The Last Kiss

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THE LAST KISS
Starring: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Casey Affleck
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Opens: Sept. 15, 2006
What the Movie's About: Four best friends grapple with impending adulthood. For Michael (Braff), that means either settling down with his girlfriend Jenna (Barrett) OR giving into temptation with a sexy coed (Bilson), who might be his last chance at freedom.
Here's the Buzz: It has the feel of 'Garden State' (superb indie rock soundtrack, hot young cast at a crossroads) and the pedigree of an Oscar contender ('Crash' scribe Paul Haggis wrote the screenplay). We're so psyched, we're not even sad that Rachel McAdams had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. OK, maybe just a little.

TRAILER: http://movies.aol.com/movie-trailer-clip/the-last-kiss-zach-braff

wow, garden state + crash = probably going to be the most hated movie of the year on xixax..... and yet, i'm seeing this! 

[matt35mm]

Yeah, I'd be pretty surprised if I liked this.  I'd be surprised if I ever watched it.  There was more bald postulating about life in that trailer than there should be in entire lifetimes.  I like Braff, but I don't really care for these Quarter-Life Crisis movies.

And there's something about the image of Paul Haggis at his computer writing a movie for 16 year old girls that's unnerving to me.

[Ghostboy]

And there's something about the image of Paul Haggis at his computer writing a movie for 16 year old girls that's unnerving to me.

[polkablues]

There's an "internet-exclusive montage" up at www.zachbraff.com.  I haven't watched it yet, because, you know, I've got shit to do, but if it satisfies my Rachel Bilson fetish even for a moment then it'll be worth it.  Or even my Casey Affleck fetish, for that matter.

[MacGuffin]

Zach Braff's Sonic Kiss
Actor/director releases another cinematic mix CD, this time for his new film Last Kiss

Fans of Garden State are no doubt aware of director/screenwriter/actor Zach Braff's uncanny knack for compiling a beguiling soundtrack. The aforementioned ST won a Grammy, no less.

Braff is positioned to serve up a sonic double whammy with his latest cinematic effort, The Last Kiss, and its accompanying soundtrack, for which he is credited as being the Soundtrack Album Producer.

The soundtrack album is slated for a September 12th, 2006 release leading into the September 15th opening of the film. It will contain 13 tracks by a diverse range of artists including Coldplay, Fiona Apple, Aimee Man, Snow Patrol, Joshua Radin, Remy Zero, Cary Brothers, and others.

In turn Braff will direct the video for Cary Brothers contribution to the soundtrack, "Ride." Incidentally, Cary Brothers is the only unsigned artist on the soundtrack.

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it's a little weird to be an actor in a film and to pick the entire soundtrack (not being the writer or director?) 

The Last Kiss Soundtrack
1. "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
2. "Star Mile" - Joshua Radin
3. "Pain Killer" - Turin Brakes
4. "Warning Sign" - Coldplay
5. "Ride" - Cary Brothers
6. "El Salvador" - Athlete
7. "Hide And Seek" - Imogen Heap
8. "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata
9. "Hold You In My Arms" - Ray LaMontagne
10. "Prophecy" - Remy Zero
11. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple
12. "Today's The Day" - Aimee Mann
13. "Arms of a Woman" - Amos Lee
14. "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)" - Rufus Wainwright
15. "Paperweight" - Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk

[Kal]

maybe he participated and suggested to the director (although they seem like stuff he would pick), and everybody accepted because of his success with his previous one... probably a lot of people who bought the garden state soundtrack will buy just because he did it... and thats a looot of people

[polkablues]

That's amazing... it's like they put my iPod on "shuffle" and made a soundtrack out of the first 15 songs that came out.

8. "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata

  That's one of my top five best songs of all time.  I may see this movie for the song alone.

10. "Prophecy" - Remy Zero
11. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple

And those two are probably top ten, top fifteen, thereabouts.  Amazing.

[matt35mm]

That's amazing... it's like they put my iPod on "shuffle" and made a soundtrack out of the first 15 songs that came out.

8. "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata

  That's one of my top five best songs of all time.  I may see this movie for the song alone.

10. "Prophecy" - Remy Zero
11. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple

And those two are probably top ten, top fifteen, thereabouts.  Amazing.

That's great.  Now watch the movie to see them fade the songs in for 30 seconds each and fade it back out, and otherwise misusing them, or perhaps a montage of everybody looking sad set to one of those songs, you know, like in the second act at some point when Braff has to decide what he's gonna do?  I guess the use of it doesn't matter as long as the song is cool.  And only the chorus of the song matters because, you know, that's the catchy, important part.

[polkablues]

Good point.  Plus, it just occurred to me that everything in between those songs is going to be Paul Haggis dialogue.  Maybe I'll just watch some Scrubs episodes instead, with a poster of Rachel Bilson taped up next to the TV.

