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| #1 Posted on 7.1.08 1526.02 Reposted on: 7.1.15 1526.28 | This was probably the most enjoyable movie I've seen since SUPERBAD. Funny, sad, and tender all at the same time.
Great flick, I would recommend it to anyone! Promote this thread! | | JustinShapiro
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| #2 Posted on 8.1.08 0543.35 Reposted on: 8.1.15 0545.27 | Honest to blog, this movie was superb. Except for the phrase "honest to blog." | OlFuzzyBastard
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| #3 Posted on 8.1.08 1419.59 Reposted on: 8.1.15 1421.32 | The first ten minutes or so (except for the cameo, which I won't spoil because I want everyone to be as geekily excited as I was to see him) were awful - it came across as a desperate attempt to sound hip from a horribly out-of-touch screenwriter. And then it became fantastic - so spot-on perfect and real that I swear the beginning had to be intentional, but I don't understand why.
But, yes, see this movie. | Cerebus
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| #4 Posted on 8.1.08 1509.37 Reposted on: 8.1.15 1509.51 | It was either the LA Times or Variety where a reviewer wrote that he liked the film a lot, but it main character felt to much like a "...30ish year old ex-stripper trying to hard be a cool screenwriter." and that was exactly how I felt watching the film.
I liked it alright, it's cute and has an alright soundtrack and the characters were good... but she had way better lines then a character like hers should be allowed to. No high schooler I know or have known, talks like she did. It felt too unrealistic to me and it distracted from the enjoyment of the film.
No high schooler would be quick enough to insult someone by saying Sonic Youth is just 'Noise'. That line cracked me up, buy I just can't imagine it coming out of HER mouth.
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| #5 Posted on 8.1.08 1525.41 Reposted on: 8.1.15 1525.44 | No high schooler would be quick enough to insult someone by saying Sonic Youth is just 'Noise'.
FWIW, I've heard someone use that as an insult. You know WHERE? High school. | JustinShapiro
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| #6 Posted on 8.1.08 2105.02 Reposted on: 8.1.15 2106.50 | Originally posted by OlFuzzyBastard The first ten minutes or so (except for the cameo, which I won't spoil because I want everyone to be as geekily excited as I was to see him) were awful - it came across as a desperate attempt to sound hip from a horribly out-of-touch screenwriter.
Honest to blog, I was kind of freaking out during the first ten minutes; after anticipating this movie for months, I was like "uh oh, something's gone wrong. reign it in, reign it in!" Thankfully, they did. I'm gonna go with Women Now, because they help women, now. | Bullitt
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| #7 Posted on 8.1.08 2226.19 Reposted on: 8.1.15 2227.24 | I've said it before, and I'll say it again...
...Michael Cera needs to be in every movie produced. | MonteCarl
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| #8 Posted on 9.1.08 1028.20 Reposted on: 9.1.15 1028.28 | Saw this last night. Good movie, but not great. The dialogue was too "stylized" and "cool" and not like people really talk, and it took me out of the movie a few times. It's the kind of movie that all the young kids are gonna latch on to and run in to the ground to show how cool they are for being in to an "indy" movie, like Napoleon Dynamite. The soundtrack was awesome, though. Lots of Moldy Peaches, who I've dug for awhile now, and Kimya Dawson. Good stuff. | Alex
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| #9 Posted on 9.1.08 2031.43 Reposted on: 9.1.15 2032.10 | No doubt, I am a huge Kimya Dawson fan, and she is all over this movie and it made it very enjoyable for me. The ending has to be one of the sweeter endings I've seen. | Big Bad
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| #10 Posted on 13.1.08 2147.42 Reposted on: 13.1.15 2147.42 | I dunno, do any teen movie characters really sound realistic? The zany dialogue seemed limited just to Juno, her friend and her parents (and, I guess, the convenience store clerk). The adoptive couple and Michael Cera both sounded like 'normal' people. Juno actually sounded like a guy I went to high school with nicknamed PCP --- for Pop Culture Pete. | The King of Keith
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| #11 Posted on 20.1.08 1912.26 Reposted on: 20.1.15 1913.48 | I saw this today and Juno has to be the single most irritating movie character since Napoleon Dynamite. This movie just tried too hard. It was like a Kevin Smith movie on crack. Each line was super stylized and just made me roll my eyes every time. We need less indie movies like this where the characters are all "characters" and more like people. | JustinShapiro
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| #12 Posted on 20.1.08 1929.32 Reposted on: 20.1.15 1932.16 | Kevin Smith movies are Kevin Smith movies on crack and also on gay juice. | kentish
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| #13 Posted on 21.1.08 0957.04 Reposted on: 21.1.15 0958.43 | Originally posted by The King of Keith I saw this today and Juno has to be the single most irritating movie character since Napoleon Dynamite. This movie just tried too hard. It was like a Kevin Smith movie on crack. Each line was super stylized and just made me roll my eyes every time. We need less indie movies like this where the characters are all "characters" and more like people.
