500 Days of Summer Options

[iDecay]

Going to watch this with Ricky soon, I hella want to see this. My friend said it sucked but I don't care e e e e e.

[Just_Dream]

Going to watch this with Ricky soon, I hella want to see this. My friend said it sucked but I don't care e e e e e.

I had to this for my girls, you know. Sometimes you gotta act like you don't care, that's the only way boys learn.

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Sorry, I just had to.

Oh damn, with Ricky? IS DAT A DATE?! AWW, HAO KAWAII.

[NoSex]

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.

[Joanne]

I kind of agree with Nate about the trying really hard to charm the audience thing. But even so, I didn't find it really annoying like I found it in Away We Go. In fact, I actually found it kind of nice. If that made sense.

[Amaranthus]

It was cutesy, but in a different sort of way. I didn't mind the narration at all, really; I found it endearing.
On the other hand, I could've waited for it to come out on Netflix instead of paying nine dollars to see it.

[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.

[Amaranthus]

^And why is that?

[Joanne]

one thing is for certain - that autumn bitch pissed me off.

Agreed. I really don't like Minka Kelly.

[gojira]

i liked it

[Insurmountable]

yes! <3
oh wow, that's pretty late.
I still haven't seen Adventureland. I still want to (despite my lack of affection (if you can call it that) for Kristen Stewart). I'm going to keep your points in mind when I watch this because I tend to like non-linear movie plots, too. I'm not really sure about narrators. I guess I'll just have to see.
OMG the first one is sooo cute. I don't even know another way to describe it. haha
LOL @ JGL AS NANCY. that made my day. <3

Yea I won't see Adventureland because she is in it. I just never have liked her as a actress. Perhaps I'll rent it though...the only person I've actually heard good things about it is from Michael though, haha.

I enjoyed 500 days of summer. I went by myself and saw it, haha. If it wasn't for the two teenagers talking through out the whole movie I probably would have enjoyed it more. I think i enjoyed the music more than the movie though :\

[mipadi]

Adventureland was awesome. Don't let Bella Swan ruin it for you.