Just got back from seeing 500 Days of Summer. Why did no one tell me the movie would give me flashbacks to Pushing Daisies? Between the narration, the asides showing factual flashbacks about the characters, and Anna Friel-alike Zooey Deschanel as the female lead, I was expecting someone to reanimate a corpse any moment.
The person in charge of the soundtrack might as well have been reading my mind when making selections. And of course, I completely lost it when the Hall and Oates musical number started up!
The Star Wars joke was the only thing I found funnier than the Hall & Oates number, and the movie had plenty of laughs.
Refresh my memory: which
Star Wars
joke?
I think it's during or near the Hall and Oates where Tom
looks at his reflection and sees Han Solo looking back at him.
Oh right! Yeah, that was pretty awesome.
My favourite joke from 500 Days of Summer was the extended
homage/spoof of the pretentious 50's European movies, complete with a mime (or was it a clown? I think it was a mime.)
I nearly pissed my pants.
I am re-watching "A Room With a View." I love this movie. (sigh)
Of course, now the View is marred by all the cellphone towers....
Sorry, that was my attempt at an uncaffinated joke. Anyway, here's this:
Wired’s Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time
Sept. 1 is the 107th anniversary of the premiere of what’s probably the world’s first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon.
(Yes, we know 107 is not a round number. It’s a prime number, which for these purposes, is even better. So, be silent, earthling!)
To mark the occasion, we asked the staffs of Wired.com and its companion magazine, Wired, to tell us their favorite science fiction flicks. We’re not claiming these are the best, or the greatest, or anything else but our favorites.
Here they are, in chronological order, more or less — there’s an outlier at the end of today’s installment, Today we covers anything that’s pre–Star Wars. Tomorrow we’ll show you our faves from Star Wars (1977) up to 2009.
Some of
my
faves of their faves:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Yay! But, SciFi?
Zardoz (1974)
Yay! Although I haven't seen it.
Lassie Come Home (1943)
OK, they put that one in as a joke.
