and my thoughts exactly.....man i hated this film.....

Juno, starring Halifax’s Ellen Page, is a critically acclaimed comedy about a wise cracking teenager, dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. As 2007’s Indie hit, it is alternative mainstream and white people love it when low budget movies do well, even though the $7 million budget is enough to feed thousands of villages in East Africa for a year. White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools. So although the character of Juno and her high school are very unrealistic, older people identify with her and wish that their unappreciative children would be more like her.

On another note, the film takes place in a fictional suburban town in Minnesota, but imagine the same storyline in say West Baltimore or Socorro, TX. My guess is that there would be less qurkiness, less acoustic guitar and zero references to Dario Argento. Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns, therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation and add a killer indie soundtrack.

It also doesn’t hurt that the screenplay was written by somebody named “Diablo” and that Jason Bateman and Michael Cera are in the movie as well.

whatever, this movie made me cry my eyes out, probably because of the flippant way she thought about giving up a child.

I got the feeling, after seeing the film, that Diablo Cody is a big Aaron Sorkin fan (West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60...)...

But high schoolers don't talk that way.

ThreadBare said:

you would think that .... but my goodness

oh, and P.S.: loved the movie.
it's on pre-order. it'll be in my hands by my birthday.

oh and.. I'm not white.

ThreadBare said:

my friends and i talked pretty crazy in high school. we had our own homemade lingo and we were snarky as hell. i don't think we were unique. kids are ridiculously creative around that age, and most movies don't capture that.

it was also hard for me to accept the lead character who in real life is 21 but playing a 16 year old

her witty lines were creative, but they were right off the script of a 40 year old man

they mentioned Sonic Youth in the movie

guess that gave the film more 'indie' cred

this movie was bogus

just an opinion

chuckecheese said:

Wait...so because there aren't enough Black people in the film and, as a comedy, it doesn't deal with the subject matter seriously, it's bad?

Did the reviewer know what he was going to see? He seems to just be saying it's a film for white people and black people should hate it. How racist.

chuckecheese said:

Huh?!? Is this shit for real?
Man, I thought this movie had THE MOST CRAPTACULAR SOUNDTRACK EVER.
Made me want to blow my fucking brains out every time they started playing that shit...

Other than that, I liked the movie

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I haven't listened to the soundtrack and have yet just watched excerpts of the movie, but "Anything else but you" is a great song .

FuNkeNsteiN said:

kimya dawson is awesome. just because she's a chick playing lo-fi folk instead of a 20-piece funk orchestra doesn't mean it's bad music.

chuckecheese said:

are you saying diablo cody is a 40 year old man? if so, miss thing knows how to tuck and conceal.

Spookymuffin said:

But he gives Good Burger 3 two thumbs up!

Spookymuffin said:

i happened to LOVE the hell out of that film - but i guess i don't count

I THOUGHT IT WAS FUCKING S H I T E

like a realy badly done homegenised"ghost world" for the masses

"witty"???

fuck me-that film was not witty

whats this"good burger" movie???






SOUNDS GOOD!

Never saw it. I thought it would be too weird to watch with my girl at the time.

Volitan said:

what"good burger?"

jonylawson said:

Huh? Good burger is a silly Nickolodeon movie, about this dumb dude who works at a burger joint that's in danger of shutting down because a bigger, corporate burger joint moves in across the street, and he tries to save his burger joint with lots of crazy antics. Similar to Spongebob Squarepants, but in real life.

Volitan said:

its safe to say good burger is the better film.

JustErin said:

cause that shit rocked.

chuckecheese said:

This person obviously doesn't know any teenagers.

ThreadBare said:

Not all, but some do. In retrospect when I think back to my upper school days the kids were all pretty precocious and spoke in a similar way. But then I was an introvert in the equivilent of an academic think tank, where the average verbal SAT score was 690, so those kids tended to be VERY expressive

Spookymuffin said:

I'm 32 and adored the movie...but I DIDN'T adore it because I wanted to go back to a time when there was "no hip hop influence in high school." There's been hip hop influences in almost all high schools since '89. This dude's a racist fuck. I loved the movie in part for the following reasons:

1. Diablo Cody was so playful with language. The teenspeak in the movie is thick, but pretty darn authentic. I know quite a few teens and they use PLENTY of the slang terms in the film. Also, much of Ellen Page's dialogue was improvised by HER; read the screenplay.

2. The movie dared to show parents that weren't caricatures. To me, this was REALLY impressive.

3. The movie takes a pro-choice stance. She contemplates abortion, but CHOOSES of her OWN VOLITION AND WITHOUT ANY PRESSURE FROM ANYBODY to put the baby up for adoption.

4. The married couple (Garner/Bateman) are VERY realistic and I know plenty of people like them, particularly the Bateman character — in his 30s and can't grow up.

I really hate films like this.

I loved the movie. I wasn't a fan of the soundtrack but I don't really like that sort of music. It's for pretentious people that like the smell of their own farts. I also thought the way they talked was a bit much. A little goes a long way but still great dialogue for the most part. I also really enjoyed the opening animation. I will definitely be buying this one. But I am a white girl so I guess that's expected.

sammij said:

i loved this movie...but as much as i did, i did think of how the movie wouldn't have been written the same for a black character...nor would it have been recieved the same...

but that goes for just about every film/television senario..

welcome 2 america

SirPsycho said:

it would be different if it was written the same for a gay character, but being a gay person, i realized if i want to see a gay version of "juno", i better get off my ass and write it.

Anxiety said:

wow...that almost sounds like an indirect kick in the ass..but i aint mad at that tho well said