How does When Harry Met Sadness reconsider American Romantic comedy?
Matters of the heart may actively invite fierce overgeneralizations, and sometimes the blanket statements hold up well under scrutiny — but nonetheless, I advise readers of this review to note that I am writing it as part of a calm catharsis of two decades of adult life which I would define as Total Romantic Failure. Also: Professional reviews have grown terribly stale in recent years (or is that the stench wafting from the corpses of disemboweled critics?) and thus I’d rather say it like I see it than play it safe (and boring) as many choose to do — but just you bring a pinch of salt. (500) Days of Summer is not the smartest, funniest or sleekest movie to which Fox didn’t invite me this year — but in its pretentious mope-rock way it is ambitious, thoughtful and fulfilling. And it’s certainly relatable. For I have striven long, hard and generously to love in L.A. — and really, unless you’re a shallow, soulless, trade-’em-up idiot (and/or rich), anything approaching “love” here ulti
Matters of the heart may actively invite fierce overgeneralizations, and sometimes the blanket statements hold up well under scrutiny — but nonetheless, I advise readers of this review to note that I am writing it as part of a calm catharsis of two decades of adult life which I would define as Total Romantic Failure. Also: Professional reviews have grown terribly stale in recent years (or is that the stench wafting from the corpses of disemboweled critics?) and thus I’d rather say it like I see it than play it safe (and boring) as many choose to do — but just you bring a pinch of salt. (500) Days of Summer is not the smartest, funniest or sleekest movie to which Fox didn’t invite me this year — but in its pretentious mope-rock way it is ambitious, thoughtful and fulfilling. And it’s certainly relatable. For I have striven long, hard and generously to love in L.A. — and really, unless you’re a shallow, soulless, trade-’em-up idiot (and/or rich), anything approaching “love” here ulti
