Note: Manic Pixie Dream Girl Alert has been Issued
The Institute's Manic Pixie Dream GIrl evaluation and response desk is officially issuing a class one MPDG alert on 500 Days of Summer:
Current alert level is: Black Eye-makeup and Nail polish.
Lets break this down:
Alt.soundtrack? Check
Young Hipster Cast? Check
Boy Meets, Loses girl plot? Check
Angst? Oh you know it Check
Subcategories:
Female Lead:
Bangs? Check
Quirky? Check
Misunderstoond? Check
Doesn't Belive In Love? Check
Metaphorical Name? Check
Played by Zooey Deschanel? Double Check
Male Lead:
Hipster clothes? Check
Introspective? Check
Misunderstood? Check
Belives in Love? Check
Writes in Journal? Check
Motley Group of Friends? Check
Wants to be an Architect? Check
Isn't currently an Architect? Check
Promotion:
"A Post-Modern Love Story"? Check
Too much Flash on Website? Check
SUNDANCE? Check.
Made by Fox Searchlight? Check
The phrase, "she'll make you love her and then she'll slowly break your heart but you'll just want to love her more until all you see are those glowing blue eyes in your loneliest nightmares" ALREADY been used by a user in an IMDB review? Check.
We, needless to day are very excited about this movie here at the Institute, people this could very well be the Perfect Storm. Not since 'Something Wild" or "Elizabethtown" have I seen a film with this much pure raw MPDG potential. I mean, I was nearly ready to join a monastary just watching the trailer. This suggests that this one is indeed strong in the force...
I need to see this one ASAP. Please note the 7/17 release date on this puppy.
Please take all necessary precautions. We at the Institute recommend stocking up on Duct Tape, Smiths CDs Hot pockets, candles, and Byron's collected works. Remember, there is no Mercy in Romantic Comedy at this level of MPDGness. If you have a storm cellar or civic defense shelter available to you, I'd say go ahead, after all, teh emo poetry you'll be writing sounds soo much better in the DARK. And Gods help you if you take a date. She'll never live up to Zooey's glowing blue eyes, and you'll both go home, get a little too drunk, have vaguely unsatisfying mechanical sex, and wonder what just went terribly, terribly wrong.
As pure and devoted conneisuers of the genre, expect the Institute's complete review posted soon. And I might just need a night of Joe vs. The Volcano to Heal My Troubled Soul.
The IMDB tagline of this movie is: "Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl doesn't." It is beautiful in its sheer awefulness, and I use this in the old sense, awe is encouraged and applied.
Opinions solicited and welcome.
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Current alert level is: Black Eye-makeup and Nail polish.
Lets break this down:
Alt.soundtrack? Check
Young Hipster Cast? Check
Boy Meets, Loses girl plot? Check
Angst? Oh you know it Check
Subcategories:
Female Lead:
Bangs? Check
Quirky? Check
Misunderstoond? Check
Doesn't Belive In Love? Check
Metaphorical Name? Check
Played by Zooey Deschanel? Double Check
Male Lead:
Hipster clothes? Check
Introspective? Check
Misunderstood? Check
Belives in Love? Check
Writes in Journal? Check
Motley Group of Friends? Check
Wants to be an Architect? Check
Isn't currently an Architect? Check
Promotion:
"A Post-Modern Love Story"? Check
Too much Flash on Website? Check
SUNDANCE? Check.
Made by Fox Searchlight? Check
The phrase, "she'll make you love her and then she'll slowly break your heart but you'll just want to love her more until all you see are those glowing blue eyes in your loneliest nightmares" ALREADY been used by a user in an IMDB review? Check.
We, needless to day are very excited about this movie here at the Institute, people this could very well be the Perfect Storm. Not since 'Something Wild" or "Elizabethtown" have I seen a film with this much pure raw MPDG potential. I mean, I was nearly ready to join a monastary just watching the trailer. This suggests that this one is indeed strong in the force...
I need to see this one ASAP. Please note the 7/17 release date on this puppy.
Please take all necessary precautions. We at the Institute recommend stocking up on Duct Tape, Smiths CDs Hot pockets, candles, and Byron's collected works. Remember, there is no Mercy in Romantic Comedy at this level of MPDGness. If you have a storm cellar or civic defense shelter available to you, I'd say go ahead, after all, teh emo poetry you'll be writing sounds soo much better in the DARK. And Gods help you if you take a date. She'll never live up to Zooey's glowing blue eyes, and you'll both go home, get a little too drunk, have vaguely unsatisfying mechanical sex, and wonder what just went terribly, terribly wrong.
As pure and devoted conneisuers of the genre, expect the Institute's complete review posted soon. And I might just need a night of Joe vs. The Volcano to Heal My Troubled Soul.
The IMDB tagline of this movie is: "Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl doesn't." It is beautiful in its sheer awefulness, and I use this in the old sense, awe is encouraged and applied.
Opinions solicited and welcome.
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