I might not go as far as you, because I liked the movie. However, I do think it tried too hard a lot of times, and though if they reeled it in a little on the snappy dialogue, it would have been more natural and realistic. Less is more, as they say. There was still quite a few laugh out loud moments I thought, though. | Super Shane Spear
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| #14 Posted on 21.1.08 1059.45 Reposted on: 21.1.15 1100.41 | Originally posted by JustinShapiro Kevin Smith movies are Kevin Smith movies on crack and also on gay juice.
C'mon. Are you saying that you don't play street hockey on the roof of your local comic book store while talking about your lesbian girlfriend and your newly gay best friend and that one time you fought two fallen angels on earth to a standstill until Alanis God showed up? | blackdragon
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| #15 Posted on 23.1.08 1011.19 Reposted on: 23.1.15 1011.48 | Originally posted by Super Shane Spear
Originally posted by JustinShapiro Kevin Smith movies are Kevin Smith movies on crack and also on gay juice.
C'mon. Are you saying that you don't play street hockey on the roof of your local comic book store while talking about your lesbian girlfriend and your newly gay best friend and that one time you fought two fallen angels on earth to a standstill until Alanis God showed up?
I'm not much of a hockey player, but yeah, that sounds like a typical Saturday afternoon for me. Though, God usually looks like Eva Mendes, sometimes my gay friend and lesbian girlfriend hook up just to make sure they're really gay and usually both of my fallen angels are dicks. | Excalibur05
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| #16 Posted on 27.1.08 0147.01 Reposted on: 27.1.15 0147.21 | I'm actually a little surprised that I seem to be the only one who'd rather have well written/clever dialog than the most realistic dialog possible in a movie. The concepts in Juno are more realistic than most other movies, sure, but I think a movie of this type would have been a lot duller with straight dialog. I actually liked the decision to give Juno some extraordinary wit. | JustinShapiro
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| #17 Posted on 27.1.08 1248.51 Reposted on: 27.1.15 1248.54 | I'm with you. "People don't really talk like that" in almost all movies. | dMp
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| #18 Posted on 27.1.08 1333.40 Reposted on: 27.1.15 1340.22 | Nod. Most movie dialogue is wittier than real conversation. Or more fluent. No stutters, 'eeehm' or anything.
I thought it was a very entertaining movie. Everyone played their parts really well and i enjoyed it thoroughly. While the story really isn't much (girl gets preggers, gives away baby, meets foster folks) I liked the way things played out. For a while I thought the Jason Bateman character was creepy (I'm not quite sure if he was hitting on Juno or not) then it turns out he's just a big jerk.
The music was a big part of the movie and helped maintain the vibe of..I dunno..the alternative mood? | PeterStork
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| #19 Posted on 27.1.08 1409.55 Reposted on: 27.1.15 1416.01 | Originally posted by dMp For a while I thought the Jason Bateman character was creepy (I'm not quite sure if he was hitting on Juno or not) then it turns out he's just a big jerk.
Is he really a big jerk, though? Not to say that his actions were perfect, or certainly perfectly timed, but his encounters with Juno made him realize that his marriage wasn't making him happy, that this was the type of person he should be with and that Alias was just holding him back from what he wanted to do in life. He'd tried to stall for time - putting the ad in the Penny Saver where no one would find it - but when that failed he was confronted head-on with the fact that he hated his life and needed to move on. It was crappy timing, but is it any worse that sticking it out and being miserable or ditching later on after the kid has started to grow attached to you? | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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