500 Days of Summer Options

[*Janette*]

I'm probably going to watch it sometime this week. Anyone else seen it/looking forward to it?

[leaveheralone]

a terribly dishonest film that tries very hard to charm its audience; it's kind of like that kid that wants to be your friend and pulls all the stops in order to secure your approval. ultimately, the movie fails when it placates its audience: don't make a movie about how much bullshit greeting cards are when the movie you're making is itself a greeting card.

i hate uppity "my genre is better than yours, my movie taste is better than yours" people like you that sounded harsh.

no offense.

i mean, how is it "like a greeting card" at all? it's so far away from all of the cliches that are romantic comedies nowadays. it's real and people can relate to it. isn't that what's important?

i do admit that the narrating was strange and didn't really add anything to the movie. it could easily have been just as good if not better without it. but at the same time it wasn't that big of a deal and i didn't go out of my way to notice how shitty the narration was.

[NoSex]

i mean, how is it "like a greeting card" at all? it's so far away from all of the cliches that are romantic comedies nowadays. it's real and people can relate to it. isn't that what's important?

the problem is that the film is a total fabrication: despite the fact that the film does succeed in portraying a realistically evolving relationship, the film ultimately denies the honest place it naturally grew into & it falls backwards, hard and inexplicably, into a realm of insultingly childish fantasy. our protagonist should have never been proven "right," because he is simply wrong. the movie itself even belittles cinema as a vehicle of love-styled lies, filled with insincerity, like greeting cards.

but, like a greeting card to the audience, 500 days of summer assures us that "although it didn't work out this time, your true soul mate, the one & only, is waiting just around the corner! just don't give up on love!" of course all of the wide-eyed couples watching do not, for a moment, consider that they themselves had not yet already found this fabled "soul mate." the only force working in the film to resurrect the mask of love are the filmmakers themselves, nothing organic or logical support this invocation. it is only the god of the machine which decrees it: name the girl autumn, make her an architect, and put her in the right place @ the right time. it is pure placation, pure stupidity.