500 Days of Summer (twee romantic whatever, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/500daysofsummer/

tough to get past the first scene in the trailer tbh

So when are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer just going to film and release Indie Movie and be done with it.

yeah this will probably be nigh unwatchable, but... i do love her so

yes...i also do

Ha, I don't mind that Smiths scene. It's cute.

<3 JGL and Zooey but wow, this looks so so shit.

what a great lookin movie

tbf, she's consistently involved herself in cringe-inducers. but i just can't help myself.

e.g.
http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/zooey4.jpg

^actually where i first developed hueg crush

http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/zooey4.jpg

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid3737074001?bctid=26757801001

cant wait to have some kind of casually contrarian opinion about this

I hate myself for thinking that actually looks kind of good.

I have to admit to a serious Gordon-Levitt crush.

But Deschanel, it turns out, had triple the responsibilities. Not only does she act, she sings in character (to Nancy Sinatra’s “Sugar Town”) and on the soundtrack, where Deschanel’s own She & Him cover the Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.” Does the Morrissey element kick up the pressure? “I guess so,” she says. “It’s a more complex song than it seems timing-wise, but he’s such a great songwriter and old fashioned in the tradition of the classics — the Gershwins and the Cole Porters — yet writing pop music. It’s classic melody and chord progression.”

She would know. Deschanel, who says “a lot of recording” for the next She & Him record is completed, grew up on a steady diet of musicals — stage and screen. Among them: the soundtracks to classics like Mary Poppins, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Sound of Music along with the more fringe-tastic Harold and Maude, Willy Wonka and The Harder They Come. And she’s the kind of girl who doesn’t hesitate in describing her own iPod as “awesome.” Deschanel cracks: “I’m not gonna lie.”

So what covers does Deschanel have on regular rotation? Here are five of her all-time favorites.

Nina Simone – “Here Comes The Sun”
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris – “Love Hurts”
Linda Ronstadt — “Blue Bayou”
The Ramones — “Baby, I Love You”
Jacky Deshannon — “The Weight”

on the daily 10 they said this was innovative

I think I bitched about this film enough on the detrius thread. And anyone who pays any attention at all to my film posts should know that i of all people would be the one to embrace this film.

(bottom line: it's a fine conventional romantic comedy that thinks it's above being a fine conventional romantic comedy)

http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/zooey4.jpg

this is such a great still

that's an amazing film!

I never liked Almost Famous until I saw it the third or fourth time. Now I like it a lot.

i have had a crush on JGL for so long. my lesbian housemate has said she would go straight for him

i think it is official, then: he is fuckin smoking.

i almost fainted when he walked by me

Deschanel’s own She & Him cover the Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.” Does the Morrissey element kick up the pressure? “I guess so,” she says. “It’s a more complex song than it seems timing-wise, but he’s such a great songwriter and old fashioned in the tradition of the classics — the Gershwins and the Cole Porters — yet writing pop music. It’s classic melody and chord progression.”

???

He's like Cole Porter ... yet writing pop music!

just don't get the bit about "It’s classic melody and chord progression"

The trailer was terrible

At the LA screening, she seemed to be under the impression that she has multiple characters. She also claimed that she could make a case for "(500) Days of Summer" being "postmodern."

The trailer is the movie.

the cotton commercial/song was my last straw with zooey. bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech. that smiths scene was barf city.

Not to hijack this thread, but "Paper Heart" actually lives up to "next-level romantic comedy" hype.

Googling "indie movie" brought me the trailer for a film called Box Elder, which is produced by Range Life Productions.

See, this genre is already so self-parodying that satire is pointless.

I want an excuse to see this movie beyond mega-crush on both leads.

I hope Box Elder's soundtrack is all Pavement and kids start really hypin on the Silver Jews again and whatever.

How do people really know Jason Gordon-Levitt was a child actor in the mid-1990s?

