Calum Gilchrist
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Review: 500 Days of Summer
6 Jan
I have a huge crush and Zooey Deschannel. I have no idea why but she’s one of those actors/actresses who I will watch in whatever they make. I watched the Happening (although I watched that for M. Night Shyamalan, I liked it for it that fact) So going by that accept that I might be biased, but I don’t think I am.
I’ve not seen that many romance films, but I had a great time with this one. It was really funny and plenty of lovely dynamics. It had lovely special effects and camera work which really gave the film a whole new charm which I really liked.
It was overall charming and had a nice plot. Had a lot of actors I like in it from other films but they’ve never really gotten lead roles. Joseph Gordon Levitt was really good in the film. In the later half of the film his hair was slicked back and he realised: “He WAS in Inception” as I was debating it throughout the whole film. Always annoying, that.There was a lot more comedy in the film than I initially expected. Wasn’t side-splitting but some of the joke were really quite good and I really enjoyed the comedic aspects of the film.
I really enjoyed the format of 500 Days of Summer. Rather than a day by day summary of the relationship you jump to different days in the relationship, which was interesting as you saw the start and end of the relationship and let’s you wonder what happened in between. Was quite nice. The last few scenes were nice and I really liked them although they were a bit cheesy.
I had no expectations and thoroughly enjoyed it.
500 Days of Summer - 4/5
Just another fact: I know the names of very few actors. I’ll recognise them for what they’ve been in but I don’t know their names. Whenever anyone talks about an actor I always need a filmography to actually know who they are. Which is a problem when you’re trying to write about films.
