Elizabethtown - Filmless Review

So, we almost had a second consecutive filmless review where I actually saw the movie beforehand. There was a free screening of Domino at the local theater but sadly, it conflicted with a class that I could not bear to skip out on. John Locke is just too important to me. Instead, I'm going to start by talking about Elizabethtown for a little bit and then veer wildly off topic.

Elizabethtown is about a depressed business guy with an incredulously important job for his age (Orlando Bloom) that travels back to his small Kentucky hometown to attend a parent's funeral and finds a kooky girl (Kirsten Dunst) along the way. This reeks of Garden State, with the differences being that business provides far less comedy ammo than a D-level acting career, and that I hate Orlando Bloom waaaaaaaaay more than I hate Zack Braff. This movie is headed by Cameron Crowe, who can usually be counted on to provide something mildly intriguing; but if Rotten Tomatoes is any indicator, he dropped the ball here.

Now that the review part is done with, I can get to the real topic this week: People Hating Kirsten Dunst. Every time I bring up something that Kirsten Dunst was even tangentially involved in, I can be sure that a rant on her uselessness is on the way. "She can't act", "She looks like a troll", "She has a funny name", "She looks like a bitch"... generally things of that nature. I must admit that I am completely incapable of being impartial, as her portrayals of Mary Jane Watson in the Spiderman films have earned her a lifetime pass from me; but to be honest, I think Kirsten Dunst is just super. She doesn't drop Albas on her roles, she's attractive in a "hey, that's actually a human being" way, and her MTV Punk'd segment seemed to indicate that she has retained a very un-Hollywood sense of humanity. I really don't see the issue; but like I said, many people despise her for some reason. This is a phenomena that afflicts several prominent actresses; Nicole Kidman and Jodie Foster come to mind (two other people that I have absolutely no problem with). Do people just hate blondes? I realize that Jodie Foster isn't really blonde, but I wanted to put that out there anyway.

What did we learn this week?

1. Elizabethtown sucks... but not because of Kirsten Dunst.

2. Kirsten Dunst was in Jumanji, Spiderman and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. EVERYONE loves these movies... so how can you hate her?

3. Blondes = A-OK