Comments on: Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here made me wish it was a better movie

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:30:34 +0000

For future reference:
Actors of fully Jewish background: -Logan Lerman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Bar Refaeli, James Wolk, Julian Morris, Esti Ginzburg, Kat Dennings, Erin Heatherton, Odeya Rush, Anton Yelchin, Paul Rudd, Scott Mechlowicz, Lizzy Caplan, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gal Gadot, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Marla Sokoloff, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Adam Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gabriel Macht, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel.

Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers -Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Emmy Rossum, Jennifer Connelly, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman.

Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jews and/or identify as Jews: -Andrew Garfield, Ezra Miller, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Ben Foster, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron.

Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism -Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

By: Jeremy Fogelman

Jeremy Fogelman — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 05:25:31 +0000

Well, part of the problem with the stupid spaceman motif is that it was played too vaguely. It is indicated that it is both in his head and possibly a vision from god, so it is one of the many confusing aspects of the film. If you think about the wrapper of the movie, he is literally using the movie to tell a story at his dad’s funeral about how he’s accepted that he’ll never “save the world”. That said, the whole ending for his character is meant to be a way to get close to his dream without wholly abandoning it. The way it mixed with his brother is meant to be clever but instead it’s stupid, and speaking as someone that’s seen every episode of Heroes of Cosplay, that costume wouldn’t win anything at the San Diego Comic-Con except “Decent First Try”.

By: Keith McDuffee

Keith McDuffee — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:56:20 +0000

I was able to catch this early due to being a Kickstarter backer for it. I agree with everything you said about it. I was mostly bothered by the entire brother storyline, as it was clearly meant to lead up to an emotional family unity moment, but instead it came too late and ineffective. I had a hard time buying a lot of the emotions the characters were trying to convey as well. Kate Hudson’s character basically being unnerved by anything was hard to believe, the spaceman thing went over my dumb head … but the acting was good and the music was pretty.