If you wanna watch a romantic comedy that’s not lovy dubby and actually gives a wake up slap across the face, 500 Days Of Summer is a must-see (Check out my review). It was a funny, creative, yet realistic way of telling you that believing you won’t be happy until you find your true love is simply a stupid concept. I wish the movie hadn’t been released in the summer, overshadowed by all of the blockbusters around it, but instead of Transformers 2, I highly recommend watching 500 Days Of Summer, whether you’re in a relationship or not, you won’t regret it.
The movie was so damn entertaining, even firstshowing could forgive the fact that screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber penned the despicable Pink Panther 2.
The scribe duo’s next gig is an adaptation of BEGINNER’S GREEK based on the novel by author James Collins that got published last year. Judging from the synopsis below, this might be their next big rom-com hit and I hope Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel would team up again for this project, they can be the new Tom Hanks- Meg Ryan (Joe Versus the Volcanoe, Sleepless In Seattle, You’ve Got Mail)
Here’s the official synopsis of the book…
“When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She’s achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic Mountain, but in his room that night Peter finds the page is inexplicably, impossibly, enragingly…gone.
So begins the immensely entertaining story of Peter and his unrequited love for his best friend’s girl; of Charlotte and her less-than-perfect marriage to a man in love with someone else; of Jonathan and his wicked and fateful debauchery; and of Holly, the impetus for it all. Along the way, there’s the evil boss, the desirable temptress, miscommunications, misrepresentations, fiendish behavior, letters gone astray, and ultimately, an ending in which every character gets his due.
Both incisive and wonderfully funny, this is a brilliantly understated comedy of manners in which love lost is found again.”
