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Its movies like (500) Days of Summer that make people love movies. It’s an ode to the past while still being a totally unique and original movie. Although it’s not a love story as it says in the trailer, it's a movie about the modern relationship.

The story is about Tom and Summer. It’s about how the two met, how they broke up and how he tries to get her back. It sounds pretty cut and dry but it’s not even close. The movie doesn’t feature the common fights and arguments that normal romantic comedies do. Those arguments are all over misunderstandings. These arguments are about actual problems and they are displayed that way on the screen. Director Marc Webb did an amazing job executing a great script from writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. This is a one of a kind situation where two parties were the perfect fit for each other. There are split-scene alternate reality shots and tons of other stylistic camerawork working with dialog that’s modern, edgy, and based on life.

The special features on the Blu-Ray include a story of the making of, some deleted scenes, a couple of awesome music videos (that's what Webb is known for), a clip on the movie at Sundance, Interviews with Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the movie and a few other solid extras. Fox also gives you a digital copy so you can watch this movie on the fly on your laptop, iPod, etc.

You really can’t say enough good things about this movie. Director Mark Webb set himself up for tons of interesting work in the future based on his work in this movie. Deschanel is great as she always is and Joseph Gordon-Levitt channels several classic actors and does an outstanding job as the main character. This is a movie that everyone should see at least once. It's that good.