this looks so awful
― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
by "one amazing performance" I hope you're talking about Vern Schillinger
― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not that bad but it's not that good either. the dialogue was real bad and it's pretty corny indie but even if it wasn't executed so amazingly i was glad to see a movie about a teenage girl who is interested in things and has a personality w/o being old guy jerkoff fantasy
― A B C, Sunday, 25 November 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Except she is, kind of. But I actually thought was the most interesting part of the movie -- the relationship between her and Jason Bateman -- in that it introduced some palpable tension and raised questions about the nature of their attraction to each other.
I dunno, I liked this for the most part, but some of the dialogue and the indie-quirky aesthetic was pretty grating, to be sure.
― jaymc, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i kind of want to see for michael cera alone, but it looks pretty annoying
― n/a, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Cera only has about a dozen lines.
― jaymc, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
(Like, I'm not really sure why he's second-billed.)
Same reason Brando is second-billed in Apocalypse Now.
Because he's hugely fat, lazy, unprepared, and argumentative.
― kenan, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://z.about.com/d/tvcomedies/1/0/Y/-/-/-/george_michael_bluth.jpg
"Talk about the bloodlust."
Huh.
Also disappointed that Bateman and Cera never appear in the same scene, although J.K. Simmons uses the term "Pop-Pop" at one point.
― jaymc, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Except she is, kind of
I mean I'm pretty sure she's not the screenwriter's jerkoff fantasy. Except the primarily non-sexual jerkoff fantasy of being a sassy independent quirk icon I guess. I thought the relationship btwn her and Batman was the most interesting thing too
― A B C, Monday, 17 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
haha Batman
Does it really end with them singing a Moldy Peaches song to each other? Is Miranda July watching through the window Dawson style?
― da croupier, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i got suckered into this unawares...
dialogue is so ridiculous this is destined to be b-movie cult fodder in 10-20 years (heathers, valley girl, etc.)
the girl (Juno) is okay but the guy (Bleeker) is pretty great! Dad and step mom are not bad either.
Should i feel scared that the Jason Bateman character reminded me a little too much of myself? Eek.
the Alias chick bugs. i have a feeling she wasn't acting and that's her true self. grody to the max.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i really hate these kinds of movies.
― latebloomer, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
This isn't as much one of those kinds of movies.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Though the opening few minutes make it seem like it will the the MOST of those kinds of movies.
Michael Cera only has about a dozen lines.-- jaymc, Monday, December 17, 2007 8:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link(Like, I'm not really sure why he's second-billed.)-- jaymc, Monday, December 17, 2007 8:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- jaymc, Monday, December 17, 2007 8:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
18 Superbad Sony 21,463,226 3,069 $33,052,411 2,948 8/17/07 10/21/07
Yeah, that's baffling alright.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
actually once i see this i might like it, i just hate having to feel like i should be seeing it since eveyrone is talking about
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it.
Saw this tonight, and really hated that just about every character in the film practically screamed "I AM SUCH A QUIRKY WITTY SCREENWRITER, AND BTW I HAVE AWESOME TASTE IN MUSIC". I had to sneak into another movie afterwards just to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
so Gilmore Girls: The Movie, basically?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It's even got a Garden State scene where they replace The Shins with Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters. Your move, Zach Braff.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing is I'm not even sure what kind of movie Junebug was in the end - superficially it had some quirky indie signifiers but my reaction in the end was mostly just "huh?"
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it was basically a music video.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked this movie. it's very likeable. and funny.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Perpetua beat you to this.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Roger Ebert is "backing" this one the way he did Crash, so I'm very afraid.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure it deserves all the plaudits it's been getting, but there is something quite likeable about it once you get past all the "indie signifiers."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
saw it last weekend, i enjoyed it. i definitely agree that the dialogue in the first 15 or 20 minutes was wayyy too much, and while the quirky dialogue is there to stay, the characters/story get rounded a bit more. overally i thought it was a cute indie flick. a bit over the top tweeness with a lot of the music, but i guess it worked with the film. a lot of self-consciously indie tropes used but the film had a decent aesthetic going on.
good performances all around, i thought. michael cera was awesome, even if he only had a few lines. i haven't seen arrested development, does he play pretty much the same role?
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
there is something quite likeable about it once you get past all the "indie signifiers."
exactly.
man any interest I had in this (mostly bc of Cera & Bateman) is rapidly draining away.
― will, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Even besides all the indie sigs, besides the obnoxiously stylized dialog, the whole message of the film is srsly dubious.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
If your teenage lover gets prego, don't sweat it, dude. With adoption, you can put blinders on, and after 9 kinda shitty (but kinda punkrock) months, she can forget about the whole thing too.
This film is an awesome sex ed tool.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
my hangover's telling me not to see any movies made after 1978
― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Mostly OTM, although Janney, Batemen, and Garner are pretty good. They can act through a mouthful of moldy peaches.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
This movie was too much like Ghost World, with Bateman playing Steve Buscemi in Gap clothes.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
This movie was too much like Ghost World
I wish.
― Eric H., Saturday, 22 December 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked it. I thought it was sweet.
― Simon H., Sunday, 23 December 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought it was enjoyable too, though most negative comments here and elsewhere seem to center around the film's self-awareness and being too clever for its own good, which made me wonder: where is that line between clever and too-clever/in-love-with-its-own-cleverness, and how do you know when it has been crossed?
i suspect sincerity has a lot to do with it, and perhaps the film's first 15 minutes vs the rest of it is a good example of where that line is drawn. but again, i laughed at the first 15 minutes "despite" knowing how hard it was trying -- so does it really matter if it's not being "honest"?
― alex in montreal, Sunday, 23 December 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't laugh at all. These things are subjective. I mean, it was unbearable for a whole fucking hour before Reitman let things breathe.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 December 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
when was the last time a screenwriter did this much more publicity for a film than the director?
