which is to say, i get why people hate them, but i feel like they could do better work than is assumed if they were cast in roles outside the cutesy quirky molds that made them both popular and kind of hated. michael cera in arrested development? that kid…
To this day I am unsure how I could so thoroughly misread a film. I mean, it actually felt to me like everything from the performances to the direction was meant to scream out “this character is projecting and living in a fantasy world, he is a dick” and yet that was not the case. This explains why the ending confuses and annoys me though.
thoroughly misread...me like everything from...scream out...
I endorse all of the above statements, and am really glad to know that other people feel the way I do about (500) Days...
See also: Zooey Deschanel talking about (500) Days of Summer. That movie...fucking weird,...