Seriously, I can't wait for this absolutely QUIRKY, INDIE, AND OFFBEAT film to come out featuring an AWKWARD boy who has feelings for this wonderfully ARTSY and AWKWARD girl. It is sure to be like NO OTHER INDIE FILM ABOUT A QUIRKY YOUNG WHITE BOY FALLING FOR A QUIRKY YOUNG WHITE GIRL, ever. It'll definately be BETTER THAN 500 DAYS OF SUMMER because it's BRITISH which automatically makes it SMARTER and QUIRKIER and MORE OFFBEAT.
Real talk. No matter how good this movie might actually end up being I'm going to say it's too little too late. It's ultimately the coming-of-age indie straw that broke the pack of Camel cigarette's back.
In my opinion this is how it all started:
We first fucked up by being all like "You're really cool Wes Anderson. Your pacing is so slow yet like i get it, you know? Holy shit is that Owen Wilson? I just saw him in Zoolander and now he's in this?! Wow this music really speaks to me, it would probably speak more to me if i understood French."
Our praise for Wes, and his resulting success seemed to have helped spawn a new breed of pseudo-independent cinema. Movies that find themselves in purgatory between Indie Heaven and Mainstream Hell (or Mainstream Heaven and Indie Hell, depending on how much you liked Transformers).
These new movies have sizable budgets, draw in well known actors, and get a lot of promotion (usually being backed by big lamestream studios) yet at the same time are released only in "select theatres".
Is that what it is? The fucking "select theatres" crap? If say Avatar kept the budget, and actors (most of whom are less known than the ones we find in many of these "indie" films), but decided to only be released in "select theatres" rather than "a theatre near you" would that make it an "indie" film?
Man i never thought i'd say it but, this is where we got to give mumblecore props. Yeah shut up, I like some mumblecore, but only some okay?
Sure mumblecore tends to deal with spoiled white kid issues just like these films do. You know issues like, "i'm so lonely in this world why doesn't anyone understand me? I need to fall in love, that's the only thing that can save me. Wait, what? No dad! I'm not going to law school I don't want to end up like you!" However, mumblebore films are made within a super low budget, don't cast big name Hollywood actors, rely a lot more on DIY ethics, and utilize the filmmaker's community more. For instance, the soundtrack is more likely to genuinely feature bands you've never heard of as opposed to bands you've never heard of until you heard them being played at Urban Outfitters.
So how about this.
If you really need your fix of contemporary alt film bout having an existential crisis and shit then i suggest you throw out your DVD of 500 Days of Summer and instead get yourself a copy of The Puffy Chair (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436689/) or Hannah Takes The Stairs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841108/).
Then maybe check out the web-series Young American Bodies (http://www.youngamericanbodies.com/). I personally prefer this show to a lot of the films because the episodes are short. Meaning, I don't have to worry as much about entering an irritating scene featuring a seemingly endless conversation about tube socks, and wonder how the fuck it relates to anything at all. Hint: it doesn't, but omg that's the point!? Shit, i guess i just really hate mumblecore too.
Fuck it, let's just call it a night and conclude that mumblecore is the lesser of the two evils. If you're still confused about what the fuck mumblebore is (fyi, that's my cute little nickname for it) then here let me link you to the source that knows it best, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblecore).
