Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

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"His wobbly chin and startled eyes might be taken for evidence of sweetness, and he is certainly a credible incarnation of the kind of mopey, wet-noodle hipster lately ubiquitous in independent movies, unsigned rock bands and certain Brooklyn neighborhoods."

Still, Zach Braff. Seems nice enough, I guess. Garden State wasn't very good.

1) some vapid entertainment writer called him a voice for the author's generation, and

2) Zach Braff is (horrors!) a self-involved and publicity-seeking Hollywood actor who says vapid things to entertainment writers and makes movies full of flat observations and mediocre truisms.

These are not reasons to "hate" anyone. They are reasons to ignore or overlook him. I recommend this course to the author. I use it daily.

(I have made it my mission to point this out on every Braff-related thread)

(those you didn't bother w/the article shouldn't tragically miss this though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRH4gG5LmZ0)

EERIE. I saw the exact same two minutes of Scrubs for the first time the other day, too. And Jeff, my husband and starter of this very topic, came home and was like AHHHHHHHHHHH ZACH BRAFF!!!! ET TU, PARTY TIME COUNTRY FEMALE?

when was zach braff on arrested development?

It was like, "Alright you bitches, this topic of conversation is CLOSED*."

My point? Be patient.

*(OK, but after the spike in the news coverage died, FINIS.)

He was this "Girls Gone Wild" filmer dude. He might've been as funny as Charlize Theron though.

i just think scrubs is as underrated as arrested development is overrated.

Also, I enjoyed Garden State. I always recommend that movie with the caveat: don't expect to have your world changed. Still, Garden State was better than I Heart Huckabees, which is probably the most comparable recent movie I can think of.

Oh, they were both lackadaisical finding yourself generational malaise twenty-something pre-middle-aged crisis movies.

One the one hand you had a rich boy who got off the meds and got over killing his mother. Existential moment: yelling into bottomless pit that was supposed to be a Jersey Mall.

On the other you had an uninteresting narcissistic environmentalist who went through therapy and didn’t get the girl or the recognition but got himself a little piece of mind. Existential moment: psychobabble from a couple of baby-boomers and a hate-fuck from a misanthrope.

Arrested Development changed my life.

HATE. Z. B.

Need to marry Jason Bateman. Now. Right now.

Check out the attached article on Zach Braff that appears in this Sunday's issue of PARADE.

Best,
Alexis Collado
Publicist for PARADE
212 450 7014

FOR RELEASE: 6:00 PM, ET, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007


IS ZACH BRAFF DEPRESSED?
Scrubs Star Refuses to Play Hollywood Game

New York, January 11, 2007— “I think I suffer from some mild depression,” Scrubs actor and filmmaker Zach Braff tells PARADE magazine for this Sunday’s issue. “So to have millions of people go, ‘I watched your movie and related’ was the ultimate affirmation that I’m not a freak.” Braff was referring to his 2004 hit Garden State, in which he played a depressed young man who returns to his hometown after his mother’s death and finds that life really is worth living.

Admired for his comic flair and willingness to explore the tough questions of his generation, Braff, 31, stands out in Hollywood at a time when many of his contemporaries seem lost in excess. “I don’t care about image and all that nonsense,” he says. “I’m in sweat pants every day. I don’t play the game at all.” In fact, Braff says, “I don’t have any famous friends other than the guys I work with on Scrubs. I just go home to my family and friends. They’ve made adjustments because I’m well-known, but that’s not what they care about.”

As for his love life, Braff was most recently linked with singer/actress Mandy Moore. “We were together for a while, and that is the only true thing that has ever been written about my romantic life,” he jokes.

Braff says he wants a family of his own with a woman “who is funny and energetic and passionate about what she does.” In his new movie, Fast Track, he plays a loving husband with a new baby. Is his art imitating life? “At my age, those are the things you’re always talking about,” he says. “Have I done everything I should do? If I’m going to have kids, how will that change things? I like to think that all of the introspection leads to something really funny.”

Fast Track opens March 9 nationwide.

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But 30 rock last night...fucking Chris Parnell? "I've always said people should drink more animal blood...it straightens the spine!" and his line in the infomercial which fucking cracked me up but I can't remember it because it was followed up by Tracey Morgan saying "Hey Dr. Spaceman, is it true that Bread can kill the brain?" to which Parnell responded something like "Well I don't know because the powerful Bread lobby won't let me finish my studies..."

The episode where Dr. Cox injures his back shooting a hoop is beyond legendary.

his wife also.

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

That was the moment I knew I was again witnessing greatness. And it was about 30 seconds into the episode.

That was funny, but I have to admit I loved this part more:

"Do you like Phil Collins?"
"...I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"

I didn't like the Tina Fey plot as much as the Tracy Morgan plot. I mean, it was fine, but the show is best when both plots are great. Like the one where Jack wants to act and Tracy can't read. That one is pure gold.

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

*TRUTH ATTACK!*

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

who are you people

actually, they're prolly about even, but arrested is as overrated as scrubs is underrated, so i'd call it a good solid draw.

Scrubs is OK (tho the 1 ep I saw this season was baaaaaaaad)
Dr. Cox is awesome
AD is great
30 Rock is godhead

It's on Oxygen. I don't know if men will find it amusing. This week, the ladies take 'shrooms. It's going to be a delight.

j/k ; P

vs.

