Other Crap

This week's movies (2500 screens): Elizabethtown - 50% positive reviews. The general consensus so far: a pale Frank Capra imitation. Sigh! I really like Cameron Crowe's best films, but this one seems to be out of the loop.

• "Can a director survive 3 failures in a row? Elizabethtown is a pale imitation of zany Capra and Sturges screwballs, marred by Bloom's weak turn and overlong plotless text"
• "Lacks the narrative drive one finds in the classic comedies of Preston Sturges, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, whom Crowe always seems to try to emulate."