Juno is a great movie

[kaiser soze]

Just saw it with my girlfrienf and it was witty, young, racey, silly and sad. Tons of of laughs and yes...sobbing by the audience

Excellent date movie (y) if you were wondering don't do it anymore ;)

[cosmo105]

two words


Garden



State

[kaiser soze]

making comparisons or suggestions?

never saw Garden State....but I'm watching Star Wars right now

[funk63]

looked kinda gay to me, like, i'd be embarrassed to buy a ticket. but if i was with a girl itd probly be ok.

[Yeti]

Hey, I'm a guy and I liked Juno. Oh, I forgot that I taped Project Runway. Gotta go.

[kaiser soze]

I don't know how a chick getting pregnant by a guy is gay...but hey maybe the "gay" umbrella covers heterosexual situations as well now

Yeti liked Juno so should you

[HEIRESS]

Im gonna go this weekend and support those fine canadian actors.

[instigator7022]

the only line my friend can quote from that movie is "her house smelled like soup."

[Jitters]

Still wanna see Juno but no theaters around here are playing it :(

[abcdefz]

I walked out after about an hour.

Juno is kind of a little bitch. She treats people like shit, feels very superior.

Dialogue was too "clever" by half.

Ugh.

Directing was good, though, and the acting was good.

[YoungRemy]

why would you walk out of a movie with good directing and acting a-z?

I , too, took my lady, and for the first time in a long time we both loved it...

i also thought the acting was good, I especially liked the relationship between jason bateman and jennifer garner's characters.

michael cera is a fine young talent, and ellen page knocked it out of the park when she pulled over on the side of the road...

[abcdefz]

Because the movie was insufferable. All the "attitude" bundled up in Juno, the twee music... they even managed to make "After Hours"
look bad by the company it keeps.

Frankly, I kind of wanted someone to slap the shit out of Juno instead of her dad pawning it off as (paraphrasing) her "special
sense of humor."

The opening credits were good, but then the movie got off waaaaaaayyyy on the wrong foot with that antagonistic, overwritten
exchange between Rainn's character and Juno. Just awful.

Highly stylized dialogue is really hard to pull off. Nothing came out of that girl's mouth that didn't sound written. Just awful.

[YoungRemy]

feels very superior?

(!)

you didn't see the whole movie!?

[funk63]

see. gay as i predicted.

[beastieangel01]

I want to see it.

[Dorothy Wood]

I agree with a-z, but I didn't walk out. I actually liked the movie. The dialogue was unfortunate, but the story and characters were likable.

I don't really like that actress, she's a little too precious/precocious. and in interviews, she seems like she thinks she's a little too cool.

However, Michael Cera is just the best thing ever. and I love love love Allison Janey for some reason. and Jason Bateman.


The music references were a little cringe-worthy too...but I liked it. I like Garden State too. SO SUE ME!

(actually, I watched Garden State the other day and about 40% is lame. I do like Peter Sarsgaard though. I want to put my mouth on his mouth.)

[Burnout18]

Juno sucked, real bad... it was not even close to funny.

[tracky]

I started watching it last night as was enjoying it but I did fall asleep about half way through. I know what people mean by the dialogue sounding written and forced, but it was still entertaining enough.

[Kid Presentable]

the only line my friend can quote from that movie is "her house smelled like soup."

Where you been? What's new?

[Burnout18]

I started watching it last night as was enjoying it but I did fall asleep about half way through. I know what people mean by the dialogue sounding written and forced, but it was still entertaining enough.

knowing ppl on this site i'd figure this would be the one place that hates, MTV like sarcasm and forced BS half ass humor.

[Yeti]

Highly stylized dialogue is really hard to pull off. Nothing came out of that girl's mouth that didn't sound written. Just awful.

Didn't Diablo Cody get nominated for a Golden Globe for the best screenplay? I also think she was nominated for best screenplay for the Writers Guild Awards. I think it is very funny that everyone bashes the dialogue yet she is lauded for her work.
It is very curious.

[Documad]

Bad wisecracky dialogue is often rewarded if it's perceived to be hip. I used to be a sucker for it myself when I was younger. Plus Hollywood is always giving writing awards to fairly new writers. It's the one place where they can do something they perceive as daring (like giving awards to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck).


It's a deeply conventional movie in a hip wrapper. That's probably my least favorite kind of movie. It reminded me of that movie they made on the second Project Greenlight.

I was also the only person who hated Forest Gump. And that thing won a million awards. That was a very painful year to be a movie fan. :rolleyes:

[beastieangel01]

now I saw it
and again, nothing amazing but not bad, either. IMO anyway. I too was not a big fan of the main actress but it wasn't bad enough to turn me away from it.