Answer: He goes by his full name, middle name and all. Eighties babies know what the score is.

i watched the room tonight and the box elder guys were all there

I get irrationally pissed off when I read a glowing review of this film. WTF people, normal cuteboy human beings do not write greeting cards for a living and if they did, after getting dumped, they wouldn't turn in ones with angry punchlines like "i fucking hate you." also, they wouldn't talk to their ten-year-old sisters on a regular basis for relationship advice. and when they asked her questions, she wouldn't say things like, "don't be a pussy." and when they walked on the bus, it would not be a smooth walk.

and the only reason it chops up the narrative is because otherwise the arc is exactly like every other romantic comedy. i mean, my god, if i recut the object of my affection in a nonlinear fashion, would you also put it on your top ten lists?

So this is the anti-Paper Heart?

Yes, in that Paper Heart is funny, has interesting things to say about love and is full of interesting, incredibly intelligent filmmaking choices.

From the previews I've seen I just don't get why this is even a movie

^^this

the one joke in the preview where she's goes "they called me anal girl!" is like "okay, writer of this film, i was making this joke when i was 12, and now it is in your movie, in the preview, and you are not 12"

Also like, if that is one I the best jokes that they have to use for the trailer... ummmmmm.... PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE

tza, md

u have to say it in a costanza style tho

The trailer for Paper Heart makes my skin crawl. I think I'm too old for that much awkward tweeness. Michael Cera is bad enough in most movies, through in the female Michael Cera and it could be torture.

WTF people, normal cuteboy human beings do not write greeting cards for a living and if they did, after getting dumped, they wouldn't turn in ones with angry punchlines like "i fucking hate you." also, they wouldn't talk to their ten-year-old sisters on a regular basis for relationship advice. and when they asked her questions, she wouldn't say things like, "don't be a pussy." and when they walked on the bus, it would not be a smooth walk.

Cinema!

It was good. Not like an earth-shattering derailment of the romantic comedy genre, but different enough. Maybe it marks me as immature, but I LOLed at "Roses are red, violets are blue... Fuck you, whore." Best part is when his blind date asks him if Summer ever cheated on him, lied, etc. - and then pretty much calls him an asshole.

Plz understand, people, that PAPER HEART is mostly a documentary!!! Like, other people talking to the camera! The Michael Cera/Charlyne Yi thread takes up 30 percent of the movie and it's woven in very neatly. When people say they were "charmed," they're not referring to the notion that Michael and Charlyne are cute together (which, they actually are, even though the trailer might not make that very clear), they're referring to the really adorable couples that Charlyne interviews...

If you actually gave it a chance, you might like it, but I'm not exactly shocked that you're not...maybe would have helped if the marketing was more accurate.

yes, well, xpost, maybe it wouldn't have bothered me so much if i hadn't been at the LA premiere and didn't have to hear the screenwriters say things like, "Doesn't Hollywood need more original/real-to-life romantic comedies like this?!" to much applause or hear Zooey D claim that this was "postmodern (and I could make a case for that if anyone wants to hear it)."

I knew I wasn't the only one who noticed the screwball romance playing out between JGL and Hardy.

whats the above ^ image from? (303) happens to be my area code, phone-wise.

first frame from the film (500) Days of Summer. Next two from Inception.

oh of course! as in (303) days into the relationship. like anywhere else, anytime you get anyone's number the first thing you see is parenthesized (303)'s preceding the actual number so that image just brought up trigger-memory.

totally forgot i had clicked the 500 days of summer thread when i read that. didn't mean it to sound condescending!

Has anyone ever thought of making a film called 300 Days Of Summer, in which Zooey Deschanel is in a relationship with three hundred doomed CGI Spartans?

THIS guy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/02/graduate-mike-nichols-marc-webb

So...errr,,,JGL is coming to do a guest lecture at my school. Huge LOLs ahead?

Who is Joe?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been working as a professional actor for
twenty-three years. He recently starred in award-winning sleeper hit
(500) Days of Summer for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe.
After adolescence on the TV show 3rd Rock From The Sun, he took a
break from acting to attend Columbia University and returned to earn
his "indie cred" with films Mysterious Skin and Brick. This summer,
he will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's
Inception.

What is hitRECord?
Joseph started hitRECord.org five years ago as an outlet for his own
personal creativity. Since then it has evolved into a professional
mass-collaborative production company where anybody with an internet
connection can contribute to a variety of digital multi-media projects
that Joseph directs. hitRECord.org collaboratively produced and
screened a number of short films at the 2010 Sundance and SxSW film
festivals. It was also recently named one of the top ten "Game
Changers in entertainment" by The Huffington Post.

