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You a big Scientology guy?

 

No. Are you?

 

Columbia was going to do a big budget reboot that follows the book more closely in the early 2010's, which Verhoeven was upset about because he correctly sees the book as being fascist (his movie was a satire of the book). Thankfully that never materialized. There was talks of a TV adaptation from Sony as of 2021, but talks were stalled due to Covid.

 

what does this mean

 

I think they want to know if they're into scientology

 

God Verhoeven rules so hard

 

I was like 15 when Battlefield Earth came out. I didnt even know the word Scientology existed.

 

I’m not trying to “gotcha” mean I’m just ribbing!

 

I know bud. I genuinely didn't know there was a Scientology connection to it.

 

Holy crap, had no idea myself. Wild.

 

That’s so weird, that’s like the main thing I know about it

 

Yeah it’s such an age specific movie and as I’ve gotten older it’s interesting to look back at it with a new perspective because, the older I get, the less apart I feel from the idea of what “home” once was to me. My mom sold our childhood home when I was 20 years old so I can’t exactly revisit it, but even driving through my old town now I can feel all sorts of nostalgia and grief and joy and distance coming together in tandem. Home now can be whatever and wherever I wish it to be. It’s such a specific, transitional period of life that the film applies to and, while I can appreciate that it’s aiming to speak to people who are at that point in their lives, the numerous criticisms leveled against it over the years speak for themselves.

The antidepressants thing has been a focal point for me in recent years for sure. When I was a kid, my mom was on antidepressants but it was the 90s and I feel like the prescription process was not nearly as refined as it is now. My psychiatrist had me do genesight testing to see what would best match my physiology whereas they just kind of threw stuff at my mom and, as a result, it did make her quiet and distant and she slept a lot and felt very far away for a long time. That was hard for me as a kid. So when I saw Garden State and was at a breaking point in my personal life where I desperately needed help, I saw the third act of the film where Andrew decides to get off the meds because they’ve made him “numb” and doubled down on my own perceptions. I remember that killing my mom because she’d been begging me to get help and I outright refused. I know that it CAN be good to come off medication for some, but the messaging in the film is really muddled and can actually be pretty dangerous when you’re easily influenced and not in the right frame of mind.

 

Garden State was cool when I was like 16 because it just beats you over the head with its themes and message or whatever but watching it now it’s like the worst first year film student movie ever.

 

I’ve never seen garden state. Built different.

 

Same, maybe we’re not so different after all spiffa

 

Except for the massive wealth disparity

 

It felt like if you were a scene kid in the early 2000s, you had to watch movies like GS, Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine.

 

The best thing i can say about that movie is it gave me the greatest karaoke song ever: Frou Frou's Let Go

 

Napoleon Dynamite too

 

I dated a girl that was really into The Shins, I think she also loved Garden State

 

Ditto. You and I didn't have our big loser moment.

 

I’m still afraid of leaving the dishwasher open.

 

never did see Garden State but absolutely can confirm I went through the whole Boondock Saints/V for Vendetta/A Scanner Darkly/Donnie Darko/Eternal Sunshine phase