Pluskylang Great Film overall

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

jamiedelany 500 Days of Summer is a brilliantly crafted film that captures attention and tugs on heartstrings in a unique way. My initial reaction to the movie was two thumbs up due to it's aesthetically pleasing nature and intricate story line, I would absolutely recommend this movie as a fun movie to watch that still has meaning behind it. A principle part of the movie is the nonconventional sequence it follows. It jumps around from different points in their relationship so the viewer doesn't watch their relationship from start to finish but rather a scatter of events from it. Also, the narrator states in the beginning of the movie, "this is not a love story". This creative production of the movie is what differentiates it from conventional movies about relationships. The next interesting aspect of the movie is the colors it uses. Tom is primarily brown, Summer is primarily blue. The viewer can tell the intensity of their relationship at the time by the color of their clothes or the color of the room or scene around them. It also shows how incompatible Tom and Summer really are. They are two different people based on their colors. Therefore, they spend a bit of the movie trying to force themselves to be someone they aren't, which is why they don't end up together. The reason I truly loved the movie was the characters, Tom is a stubborn man who tries to shape the world around him to his liking. Summer is emotionally unavailable. Watching these two interact is oddly intriguing, watching them fall out of love makes sense. I still somehow was left thinking they might work out. The movie is similar to Hero (2002) directed by Zhang Yimou. This movie paints each scene with a different color. This helps the viewer understand the emotions of the film through visual clues. It's a very beautiful way to convey emotion. The movie projects the idea that trying to be someone you're not and trying to be with someone you're not meant to be with leads to unhappiness. This very real message portrayed in an interesting way makes the movie an overall great watch.

willeasyer Before today I've never got the chance to watch it and focus on it from beginning to end, so I needed to give it a nice watch because I genuinely identify it plus I love the smiths, and I've been waiting to find that sparkle of true love since ever. Besides the obviosity of its visual beauty, excellent directing, writing and music it's a movie that describes what's like to be in love in a non conventional way, where the characters aren't the main subject. It's mainly about love and all phases of relationships with all its ups and downs and in such a stunning detail starting from the secret crush to honeymoon phase until reality catches up. It's about true love, and how unexpected and random it is, it can never be planned it just happens. That's why it touched me on a personal level if a relationship is over it means it wasn't the right one yet the most important thing is moving on and focusing on oneself and love will come at the right time without rush and that's what happened to Tom.

Neonfinity 500 Days of Summer is a 2009 film directed by Marc Webb and stars Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. The film is distributed by 20th Century Fox under their "Searchlight" division, being labeled as a Dramatic "Rom-Com". I've seen the film yesterday and will give my observations and opinions to you. 500 Days tells the nonlinear tale of Tom's seemingly magical relationship with a girl named Summer. Entangling in Fate, Coincidence, and True Love, their relationship goes through leaps and bounds in terms of events and all goes south. Also, Richard McGonagle plays Morgan Freeman as a narrator. The characters in 500 Days are all hipsters working in an office. I'll give the film credit for giving the two leads chemistry that is very fitting for the film's emotional range. I couldn't exactly get into the Tom (JGL) character since he didn't feel like a good enough audience surrogate, though the narrative structure isn't to blame, maybe it is the writing. And Zooey Deschanel does a good job playing Summer, being an a good and equal counterpart to JGL.500 Days of Summer felt half-and-half for me. I was completely fine with the cinematography as some shots and scenes are well done. But nothing about the film went above & beyond for me which other indie romance films like Punch-Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine did. Plus this breaks the filmmaking rule of never showing a better film in your own movie, which was The Graduate. As soon as our two characters were watching it, I said "Yeah, I should be watching that instead."500 Days has it's feet planted in the themes of Love, Fate, Coincidence, and even Inevitability. Most of them play a part in the end and was disappointed the way it turned out, making the entire movie and concept into a pun. The movie felt to have a more somber mood than it should have since I would have liked it a little more if they had more fun with the script, acting, and tone in general. After doing light research on the film, it certainly has found an audience. Kids will not be into this seeing as the concepts and story might not be understandable to them. People growing into adults will certainly have something to appreciate here. No matter what your opinion is on 500 Days is, I will respect it. Overall, I give 500 Days of Summer a… 5/10

cadence921 Tom who works at a greeting card company falls in love with Summer who is his boss's new assistant at first sight. They discover that they have a same taste in music in the elevator and they start to interact with each other.This film describes a difference between men and women realistically. In this film, the man believes in love of fate, but the woman is a realist. I realized that everyone has different ideas about love again through this film.I like music and fashion of this film, especially Summer's fashion is very pretty. I think that people who just likes music or fashion can enjoy this film.This film is not represented by a time series, so viewers may become a little confused. However, it goes back and force between happy scenes and unhappy scenes and I was so excited at their relationship.I think that men and women have quite different opinions of this film.