{"id":221,"date":"2009-10-19T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=221"},"modified":"2009-10-19T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:36:22","slug":"500-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/10\/19\/500-days-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"(500) Days of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/500daysofsummer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/500-days-of-summer.jpg\" alt=\"(500) Days of Summer\" title=\"(500) Days of Summer\" width=\"200\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-223\" \/><\/a> (500) Days of Summer (don&#8217;t forget the parentheses!) is a conventional boy-meets-girl story dressed up with a bundle of enjoyable and inventive extras. It&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>The film-makers dug deep into their box of tricks for this film. The timeline zooms back and forth across the 500 days. A voiceover occasionally offers explanations. There&#8217;s a surreal moment when the thunderstruck protagonist turns into a drawing and gets erased, and an even more surreal song-and-dance number during an earlier happy moment.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there are quite a few cliches &#8212; such as the kindly boss, the loveable loser friends and the wise little sister &#8212; there is enough humour in the thing to keep you smiling.<\/p>\n<p>I must single out the film&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/500daysofsummer\/\">website<\/a> for special mention because it (a) looks amazingly low-rent, plastered as it is with ads, (b) has an amusing Sid &#038; Nancy ripoff featuring the leads from the movie (you have to see the film to understand), and (c) lets you make a film poster with your own photos mixed in (as I&#8217;ve done with a few random holiday snaps here &#8212; see if you can spot the Portuguese landmarks).<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(500) Days of Summer (don&#8217;t forget the parentheses!) is a conventional boy-meets-girl story dressed up with a bundle of enjoyable and inventive extras. It&#8217;s a lot of fun. The film-makers dug deep into their box of tricks for this film. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/10\/19\/500-days-of-summer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}