Trying NOT to like this movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2007)

I'm going to sound like a Grinch, but I'm trying NOT to like this movie, mostly because I'm worried about the people who WILL like it. I imagine a large number of these people to be either hipsters or near-hipsters, or at least people who listen to about 10 million pop songs per day and derive 85% of the meaning in their lives through these pop songs, think of life as more or less one big pop song, etc.
However, I can't deny that this was a great, low-key movie. I thought it was a bit cloying in parts, as when the main female character is lugging the Hoover around by its hose. But at least such touches were few and brief. In fact, there were many artificial touches in this movie, but they were well masked.
I also resent the kind of praise that thinks a movie is great because it is "like life" rather than like a movie, but again, I've got to admit this movie did a pretty good job of getting to that point.
And, again in spite of myself, I think this movie was very good largely BECAUSE it tapped in to one of the most important things on the minds of most people in "my" "generation"--pop music--sappy and infantile as it all is--in a way no other movie I have seen has managed to do.
Good job, movie!