Vampire with her Elizabethtown prodcuer, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Overall, it seems that Crowe enjoys talking about the past of a person by including flashback scenes in his film. He tried that in Vanilla Sky, where Tom Cruise had vague memory of himself after the accident, with a touch of his past. Crowe now puts this onto Orlando Bloom, with him reflecting on his childhood days and how his dad dotes him before his dad flies to the heaven.
4/10. Watchable, but expect some dull moments.