Is this the Juno thread?

Point of comparison: Thora Birch's character in Ghost World mostly consists of acerbic comebacks, yet I love the character and love the film. There's sometimes no accounting for how two versions of the same thing hit you differently.

ha i didn't even realize it was a diablo cody movie i thought strongo was just doing his peripatetic thing

im pretty sure violet plays over the end credits

thora birch gets much better lines in ghost world than ellen page does in juno. spirit of the two movies is substantially different. the dialogue in juno is a bad fit because it's kind of a sentimental, earnest movie.

yeah except dan clowes would punch himself in the face repeatedly before ever writing "honest to blog"

haha xpost hs come on i at least try to stay on point with my hatreds

i love amanda seyfried maybe i will watch this thing

xp i underestimated you!

diablo cody's writing the upcoming Evil Dead remake, btw

lol seriously?

brb getting the bottle of bleach and a shot glass

The original ED?

Man why do they have to remake everything!?

http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/ghost-house-pictures-preps-remake-of-the-evil-dead/

Kill me now.

maybe spike lee will hire her to polish up the script for his oldboy remake too

lol

omg I did not realize Diablo Cody wrote BURLESQUE

I made my husband watch it with me last week and now I think he wants a divorce.

lol, we saw that IN THE THEATER

so weird i had no idea diablo cody was involved in any of these

I think maybe I no longer have any critical faculties

The Evil Dead remake would help explain Juno's improbable Herschell Gordon Lewis fandom. (Which was really my point--such things seemed more like Juno's creators trying to impress me with their pop-culture knowledge than anything plausibly to do with Juno's character.)

i feel like she's trying to keep a low pro because everyone hates her

Any chance at all that ED remake won't blow? Maybe?

haha who else could it have been? xp re burlesque

just makes me think of all those simpsons gags with hollywood producer types: "she's a stripper AND a writer. so we greenlit her to write... about strippers. it happened totally organically."

lol, we saw that IN THE THEATER

I saw it in a theater with someone else, so when it came on cable I had to watch it again. I think he's traumatized now.

clemenza: as someone who ran with a clique of smart, sarcastic kids in a MN town, all of that stuff is WAY more plausible than you'd think

we even had someone who would have said "honest to blog" had blogs existed, but she was considered "the dumb one"

also I kind of thought they just made up Burlesque as they went along

Dan idk - I've worked with a lot of teens in the last couple years and none of them sounded that idiotic.

on one of the marc maron interviews one of the people was talking about how she was trying to get diablo cody to start a writing workshop for strippers and prostitutes and cody was like "nah, most strippers are stupid"

as someone who ran with a clique of smart, sarcastic kids in a MN town, all of that stuff is WAY more plausible than you'd think

Fair point. I know I wasn't exactly Juno's target audience.

E, I am not talking the teen effect, I'm talking the MN effect. Not that it's plausible that kids would carbon-copy that type of dialogue, but that something very similar based very heavily on influences from random genres of music and cult films existed in my home town in my immediate circle, plus at things like All-State Choir I met kids from other towns/suburbs who did very similar things.

Ah ok yeah I know nothing about MN so maybe you're right!

ban minnesota

they're dong a pretty good job of banning themselves atm

"Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either."

hearing diablo cody dialogue coming out of patton oswalt's mouth is going to make me want to start believing in god so i can curse him.

i don't know about patrick wilson being in everything all of a sudden. he bugs me.

this is really setting the stage for Strongo Almighty

i don't even think i know who he is? charlize theron i know of course because she was the first african to win an oscar.

he looks like a ken doll

he played the gay mormon in the hbo adaptation of angels in america

that was good casting, but i don't like him as a leading man

ohhh this guy was nite owl okay

Patrick Wilson was Nite Owl in "Watchmen" and the husband in "Insidious"

i get all these rugged gq types with highly defined jawlines mixed up all time

he's not rugged enough the planes of his face look like they've been sanded smooth

i get that uncanny valley thing looking at him

for a while i thought ryan reynolds got his start in an american pie movie or something

i've completely lost track of popular culture

patrick wilson is sort of a wiener. he weirds me out too horseshoe

actually i think 'goober' is the word i wanted to use there - hes tall and good looking but has an essential goobertude to him

yes!

when I saw ryan reynolds in the green lantern I was like oh look it's the two guys a girl and a pizza place dude