Polyglot
3Mar12
don't say hurtful things like that, ula.
Com simplicidade, mas autoridade, Marc Webb cria um conto de antiamor e um ensaio sobre os relacionamentos contemporâneos.
Hadn't seen this for a few years. It's probably my favourite of all the twee films ever made (except maybe for Beginners); all the same, note that this only gets three stars because I really hate twee films. This film hits all the clichéd notes (Tom listens to The Smiths? Really?) but hits them fairly confidently. Could have been so much more though.
basically one of the worst movies I've ever ever watched, maybe even worse than Ghost Rider or Baise-Moi.
It's always on the verge of failing, because of trying to be "too cool" and witty, but it stops just there, at the right point. Cute story, with Zoey breaking all the indie-hearts out there.
cute, funny & pretty sad, but that's life - it doesn't come always like we want or hope..!
pseudo-unpretentious piece of crap cursed with an omnipresent annoying soundtrack. waste of time.
i'm crazy for this shit and yeah it's overrated, but it makes me happy in a boring afternoon when I think everytime is coming down
"waaa waaa he listens to the smiths, he's so cool! waaa waaa he's karaoke-ing to the pixies, he's so cultured! waaa waaa this movie is so indie!" I suppose the filmmaker's intention was to pull out that kind of reaction from the audience.
my thoughts exactly. except said filmmaker didn't notice that the bands/band shirts/behaviour he was trying to sell as edgy/indieschmindie haven't been edgy or indie for about 10 years. or maybe he did notice and his choices were deliberate as to not alienate the obviously intended mainstream romcom-audience.
The soundtrack is absolutely brilliant. Since I watched this movie I have a lot of new favourite songs. And besides that: Zooey Deschanel is such a cutie, and so is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. They really make a great couple on-screen. "Darling, ... I don't know how to tell you this, but ... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom!"
Maybe because I had already consumed "When Harry Met Sally, or Everyone Else, even In The Mood For Love" are all the romantic genre, 500 Days of Summer was bland .. hehe
Pretentious rubbish thought up in a marketing boardroom. It doesn't represent love, it features a man obsessing over a woman because he's lonely. Yawn.
Except that it was based on a real romance that the writer Scott Neustadter went through, and was originally set in San Francisco. I blame Marc Webb for pandering to the MTV crowd with it.