Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

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.

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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.

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

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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

https://twitter.com/timheidecker/status/327252017334603776/photo/1

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

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

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.