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Capone Has the Winners' Names for the Chicago screening of (500) DAYS OF SUMMER!!!

ANNE HOULAB LOST OUT THIS TIME!!! by lockesbrokenleg	Jul 2nd, 2009 09:39:57 PM
Victory is mine!
I don't know... by wampa 1	Jul 2nd, 2009 10:09:41 PM
...but it sure smells good!
Watch Garden State while listening to Bright Eyes by drturing	Jul 3rd, 2009 12:22:59 AM
and jamming your thumb up your ass thinking buying a hybrid will save the world. same difference.
Carolyn Strug didn't strug enough by Womb2dooM	Jul 3rd, 2009 01:37:03 AM
Now she's goin alone :D
500 Days of Swaney by Thrillhouse77	Jul 3rd, 2009 07:02:57 AM
Right? RIGHT?!?!
What's with the stupid punctuation? by Executor	Jul 3rd, 2009 07:21:27 AM
(500) instead of 500 Days of Summer, like any non-retard would name their movie. Sure in the movie they use the parentheses and flash on what day it is...but is it really title-worthy? Come on. I'm calling it 500 Days of Summer. And I feel OK with that. p.s. saw this last week and it is the best "romantic comedy" since Eternal Sunshine. Not smug like Garden State or a lot of these indie romcoms...but just about the emotionally truest yet fucking hilarious movie to come out in a long time. Go see it...worth all the raves it's getting (despite the parenthetical title.)
Isadora Blachman-Biatch by supermarch	Jul 3rd, 2009 11:12:43 AM
Take out the S and that person's name is apparently 'I adore a black man, biatch'. Clever.
Since this TB is empty, it now belongs to me!! by GibsonUSA Returns	Jul 4th, 2009 03:42:19 PM
Movinn innn....make room for the TV!
disappointing (and irritating) film by scratcher	Jul 8th, 2009 09:55:02 AM
Thanks for the tickets Capone, but I'd choose rewatching Humpday a dozen times over watching (500) once. A seriously flawed film is more frustrating when you can see that the filmmaker was actually trying to do something interesting, but somehow got totally distracted from the core of the film. There are some really intriguing elements, but they're lost in all the gratuitous gimmickry. 16mm b&w (in 2009?) character interviews, a "parody" of Bergman, a dance scene out of Ally McBeal, etc.. The "erasing" of the scenery following the devastating emotional low-point of the film just killed its impact. The only effect that served any purpose was the split-screen, which made the Graduate bus ride more poignant. The filmmaker obviously loves The Graduate, but he'd have been better off imitating Nichols' focus on the film's emotional core and cut all that fluff.

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