After the jump, I’ve got the new trailer for Zooey Deschanel/Joseph Gordon-Levitt rom-dramedy 500 Days of Summer, and no matter how many glowing reviews I read, certain things about it just make me wonder what the hell they were thinking.  The beginning of the trailer, for instance, with Zooey wearing those godawful mom pants (oh my God, it’s so hip and edgy how ugly you can make yourself look!), and on top of it, she and Levitt have to have a conversation about their mutual love of the Smiths.  HEY, DIDN’T THIS EXACT SCENE ALREADY HAPPEN IN GARDEN STATE?  Oh, nevermind, that was THE SHINS. MY MISTAKE.  Ugh….
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500 Days of Summer played to rave reviews at Sundance, though of course those reviews come from the same people jerking off to Slumdog Millionaire.  It bills itself as “Boy meets girl.  Boy falls in love.  Girl doesn’t.” Mmm, sounds rapemantic. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, who as I’ve said before, is cute like a baby leopard cub, though I’d still like to bang her.  So, pretty much exactly like a leopard cub.  Anyway, movie looks like it falls somewhere between Garden State and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on the hipster romance movie spectrum.  I confess, I actually like both those movies^*.  Do I have to put on a scarf and sit in the corner listening to Vampire Weekend now?

^{*The latter much more than the former, but still…}