Is this the Juno thread?

i really hate these kinds of movies.

This isn't as much one of those kinds of movies.

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

18 Superbad Sony 21,463,226 3,069 $33,052,411 2,948 8/17/07 10/21/07

Yeah, that's baffling alright.

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

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.

so Gilmore Girls: The Movie, basically?

It's even got a Garden State scene where they replace The Shins with Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters. Your move, Zach Braff.

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?"

it was basically a music video.

i liked this movie. it's very likeable. and funny.

so Gilmore Girls: The Movie, basically?

Perpetua beat you to this.

Roger Ebert is "backing" this one the way he did Crash, so I'm very afraid.

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."

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?

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.

Even besides all the indie sigs, besides the obnoxiously stylized dialog, the whole message of the film is srsly dubious.

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.

my hangover's telling me not to see any movies made after 1978

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.

Mostly OTM, although Janney, Batemen, and Garner are pretty good. They can act through a mouthful of moldy peaches.

This movie was too much like Ghost World, with Bateman playing Steve Buscemi in Gap clothes.

This movie was too much like Ghost World

I wish.

I liked it. I thought it was sweet.

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"?

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.

when was the last time a screenwriter did this much more publicity for a film than the director?

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.

when was the last time a screenwriter did this much more publicity for a film than the director?

If you ran a studio, would you support someone named "Jason Reitman" or "Diablo Cody"?

saw this. bad movie. bad bad bad.

but where are the screenwriters who want publicity?

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.

If the director had been a hipster stripper, I'm sure he'd get more of the press work.

a Stripster?

"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.

The way Reitman primes the audience to laugh at Jennifer Garner's anal-ness, then shows how it's a symptom of her shyness and insecurity, is really well done.

i cant believe how much kimya dawson they crammed into this bullshit

Oh lord did this movie stink.

I liked Michael Cera ("Actually I try really hard," was the best line in the whole movie.)

I liked certain moments, but overall the whole thing felt like a hipped-up afterschool special or Christian teen flick, and it gave me the same nagging sense of distrust.

I could not stand the main character.

I went in fully prepared to hate every second of this movie, especially after seeing it chopped and parsed here and other places. AND considering I generally have a strong distate of the precious indie film genre already. So imagine my surprise at not only laughing through the whole thing, but finding it totally charming and kind of touching in spots. The first 15 minutes, as noted above, don't seem nearly as bad once you've moved past them in the story and can look back and see how they set up the "world" in which the movie exists.

The only real complaint was the copious amounts of music, especially the Kimya/Moldy Peaches content. Can't a movie like this have a score instead of a indie fuX0r soundtrack, fer chrissakes?

ugh

is this like thumbsucker?

I made it less than 10 minutes into Thumbsucker before I put it back in its Netflix envelope, so...no.

hey guys i don't want to see this

me too. also i liked thumbsucker.

It's better than Thumbsucker, but that's not much of an accomplishment really.

I liked Michael Cera ("Actually I try really hard," was the best line in the whole movie.)

I could not stand the main character.

these are both v. OTM
and they give away that michael cera line in the commercials!

i cant believe how much kimya dawson they crammed into this bullshit

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 05:44 (Yesterday) Link

holy shit so otm. so now i know what i've been uh, missing? fuck me. so, so bad.

anyway... so many hate-able things about this movie, quite a coup that I came away somehow kinda liking it. as noted above, some genuinely touching & funny scenes. also, props for not turning Bateman (or Garner, for that matter) into a monster.

that sonic youth record is just noise

much love to jk simmons tho

as papa juno

and her mom was who, alison janney? predictable much?

but honest to blog?

ok but good for her

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

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

ellen philpotts-page, as i remind myself

that is her honest-to-blog name

<3

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.

Jaymc wins the internet today.

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.

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

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).

ugh i forgot i had written this whole thing, which is like
http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/16/macklemore-fur-coat.jpg
but

still

i hope dlh is having a good night

going to just listen to william orbit for the next 6 hours

"water from a vine leaf" on repeat

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

Fixed

i think i'm gonna make another pb&j so night's lookin up

be well jmc

word. that was my dinner.

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)

That Drake blog post is wow.

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/17/juno-diablo-cody-georgia-alabama-abortion-bans/?utm_term=.739c68911421

Ellen Page has come out as Trans, and is now Elliott Page.

Storybook ending if he and Drake end up together.

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