MIMDB score: 7.5
Current IMDB score: 7.8
Director: Marc Webb
Main Actors you care about: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloe Grace Moretz
Why I liked it: It made me pissed. It's one of the few movies I hate but still think is good.
I am upset with this quote: "Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate." I wrote a whole paragraph about it but I ended up deleting because technically the quote is correct. That doesn't mean she's your soul mate. I don't like it because the quote misleads your mind. Liking the same bizzaro crap can lead to her being your soul mate. It's not a negative to like the same bizzaro crap! It's a positive! In fact I would go to say that you should be looking for people that like the same bizzaro crap that you do because I personally believe that's what leads to long term happiness. And if one those people that does like the same bizzaro crap happens to be someone you fall in love with then shit, it's awesome. Every time I read or hear the quote I get upset because it barely makes sense.
What stands out: The story hits home with a lot of people. It upsets a lot of people. It looks at what happens more often than not in a relationship. Most relationships do not work out. Only "one" kind of does work out. By one relationship I mean the current relationship you are in (if you are in one). If the one you are currently in fails then I'm talking about the next relationship then. For most people, all the people that it didn't work out with is a higher number than the current number of people it's working out with right now.
It's not fun when one person wants the relationship and the other doesn't. This is especially true when the one side can't for of the life of them can't figure out why the other doesn't want to keep going. Media and society I feel like pushes you toward believing that one love at a time is how it should work. The problem with this way of dating/being in relationships doesn't work as well as just dating as many people as you can and pick the person that you most like that also wants to date you back. This works well if your main goal is to be with someone (even it's not one of your top choice(s)). Most people can handle the one or two people that don't want to date you. It's just an awful when consistently the people you want to date don't want to date you. You kind of give up after awhile. This movie makes you feel that feeling at least once which is why I hate this movie but also will say it's good. It's good to feel like feeling if you haven't felt it in your life (which is like 1% of people).
Thing(s) I would change: Zooey is well casted as this is the type of girl I believe she is in real life. She might even be too well casted to the point where I hate Zooey in everything else she's been in now. All I see is Summer hurting Tom.
The worst thing is Summer hurt Tom and Summer just benefited from it. Summer figured out that love existed and got to feel it because she knew with Tom what love was not like. Tom as the hopeless romantic didn't seem to learn anything. It's just a big kick in the pants to hopeless romantics which are the people that this movie is targeting.
Favorite Line(s)/Scene:
Expectation vs Reality scene (of course). This scene sums up most people's thought process before going to an event. It's fantastically done.
Similar Movies/TV Shows: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Comet
"Side" note: Since this movie is not really about the happiness of relationships or love the color red is not used very often. Instead the color blue is used to represent love. That is a pretty wonderful touch.
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