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1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

2.
- conflicts arise in each storyline
- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")

3.
- conflicts resolve
- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

here, jackie wearing jackie:

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She's the poor man's ScarJo!

("Well, why do you watch it," You ask? I try not to, but sometimes we have to put friendship above taste in TV. However, I do reserve the right groan and grimace when it's on.)

Also I wanted to point out that Turk is kind of the best-developed black character I know of on network television! Or at least he's not slotted into a black-character "type" or just totally racially ignored. He's a recognizable type of person who is just about never protrayed on television or in film, which I totally appreciate.

(Also I remembered the root-level parallel with That 70s Show, which is that the humor always comes back to every character being lame or geeky, as opposed to the old sitcom model where characters are blowhards or straight-men or toughs or whatever -- this is part of why it can read as too precious or cutesy sometimes, sure, but I think mostly it comes off actually lovable.)

There.

(Runs away.)

But but... he's such a witty asshole! He's the only reason I LIKE the show, most of the time. You don't like House, either... I'm sensing a trend. You don't like characters who are big fat jerks. I, on the other hand, love them. I wonder what that means. Hmmm.

Jordan. Jordan is great.

This is why I love the movie Groundhog Day. He stops being a jerk, but he doesn't lose the wit.

How out of touch with the world around you do you have to be to think that mild depression would make you a freak?

wow 'the last kiss' was really annoying and dumb and derivative and zach braff's face is made for slapping
ugh
i liked the gf's parents though, sort of

Madison, Wisc. has a good role.

RIP

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this still kills me

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What a d-bag for ruining a steller movie.

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That was a childish attempt to add a bit of originality to an amazing movie

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the real music is way better than that bull shit c RAP. this movie kicks ass squarecnix u can suck a donky cock fucking pussy.

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you ruined an amazing movie, dumbass

1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

2.
- conflicts arise in each storyline
- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")

3.
- conflicts resolve
- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

-- nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007

wiki says

Braff dated Bonnie Somerville around the same time he worked on Garden State. He specifically requested a song from her for the film's soundtrack. Braff started dating pop singer and actress Mandy Moore in the summer of 2004. One of their first public sightings as a couple was when they arrived together at a fundraising event for the Democratic Party prior to the November 2004 election. In early 2006, unnamed sources told In Touch Weekly magazine that the couple were engaged.[17] Braff called this a "total Internet rumor." Moore's representative denied the engagement.[18] Mandy Moore's song "Looking Forward to Looking Back" is rumored to be about Braff. In response to tabloids now linking him to singer Jessica Simpson, he joked: "I wish I was leading a fraction of the life that the tabloids have me leading!"[1] In June 2007, he began dating actress Shiri Appleby.

I looked up cos it said RIP

he's been fortunate

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Leave Zach Braff alone!

i thought the ny mag guy's response was weak, and showed a guy getting beat in the exact way the original letter had accused him of being off, until the PS. which i guess was the point.

i still like zach braff

well he's prob actually an asshole irl but i don't mind his work

loved scrubs

scrubs unwatchable

John C. McGinley caveat

Jeff, hey Jeff, Zach Braff started a Kickstarter to fund a sequel to Garden State.

6 years later, I still hate Zach Braff. More than ever.

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_braff_make_his_new_movie/c9ln8lt

We can ill afford another Garden State

https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/327171813736075265

brb, just starting a Kickstarter to pay him not to make a sequel to Garden State

kickstarter to convert cinemas into luxury apartment buildings

https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/327171813736075265

― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He doesn't even sound apologetic about it!!! What a dick.

A friend just bragged that he pledged $175 toward the new movie. Not knowing how to respond, I closed the IM conversation.

I never realized he assaulted a kid! I remember reading that all of the women who worked with him on Scrubs hated him because he was a harassing sleaze, though.

tbf, if someone was spray-painting my new car, I'd probably go after them and get punchy (if it was dark enough he didn't know it was a 12-year old, esp.)

gross, he's already well over halfway to his $2mil goal only a few hours into the campaign.

zach braff is the amanda palmer of my generation

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so good

oh my LOL

There should be a requirement that before you donate to this fundraiser, you have to, totally sober and without distraction, sit down and watch Garden State again. I bet donations would drop by two-thirds as people shake off the fog of youthful nostalgia and realize what a trite piece of garbage that movie actually is.

Zach Braff and Michael Cera need to team up for a movie, I'd throw in some bucks for that

actually I'd like to see a movie with Zach Braff, Michael Cera, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Page, Joseph Grodin-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, and maybe Andy Samberg for comic relief. it'd like the 21st century's answer to the Rat Pack. soundtrack by Pomplamoose and the Apple iPad/Toyota Prius Players.

We get to imprison them on the film set, right? Some kind of Huis Clos retributive justice?

set it in vietnam. get landis to direct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmc8-MEIRw

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Saw Wish I Was Here. Means well, often unbearable--and I like Garden State, for the most part.

this just came and went eh

Not even sure if it got an opening here--I saw it a rep house. The losing-a-parent stuff is sometimes valid, but always manipulative--though Kate Hudson has a good scene alone with Mandy Patinkin. The opening scene, with the kids and the "swear jar," is unbelievably bad. There's a great, famous song buried somewhere in the background at some point...and I've already forgotten what it was.

Not that many will care, but Wish I Was Here is a grammatical atrocity.

showing this this weekend. know there's no nobility in trashing whiteboy "indie" movies no one's rly gonna see but every time i run the trailer it makes me wanna vom.