Comments on: Movie Review- (500) Days of Summer

By: Karlee

Karlee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0000

I loved this movie.

the end.

By: Jennie@IW

Jennie@IW — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:28:52 +0000

Hope, I see your points but I saw it a little differently. My perspective was that Summer really did fall in love with the guy she married, and it changed her point of view on love, commitment and marriage. I thought that was what she was trying to tell Tom when the met again near the end on the park bench.

She did send mixed messages – after Tom got into the fight in the bar and she told him to leave but then went to his apartment. But I saw that as a fairly realistic sign that her facade was already cracking a bit. I didn’t think her no-strings, love-isn’t-real world view was very healthy emotionally. Tom and Summer were each screwed up in different ways; the way he fell in love with the idea of loving Summer and held onto that idea even after she’d broken his heart showed me that it wasn’t really about *her* for him – it was about the idea of being in capital-l Love.

Even the party invitation at the wedding – I can see what you’re saying but I guess I saw it as a combination of Summer’s cluelessness about Tom’s feelings (she wasn’t clueless that he felt them but I think they were so far out of her understanding that she had trouble relating to them) and the fact that the scene and the movie were pretty much from Tom’s POV, making the audience take his “side” I think in a subtle way and blame Summer for not loving him. I really couldn’t dislike Summer too much because I didn’t feel I *knew* her that well – so much of what we got of her was through the prism of Tom’s infatuation or disillusionment.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Hope Williams

Hope Williams — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:30:04 +0000

I really ended up not liking this film. I thought Summer was a tease and sent mixed messages – especially at the end where she goes to the wedding without her soon-to-be fiancee and leads Tom on. I thought Summer was not a good person. But then again, maybe that was the point. Did Tom ever really know Summer? She was “attractive” and spacy but other than that what else was there to her? Also, Summer said one thing but did another. If she did not believe in relationships and commitment, then why was she in such a hurry to get married? Summer made no sense to me except that she had no career ambitions, played with one guy’s heart but then married another (perhaps to have someone pay her bills because she had left her job?). What happened to the women’s movement? Isn’t this 2009? Aren’t women suppose to use more than their sexuality to get ahead in the world?

By: Anya@IW

Anya@IW — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:54:16 +0000

I saw it. Better than average, interesting and entertaining movie.

I am not (usually) a chick-flick type of girl, specifically because I feel like I am seeing the same story over and over. This was unique.

A note to parents of teenagers, we went with my 17-year-old and she enjoyed it too.

By: Samantha@IW

Samantha@IW — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:49:14 +0000

I love Zooey and Joseph. I’ve only seen a few previews for this movie but your review makes me want to see it.
Ann- do you ever use redbox? Love it!