Comments on: More Movies http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3936 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Sat, 16 May 2026 22:00:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Steph http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3936&cpage=1#comment-22745 Steph Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:51:22 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3936#comment-22745 Completely agree about The Town. I kind of don't know why my husband and I rented it because it seemed like one of those movies where the trailer gave the whole story away when it first came out. But rent it we did and despite some rather perilous suspensions of disbelief that were required every so often, it was pretty riveting and much better than I expected. Also, I liked 500 Days of Summer more than my husband did, but I did not love it. I like quirky narrative devices, which I felt this had, but you're right that all of the elements that it had working for it perhaps didn't quite add up. I quite liked JGL, but I don't really get the Zooey Deschanel appeal. She's pretty, and yet her complete lack of affect and prosody make her vaguely femmebottish to me. Completely agree about The Town. I kind of don’t know why my husband and I rented it because it seemed like one of those movies where the trailer gave the whole story away when it first came out. But rent it we did and despite some rather perilous suspensions of disbelief that were required every so often, it was pretty riveting and much better than I expected.

Also, I liked 500 Days of Summer more than my husband did, but I did not love it. I like quirky narrative devices, which I felt this had, but you’re right that all of the elements that it had working for it perhaps didn’t quite add up. I quite liked JGL, but I don’t really get the Zooey Deschanel appeal. She’s pretty, and yet her complete lack of affect and prosody make her vaguely femmebottish to me.

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