Confessions!

So I’m just going to admit that part of me wants to see a couple of silly teen/20s-ish romance/coming of age movies. In particular, I wouldn’t mind seeing (500) Days of Summer. I can’t help it. I LIKE Zooey Deschanel. And then there’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The twelve-year-old girl in me liked him in 3rd Rock From the Sun. And while we’re blaming re-runs, the other movie I’m curious about–though less so–is Youth in Revolt. I have a feeling that one is simply too contrived and too pubescent for 35-year-old me. It’s too much a vehicle for pushing Michael Cera (and, probably, Portia Doubleday) into greater flavor-of-the-decade stardom. And like Garden State, which I had hopes for but ended up really disliking, it features Jean Smart as the mother. That probably isn’t a good sign for me, either. I think that, really, I’m just anxious for the Arrested Development movie (which had better not stink). (500) Days of Summer appears to be on DVD. Netflix, methinks.

Feel free to weigh in if you’ve seen either.

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7 Comments so far
  1. villain January 9, 2010 9:17 am

    I saw 500 Days of Summer at a preview screening before the hype cycle geared up; having no particular expectations was a good way to see it. I liked it ok, but I don’t think anywhere near lives up to the hype — cute, but not deep. It shares with “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” the device of putting a relationship’s chronology in the blender to examine it, but that is NOT a comparison “Summer” can live up to. It does have one unexpectedly great sequence that I won’t spoil (although I think it’s in at least one trailer).

  2. Editrix January 9, 2010 11:26 am

    There was one VERY off-putting bit toward the beginning of 500DoS, but the sequence Doug mentions is pretty great.

    We are pretty big Michael Cera fans, enough so that we Netflixed Adventureland based on Jesse Eisenberg REMINDING us of Cera. (If you’re looking for coming-of-age movies, we recommend Adventureland, which also has the great Martin Starr from Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.)

  3. tercat January 9, 2010 3:14 pm

    Adding Adventureland to the Netflix list, too!

  4. Kim January 9, 2010 9:28 pm

    500 days looks like it might be good, but I’m not expecting anything particularly substantive. I liked Garden State, actually.

    Totally nothing to do with this post, but I’ve got Julie & Julia from Netflix…I’ll let you know what I think.

  5. villain January 10, 2010 2:12 pm

    >>There was one VERY off-putting bit toward the beginning of 500DoS<<

    oh yeah, I’d totally suppressed that bit. not characteristic of the movie as a whole, thankfully.

  6. Sarah January 11, 2010 1:39 pm

    I have heard mixed things about 500DoS as well, but I remember being really excited to see it, most for Zooey. She’s so great. Even in terrible movies, she’s fantastic. I spent a semi-hungover Sunday watching “Failure to Launch” on TBS just because she’s was so radiantly awesome. Girlcrush rant over!

    I also just want to chime in and agree with Editrix about the greatness that is Martin Starr. I wish more films featured him.

  7. tercat January 11, 2010 1:57 pm

    Added perk–I saw somewhere that Adventureland was filmed at Kennywood. I’ve never been there, but Pittsburghers talk about it all the time.