Is this the Juno thread?

Yeah, I didn't think this was horrible or anything. I just wasn't really into it. Plus, I really hate Ellen Page. That might have had something to do with it.

i can't fathom why it got oscar love, but part of the reason I can't hate this movie hardcore is that I'm down with those precocious teens getting a movie catered directly to them

― da croupier, Thursday, 23 December 2010 13:15 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see i'd be fine if this at all sounded or acted like teenagers. but wtf was the dialogue? most of the characters sounded like they had a mental disability. it was like cody watched buffy, decided that wasn't enough and tried to do uber whedon dialogue and forgot to make any of it sound logical or make sense.

i don't care that this movie was twee, or lol pro-life or whatever. i just wish that for a precocious teen movie is should have been written to at least be like precocious teens and not some old skank strippers idea of what precocious teens sound like.

geez

lol harsh. However, I'd have to watch it again but I think I kind of agree with that. I remember the dialogue bugging the shit out of me and thinking "nobody talks like that!".

yeah the dialogue is not good, but lol @ ppl who save their rage and vitriol for fuckin' juno

yeah I'm a little worried about a hoy hoy tbh that is a whole lotta anger for what basically amounts to one silly little movie

ha. i wrote that drinking tea. not anger, just... eurgh.

watching this with my grandmother

'one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet'

homeskillet?

omg they just said 'honest to blog'

'honest to blog'

^^^unforgivable.

I didn't hate this movie at the time (altho I didn't particularly like it either) but I hate it more in retrospect

How can anyone watch this without going nuclear

grandmama has pretty advanced dementia [via not knowing who the f i am] so it's kind of washing over her

I started the Juno thread.

this should've ended with j jonah jameson bashing her to death with her faggot burgerphone

― candice spergin (cankles)

I'm sorry...must post

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With that out of the way, I have to concur w/call all destroyer & ENBB. It seems like there are bigger crimes against cinema than this.

God I hate this movie Jason Reitman!

ive not seen this shit but i side w/those who deem it A FELONY!

oh and convincing the world she was a stripper is the greatest trick diablo cody ever pulled - jobs held for writing research purposes do not count

I didn't hate this movie at the time (altho I didn't particularly like it either) but I hate it more in retrospect

OTM.

this isnt a bad movie - like, it's not for me at all, but i expected it to be a lot worse

otm. Finally saw it last year. My first introduction was a clip of the dialog played in an NPR review and I thought it had to be the nadir of everything ever, but there you go.

It seems like there are bigger crimes against cinema than this.

few. i'm totally onboard with the Juno rage. this movie is actively irritating.

someone should do a video where george c. scott watches this scene

Leah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo.
Juno MacGuff: I'm at suicide risk.
Leah: Juno?
Juno MacGuff: No, it's Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting?
Leah: Only the one in my pants...
Juno MacGuff: I'm pregnant.
Leah: What? Honest to blog?
Juno MacGuff: Yeah. Yeah, it's Bleekers.
Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout.
Leah: How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That's amazing...
Juno MacGuff: I don't know, I drank like, ten tons of Sunny D... Anyway dude, I'm telling you I'm pregnant and you're acting shockingly cavalier.
Leah: Is this for real? Like, for real for real?
Juno MacGuff: Unfortunately, yes.
Leah: Oh my GOD. Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!
Juno MacGuff: There we go. That was kind of the emotion that I was searching for on the first take.

"Honest to blog? . . . I'm forshizz up the spout . . . Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!"

._.

After defending Up in the Air against charges of everything from bestiality to mass murder last year (partial exaggeration), I watched Juno for the first time a couple of months ago and was surprised by how thoroughly I disliked it.

I am not gonna lie, I find every ludicrous, tacky turn of "Juno" hilarious

basically, I don't see how you can't laugh your ass off at that dialogue and just enjoy life a little more

could you expand on your dislike, clemenza

also this reminds me of my vow to greet all of my friends with "Yo Yo Yiggady Yo"

Dan I didn't think it was awful or anything but I didn't love it either and the dialogue did bug me a little. I only saw it once though and don't really remember the specifics of why I didn't love it.

I thought it was a on the self-precious side but I pretty quickly started viewing all of the characters as being distorted prisms refracted through Juno's quirkometer and what seemed overly fake turned into ludicrously stylized and hilarious.

Sure--just don't ask me to go down the Up in the Air road again.

I found it hard to look past Juno's character. She seemed like something out of sitcom to me--every line was an acerbic and not especially witty comeback. I found her very tiresome very quickly. I found all the little signs of coolness or whatever that were hung on her--(from memory) Herschell G. Lewis, the Stooges, etc.--contrived. The relationship between her and Jason Bateman didn't seem credible to me at all.

Those were my main objections. But I didn't think the film was evil or anything, hence my exasperation defending Up in the Air last year.

Huh. Yeah I definitely didn't think about it that much at all. I also saw it when I was working with preg teens so I'm pretty sure I was really apprehensive about it in general. I think maybe I found Juno herself really unlikeable too but I can't be sure. I should watch it again someday now that I'm now longer knee deep in that shizz as our little lady herself might say.

diablo cody needs to be dropped down a well and then the mouth of the well needs to be bricked over and then the plot of land the well is on needs to be saturation bombed

Juno isn't particularly likeable but many of the reactions in the movie are so ludicrous that I just spent a lot of time lolling; the only "authentic" scenes in the movie (I believe intentionally so) are the birth scene and its immediate aftermath, although IIRC people act less like caricatures from that point in the movie onward (basically because Juno grows up some after this experience and isn't perceiving everyone around her as sitcom characters).

This is all super half-baked speculation based off of half paying attention to the movie while playing WoW, btw

i kind of liked this movie even though the dialogue is sometimes really irritating. i think the scene tamtam quoted is the worst. jennifer garner's storyline is good, i think.

lol it's hard to argue with strongo's perspective otoh

u think so strongo? honest to blog?

diablo cody needs to be dropped down a well and then the mouth of the well needs to be bricked over and then the plot of land the well is on needs to be saturation bombed

if you did that, Ring-esque tapes would circulate with random images going "Yo Yo Yiggady Yo" and "PHUKET, THAILAND" at you; seven days after watching it, Diablo Cody would crawl out of your television and turn your face into a burger phone

Yeah HS - I remember really liking the Jennifer Garnder bit too and thinking she was great in that role.

jennifer's body is actually obviously worse but for some reason the dialogue irks me less coming out of that delightful amanda seyfried

ha I watched most of "Jennifer's Body" in a bar and, without dialogue, it was kind of great

x-post - garner even - oops

yeah, well, boobs

was the the one with meghan fox? I saw crazy before/after plastic surgery pics of her the other day

little chance jennifer's body is based on the hole song, right? i love that song.

i love hole

it's NAMED after the hole song.

i think.

"The title is a reference to the song of the same name by Hole on their album Live Through This."

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lol I really did not pay attention to Juno, I think I missed almost the entirety of Jason Batemen's part