Re: Eternal Sunshine's release date getting pushed from Nov. 14 to "early 2004" (possibly April, according to one of my sources), this comes from one of the Chud message boards:

Well I know why they are pushing the film back. The editor is an Icelandic woman Valdís Óskarsdóttir. There was an interview with her on an Icelandic movie website. She was really angry. Early this summer there was a test screening in New Jersey. 50% of the audience really liked the film but the other 50% didn´t understand the picture. And all agreed that Jim Carrey wan´t funny in the film. Well Valdís says he is not supposed to be funny and the film isn´t comedy but the studio execs panicked and demanded a new cut. Since then there have been other test screenings and she is not happy with the new cut. In her opinion the old cut was by far the superior and the last few months have been a disaster caused by the studio.

I take a grain of salt with anything that comes from a message board (unless it's the BCK Board, a source of truth and nothing but, *cough*), but I figured the delay would be due to something like this.

Thanks to Arthur Dent.

And this not-especially-glowing review of the film comes thanks to Tram Ngo. (Scroll down to the bottom third of the page and go looking for "Eternal Sunshine" in bold letters. Tram didn't write the review, mind you, but sent the link my way.)