Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
barkinunluer 500 Days of Summer is a complete modern classic. The fluent story, the acting and the chemistry between Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are exceptional. Also the director, Marc Webb was a music video director before this first movie he made. He directed a lot of emo band's videos like My Chemical Romance and AFI which he gained so much experience from using music in a video. That's why, 500 Days also look like a very long music video with its 1:30 hour time and its largely usage of the soundtrack album. This perfect album is full of modern and classic indie bands with quality.The storytelling is absolutely adorable. If you are a man, you can relate yourself with Tom and love (and hate) Summer. And if you are a woman, well, i don't know lol.In my opinion, the most important thing of a work of art is the ability to make you watch / listen / read again. If you like a song, you listen to it once again, right? And i really love that movie which make me watch over and over again.Just like the storyteller said in the movie: This is not a love story. So aware of this beautiful truth and enjoy it!
majajablonskayyy This is the kind of movie that inspires young people who don't know what to do with their lives and just cry and pout about their bad relationships although,in fact, everything is fine, it's just them who are creating the problem.And it was boring, too.Also the characters were very unoriginal, like, screaming p**** in public, really? What's funny about that? LAME
classicsoncall Being well removed from the target audience for a film like this, I can only say I tolerated it for the purpose of posting a review, recommended as a Top 250 Movie for 2009, the year it was released. Like a lot of teenage/young adult heart throb stories, they're usually a one-shot affair as it's present rating wouldn't make the cutoff for the current year's listing. It's not that I have anything against films like this, I just find them mediocre at best with not a lot to say about anything, unless you're someone of the same age dealing with the kind of coming of age issues as Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel). I thought their portrayals were good by the way, though the way Summer came across seemed like she didn't care about herself very much the way she entered her non-relationship with Tom. And the way Tom burned his bridges at the greeting card company more than anything displayed his own immaturity. He would need a new job referral, wouldn't he? The one creative effort in the picture I liked was the split screen, Expectations/Reality scenario which diverged and and then dovetailed back on itself during the party scene. The split screen technique isn't new, but I don't think I've seen it used that way before. Before seeing this movie, for the life of me I couldn't figure out how the five hundred days of summer was going to play out in the story, never thinking that it might have been a character's name. But at the finale, I had a pretty good idea what the new girl's name would be, because after all, what comes after summer. In Tom's case, we'll never know if he found true happiness with Autumn, or if he was headed for a big fall.
kevinhu-15953 This film is perfect!Acting,directing,scene,music,everything is perfect,and personally it relates to me a lot,I'm like a combination of Tom and summer,believe in fate and don't want be with someone who can't make me feel special.and just as the film says,There's always autumn after summer,I just love this film so much!
