just finished watching 500 days of summer….total barf. sorry for anyone i am friends with on facebook who already saw my status about the love/hate relationship i hold with this movie that i will explain right now:
1) dudes like tom (joseph gordon levitt) don’t exist. i am definitely not a man-hater and one of those debbie downers who vehemently subscribe to the beliefs that LOVE DOES NOT EXIST and ALL MEN ARE PIGS. while the latter is maybe a quarter true, i know that there are kewl, nice guys out there. however, i really don’t think toms of the world are real (except for in my mind’s directors studio).
2) gals like summer are authentic, and they slit the throats of the very little amount of toms this sweet earth does hold. it should be a crime. they are distinguished by pretty (but not sexy) looks, having substance that appears to be genuine (“oh wow, you listen to the smiths? i love them!! i also dumped you for a guy who asked me if i was reading dorian grey in a cute little cafe. do you like my dress from anthropologie?”) but in reality are one-sided characters who like to hide under the guise of being independent. there is nothing wrong with being a commitophobe or just enjoying being casual but it is so mean to lead someone down that path with some vague, half-assed reference to not wanting to keep it serious. oh, and you would never know it but i have never been lead on. why am i so passionate about this?
3) put a summer with a tom and she breaks his heart and he is a mess. SSSPOILER ALERT so he starts dating autumn or whatever. guess what: in the sequal 501 days of summer, when tom finally thinks he is over summer and autumn is really happy in her relationship with tom, summer comes back in and realizes she loved tom all along and tom leaves autumn crying in the living room because ~life is tOo sHorT to be with someone you dont love~ and summer has a magnetic, hypnotic vulva. it’s a legitimate excuse but i think i just get scared sometimes that will happen to me (i watch too many movies and always see myself as the scorned one….it’s half-funny to me).
4) if i had a more disposable income, i would purchase this. jgl and zooey deschanel had such undeniable chemistry and it was a pleasure to watch (most of the time, anyway). not your typical romcom but still good none-the-less. but not as good as its complicated, which i saw with my friend justine the other day. we sat next to a group of golden girls who went buckwild at meryl streep’s hotness. if she looks like an unmade bed, it better be this one:
or this one:
