Wish I Was Here (2014)

A depressing dirge featuring our slacker/looser protagonist who, married with 2 children and supported by his wife, is selfishly pursuing his own "happiness"; his attractive blond wife who offers no objection what-so-ever to his self-absorbed slackerness; his slacker/looser brother who, financially provided for by his deceased mother, has chosen to hole-up in a trailer park and surf the internet; and their father, who now dying of cancer can only hope that his grandchildren (another generation of slackers/loosers in training?) will become the successful, non-dysfunctional progeny he had hoped for.

Cluelessly our protagonist goes begging for school tuition charity from his rabi, who thankfully spoke the correct and much needed, but totally unheeded, perspective on our protagonists selfish and irresponsible "pursuit of happiness:" PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY.

Well-done movies take you away from everyday life, they entertain and uplift. By that definition, this requiem was, much like the pathetic characters and story line of this movie, a complete and total failure.

Fmovies: I'm one of the naive supporters of this Kickstarter project. I don't know why I felt there was hope that this movie could be any good. Zach wasn't kidding that this was a personal movie. I wish I could make a movie about me struggling with everyday problems, me enjoying myself with the kids, with total disregard for the paying audience. Could be that it's really about your life Zach, we sympathize with that. But other than trying to be original by not caring about creating a good story, the movie was completely 'meh' - I just watched the kickstarter promo video again and that was way more interesting. I feel cheated - it was a movie for you more than a movie for the rest of us. Hope you enjoyed it!

This film, anticipated as a "sequel" to Garden State(it's not at all, stop calling it that) only shares some similar elements to it's predecessor yet doesn't really maintain any of the charm.

On a technical level, it's really well put together and amazing for being a Kickstarter project.

The biggest issue with this film is that they simply did not put enough effort into actually writing something that was coherent nor providing any artistic merit.

It's all style and virtually no substance which causes it to eventually lag throughout, what seemed to be, the second act. This style easily worked with Garden State given that it was a film about feeling aimless in life, however it doesn't work the second time around. There seems to be a lot of story lines that don't really go anywhere or provide anything to the main plot and the fantasy sequences serve NO purpose whatsoever. It's a lot like an artificial sweetener in that it tastes good at the beginning but ends up leaving a weird taste in your mouth.

Wish I Was Here fmovies. What is that Zach Braff can't do? Nothing. He can write, direct and act perfectly. Wish I was here is a perfect story that proves this. The movie starts with the childhood dream of two brothers which was to be great and how it is realised by them in the end. The actual problems of family, dreams , expectations are all beautifully depicted. It has its moments, great moments. Not meeting the hopes of a father, a not so ambitious brother, religious children, the wife who works to support the family and the guy who still pursues his dream to be an actor.

Satisfaction, creativity, hope and living your dreams are the words which you will get familiar with in the end.

The music is alive and amazing. The movie has a voice and it is the most important part of telling a story.

I for for one really enjoyed this movie. I saw it at a screening in Toronto. If you were a fan of Garden State you will love this movie.

The cast was superb! Especially Joey King (Grace) and Mandy Patinkin (Gabe). They literally stole the movie. There was not a single bad actor in the movie. Small cameos by James Avery and Donald Faison added great comic relief. After the movie we had a Q&A with Zach Braff and he informed us that this was James Avery's last role on film and left us all with hilarious little improv line. It was very funny.

I highly recommend this movie for anyone who is a Zach Braff fan and wants to go out for a movie that is an emotional roller coaster with great visuals, solid acting and of course the great comedy of Zach Braff.

The movie had great comedy and very real story line.

A+++++

Admittedly, this is the first Zach Braff film I have seen. I only saw one trailer for the film, and it immediately intrigued me. I did not hate this film, but I also did not love and found myself in a lukewarm middle ground. For everything I liked, there was something I did not like.

First off, the story. The story as a whole deals with living life and dealing with death which was pulled off fairly well. However, there were several things in the script that I feel like took away from the film and the story Braff was telling. One of the those things were the laughs or lack thereof.

The script thinks its wittier and funnier than it actually is with most jokes missing that hitting. The movie also thinks it's deeper than it actually is. Maybe that's just Braff's style, but to me it seemed like it was more style over substance.

I did really enjoy the soundtrack for the film and Braff gave a good performance as a 30-something-year-old treading the water in his life.

I will definitely give Braff's future movies another shot and will see Garden State soon, but Wish I was Here was just not as good as I hoped it would be.