felt like a big corporation trying really hard to be quirky and going way overboard. forced humor at best.

and fucking shit i wonder how many 16 year old girls are creaming up their panties after seeing michael cera play acoustic guitar and sing a moldy peaches song




gahhhh lol

As someone who learned how to play that song on his acoustic guitar...I'm hoping a lot.

Nothing was really wrong with the characters, since they're all intentionally flawed, but good people. The only reasonable complaint is that the amount of allusions in the script is unrealistic in normal conversation. Normally, you would laugh and point at the movie's Rotten Tomatoes score, but without that to back you up, you're being a douche for no reason.

You're right, they are intentionally flawed but good people which is cliche as fuck since Little Miss Sunshine. Thats not even the problem, its trying to be Judd Apatow but with a dramatic human side, and those two themes mix like water and oil. No one is talking about Rotten Tomatoes and I don't know anyone who references etch a sketch and Thundercats in regular conversation who doesn't go to comic cons or wanks to Adult Swim garbage. No one is talking about Rotten Tomatoes and youre a being a retard for saying that people who don't like this are trying not to like this which has to be the most batshit retarded logic I have heard EVER in relation to ANYTHING. Even though I know you try to be this white cross dressing emo metal homo usurper you are such a dumb nigger sometimes.

But then again that might chopped up to your whole gender identity/sexual preference issue that makes you permanently menopausal and eats away at your ability to be civil and intelligent.

Its probably a case of both. Fuck your a character of contradic

This has gotta be your dumbest post yet.

How can I take you seriously?

That being said, Little Miss Sunshine is way too recent to render Juno cliché. I also noticed your reference to the kind of dork that watches Adult Swim speaking in such a manner...but maybe the movie is good because the script can capture that kind of weirdness.

Honestly, who here takes you seriously? You look like Tracy Chapman and get propositions from men in parking lots yet scream and cry that your straight.



Back on the subject, it was cliche when Little Miss Sunshine did it since by that time Wes Anderson had done a hundred times before that and even before him with stuff like Harold and Maude and the Graduate before that. If you think this movie encapsulates weirdness I shudder to think what your interpretation would be of anything that Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch ever did.

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And that makes one of Ellen Page's quotes all the more ridiculous: "Sometimes, when you're playing the quirky girl, she becomes someone's idea of what a quirky girl looks like — a commercialized quirky girl. I'm glad a young, interesting, and different female character [like Juno] is out in the world and doing well at the box office." I'd love for her to explain how Juno is anything but a commercialized quirky girl.

Last week, I spent time explaining why I think Juno is a fantasy, and it basically boils down to this: the movie is all answers, no anguish (and made even easier to swallow, thanks to that PG-13 rating). It's a vehicle of quirk and Juno is doing the peddling. I can't really think of any characters who are so dead set on the art of quippage, whose existence depends on their cleverness. For that, I think Juno is the picture of a commercialized quirky girl.

What really doesn't sit well with me, slang-wise, however, is the frequent appropriation of what more or less originated as urban slang that's more or less associated with black people -- "Hells yeah," "Shiz," "You's a dick," etc. I know, I know: hip-hop culture has long pervaded into the suburbs, and I have no room to criticize that kind of appropriation. I'm not mad at the cultural overlap; I'm mad that it's so brazenly handled in Juno. There's otherwise no indication of hip-hop culture in the film (I'm pretty sure there's, in fact, not a single black character).

The general tone just seems like: we're pillaging what we perceive to be black culture not out of any admiration, but just because, haha, we're white and it's funny when we talk black. It's just really gross to me, and I'm not even sure what the point of it all was. Was it to accurately reflect the habits of white kids in the suburbs? Doesn't the cliché follow that those who talk the talk also listen to the source material? And if they don't, why are we supposed to find them endearing instead of despicable? I'm sorry to be Whitey McDown here, but it just all seems so cluelessly disrespectful.

(Oh, and neither the The Wizard of Gore nor Suspiria are slasher movies, as also claimed by Juno. The lesson? If you want to act like a cool kid, you need to study like a geek.)

Whatever, you silly nutsacks. No shit the movie's not gonna be funny if you hella analyze it and look for all kinds of meaning and try to explain everything. It's a dumb little comedy. But I saw it the other day, not expecting anything, and in the mood to watch a dumb little comedy, and I really liked it.

Greatest picture ever.

Jason Reitman's "Juno" is just about the best movie of the year. It is very smart, very funny and very touching; it begins with the pacing of a screwball comedy and ends as a portrait of characters we have come to love. Strange, how during Juno's hip dialogue and cocky bravado, we begin to understand the young woman inside, and we want to hug her.

After three viewings, I feel like I know some scenes by heart, but I don't want to spoil your experience by quoting one-liners and revealing surprises. The film's surprises, in any event, involve not merely the plot but insights into the characters, including feelings that coil along just beneath the surface so that they seem inevitable when they're revealed. The film has no wrong scenes and no extra scenes, and flows like running water.

i don't know about you guys but all this movie did was make me feel bad for ultrasound technicians

God whatever. I think all the hate for Juno is just jealousy, pure and simple. It isn't the movies fault that none of your friends are as smart and funny as fictional characters. To me it rang true.

Actually, all performances are sharp, which shows what can happen when actors get to play characters and deliver lines that bristle with originality. I would expect this kind of response from a speilberg fan. Go jerk off to Jurassic Park you retard.

Not only is Juno one of the best movies of the year, but it also has one of the best movie soundtracks of the last five years. It’s kind of like a Wes Anderson film in the way that it will expose you to a whole new compilation of music (and more specifically Kimya Dawson’s indie folk punk tunes as well as Belle and Sebastian). Yes, the music tends to skew to a younger audience, so if you’re over 40 this might not be your thing. I’m not sure is Wes Anderson’s soundtracks are a good comparison, Garden State might be a better example. I bought the s/t on the way home from my third viewing. I uploaded it in case anyone else wants it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QEZBP2HQ

I'm gonna agree with the TMWN here - as someone who knows people that talk like Juno (and will fly off into retarded Gibson/Fender tangents when we walk past a music store) nothing about the dialog seemed off to me.

You know people like that? How fortunate it must be to live around such unique people. I wish some of my friends would take a page out of Juno's book.

You guys are faggots. Also, when I saw it, everyone at the theater was like 'OMG MINNESOTA IN A MOVIE I'VE NEVER WATCHED FARGO/'
but honestly St. Cloud looks nothing like that, and from where she lives in the movie she just couldn't leisurely drive there and back.



also, Gibson/Fender arguments are not retarded at all. Anyone who uses a Strat is a faggot, because Fender makes like four amazing guitars and the rest of them are gar-bage.

What does that have to do with it? I still think Trainspotting is a good film even if the chase scene it opens with is the same bit of Princes Street over and over then somewhere else without ever having reached the end the damn street. Artistic license.

And yeah, I liked Juno. Not every teen pregnancy has to end in abortion and be drowning in reality with no sense of humour. Made a nice change really.

Juno was my favorite movie of last year, I was just stating that wasn't why I like it.

I'm sorry but being quirky is hardly the same as being like the characters of Juno who don't take one second to breathe between their inorganic diatribes. If you know someone like Juno then congratulations, you're friends with a pop culture robot.

Also, she got the Thundercats reference wrong near the end of the film, and that upset me. In a film that was so perfect up to that point, it's really disappointing for her to misquote one of my favorite shows! But I'm over it because the character of Juno won me over.

She can write me a script any time

ThunderCats Ho + Thunderbirds (are?) Go = ThunderCats are Go

Oh, okay.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the movie.