What is the show?
In an effort to reach out and collaborate with young aspiring artists
and media-makers nation-wide, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will tour a select
group of colleges this fall. The program will include a discussion of
his acting career, an introduction to hitRECord's collaborative
process, for those who don't already know, as well as lots of
interactive participatory RECording antics and activities.

###

an introduction to hitRECord's collaborative
process, for those who don't already know,

Who is joe

"indie cred"

Zoe Deschanel does not accompany = waste of time

Zoe....................y

does not accompany

poor Joe lost all his cool points to Franco :/

Who the FUCK is joe

he changed the game

Who is Zoe?

Just watched this, really liked it. Made me laugh quite a bit. It made me a bit sort-of wistful too. I'd like to hang around in these places, especially the big lobby at the end. I'd even quite like to work in the greetings card business.

Deliberately not reading the rest of the thread.

this is one of the worst movies ever made

^^that pretty much sums up the thread for you, IK.

Still think it works as a good back story for Cobra Commander.

this 50/50 movie was a good deal better than I was expecting - best bits are when Anjelica Huston is onscreen (unsurprisingly)

this is one of the worst movies ever made

― Lamp, Saturday, July 2, 2011 10:10 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Angelica Huston is a treasure.

yeah she really is. I would watch her fold laundry.

We need a poll.

badmovie

it's interesting that Huston's career as an actress bloomed relatively late - she was never really a young ingenue, she didn't start getting major roles until she was in her 30s

also cancer is hilarious fyi

Can I get a "Premium Rush" thread?

http://cdn.blogs.sheknows.com/celebrityphotos.sheknows.com/2010/08/joseph-gordon-levitt-premium-rush.jpg

premium rush looks hilarious

Movie event of 2012 for me.

was anyone else really turned off to (500) days of summer by the "bitch" part in the opening disclaimer? i assume that JGL's character is a stand-in for the writer's own feelings, so i basically get the impression that between "bitch" and the "fuck you, whore" from the greeting card, this is not someone i'm going to spend much time sympathizing with.

Not supposed to sympathise with jgl

Also Premium Rush was awes

i don't sympathize with anyone in the movie. except the girl on the blind date, she had to put up with some shit.

JGL's own comments on sympathising with his character:

The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.

Deliberately not reading the rest of the thread.

― Ismael Klata

I know what you mean (even though I've already scanned a bit). I didn't hate this. The only run-from-the-room scene for me was the Hall & Oates production number; Levitt's I-see-through-it-all quitting scene was pretty bad too.

But there were things I liked. 1) Zooey Deschanel choosing "Sugar Town" for karaoke. I wouldn't mind if karaoke turned up in every film ever. 2) The way The Graduate was incorporated. When Anna Karina tears up at The Passion of Joan of Arc in Vivre sa vie, it's very moving; I don't think the equivalent scene here is any less valid. (Karina's alone, so her scene resonates a bit more.) 3) The penultimate scene in the park. I really felt the chill, and shared in Levitt's anger/befuddlement. I hated Deschanel right there.

Wish the film had ended there. Obviously that wasn't going to happen.

What I meant to write was that I wouldn't mind if "Sugar Town" turned up in every film ever. I have no feelings on karaoke whatsoever.

It is literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen along with Human Traffic, Unbreakable, Drive and Crash. It is also an anomaly because it's the only one of those whose name doesn't have anything to do with car accidents.

I remember Drive and Crash, that was a good one.

Amazing that this is from 2009, it seems like it should have been closer to the turn of the century

this came out in 2009?????????????? i'm freaking out this DEFINITELY came out in 2008

having some intense stein/stain flashes now

milo this movie is so of its time imo, it can't exist without Little Miss Sunshine or Juno or the Apatow movies. like Simon & Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy" it can only exist in a one or two year span outside of which they only make sense as a joke.

it's much worse than all those crumby movies

I've never seen a movie that was more "don't be this guy, guy"

Hi fidelity is the generational forebear