Stewball wrote:
The girl on the bottom right must be a zombie!
"(500) Days of Summer"
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ShogunRua
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The girl on the bottom right must be a zombie!
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Stewball
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ShogunRua wrote:The girl on the bottom right must be a zombie!
That's the only answer, considering the context I used it in anyway.
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Stewball wrote:
What is the context, really?
Is that a bunch of people watching (500) Days of Summer?
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shalev wrote:What is the context, really?
Well, my context is obviously......obvious. But the subjects are Annapolis Midshipmen, and the shot was most likely taken during an Obama address there.
Is that a bunch of people watching (500) Days of Summer?
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweak!
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Finally got a chance to watch this. Here is a much longer review than my Criticker blurb that I posted on another forum;
500 Days of Summer (2009)-
Two hipsters in their early 20s, Tom (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), go through the ups and downs of a romantic relationship.
The film has some "big ideas", and tries to subvert the standard romantic comedy formula. Problem is, the movie itself is mired in the same cliches! Tom is the wussy, insecure, weak-willed guy. Summer is the beautiful, enigmatic, suave and confident female. There is an unlikely source of sage advice, in this case, irritatingly enough, Tom's 10 year old younger sister.
Now, if it were simply a parody, that would be okay. However, 500 Days of Summer is nowhere NEAR funny enough for that.
If it was meant to be something deeper and more significant, not only does its crutch on cliches hurt, but so does the lack of any type of serious message. "True love" doesn't exist beyond coincidence? That's the only wisdom you can muster?
That would be okay, but the film has two other giant problems. First of all, it is frequently boring and poorly paced. It's a mere 90 minutes long, and yet, while I was watching it in my hotel room, I checked my watch no fewer than half a dozen times. There is literally ONLY 40-50 minutes of real content to the entire movie! So many scenes are pointless repetition, and do nothing to advance the story of Tom and Summer's relationship.
Finally, Summer, whether through poor acting or poor writing, is quite literally no one at all. Instead, she's a Frankenstein created from a patchwork of different, contradictory ideas and sources. Part "ideal woman", part "aloof pretty girl", part "Hollywood's idea of a jaded, realistic 20-something", she ends up being more boring than any of them, and even less relatable.
You know where you can find examples of truly interesting, quirky, and fucking awesome girlfriends? Go read a Haruki Murakami novel, and choose ANY female he describes in depth. That's exactly the type of woman the director and writers were going for...and totally failed.
Listen, the film has its good points; Joseph Gordon Levitt, while I'm not enamored with him, gives a competent, decent performance.
The love/hate montage of the same features of Summer was absolutely hilarious. The song and dance number was inspired and funny. Unfortunately, creative editing will only get you so far, especially when there is so little real content, and the core is so weak.
50/100
500 Days of Summer (2009)-
Two hipsters in their early 20s, Tom (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), go through the ups and downs of a romantic relationship.
The film has some "big ideas", and tries to subvert the standard romantic comedy formula. Problem is, the movie itself is mired in the same cliches! Tom is the wussy, insecure, weak-willed guy. Summer is the beautiful, enigmatic, suave and confident female. There is an unlikely source of sage advice, in this case, irritatingly enough, Tom's 10 year old younger sister.
Now, if it were simply a parody, that would be okay. However, 500 Days of Summer is nowhere NEAR funny enough for that.
If it was meant to be something deeper and more significant, not only does its crutch on cliches hurt, but so does the lack of any type of serious message. "True love" doesn't exist beyond coincidence? That's the only wisdom you can muster?
That would be okay, but the film has two other giant problems. First of all, it is frequently boring and poorly paced. It's a mere 90 minutes long, and yet, while I was watching it in my hotel room, I checked my watch no fewer than half a dozen times. There is literally ONLY 40-50 minutes of real content to the entire movie! So many scenes are pointless repetition, and do nothing to advance the story of Tom and Summer's relationship.
Finally, Summer, whether through poor acting or poor writing, is quite literally no one at all. Instead, she's a Frankenstein created from a patchwork of different, contradictory ideas and sources. Part "ideal woman", part "aloof pretty girl", part "Hollywood's idea of a jaded, realistic 20-something", she ends up being more boring than any of them, and even less relatable.
You know where you can find examples of truly interesting, quirky, and fucking awesome girlfriends? Go read a Haruki Murakami novel, and choose ANY female he describes in depth. That's exactly the type of woman the director and writers were going for...and totally failed.
Listen, the film has its good points; Joseph Gordon Levitt, while I'm not enamored with him, gives a competent, decent performance.
The love/hate montage of the same features of Summer was absolutely hilarious. The song and dance number was inspired and funny. Unfortunately, creative editing will only get you so far, especially when there is so little real content, and the core is so weak.
50/100
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ShogunRua
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If ever there was a time to impress me with a romantic comedy, that evening holed up in a hotel was it. And I was looking forward to it! But for all of its other faults, one thing I never expected of 500 Days of Summer...was how grueling and monotonous of a 90 minute film it was.
With a tight editing job, there are about 40-50 minutes of real, meaningful content there, and that includes the film parody scenes and other less successful attempts at humor.
And the irony of using a stupid picture I have seen on three forums now to express feelings about a movie that makes fun of pictures that express stupid, artificial feelings isn't lost upon me. OMGFridge...are you a hipster by any chance?
With a tight editing job, there are about 40-50 minutes of real, meaningful content there, and that includes the film parody scenes and other less successful attempts at humor.
And the irony of using a stupid picture I have seen on three forums now to express feelings about a movie that makes fun of pictures that express stupid, artificial feelings isn't lost upon me. OMGFridge...are you a hipster by any chance?
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Nope. I swear you post exactly how you look in your avatar. Its creepy.
Also I still don't think 500 is hipster, especially when there is stuff like Juno out there.
Also I still don't think 500 is hipster, especially when there is stuff like Juno out there.
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Oh, this fucking movie.. I don't get the mad rush to label this debacle as something of a pleasant surprise, least of all because it was marketed as a pleasant surprise. Heck, the only revelation I found with this is the reality that the very antithesis of films that pretend to convey love and romance would itself only be pretending to convey love and romance, unrequited or no. A different kind of romcom? Not really. To be frank, I haven't seen such pathetic, wholly unconvincing overacting since All the Real Girls, another film in which every character seemed to be desperately trying to be quirky.
ShogunRua's being too soft on it if you ask me.
ShogunRua's being too soft on it if you ask me.
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ShogunRua
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tomelce wrote:Oh, this fucking movie.. I don't get the mad rush to label this debacle as something of a pleasant surprise, least of all because it was marketed as a pleasant surprise. Heck, the only revelation I found with this is the reality that the very antithesis of films that pretend to convey love and romance would itself only be pretending to convey love and romance, unrequited or no. A different kind of romcom? Not really. To be frank, I haven't seen such pathetic, wholly unconvincing overacting since All the Real Girls, another film in which every character seemed to be desperately trying to be quirky.
ShogunRua's being too soft on it if you ask me.
I liked your review of the film, but I will give it points for being so fun and playful in its presentation. It really worked at times, including the corny "Autumn" ending. It's just a shame that its core is as generic, fake, and shallow as any standard romcom, because the outer shell is truly good.