[MacGuffin]

Interview : Zach Braff
Source: Moviehole

31-year old Zach Braff is playing another dazed and confused character in "The Last Kiss", but doesn't see him as the flip side of his even more confused character he played in "Garden State". "I think he's different because he's got everything going for him," says Braff in a Los Angeles hotel room. "Andrew Largent [in Garden Stare] was pretty lost, depressed and medicated while this guy is in love, having a baby and has great friends. Then he gets this fear that this might be the last girl he kisses and I was attracted to it because it took a realistic look at it." Braff laughs slightly when the very single Braff can relate to this character's fears. "When you are 30 and buying baby carriages for your friends every other month, you can't help starting to examine your own desire to get married and have kids." In this film, Braff has an affair with a much younger college student at a point where his deepest fears bear fruit in his mind, and playing a character with questionable morals, was a challenge for the actor. "You can't empathize with him and that's what drew me to it. I'm sick of protagonists in movies only having bad things happen to them due to negative outside forces and that's bullshit. We are all human, we do stupid things and we wake up the next day and wonder why we did them., so I was attracted to a protagonist whose own demise is caused by himself. I think the big revelation in the movie is him taking responsibility for his own actions, even at the cost of possibly losing the love of his life forever."

One wonders whether those same temptations exist for him every day, as his fame and celebrity increase. "They aren't believe it or not," Braff responds. "I don't really go to those places, I work so much and when I go out with my friends I am with my friends. I'm never really surrounded by girls who might sleep with me just because I'm famous. Even when you meet them you don't want to be with the girls who want to sleep with you just because you are famous, at least I don't." Braff says that being a celebrity has its downside. "The gossip is something you get used to. After the Jessica Simpson rumors they sent people to my parent's house and to my relative's stores. They found my brother's cell phone numbers and they stalked him, all because I sat next to Jessica Simpson, who I've met a couple times and spoke to her at a bar in the Hamptons, so they sent 10 people out to families' homes and that sucks."

As for Braff's own future with kids, the actor says he wants a family but is no hurry. "I'm single and not ready, but I don't know why. I think I'll know when I know but I'm not in a huge rush. I want to have kids and I believe in marriage. I wrote that line in the movie where I say I will marry her when she can name 3 couples who have lasted more than 3 years and all she could come up with were the ducks in the duck pond. It's hard for our generation to find success stories from older people because so few first marriages work out. Some people get it the second time and I do want to get married one day though." Braff fondly remembers his own first kiss. "It was a girl at theater camp when I was 13. We were on a bench and she was the aggressor. That is such a momentous occasion in someone's life when another person first slides their tongue in your mouth," Braff recalls, laughingly.

The actor's career is going faster than his love life, as he finally prepares to direct his much anticipated second feature admitting that there is pressure for the next film. "There is always pressure, but I'm going to do something that isn't anything like Garden State. So many people seemed to feel the movie spoke to them directly and that surprised me, but people have to know that I can't do that every time and make a pivotal life movie every time The next thing I will do will be completely different, Open Hearts, which is a Danish movie that I adapted. It's a really dark drama about a car accident and the way the accident affects all the people involved in it. I was going to do it this summer, but since I couldn't get my top people I'm waiting until next summer." As for the future of the TV show that kickstarted his career, Scrubs, ": I think this is the last year. Touchstone and NBC still hate each other and that doesn't bode well for a show that they both do."

[A Matter Of Chance]

this is a remake of an italian film, no?

[Ultrahip]

Yes, also called "The Last Kiss." And from the look of the trailer it's almost a shot for shot recreation.

[NEON MERCURY]

it's a little weird to be an actor in a film and to pick the entire soundtrack (not being the writer or director?) 

The Last Kiss Soundtrack
1. "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
2. "Star Mile" - Joshua Radin
3. "Pain Killer" - Turin Brakes
4. "Warning Sign" - Coldplay
5. "Ride" - Cary Brothers
6. "El Salvador" - Athlete
7. "Hide And Seek" - Imogen Heap
8. "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata
9. "Hold You In My Arms" - Ray LaMontagne
10. "Prophecy" - Remy Zero
11. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple
12. "Today's The Day" - Aimee Mann
13. "Arms of a Woman" - Amos Lee
14. "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)" - Rufus Wainwright
15. "Paperweight" - Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk

, fucking cheese

[matt35mm]

it's a little weird to be an actor in a film and to pick the entire soundtrack (not being the writer or director?) 

The Last Kiss Soundtrack
1. "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
2. "Star Mile" - Joshua Radin
3. "Pain Killer" - Turin Brakes
4. "Warning Sign" - Coldplay
5. "Ride" - Cary Brothers
6. "El Salvador" - Athlete
7. "Hide And Seek" - Imogen Heap
8. "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata
9. "Hold You In My Arms" - Ray LaMontagne
10. "Prophecy" - Remy Zero
11. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple
12. "Today's The Day" - Aimee Mann
13. "Arms of a Woman" - Amos Lee
14. "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)" - Rufus Wainwright
15. "Paperweight" - Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk

, fucking cheese

Let's see... 15 songs... let's say the average length of each song is 4 minutes.  4 X 15 is 60 mins of music.  Let's say The Last Kiss is 120 minutes and has no score, only songs.  This would mean that approximately half of the movie would be covered with music, and the other half with lines like, "The world is moving so fast now that we start freaking long before our parents did because we don't ever stop to breathe anymore."

OR the movie does have a musical score, and more than half of the movie is filled with lines like, "The world is moving so fast now that we start freaking long before our parents did because we don't ever stop to breathe anymore," leaving, say, 20 minutes for songs, which would be quite a lot, and having each song play just over a minute in the movie.  But who knows, maybe Tarzan can actually make it work.  But I doubt it.