1987 + Amusement Park = Good Times

So Dunner and i just finished watching the movie "Adventureland" and i found it thoroughly enjoyable. I know the Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA that i was sipping on didn't hurt either.

It's the same director as Superbad which i loved, it's not as funny and totally awkward but that's because these people are trying to come to terms that they work at an amusement park for a living, cut them some slack, they are almost carney status. What is the epitome of a carney? That is a whole other blog post and i am going to leave those comments for my friend littles to explain in her blog. The awkward charachters are why i love this movie or maybe it's because it's set in 1987and i was loving the soundtrack. Or was it the club they liked to hang out at called "Razzmatazz"? hmmmm Or their uniform t-shirts seen here:



The only thing that ruined it for me is the "too cool" actress that is Kristen Stewart... yeah yeah she is the lead in the twilight movies. She totally bugs, what's her problem? Is she "too cool" for the screen?! C'mon sweetie your no female James Dean, your far from it and you have no talent. Josh and i started a new drinking game set to this movie, every time Kristen Stewie does this:



you take a drink, she does it every 2 minutes and it drives me bonkers..

Guest Blog by Shannon: 500 Days of Summer Movie Review

500 Days of Summer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel is a fantastic romantic movie. Rarely have I seen a movie which so honestly depicts a real relationship.




Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the little kid from 3rd Rock from the Sun) plays Tom, a geek-chic hipster who hates his job as a greeting card writer, who falls hard for the new girl at work, Summer (Deschanel). Summer is truly adorable free spirit and doesn’t want to be in a relationship. The two start hooking up which inevitably leads to an undefined relationship that lasts 500 days (like the title, get it? get it?)
Through the course of their relationship Tom is way more in love with Summer, than Summer is with Tom. This pretty much sums up every relationship I ever had before I met my husband, which might be why I loved the movie so much. I also found it so refreshing to see that the love-sick character is a man and not some neurotic, flaky, whiny women, which is all to often is played by Katherine Heigl, Kate Hudson or Jennifer Aniston.

500 days of Summer does a great job of avoiding the formulaic romantic comedy and uses a few cutesy movie tricks to tell the story; a Movie Phone voice narrator, a story that jumps around in time, an all out Broadway dance number, and my personal favorite -a split screen depiction of Tom attending a party with one side an enactment of his expectations for the evening and the other his reality played simultaneously.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is about as charming as they come and I can’t wait to see him in his next movie role. My only real criticism of the movie is that Zooey Deschanel, while adorable, always seems to be playing Zooey Deschanel in each of her movies. To date, the women lacks any sort of range as far as I am concerned.
Oh yeah, and the art direction on this movie rocks. All in all, two thumbs way up!
Thanks Betsy for letting me stop by and blab!

THANK YOU Shannon for taking the time to share your thoughts on the movie! I can't wait to see it!! You have me intrigued to see the different techniques they use to film the scenes...and other than the movie Elf, what other movies has Zooey Deschanel been in? If there were more i can't remember them, needless to say she is adorable.