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Yesterday I gave one of those oddball "I hated this book, but you might like it" book recommendations. It's an unusual recommendation style, but if done with respect and affection can introduce people to stories they might otherwise have missed. (The novel in question was The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, about which I have previously written.)
Not entirely by coincidence, I watched 500 Days of Summer this evening. Blurb: nonlinear story of boy-meets-girl, dating/friendship with benefits, breakup, depression, and moving on - with another girl. I think my blurbing betrays my sympathies: I am Summer Finn (ha ha, yes, I get the pun, this movie is not what I would call subtle). It's a technically pretty movie, with an attractive, consistent limited-palette theme and a deliberate cutsieness, hangs together at the "would I redbox this" level, and has a likable soundtrack, but I want to scream at Tom, "for a grown man, you're acting an awful lot like a 10 year old girl who didn't get a pony for her birthday!" so it's not a movie I plan to watch twice.
Not entirely by coincidence, I watched 500 Days of Summer this evening. Blurb: nonlinear story of boy-meets-girl, dating/friendship with benefits, breakup, depression, and moving on - with another girl. I think my blurbing betrays my sympathies: I am Summer Finn (ha ha, yes, I get the pun, this movie is not what I would call subtle). It's a technically pretty movie, with an attractive, consistent limited-palette theme and a deliberate cutsieness, hangs together at the "would I redbox this" level, and has a likable soundtrack, but I want to scream at Tom, "for a grown man, you're acting an awful lot like a 10 year old girl who didn't get a pony for her birthday!" so it's not a movie I plan to watch twice.