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 For the love of... Jul 29, 2010
The plot for this awful film is simple, boy meets girl, girl dumps boy, boy bellyaches for the rest of the film. The two main actors are horrendous!!! They are at best supporting characters not Star material. Zoey is very beautiful but can only show one emotion which is indifference. Levitt is just painful to watch, I wanted to punch him through the entire film. This movie is full of boring romance film cliche's. And the cheesy ending, brutal!!! There are way better romantic films to watch with your lady, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Charade. Avoid this ridiculous movie.
interesting... but only midly so Jul 25, 2010
(500) Days of Summer is a bit interesting in that it's slightly funny, slightly dramatic, and slightly interesting. It's a little bit of everything (strong emphasis on the *little* bit part).
However, that's also the biggest flaw with the storyline- it tries to be all kinds of things, but in the end it only touches upon each of them for a short period of time. So (500) Days of Summer ends up being just a pretty good film, but definitely not a great one.
In the beginning (like the first 20 minutes or so) you'll probably think the film will develop into the most predictable kind of love story you can imagine (and in some ways, it does).
It's about a young man who falls in love with a woman (Zooey Deschanel) that he works with, but the tricky thing is that the girl doesn't really want a relationship (or so it seems). Instead, she just prefers to have fun and live life to its very fullest, etc, etc. So the relationship between the two of them for the most part is all about having fun with each other like best friends normally would.
Of course this doesn't sit well with the guy who definitely wants her to be his girlfriend. From here the storyline kicks in, and we find out this girl is actually completely whacky. Actually, on an unrelated note, Zooey Deschanel's character is *exactly* like the way she always is in other films. You know, the shy, offbeat and awkward personality, but that's beside the point I suppose.
Anyway, some of the storyline segments are fairly interesting such as a certain restaurant scene, a certain word the couple blurt out repeatedly at a local park picnic, and just the awkward way the man and woman communicate with each other. It's weird, but I guess that's the point (so as not to fall for the typical love storyline we've seen thousands of times now).
So yeah, it has its moments of laughter, drama, and entertainment. It's a pretty satisfying movie.
Just An Amazingly Imaginative Movie Jul 22, 2010
A fantastic, feel good movie. Finally a movie that actually shows the real young-adult perspective. I would recomend this love story (oh yea,"this is not a love story." to absolutely anyone old enough to watch. AMAZING SOUNDTRACK!
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 Mercury and Pluto Jul 20, 2010
This movie nails three things. That's all you need to know
(1) that first rush of love and passion. The movie's fantasy dance sequence after Tom (Gordon-Levitt) falls for Summer (Deschanel) and that idiotic happiness is just the way it feels .. . I've never seen it done better.
(2) the anger and frustration when it's clear that there is an emotional disconnect between the characters; Tom again - perfect.
(3) The pain of withdrawal and slow recovery - make no mistake, this is love addiction where a character goes cold turkey. It's tough to watch.
I don't know if women relate to this movie in the same way, but this is a movie that is A Good Guy's perspective on finding and losing love without ever really knowing the woman whom he loves and why it doesn't work. As such, Zooey's Summer is an appropriately opaque character. Her feelings, motives intentions, etc., are all below the surface; there are just those amazingly melting eyes. You could argue that her character could be more fully developed, but realistically, I think her character allows Tom to see all that Guys are able to see. Summer and Tom make a good argument for women and men being different species that happen to be genetically capable of reproducing. They are not Mars and Venus; they are more like Mercury and Pluto. Even at their final accidental meeting, Tom is no closer to understanding Summer than he was when he first met her, and it's still not clear how she feels about anything. Zooey's character has a secret heart that is just unknowable to Tom, to the viewer; maybe to Summer as well.
The disjointed, non-linear structure of the movie make the pain easier to tolerate; just a little at a time. It feels like the way you remember a relationship. So five stars for a wonderful and unusual movie. For guys, I think, it's also a True story. That's worth everything.
500 Days of Summer Movie Review Jul 20, 2010
"500 Days of Summer" is not a romantic comedy. It's actually not really a love story at all, in my opinion. The film starts off with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom Hansen, who was just dumped by the girl of his dreams and is breaking plates in his kitchen apartment. His two best friends can't get through to him, so they contact his younger sister to come and talk to him. She gets there and helps him stop breaking plates and then asks him to start from the beginning and tell her what happened between him and the girl of his dreams.
Tom is a guy who apparently believes wholeheartedly about love, destiny, fate and soul mates. He grew up thinking that there is one person for everyone and never found that person until Summer(Zooey Deschanel) came into his life. Summer thinks the complete opposite about love. She doesn't believe in it, any of it. Not of fate, destiny, or soul mates either. She is a child of divorce and from a young age knew that relationships were hard and complicated. So she lives her life never getting too attached to anyone, until Tom.
Tom and Summer meet at work, where they write greeting cards, and Tom falls hopelessly in love. Whereas Summer, not so much. They hang out and go out on dates and they become somewhat of a couple. For Tom, it's perfect at first, Summer throughout some of the scenes seems bored and uninterested. They have a really sweet relationship and both actors have great chemistry.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character is sweet, charming, and naive. He is just so adorable you want everything to go his way. He's goofy and a downright nice guy. He is supposed to be this average Joe but I think he's better than average, and he also portrays a character that is completely unrealistic because there are not any guys out there like him. If there is, I never met one. Zoey Deschanel's character is simple, but for some reason in the movie they make her out to be this fantasy type girl, which yes she's gorgeous and sweet but I don't think she's everyone's ideal girl. She plays an independent, free spirited woman who doesn't like complicating things and doesn't like putting labels on her relationships. She just lives life and doesn't show any type of emotion whatsoever. She comes off rather blah. Which, again why would anyone want to date someone like that? Sure she's fun at points but mostly she just seems bored.
Tom's sister, Rachel(Chloe Moretz) is easily one of my favorite characters in the film. She's ballsy and funny and she is the only one that can get through to Tom, which I really enjoy watching that kind of brother-sister relationship. His two best friends are funny too, McKenzie(Geoffrey Arend) and Paul(Matthew Gray Gubler). I wish they could've dwelled a little bit more on their friendship because their scenes were amusing and their friendship felt sincere, they weren't jerks and they didn't make fun of Tom or humiliate Tom which some movies usually like to do.
The actual movie was shot beautifully. The director, Marc Webb, had some great shots. One scene that I really love is Tom going to a party and on the left side of the screen it's showing his expectations on what he wants to happen and on the right side of the screen it's showing the reality of what's actually happening. I love that scene so much, because it's so true, I know I always have expectations of certain things that happen in my life and of course they don't always reach my expectations or they are just different from my expectations all together and I thought that was just very clever. Another shot that I love is this one musical scene which exaggerates the feeling of "love" or well love being portrayed in movies which is truly fun to watch. There is also another nice part in the film where McKenzie gets interviewed in black and white, along with Paul and Tom all individually about love. It's a nice step outside this somewhat colorful movie and into this deep little segment of black and white reality almost.
All in all, I think this is a really sweet movie. Like I said in the beginning, its not about a love story. I really think it's more a story of a guy who is just trying to find his way, or himself. Which to me, is not only intriguing but also self motivating to watch.
I recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys watching something completely different than anything they have ever seen before. Something that will make them feel all kinds of different emotions throughout the film. Its fun, has a lot of heart and is quite deep for a movie with a title that sounds like a really nice, long vacation.
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