I don't remember much about the movie but it literally ends with him meeting a woman named after a different season like women are products on a shelf.
It ends with ambiguity about whether or not he learned his lesson about women in the end. Again the screenwriters to JGL himself have been very clear: his character not a great guy on purpose.
They have played that Wuthering Heights trailer every time I have been to the theater the last few months and it just ruins my day.
Wes Anderson has made some great films but the 2000's imitators are just nauseating. People like Reitman didn't fundamentally understand that the quirks and tics of those characters were a mask for real pain and human experience.
Except that isn't what 500 Days is at all. The opposite in fact. 500 Days is a movie about a toxic childish selfish man who falls for a girl he views as a MPDG archetype, but the relationship fails because he doesn't see her as a fully realized person and basically guilt trips her into being with him after she friendzones him, and in the third act he sorta starts to develop a healthy outlook but in the end is presented with the same situation and winks at the camera leaving us to guess if he's going to fall into again. It's a repudiation of the wacky Manic Pixie Dream Girl 2000's movies and tons of people interpreted wrong when It first came out
Knowing what a movie is about and the basic plot is obsessed yes Josh. It's not my fault half this thread didn't watch that movie correctly.
You have the advantage of me because I haven't seen it since it came out but I tried watching a clip just now and Deschanel's character goes on about finding her soulmate. It is like any other cheesy romantic comedy but coated with the adorkable sensibility of the era. Not that it proves anything in and of itself, but Marc Webb took the Spider-Man money and never looked back. I don't think he is the secret artist you are making him out to be.
i dont need the main character of the movie to be likable or Good but they should try to at least make one halfway decent non-moronic character in the movie. just my take!
Iirc that scene is mostly just her saying she fell in love with her husband in very random circumstances so JGL shouldn’t give up on love and all that just because it didn’t work out between them. I will say that scene is probably my least favorite scene of the movie, not because I thought it was bad in and of itself but I really didn’t like the way Deschanel read it tbh. Otherwise I enjoyed the emotional payoff of it for JGL’s character. At that point in the movie he had mostly turned his life around and was just missing the final piece of closure he needed to move on and he got it. A little too fairy tale-y because most people don’t always get that closure but hey, it’s a rom com.
I get what types of podcast get nominated for that, but even then if they are going with corporate production company backed ad friendly celebrity hosted podcasts it's crazy to not have Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend not be nominated let alone not win.