― da croupier, Sunday, 23 December 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean there are people like Charlie Kauffman who get press, but I don't think he went on TV with the star while Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze stayed at home.
If you ran a studio, would you support someone named "Jason Reitman" or "Diablo Cody"?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 December 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
saw this. bad movie. bad bad bad.
― homosexual II, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
but where are the screenwriters who want publicity?
― remy bean, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I just saw it. First third is in overdrive establishing what a firecracker Juno is, but after the movie settles in, it improves.
The dialogue is way overwritten and everybody talks like uber-hip robots instead of like people but Michael Cera actually comes out human. It was interesting how we sided with the male yuppie at first and the woman seemed obsessive and anal until it switches and we come to see that she really wants this kid and the guy is a selfish prick.
The soundtrack is oppresively twee however. It's worth seeing and kind of enjoyable but nothing specatcular.
― filthy dylan, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
If the director had been a hipster stripper, I'm sure he'd get more of the press work.
― milo z, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
a Stripster?
― latebloomer, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Though the opening few minutes make it seem like it will the the MOST of those kinds of movies."
OTM, I was cringing for the first dozen or so minutes. Anyway I was bugged by all the usual things I am bugged by (overuse of soundtrack nonsense, cute-sy little credits, dialogue so snappy that it hurts your ears, and an overabundance of twee nonsense that even Miranda July might have thought better of filming) BUT to this movie's credit it's a lot better than most films of this ilk (esp. acting-wise) and a couple of affecting and funny moments manage to sneak in (possibly by accident.) I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but you could do a lot worse.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
look here's the thing
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:49 (ten years ago) link
and i'm alec baldwin for wnyc
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:50 (ten years ago) link
but i didn't know if i was gay or straight
and i married a lady
a WOMAN i mean b/c
"lady," what's that all about
but in high school ...
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
just as many guys i found attractive as girls
so it is great to hear ellen page, oscar nominee for juno (2007)
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:52 (ten years ago) link
wasn't she one of barbara walters's most fascinating people of 2007?
like was michael cera, similarly aged star of "superbad," which was probably a much bigger commercial hit, a baba wawa holiday go-to?
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
no b/c "juno" was a jason reitman film and socially relevant, wtf
b/c jason bateman listens to the sonic youth cover of the carpenters' "superstar"?
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:54 (ten years ago) link
like ok whatever critics
much love to jk simmons tho
as papa juno
and her mom was who, alison janney? predictable much?
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
but honest to blog?
ok but good for her
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:56 (ten years ago) link
even tho i bet roller derby girls are like, "you know, i thought you would represent the sport in a non-stereotypical way..."
and now
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:57 (ten years ago) link
there's that andy samberg snl sketch that ppl are too glad to bring up
ughhhhhhh i just found a site i was going to link here but it is such bad clickbaity "lol the internet" omg i am depressed
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link
ellen philpotts-page, as i remind myself
that is her honest-to-blog name
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:00 (ten years ago) link
<3
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
I hate to interrupt jaymc, but I think it's fine she came out. She also seems quite talented but just hasn't made any good films that I've seen*, it happens these days.
It'd be nice if just ANY celebrity telling us that they is a same-sexer wasn't news meant to THRILL us all (esp gullible young people), but then it would be a world where a 76-year-old man (NO MATTER HOW ADMIRABLE AND TALENTED) wouldn't be famous solely for saying "Warp factor five" over and over 45+ years ago.
I do think the SNL sketch should have ended with her using a strap-on to take Samberg.
mook, "sisterhood"? really?
* I have seen Inception and that Woody Allen Rome thing.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link
Jaymc wins the internet today.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:10 (ten years ago) link
The funniest comment i have read about this was "She is a Canadian lesbian who came to prominence in Juno, which co-starred the Canadian lesbian Michael Cera." No, I am not proud for lolling at that.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
you can interrupt me that's fine. i was in a rabbit hole. i found a drake blog post from 2009 in which he professed his crush on ellen page (lol canadians): http://octobersveryown.blogspot.com/2009/01/im-gonna-go-to-women-nowcause-they-help.html
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
She was the best part of the Woody Allen Rome thing (faint praise I know, and this comes from the guy who started the anticipation thread).
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
ugh i forgot i had written this whole thing, which is likehttp://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/16/macklemore-fur-coat.jpgbut
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
still
i hope dlh is having a good night
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
going to just listen to william orbit for the next 6 hours
"water from a vine leaf" on repeat
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:17 (ten years ago) link
going to just listen to william orbit The Moldy Peaches for the next 6 hours― jaymc, Sunday, February 16, 2014 1:16 AM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jaymc, Sunday, February 16, 2014 1:16 AM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fixed
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:19 (ten years ago) link
i think i'm gonna make another pb&j so night's lookin up
be well jmc
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:24 (ten years ago) link
word. that was my dinner.
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 07:27 (ten years ago) link
my only issue with her in "inception" was like "hi i'm exposition" but at the same time i am officially on record of LOVING THE EXPOSITION IN THE FILM "INCEPTION," DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN (2010)
― jaymc, Sunday, 16 February 2014 08:10 (ten years ago) link
That Drake blog post is wow.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 February 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
i hadn't put it together that she's played a love interest of M Cera and J Eisenberg; gotta be a joke in there
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 February 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/17/juno-diablo-cody-georgia-alabama-abortion-bans/?utm_term=.739c68911421
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Ellen Page has come out as Trans, and is now Elliott Page.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Storybook ending if he and Drake end up together.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Elliot Page's abs look better than Drake's, and that is exactly the kind of Canadian on Canadian violence I rock with— Obdurate Good Faith (@LiveNudeJulia) May 25, 2021
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link