Second reaction: The whole "successful underdog" indie phase is done... just, done. There's a great Strong Bad E-mail out right now about how obnoxious the concept has become. Rarely (often) they're right about things... and they kinda pegged the whole concept; album, prepubescent drawings for credits. For lack of a better term, it's all kind of fucked out.
Third reaction: This is another thing I'm going to call now; that was a last movie like this. The ONLY reason Juno & Napoleon Dynamite is in the win bracket was they were AIMED toward teenagers. This just in between and wasn't groundbreaking.
Fourth reaction: That's not to say this this was a bad movie. The editing was interesting but shoddy. After the fourth instance of how in looooooooove Tom was me and the ladyfriend were both very much of the "get on with it!" opinion. The acting... good (Zooey Deschanel showed about as much range and she could actually muster in this movie. Singer, yes. Actress, FAIL.
I hate to rag on a movie that put forth some effort, but it just didn't have enough of anything. The plot was interesting in that it put the main character as self deprecating and realizing. But the story just felt juvenile and the depth was toooooo shallow. Which I suppose was good because a lot of people these days can relate (if this movie was only made 2 years ago...) to monogamy and love
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