holy crap, saw this yesterday.

let's say first that i really liked Ghost World.
i also really liked Little Miss Sunshine.
Hell, i really like Belle and Fucking Sebastian.

i loathed this film. it was neccesary that EVERY FUCKING song was a twee acousticy delicate song? really? i liked "anybody else but you" of the moldy peaches (the ending song). why? WHY??
the script was unbereable. the actors were good, but those lines... arrgh. and the story was all a big meh.
i couln't help but thing that all this film was made for a specific mid-sized crowd of young hipsters. i don't like that concept. at all. It's all so mellow. Even little miss sunshine has its rough edges and more solid characters, and it was a 'lite' fin.

CRAP.

Not Crap.

Although I think I saw a different movie.

When Juno realizes she is pregnant, the first thing she does is call her best friend. The second thing she does is call the family planning clinic and schedule an abortion. It seems to me the most glorious thing to feel positive about in this day and age, is that this 16 year old girl has the option(choice) to call a clinic and not have to jump through a bunch of hoops(or back alleys) to get an abortion. She has her privacy and she makes a decision. She chooses to get an abortion. These 2 minutes would be the entire movie 20-30 years ago and we as a society have gotten past that. That she changes her mind after visiting the clinic seems realistic to me. My wife decided to give birth to a child and put it up for adoption when she was sixteen. This should be considered an option for anybody when presented with an un-planned pregnancy.

Of course, the climate has changed in the pro life-pro choice debate. The right to an abortion seems more precarious now than it ever has in the last 40 years, and we as a society need to be vigilant in protecting the right to choose. In this particular movie, this right to choose seems to be celebrated.

This was the movie my dad's roman catholic wife and extended family chose to make him watch for his birthday last night.

Since the DVD was ripped from a torrent, it froze/skipped the part where Juno actually decides to keep the baby, but it doesn't seem like we missed much.

If I told you that I saw this movie with the worst possible audience ever, it would be the understatement of the century.

I liked parts of it, but overall I felt it was a little too hipster for its own good. I hope this isn't the type of movie I'm going to be deluged by for the next three to five years.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:New Diablo Cody script leaked.

that's really embarrassing. wow. that reads like the whiteboard in an Urban Outfitters t-shirt design concepting session

mr.arrison wrote:

Linus Van Pelt wrote:New Diablo Cody script leaked.

that's really embarrassing. wow. that reads like the whiteboard in an Urban Outfitters t-shirt design concepting session

Pretty sure it's a parody - but I can understand the confustion. It really reads like the Juno dialogue.

Man - I fucking hated this movie.

Am I the only one who kept thinking, "If the greatest moment of this guy's life was opening for the Melvins, why is he wearing a Soundgarden Superunknown T-shirt? And why would he think that lame Sonic Youth track on that lamer Carpenters tribute was the greatest song ever? Doesn't he know any better?"

Overall, though, I liked Juno. Ellen Page was great, so was Michael Cera, I'm always happy to see J.K. Simmons on screen, and it made me laugh even if the dialogue was far too "clever" for its own good. It's a good little movie, just incredibly overrated, that's all.

mr.arrison wrote:
The namedropping was fucking awkward. Melvins, Sonic Youth and Iggy Pop? Cmon!

why are films filled with this shit these days? that one character in 40 year old virgin had a different "hip band" t-shirt in every scene, and never a non-band t-shirt. and the show californication's name-dropping is over-the-top.

Mark Lansing wrote:
Ellen Page was great, so was Michael Cera,

i still don't get it. what on earth is the appeal of this kid's "acting skills"? some people obviously got a kick out of him in arrested development, but that's the only role he can play. he played the exact same role in superbad and juno. he has no range. since when are typecasts so respected by critics? probably because some of them figure "wow, i bet there's all sorts of confused, naive, awkward teenagers just like him. he speaks for an entire generation, just like kurt fuckin cobain!" one day, the cinema-going population of america will collectively experience a shocking epiphany: "wait a second! it appears that once you've seen one of his roles, you've seen them all. and we've been suckered into seeing at least three of them!"

Absolute CRAP.

1 You chaps are surely too sophisticated for this nonsense, no? It is rubbish! Rubbish!

2 It's clearly aimed at teenagers. Teenagers should probably make up their own minds (with the assistance of their parents and chosen philosophers) about youthful pregnancy.

3 It is rubbish.

CRAP.

Adam I wrote:2 It's clearly aimed at teenagers. Teenagers should probably make up their own minds (with the assistance of their parents and chosen philosophers) about youthful pregnancy.

I'm sorry, are you implying that this movie was telling kids how to decide?