Is this the Juno thread?

the scene with the ultrasound technician is pretty terrible, too.

A total failure. Janney did the best with those curdled wisecracks, but I ended up sympathizing with the technician.

oh, sorry lauren. I didn't put your two comments together.

But yeah, fuck the technician for being relieved that the baby was going to be adopted.

by the end of that scene, i was hoping that the technician would punch her in the stomach.

"See? You can have an abortion after all!"

Also, I didn't get where Michael Cera was the entire film. He was the father, and he had about 10 minutes on screen. I understand that these kids weren't going to be the parents, but you'd think there'd be SOME fallout.

juno's character was so unsympathetic. she reminded me of this girl i hated in high school.

dmr OTM, and i can't believe an ad i saw on tv recently uses "honest to blog!" as a potential selling point for this movie

also, kimya dawson = NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=102906&is_large=true

"honest to blog" = my new leftwing political blog name, holmes. 4 rlz, homeskilletz.

xpost yeah, there's that too, juno being incredibly annoying

i do hope this movie gets people to see WIZARD OF GORE tho

the theater ERUPTED when wilson said "home skillet." also, when the asian girl said "borned."

so was jason bateman supposed to be scamming on juno personally or just generally awakened to the idea of being with someone who shared his interests?

weird, both of those lines got polite chuckles at best where i saw it (in an audience comprised mostly of kids my age or younger)

Jason Bateman seemed a bit... ya know... like a pedophile.

so was jason bateman supposed to be scamming on juno personally or just generally awakened to the idea of being with someone who shared his interests?

Both, but he has the good fortune of not being in love with her, as Cera plainly is.

he was definitely scamming on her

he was so horrifying.

the bit when jennifer garner says, "your shirt is ugly. grow up." might have been favorite part.

juno + superbad = canadian invasion

Yeah, if it weren't for Jennifer Garner, I probably couldn't have ever made it through the second time around.

Superbad > Knocked Up > Juno

Was anyone else waiting for a wink-wink/nudge-nudge Michael Cera Jason Bateman moment?

is Cera capable of wink-wink? His whole appeal consists in his absolute sincerity.

Bateman has enough licentious wink in him for the both of them.

why bother wink-and-nudging over a TV show nobody saw

"At one point we were joking that he would walk by in the background of a scene and I would do a double-take as if to be like, 'I know that guy from somewhere!' " Bateman grinned. "But we never ended up doing that."

keeping Jason Bateman's bad ideas offscreen are second-best to keeping him offscreen.

he's good in Dodgeball

I guess I can understand hating on this movie, but I couldn't really do it myself. Undiscussed in this thread--THAT is how you fucking pace and structure a screenplay. It's formulaic, it's simple, but it's pretty much a lost art in Hollywood these days. There isn't a second of wasted motion in this movie and that helps mitigate its lamer moments.

You pace and structure a screenplay by making the last 15 minutes a buncha different lazy music-driven montages?

There should have been a sequel to <i>Teen Wolf Too</i>.

Or one big montage or whatever...I haven't seen it, so I shouldn't even be chiming in, but it sounds terrible

i liked this movie ok, but the soundtrack was atrocious. can't tell if ellen page is charming or obnoxious half the time. liked her folks, tho. dad was a champ. cera seems like a bro.

I thought the music got better as it went along - the opening song was really really annoying, but the closing one was just right. I didn't notice any more music in the last 15 minutes than in any other chunk of the movie.

i thought pacing and structure were a huge problem. the main part is a barrage of snarky monologues, to the point that the characters don't actually engage with one another. then, wham! comes the last bit and the "heartfelt" mushiness: it's really hard being pregnant, i'm not in love with you anymore, i had to make sacrifices for you, yadda yadda. it's difficult to have it both ways. a few minutes of boohooing wasn't going to get me to warm up to the cast.

i am pretty much on board with lauren here in that this movie was a big stinker

Yeah, it was pretty terrible.

You pace and structure a screenplay by making the last 15 minutes a buncha different lazy music-driven montages?

Sure you do. It's a happy ending--it's about tying everything up. This isn't groundbreaking shit, it's writing an entirely competent comedic film.

For all the bitching about the music in this movie, I don't remember a single thing about it except the church/steeple line from the last song. Is it really that big of a deal?

Score one for the ladies.

Lauren, I think you're really overstating the shift that takes place here. The whole thing seemed pretty even in tone to me. I mean, yeah, it's gonna get more serious--every movie like this does. But I didn't think it got anywhere near mushy. The end rang a lot more true than Little Miss Sunshine or whatever bullshit.

a) what happened to the thread for all the movie assholes and how did you guys manage to escape from it?

b) so those of you who totally hated this movie: did you not read any reviews or even synopses of this movie before you saw it? did you just pick a movie at random? because every review i read talked about the twee indie music, the precocious dialogues, and everything else you whiners are complaining about. so why the fuck did you go see it?

Watch out when this movie/character becomes "one for the ages," as the TV ads promise.

very review i read talked about the twee indie music, the precocious dialogues, and everything else you whiners are complaining about. so why the fuck did you go see it?

(a) I've a brain (b) Most of the reviews are good to excellent.

she was irritating as hell all the way through , so i suppose that's one constant.

xpost

so why the fuck did you go see it?

we had passes for one of the lamer theater chains, with restrictions, so it came down to juno, one missed call, enchanted, or let them expire. i appreciate concern, nick!

not enough of a brain to read between the lines, i guess

my friend is in 'one missed call' you shoulda seen that

lauren, you'll get no sympathy from me for skipping Enchanted.

And n/a, I didn't hate the movie. I actually liked it a bunch. I just didn't think it was the greatest film of the year.