Friday, March 26, 2010

500 Pop Culture References of Summer


500 Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb) - Boy meets girl.
Woody Allen - nay, Nora Ephron (replete with five or eight music video montages) - by way of Tarantino (minus violence) and Kevin Smith (minus porntalk and gratuitous cameos), this is another film geek pastiche, every scene lifted from some other pop movie (seconds into You Make My Dreams Come True sequence, I was thinking Fletch Lives, and two minutes later, the cartoon birdie appeared), with the kind of clever, precious dialogue (same writers wrote Pink Panther 2) wherein a ten year-old references Freud and everyone references pop culture.
There's also a narrator.
For yuppies too young to remember Rushmore, let alone The Graduate.

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4 comments:

Missbehave said...

Miss you

Missbehave said...

Miss you sometimes.

Anonymous said...

I didn't like the movie. I just didn't. Though for some reason I liked that they didn't get together.

Anonymous said...

Dan Zukovic's "THE LAST BIG THING", called the "best unknown American film of the 1990's" in the film book "Defining Moments in Movies" (Editor: Chris Fujiwara), was finally released on DVD by Vanguard Cinema (www.vanguardcinema.com/thelastbigthing/thelastbigthing), and is currently debuting on Cable Video On Demand. Featuring an important early role by 2011 Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominee Mark Ruffalo ("Shutter Island", "Zodiac", "The Kids Are Alright"), "THE LAST BIG THING" had a US theatrical release in 1998, and gained a cult following over several years of screenings on the Showtime Networks.

"A distinctly brilliant and original work." Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times
"A satire whose best moments echo the tone of a Nathanial West novel...Nasty Fun!"
Stephen Holden - New York Times
"One of the cleverest recent satires on contemporary Los Angeles...a very funny sleeper!" Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
"One of the few truly original low budget comedies of recent years." John Hartl - Seattle Times
"'The Last Big Thing' is freakin' hilarious! The most important and overlooked
indie film of the 1990's. " Chris Gore - Film Threat