Today is the tenth anniversary of what I can somewhat objectively say is the worst American movie ever made: Elizabethtown. If that seems overambitious, I can at least confidently say that Elizabethtown the worst movie I ever paid the full price of admission to see.
In response to all the haters comme moi who have identified possibly the the worst look in a particular series of bad looks—i.e. the casting of Emma Stone as “Allison Ng” in an all-white movie called Aloha about Hawaii, a state that has already seen and suffered from an aeon’s worth of Columbusing—director Cameron…
As you may know, Emma Stone plays a character named “Allison Ng” in the new Cameron Crowe movie Aloha. Her character, who’s supposed to be a quarter Hawaiian and a quarter Chinese, is meaningfully non-white within the framework of the story; according to Entertainment Weekly, she’s a “Hula dancing expert with a…
Aloha, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, opened today to dismal reviews. Despite its all-star cast, everyone agrees that it’s terrible— maybe even Crowe’s worst movie ever. (And he made Elizabethtown!)
