(starting from the top: when harry met sally, 2 500 days of summer pictures and 2 juno pictures)i like indie quirky films. theyre just what im into. i do like other films like i watched sex and the city the other day and i loved it but indie films are just what i like best. so anyway i bought nick and noras inifinite playlist because it looked really indie and it has michael cera in who is just such an amazing actor and absolutely gorgeous. anyway, look i'll put it bluntly, it was dreadful. everything about it was dreadful i mean even a dreadful chick flick like the holiday was a better film. so let me explain why:
- firstly it is set over one night. thats never a good idea with a film. the only film where it kind of worked was kidulthood but its very rare for it to work and well in this film it was their biggest mistake. because it was set over one night nothing much really happened coz how much can happen in a night? i mean look at a film like 500 days of summer, i dont want to give anything away in case you havent watched it but but that film is set over a year and a half and when harry met sally is set over like 20 years or something ridiculous like that but i love it like that. its just the way a good film needs to be set for it to work.
- some of the characters are just really annoying. michael cera is amazing as usual and there are these 3 gay guys who were really cute and funny but everyone else was really really annoying and like the main female character just cant act. its really irritating. it irritates me to say this but actually all the girls in this film are bad actresses and just so boring. i guess you cant do much with a character when its only set over one night but still they were really rubbish and hurt my eyes to watch.
- sorry to bring kidulthood up again its just the only other film i can think of thats also only set over a day. so yeah in kidulthood so much happens in that day. i dont want to give away the whole film but if youve watched the film youll understand (btw if you havent see it then check it out now, its so brilliantly written and really honest about what its like to be a teenager in east london) nick and noras infinite playlist was just boring. i wa waiting for something to happen in the long 90 minutes it lasted and honestly nothing happened. it was just dreadfully written.
- and lastly, i was looking forward to a good soundtrack running through the film, well i was very disappointed. as well as nothing happening in the film, the soundtrack was crap as well. and that was the last straw
so anyone wanna buy it off me?!!
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thanks for the advice, I'm not going to rent it. I trust on you. and if the soundtrack sucks, I'm not interested.
Love indie films too, nobody believe on this films, until they became famous.
last night I saw Junno for the 100 time, and it gets better.
Kisses!!!
haha i saw this movie in theaters for free through some kind of student deal, and while i don't recall explicitly hating it, i've never wanted to revisit it since, so i guess we're somewhat in the same boat. on another note, i feel like i'm the only person in the world who totally disliked 500 days of summer, strictly on the basis that i couldn't really get behind their love story because i thought the lead female character was kind of a drag/unnecessarily mean haha it reminded me the wonder years, which i love, but still, i've never been able to get excited about the love story aspect because of the girl..
you sound like a wes anderson kinda girl (like me!) I just rewatched 500 days of summer yesterday. SOOOOO perfect. Isn't Tom just the sweetest?
-indigo
i absolutely ADORE 500 days of summer. joseph gordon-levitt has the most GORGEOUS smile in the world!
I totally agree I LOVE Juno (and am yet to see When Harry Met Sally and 500 Days Of Summer but will rent them asap now) and especially Michael Cera so I rented out Nick and Norah when I was off school sick one day and was SOOO disappointed.
It was rubbish and like you said the suontrack was no where near as good as I thought it would be :/
Awesome post
xx
nice pics!
Never saw it! But I must say that there are some very good movies that take place in one night/one day (like Before Sunrise/Sunset, Dazed and Confused), but I agree it's very rare! Sorry this one sucked :(
Great post, I too love indie films. I actually watched 500 days of summer on the plane and totally coveted Zooey Deschanel's wardrobe throughout and I really like the way how it's set set. It's a shame this film wasn't so good, but you'll have to recommend some better ones to me! The genre is really quirky and interesting.
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