Ignore the hype

Rating: 6/10 (12 April 2005)

Garden State is the smash-hit movie for every twit with thick, black-rimmed glasses. This movie was ugly and poorly executed. Indie geeks have the worst taste in everything, which they might have realized for a rare, blinking moment when the nerd-sweater market bottomed out back in the 90s.
But, here we are again. It must be fate.
Anyway, don't listen to any twit who tells you that this movie was "brilliant." I bet they'll tell you Lost in Translation was great, and that Wes Anderson is a genius. Just because a movie -tries- be be artistic, doesn't mean it should get merit for that attempt regardless of success.
You don't have to fit in with all your friends and impress your family by ranking this movie up there with the Golden Age of every cinema culture on earth. An 8.0? C'mon. Indie nerds, please, get over yourselves. You're old enough by now ... or are you well into your 30s and still brag about how it's "so cool" to hang out in the city?