(500) Days of Summer

A romantic comedy not only for women, but also for men. Fabulous in every way from the disclaimer at the very beginning to the end. The music, acting, pacing and virtually everything else is derivative, but familiar and in a good way. Why I say this is because it feels a lot like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. 500 Days of Summer is a must-see without a doubt. I walked in wanting, and walked out wanting nothing else but the joy of seeing it the second time. Sweet and sometimes even sassy.

This movie pisses me off. It's horribly written and incredibly predictable. I do enjoy the post getting laid dance number though. A great movie to sit around and make fun of friends with, especially cause it's so ridiculously lame. All the super hip "indie" hipster references are embarrassing and PS Zooey Deschanel ain't that hot. When the chick at the end says her name was Autumn I sincerely wanted to punch the movie in the face. So stupid.

So overrated. 91 PSI? I can't believe the amount of people who fell for this film's poor disguise as something more an average rom-com. Deschanel is horrible, the ending is incredibly forced (with Summer reduced to nonsense), and most of it defies logic. "This is not a love story. It is a story about love." Dictionary: "Noun 1. love story - a story dealing with love." Yeah, that makes sense. Quirky for the sake of being different, brings nothing new to the table and is incredibly pretentious.

You look back on a failed relationship, and the memories start from the beginning. You remember the meet-cute, the awkward courtship, the silly, sexy first kiss. But memories don't always finish out in a linear fashion. Before long you juxtapose your best moments with your worst. The time your joke killed and the time it died. Listen, that's life. You can't annotate something both so simple and complex: sometimes you get together, sometimes you break up, and sometimes you misread The Graduate.

Definitely my favorite "romantic comedy", which is probably not too hard because I loathe the genre. Is it really one, then? 500 Days Of Summer doesn't seem to try too hard in that regard. It feels more like a "movie about love" and appropriately realistic at that. I've gotten alot of shit for hyping this movie after I've seen it but instead of burying it as a guilty pleasure, let me shout if from the rooftops: AWESOME. FUCKING. MOVIE.