3rd
Oh and in case anyone was keeping track!
Away We Go was better than expected.
500 Days of Summer was so, so much worse.
Even if it wasn’t one of those semi-bittersweet Eternal Sunshine knockoffs, even if we hadn’t as a culture already reached our Zooey Deschanel threshold with that fucking Cotton commercial (I’ve moved on to Lizzy Caplan, honestly), I would have still hated this movie. Because any time we have a film in which the female protagonist cares so much about changing the male protagonist’s life (and what, may I ask, is wrong with writing greeting cards for a living?!) without seemingly having any goals whatsoever besides “quirky” and “sings karaoke”, I get really, really mad. So Zooey just existed to act as a catalyst in Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who was delightful, really)’s life, and then she acted completely out of character, and out of tone for the whole film and got *SPOILER ALERT* married? What? What did she even do for a living, that she could constantly criticize Joe’s lack of initiative in becoming an architect? “Oh, she moved to New York out of boredom because that is something that is feasible in 2009 without any life goal or game plan but look she’s so gamine!” Nope. She was awful. A terribly written character phoned in by one of our culture’s most over-hyped actresses. And I’m saying that in a post-Evan Rachel Wood society.
I don’t know why everyone liked this movie so much. You should all go to time-out and think very hard before giving me these recommendations. I’m looking at you, Nick.
I couldn’t follow the movie. But from what I recall, this was exactly Brooke’s reaction to the Summer character — and thus the whole movie.
