I went to see Elizabethtown yesterday, the new Cameron Crowe movie. I have enjoyed most all of his movies, except that piece of garbage Vanilla Sky. And critics seem to loathe his new movie, so much so that when he showed it at a recent film festival (I can't recall the name of it), that he chopped the movie about 40 minutes shorter in a hope to make the movie more audience friendly. I, for one, thought the movie was great, and so did my girlfriend. It was actually refreshing to see Orlando Bloom in something with a present day setting. I was beginning to think he was a one trick pony. Kirsten Dunst has now earned the nickname "the braless wonder" with me. Since she never seems to wear a bra and almost every movie she is in she has a hard nipple scene. She had a few in this one, and I am sure anyone who has seen either Spider-Man can tell you she has a few in there too. It's not that I am looking for it, but they are just out there for all to see. Anyhow, back to the movie, I thought that Alec Baldwin was underused as Phil. He was absolutely hilarious in this movie. See Orlando works for a company that is probably like Nike. A very big shoe company, and Orlando has spent 8 years of his life developing this new shoe. It's supposed to change the whole companies image. Well to make a long story short, they find out that the shoe has been recalled. All of them...and he has cost the company 972 million dollars which Phil rounds off to a billion (if you see the movie you will get that). Phil is the owner of the company, anyhow he gets fired. Then he finds out that his father died while visiting Kentucky. So his mother and sister want him to go to Kentucky to pick up the body and fly back with it. Well on his way there he meets "the braless wonder". He basically gets back in touch with his roots and comes to realize that he was so immersed in work to even have known his father in the years before he died. He was supposed to go on these yearly trips to Kentucky with his father every year, but every year he kept putting it off. So of course if I haven't spoiled the whole movie for you, he takes a road trip back home across the United States with his Dad's ashes beside him. He then proceeds to sprinkle his ashes across different landmarks he comes across. Well now that I have rambled on forever the basic point I am making is that this movie was a heartfelt, honest movie. I mean too often we let the relationships between people we love lapse because we are too busy with things we think are more important. But I ask what is more important than family and friends? We only get one shot at this crazy life, so I just think we should try and be nice to the people in our lives while they are still here. You never know when they will be taken from you.
