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Juno
Feb 9, 2008 18:44:19 GMT -5
Post by angilasman on Feb 9, 2008 18:44:19 GMT -5
Saw it today. Used a Christmas gift card I forgot I had and I thought the movie was absolutely fantastic. It made me want to travel back in time 2 or 3 years and re-live highschool being a whole lot cooler than I was. I then realised that would have been hard to do because I recently discovered that there were no cool people in my highschool, just people who got stoned out of the goards and listed to Radiohead because this town is so ungodly boring (I however, don't need to get stoned to appreciated Radiohead). The cast was great, the music was great (Yeah for The Kinks!), great accross the board.
...and it gave me good karma or something because I went to the library and found a mint condition copy of Slaughterhouse-Five with the original cover art! It's a 6th priniting and has the full title on the cover so everything's good. ;D
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Juno
Feb 12, 2008 2:01:31 GMT -5
Post by Hoss Ragen on Feb 12, 2008 2:01:31 GMT -5
I haven't seen it, but it sounds like one of those pretentious "kids talking like adults" movies, which has been done since the late 80s. I have a jagged sense of humor, but I'm not overly cynical. Would this be worth the time?
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Juno
Feb 12, 2008 11:53:14 GMT -5
Post by angilasman on Feb 12, 2008 11:53:14 GMT -5
^Well, they do say a lot of smart-ass stuff, but in the end I still felt as if they were kids. In my experience this is how a lot of kids talk now (Hell, I'm 19 and was watching MST3K religiously since I was 11 so I acted all smart assy and referency at that age... even moreso now).
But to me it felt like a more genuine teen movie than any I've seen before, but maybe that's just because it's for my nerdy generation.
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Juno
Feb 12, 2008 13:45:41 GMT -5
Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Feb 12, 2008 13:45:41 GMT -5
I'm just back from seeing it now and I really loved it. Funny, sweet movie.
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Juno
Feb 14, 2008 18:21:56 GMT -5
Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 14, 2008 18:21:56 GMT -5
There's been the inevitable backlash, and not all of it is undeserved. The dialogue is stilted and the music is pretentious.
But the film is still wonderful.
Just last night I was recommending it to a friend, and she said, "Isn't that the teenage pregnancy-Lifetime Channel-after school special movie?"
On paper, yes. In execution, not even close.
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Juno
Feb 14, 2008 19:49:10 GMT -5
Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Feb 14, 2008 19:49:10 GMT -5
There's been the inevitable backlash, and not all of it is undeserved. The dialogue is stilted and the music is pretentious. But the film is still wonderful. Just last night I was recommending it to a friend, and she said, "Isn't that the teenage pregnancy-Lifetime Channel-after school special movie?" On paper, yes. In execution, not even close. I've had a few people say things like that to me as well. Hopefully when i told them it's great they believed me!
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Juno
Feb 14, 2008 20:41:08 GMT -5
Post by angilasman on Feb 14, 2008 20:41:08 GMT -5
There's been the inevitable backlash, and not all of it is undeserved. The dialogue is stilted and the music is pretentious. But the film is still wonderful. It's got Evangelion syndrome! (Considered groundbreaking, when this Japanese cartoon series became the end-all-to-end-all to a legion of fans and critics a huge anti-Eva backlash spread and still exits today... it's actually a pretty good show) I think the backlash is kind of funny, and of course a lot of it is true. It wouldn't have happened if it had stayed a cult movie seen only by people who would like this kind of film. Oh well, I believe it was Kurosawa who said that the only criteria for a good movie were to be entertaining and easy to understand... in other words, I'll be getting Juno on DVD when it comes out. Oh, and I liked the music. Hell, if I was in charge of a film's score I would constantly blare my tunes to expose more people to the undeniable glory of the folks I like. I'm sure some reviewers wouldn't appreciate the constant repitition of "The Big Country," by The Talking Heads. Also, I'm trying to come to terms with what pretensious is. I think MST3K might be the single most pretensious thing in the history of the world because of all the obscure, academic, literate, musical theater, ect. references. No one notices it's pretensions because of the cute puppets.
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Juno
Feb 14, 2008 20:59:02 GMT -5
Post by Hoss Ragen on Feb 14, 2008 20:59:02 GMT -5
I think MST3K might be the single most pretensious thing in the history of the world because of all the obscure, academic, literate, musical theater, ect. references. No one notices it's pretensions because of the cute puppets. I definitely agree with that. That and the "with popularity comes contrary-just-to-be-contrary opinions". But I think MST was an ironic version of that. I didn't mean to come off like I was bashing the movie without seeing it. I was just relaying what I heard ("pretentious" is the buzzword that a lot of newspaper movie critics use, and I, in turn, just used it) about it.
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