Standard Sundance

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2009)

Remember when independent films were really independent? 500 Days Of Summer is so dull and Sundance friendly that I felt angry leaving the theater. What really made me nuts was reading after that the creators of the film actually thought they were making some kind of radical romantic comedy.
Nothing in this entire movie is original, intelligent, or subversive. Most of it was stolen from Woody Allen. And a movie that is angry at women and doesn't understand women fits in really well with all the Apatow comedies coming out. So who is kidding who?
Super-stylized, super cold, this movie is great for shallow young people who don't have a clue.
Myself, being over 50, if I want to watch great pop movies I'll go watch "A Hard Day's Night" or "Shoot The Piano Player." Those movies were fun and had substance.