I am with DW on this one.

[adam_f]

I saw this with my best black amigo and I didn't get laid. Some date movie.

[kaiser soze]

This movie sucked...what rubbish

[DrunkenMantis]

this was a great film and a very good soundtrack. it's a great movie for a music lover too, even if you can't identify all the music in the film.

[alikat]

she's a little too precious/precocious. and in interviews, she seems like she thinks she's a little too cool.

However, Michael Cera is just the best thing ever. and I love love love Allison Janey for some reason. and Jason Bateman.


I agree with that across the board (except that I haven't seen the actress in interviews -- but why am I not surprised). I felt like this was yet another movie trying to emulate Wes Anderson-esque geek cinema without the heart to back it up. You can't force quirky. It was all too "look how cute this is!" "Look how witty this is!" for my taste.

But I hate to crap on something that gave people a good time in the theater -- most people I know enjoyed it, and I'd say it's worth seeing for the acting.

ps - Garden State is to the Shins as Juno is to the Moldy Peaches. I call overuse!!!

[AceFace]

i liked it.

[abcdefz]

I was also the only person who hated Forest Gump.



Rest assured that you weren't.

[jabumbo]

after reading this thread, i don't know if i want to see this one or not


the previews make it look desirable, but they usually do that for me. i'll probably see it eventually, but i don't know if this makes it theater worthy for me.

[abcdefz]

Didn't Diablo Cody get nominated for a Golden Globe for the best screenplay? I also think she was nominated for best screenplay for the Writers Guild Awards. I think it is very funny that everyone bashes the dialogue yet she is lauded for her work.
It is very curious.



A lot of it is just the hype, I think. There's obviously intelligence going on in the script (even though it's a snarky, arrogant intelligence), and
the woman has sold her backstory where she supposedly used to be a stripper, etc. etc. Now she's got a job writing a shit column (so far)
in Entertainment Weekly, so it seems like a good PR story these days: unrepentant stripper becomes screenwriter for the hip, indie set blah
blah blah.

I don't think Juno is nearly the train wreck that Crash was, but I think when the dust settles and people stop feeling so smart
and hip for liking this, they'll look back on it and wonder what the hell they were thinking.

[kaiser soze]

I thought this movie was a refreshing step away from the countless Will Ferrel, Own Wilson, etc. etc. clones....funny but fucking stupid

Minus Stranger than Fiction...that was awesome

I don't think Juno is nearly the train wreck that Crash was, but I think when the dust settles and people stop feeling so smart
and hip for liking this, they'll look back on it and wonder what the hell they were thinking.

hmmm, maybe but it was a fun date movie.

[A. Chimendez]

I don't know why I even bothered to search for a Juno thread.

[adam_f]

I don't know why you bothered to tell us that.

[abcdefz]

Oh, bother!

[Auton]

A lot of it is just the hype, I think. There's obviously intelligence going on in the script (even though it's a snarky, arrogant intelligence), and
the woman has sold her backstory where she supposedly used to be a stripper, etc. etc. Now she's got a job writing a shit column (so far)
in Entertainment Weekly, so it seems like a good PR story these days: unrepentant stripper becomes screenwriter for the hip, indie set blah
blah blah.

I don't think Juno is nearly the train wreck that Crash was, but I think when the dust settles and people stop feeling so smart
and hip for liking this, they'll look back on it and wonder what the hell they were thinking.

i think my eyes just rolled right out of my head- you know, maybe some of us actually really liked the movie for what it was. I didn't read or hear SHIT about it until i watched it, and afterwards i saw it got amazing reviews and was very pleased that everyone liked it as much as i did. during the first five minutes i was thinking "yeah, ok, no 16 year old is that clever," but then i remembered i was watching a fucking movie. yeah, no one in real life talks like that. where's all your aaron sorkin threads trashing his stuff?

[abcdefz]

West Wing pulled it off. Like I said, stylized dialogue is tricky.

Brick barely got it. Miller's Crossing nailed it.

[abcdefz]

i think my eyes just rolled right out of my head- you know, maybe some of us actually really liked the movie for what it was.




-- a lemming-riffic experience!

[Auton]

yeah it's too bad we're all not as unique and individual and specially special like you huh? i would kill to go against the grain like you do, a-z! you're like a mighty rock standing up against a whole tsunami of cultural conformity!

[abcdefz]

You're just embarrassed that you liked a shit movie.

[taquitos]

A) juno was jupiter's wife, not zeus'

B) it's "thunderbirds are go" and "thundercats, hooo!"

regardless, movie suck3d