Is this the Juno thread?

ok, maybe you're just one of those dudes who's wrong about a wide range of topics, i can't keep everyone straight

here's all i'm trying to say: if there's a movie that it's really obvious you're going to hate, you don't have to see it. there's a great big world out there guys

fly a kite

I haven't seen it and don't intend to, you boring sponge.

Speaking for myself, I need something to be bitchy about today, and kite-flying ain't gonna cut it.

yeah, trust me, i'm way more of a music asshole who occasionally dabbles in being other kinds of assholes. anyway you're preaching to the converted w/ me, don't wanna see Juno and probably won't (though i'm not ruling out catching on HBO on a slow weekend a year from now), not bitching about it here, since not seeing movies I don't think I'll like also kinda robs me of being able to say much about them (which is why my posts on the Borat thread was a lost cause).

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here's all i'm trying to say: if there's a movie that it's really obvious you're going to hate, you don't have to see it

There's no way of knowing this unless it's a Paul Haggis film.

So let's talk about Crash.

i actually went into it thinking I might like it! because everyone was like YAAAY JUNO SOOOOOO GOOD Y'ALL

I know this movie would have confused the HELL, the fucking HELL, out of me if I saw it at age of Juno, year # 16. About sex & relationships & shit.

Stepmom = amazing badass BUT Mevlinswank adopted dad = megacrepe x10^23. Like srsly I started crying when he got all seducey on her. I've dated too many guys who were like "yeah my grandpa is offering to pay for me to get a masters of library science but instead I think I'll move to Portland bcz I really think I need to MAKE it." *WOMITS* I felt unburning hatred for that man. It really fucking ruined the movie for me.

That and the girl's got too much sassback. Pretty much a wash, this one.

Unintentional comedy gold: "Oh, yeah, and I bought another Sonic Youth album, and it was JUST NOISE!!!" Hoo burn.

I haven't seen it and don't intend to, you boring sponge.

-- Dr Morbius, Monday, January 7, 2008 8:19 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

surprise!

Good line: "cautionary whale"

otm, that was pretty funny

thank you for smoking was pretty awful actually so i don't think i'll see this retarded looking movie

Juno != Thank You For Smoking

Two entirely different films.

yeah but i wish i followed the logic of hating TYFS & not seeing this

haven't seen it but hope it's good

Same director? xp

I know Nicole, but they are nothing alike.

I saw this on Saturday. I don't want to hate on it too much because Diablo Cody posts on the same forum I do where we make fun of For Better or Worse. I will overlook clunky dialogue from anyone who hates Anthony Caine.

OMG yr on a FOOB-hater forum! Mad respect. (I'm not but the 'stache is still le crepe even post-shave.)

By hater I mean "one whose nostalgia and love of the once-quality Canuck comic is kind of being curdled & spoiled by the boring adult lives of Michael & especially Liz'a suitors," as well you know.

There is nothing Lynn Johnston could do to make that guy attractive physically or otherwise.

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What about he gets hit by a van and dies ala Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black"?

Even then...

Is Mr. Comics Curmudgeon still the premiere FOOB hater location?

It has been pretty intermittent, but I don't read the comments bcz they are a world of intimidation to me.

Abbott otm.

I get so confused by that strip on rare occasions when I look at it nowadays. With the exception of the original parents, I get confused as to who is family and who is not (e.g., there was a strip I saw around Xmas where I couldn't tell if the characters were siblings or significant others!) and I'm getting mixed-up with the whole generational thing in general.

That being said, despite any haters, I have mad respect for her for penning a strip for so long that actually tries to show character's life trajectories instead of freezing them in time...plus I am probably weird brand of Canadian-phile or something...

I just stopped paying any attention to the damn thing when Michael met...um...what's her name again. The one he got married to. (I vaguely remember that she had some crabby mom who wanted a snooty wedding, and I concluded that in retrospect it was probably all downhill when Farley died.)

"one whose nostalgia and love of the once-quality Canuck comic is kind of being curdled & spoiled by the boring adult lives of Michael & especially Liz'a suitors,"

Wow, this really nails it. Dell's right re: life trajectories but I tend to think Doonesbury did it better in the end, surely, even allowing for the relative glibness in comparison. In fact that might be the whole point! (Not to mention the sheer amusement in how Trudeau basically said 'Fuck it' with the title character and rebooted him fully in Seattle from New York in the blink of an eye.)

I concluded that in retrospect it was probably all downhill when Farley died

holy loooool

Seriously, I don't think I cared about anything after that! Forget the people, just give me a 'Farley chases rabbits in heaven and gets a goofy look on his face' strip!

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hmmm, yeah. I have never followed Doonesbury, so I can't comment on that, though, grand "fuck it" gestures in general by popular artists are usually pretty worthwhile on some level, I find, so, cool.

Also, I am not putting down the static time-frames of other comics; at best that is brilliant in its own (ironically, I guess it could be said) timeworn tradition, but, that was one of the things that I always appreciated about FBoW, esp. considering that it was not a political or soap-opera-ish strip. Well, okay, it was soap-opera-ish, but not in the sense that Apartment 3-G or Mary Worth were/are...

Well in that respect one of its forebears might be something like Gasoline Alley, which similarly charted life-courses and did so in a vein that (from what I know of it) is neither political as such nor soap-opera like. Isn't it still going?

Actually I think it is weird that the reincarnation of Gasoline Alley is static w/its characters' ages whereas the original really stood alone for its aging/developing characters.

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N., I'm sure you realize this, but that's heading dangerously into Bil Keane territory. "Who puked on the coffee table?" (cue to impish-looking ghost of Barfy)

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There is a redrawn Gasoline Alley and while it is awesomely bonkers, it is set in contemporary times and is as static as "Dennis the Menace"

I have never actually seen Barfy barf.

Hahaha. (Although now I'm envisioning a huge evil ghost of Farley coming back and wreaking havoc and killing people for some reason.)

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Intersting. I know jackall about Gasoline Alley, other than the fact that it was an "important" comic...

It could only be an improvement. xp

The Hound of the Pattersons

"They were the footsteps of a gigantic MUTT!"

Barfy vs Farley, played out among Okefenokee Swamp.

Gotta be better than that late eighties Pogo revive.

(Although that thing did have one moment of glory -- a spot on parody of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns in a Sunday strip around when the first Burton Batman surfaced. But that's it.)

So, it's something like old bands reforming in desperate bids to relive glory days, or...ILX thread revives. Time making a mockery of us all, etc.

gasoline alley was an amazing strip in its day. check out the huge beautiful sunday pages that drawn & quarterly reprinted a few years ago - a major influence on chris ware.