Nothing that anybody said here or anywhere else prepared me for what I've just seen.

I was warned how good this. I was told over and over that it was a great film, but seeing as I've been let down by movies many times, I refused to allow myself to get completely wrapped in the hype bubble. Even if I had, I would have been very far from being disappointed.

To me this didn't connect on any real personal level. I'm gay so that takes out a certain edge of the romance. I am 18 not mid 20s so I'm a bit young for most of what their talking about. I love the beatles and the smiths but I've never been to a koroke bar, and I've certainly never had the polar opposite beliefs of the two main characters. For all intents and purposes I have no real relation or personal understanding of the events in this film (unlike magnus or many others here). And yet this was far from being "just a movie."

For one thing this is very similiar to a kind of movie I would love to write. American Beauty is probably the closest film to what my ideal movie that I would make is, but this may run a close second. The script is incredibly brilliant but not in a showy way (ala duplicity, which I've only seen half of but still). It's fully aware of every possible rom-com cliche and is clever enough to allow itself to fall into them on occassion. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are humble enough to realize that a cliche is such for a reason, and that having normal-phobia is not a good thing. But they also realize that being normal is bad as well. Because of this they are able to find an incredibly rare ground of originality and normality that supercedes almost all modern attempts in film. This is truly something fresh in every sense of the word.

The acting is of course brilliant. Gordon-Levitt is quirkily charming and beautifully simple. He doesn't really shine that brightly because he is playing the every-day joe albeit a little smarter and more interesting. He plays it to perfection, and honestly deserves an award that he won't get for his slow burning brilliance. Deschanel is so irresistibly charming that she turns a character who is basically an antagonist into someone you can't help falling in love with. Summer may be something of a distant bitch, but its impossible to not see why tom was madly in love with her.

The directing is simply brilliant all across the board. It's what Away we go, Juno, and a million other indie comedies have tried to achieve and just didn't get to ( not Reitman and Mendes didn't do brilliant work). The exclusively indie feeling of occasional sketching and cartoon birds, not to mention the consistent flashes to the day countdown, were all brilliant. They took this entirely realistic film and gave it a slightly surreal feel that just lifted it beyond what I could have expected.

All across the board this is another movie bound to be horribly under-appreciated. It truly is one of the best things I have ever seen and another example of why people should not discount modern cinema. There are still many jems of pure brilliance out there people, don't give up yet.

A Perfect Score.

It won't let me rate this an A again...

But I saw it again tonight. Tried to emotionally prepare myself. Didn't help. It might have been worse because I KNEW what was coming.

Ugh

This one gets an A from me too. Zooey Deschanel was remarkable, and Levitt was right there with her, I think he's just getting a little more love because we're on his side the entire movie. Sadly, like a few here have said, I can relate much of this movie to my own life as well, and it does a damn fine job at making its characters and the situations they find themselves in as authentic and emotionally-gut wrenching as they are in real life. The dancing scene and the expectations/reality scenes are two that will stay in my mind for a very long time.

Loved the film!

I think the greatest point for me in the film, is on the rooftop, when he sees summer with the ring. I could just feel that level of rejection jumping out of the screen 'You Suck!, you said you can't be in relationships'. That pain was intense and real.

I hope autumn realizes that Tom is the right guy. Who knows though, I guess that is what 500 days of autumn will be for huh?

Honestly I think this is going to be my favorite movie of the year (Although I haven't seen Hurt Locker yet).

I think I was really pulling for Tom, because when they had the rooftop scene, I quietly mouthed ' You bitch!'

lol.

Insightful.

I was expecting a cliche romantic comedy, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Grade: A

The opening credits is aces.

I freaking love it.

A really well-made film. I loved the performances by the leads and the soundtrack. There are some really well-executed scenes here. I loved the "You Make My Dreams" and "Expectations/Reality" sequences. The movie is both funny and heartbreaking (the scene on the roof really stung), and easily relatable to anyone who has ever been in love with someone who didn't feel the same (and who hasn't been there?).

For now I would give the film an 8/10 (A-), but it's a movie I'm sure I'll love even more on repeat viewings. I remember giving Garden State an 8/10 (B+) when I saw it in theaters and now it's a 9/10 (A).

A-, the type of movie that gets better in retrospect compared to the initial experience viewing the movie.

At best, this is a mostly unmemorable thing with a 2 or 3 neat directorial flourishes. It's mostly just irritating. I wished ill upon the leads, the two most unlikable fuckers I've seen in a long time. He's whiny and mopey and self-absorbed; she's twee and pretentious and similarly self-absorbed. She doesn't even get defined; she remains a looney hipster-ideal, and I have no idea why he spent all that time obsessing over her. Or, for that matter, why anyone would give his clingy creep the time of day.

And my lucky lottery number didn't come up! I'd picked 311, but the random-scene-number-generator didn't pick me. Damn.

Goodbye forever, 500 Days of Summer.

This is why nobody likes you.

Because you just make shit up to be a douche.

Seriously? Why the fuck are you an admin?

I didn't know "being kind to trolls" was one of the requirements for administering a forum

Knowing things is a requirement.

A requirement you do not fill.

What do you know that I don't?

Anything and everything.

It's sort of an "Annie Hall" for assholes.

Thing I never want to see again: movies using "twentysomethings perusing racks of old vinyl records" as shorthand for "these kids are hip and cool." Let's retire that.

Lame, yoyomaelisabethshue. Lame.

Okay, I do actually agree with Yoshue's last post. And Chip, there's really no reason to call the guy a douche and say no one likes him, his complaints about the movie are totally acceptable. To be honest, the unprovoked nastiness of that comment deserves a warning.

You're a warning.

Young Hipsters don't buy Vinyl thats the domain of Ibiza nightclub DJ's and 45 year old men trying to find original pressing's of Never Mind the Bollocks.

Just because you don't like dhipy does not make him a troll ross. He's not the world's best poster, but he's not BKB.
And just because he attacked your precocious yoshue doesn't mean you have to react the same.

Being rude is fine if your funny, but that wasn't funny, it was just mean.

this is easily one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen on this site.

I refuse to accept that you even believe this. Instead I will hide behind the hope that you actually loved it and simply say this to take up a contrary opinion.