Blogagaard Watches Stupid Movie

I should have taken it as an omen when my microwave popcorn did all but explode in the microwave last night, flooding my little apartment and the hallways throughout my building with that terrible, charred popcorn smell. But did I listen? Hell no. Instead I made a second, more successful batch of popcorn and watched... Garden State.

If you don't know about this movie, God bless you, because it rolled out under the power of a pretty formidable marketing machine. The main characters are played by Zach Braff, of "Scrubs" TV fame, and Natalie Portman, a beautiful actress whose career peaked when she was about ten years old in The Professional. From the back of the DVD"Twentysomething, emotionally detached Andrew Largeman returns home to New Jersey after nine long years..." Christ. I can't go on with this review anymore. What a fucking waste of time. Suffice it to say, Garden State tried to be a romantic comedy revolving around processing a painful childhood and the death of a parent. The director seemed unable to go totally wacky or go totally serious, and gave us instead a tepid piece of crap.