Is this the Juno thread?

they're dong a pretty good job of banning themselves atm

"Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either."

hearing diablo cody dialogue coming out of patton oswalt's mouth is going to make me want to start believing in god so i can curse him.

i don't know about patrick wilson being in everything all of a sudden. he bugs me.

this is really setting the stage for Strongo Almighty

i don't even think i know who he is? charlize theron i know of course because she was the first african to win an oscar.

he looks like a ken doll

he played the gay mormon in the hbo adaptation of angels in america

that was good casting, but i don't like him as a leading man

ohhh this guy was nite owl okay

Patrick Wilson was Nite Owl in "Watchmen" and the husband in "Insidious"

i get all these rugged gq types with highly defined jawlines mixed up all time

he's not rugged enough the planes of his face look like they've been sanded smooth

i get that uncanny valley thing looking at him

for a while i thought ryan reynolds got his start in an american pie movie or something

i've completely lost track of popular culture

patrick wilson is sort of a wiener. he weirds me out too horseshoe

actually i think 'goober' is the word i wanted to use there - hes tall and good looking but has an essential goobertude to him

yes!

when I saw ryan reynolds in the green lantern I was like oh look it's the two guys a girl and a pizza place dude

he was on the nickelodeon canadian soap opera fifteen

I had to look him up but there's something strange about him. It might just be goobertude, yeah.

OMG FIFTEEN

He so was.

hahahahahahahahaha

I hated the insipid blonde girl on that show.

haha i forgot he was "van wilder"

he was also a ferret in a previous life

that blonde girl always looked so pained. she was on an episode of the x-files later...i think that was just her face! unfortunate.

He's so good looking it's weird. Like he's too handsome. I don't know. There's something hot about flaws and I can't find any on him. He doesn't seem real. He's hot but in a creepy way imo. Too perfect.

that blonde girl always looked so pained. she was on an episode of the x-files later...i think that was just her face! unfortunate.

tbh if I had to put up with Monk, I'd have that look on my face 24/7 too

I hated the insipid blonde girl on that show.

So did I! I was so weirded out when I found out Ryan Reynolds was on Fifteen.

I feel like her voice was also annoyingly soft and high. I might just be making things up now though.

you guys

there were 81 episodes of "Two Guys and a Girl"

wtf

the ryan reynolds wiki reminded me of my favorite wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBgWdlyt4VA&feature=related

she was always whining. ashley. i preferred brooke, the evil one, played by a woman who was clearly in her 30s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPVVTYV3wqM&feature=related

A+ dancing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Possibly_living_people

hm

"The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 529,974 total."

if you are one of the 6.93 billion people not listed among the 529,974 in the "living people" category i am sorry to inform you that you're actually dead

Living people is a winner, yeah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Undead_people

so where's the ilx convo about Young Adult?

was a thread maybe or at least some talk in the sandbox

did you like it?

I really want to see that :/

where the hell is tape store lately

i liked it. i mean, very alienating, and unapologetically bleak (esp the ending where there's a moment of self-awareness before total narcissism is reconstituted), but i laughed a lot and it made me feel so good about my life. not generally a feeling i get from art, but one i enjoyed here! (and that feeling makes me suspicious that this film is actually pretty reactionary, and maybe even misogynistic?)

huh now I want to see it even more

Just because I didn't expect the sort of thing you describe at all, I mean.

it's pretty good. best movie by reitman or cody so far (i have a great distaste for reitman as a person but as a director he's getting better with every movie). i found some of the character beats unconvincing, but i admired its miserable tone, its willingness to be unfunny, and its resistance to a big this-person-is-changing-before-your-eyes character arc. theron gives the best and bravest performance of her career

diablo cody talked abt some tweaks it went through from script > screen on marc maron's wtf podcast & it was p illuminating

i didnt take it as reactionary or misogynistic but i can see how you could get there i guess

yah charlize is amazing as hell in it

I really like CT and I have heard only good things about her in this. That's the main reason I want to see it. Definitely wasn't because of Cody's involvement, that's for sure.

cody really scaled it back, tbh. allowed a few scenes to speak for themselves without being punctuated by rapid-fire witty dialogue. and while there's still some of that cutesy talking in the movie, the quirkiness is mostly confined to things like a Teenage Fanclub song being an implicit plot point, or ppl wearing Pixies shirts + other cultural references (vinyl toys! home bourbon brewing!).

i also wonder what to think about the fact that Cheron's character (Mavin iirc) is always watching trashy reality shows ie Kardashians, Real Housewives, etc. i guess the implication is that she's as vapid as these shows but in my experience no one watches these shows without some level of ironic distance. you watch them to laugh at the characters, or to talk about how ridiculous it is.

also, the film feels very judgmental about Mavis, but don't her actions strongly imply mental illness? for sure we are given strong indications of obsessive compulsion, alcoholism, psychopathy, possibly even psychosis? like she seems like a seriously unwell lady. we are given the scene where she tells her SOILERKINDA? parents that she thinks she might be an alcoholic, and the way they interact with her suggests that they've been ignoring what might have been a long history of mental illness. ENDSPOILER but then we're totally supposed to be repulsed by her, bc frankly she's repulsive, w/ very little space for empathy.