Author Topic: Hmmmm Juno was really good (Read 5339 times)

Himu · « **on:** December 29, 2007, 01:55:01 AM »

Not enough Cera, but really good movie. Top 5 of 2007 material for me.

It's a movie that is really easy to make you sympathize with the characters due to their situation, but Juno goes beyond all of that and actually makes you love these characters. I thought Juno would be just another run of the mill pregnant teenager but she ended up being probably the most damn likable character I've seen all year.

It was surprisingly funny too. I mean, it wasn't roll on the floor laugh worthy, but I got more than a few chuckles out of it.

Check it out, especially if you like romance comedy.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:22:57 AM »

what does the qu'ran say on the subject of teen pregnancy and unwed mothers, himumu

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:25:39 AM »

I liked it.

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:28:15 AM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on December 29, 2007, 02:22:57 AM

what does the qu'ran say on the subject of teen pregnancy and unwed mothers, himumu

it says they are to be put to death; hung by their vaginas on meat racks

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:33:32 AM »

I'm glad someone finally made a thread about this movie.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:42:52 AM »

Man, I dont feel like abusing mod powers much, but Juno looks tardo. ha ha ha

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #6 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:43:39 AM »

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, MAF

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #7 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:45:59 AM »

Well it can't be as good as Event Horizon.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:47:08 AM »

garden state 2007

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:47:53 AM »

we talk fast and oh wow its like gilmore girls witty convos omg im wearing clothes from the 70s

demi · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:49:20 AM »

faggy indie tripe about growing up, pass

stick to shopping for religions for your "personal growth"

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:49:34 AM »

I was talking about your new nick, MAF.

Oh wait

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #12 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:51:40 AM »

GO HUG YER PSCRAP3 DEMI!

Himu · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:55:08 AM »

juno has little to do with growing up. her parents don't give her a big scolding or anything.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:00:00 AM »

Garden State 2007? Yeah fucking right. Nothnig could ever be as pretentious as that movie. Have some balls and just go see the damn movie. It's getting rave reviews EVERYWHERE, unlike the shitty Garden State.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:01:34 AM »

rave reviews are for the sheep. not like people who watched Event Horizon

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:03:33 AM »

you can keep your lawrence fishburne and jurassic park dr guy

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:05:29 AM »

Quote from: BrandNew on December 29, 2007, 03:00:00 AM

Garden State 2007? Yeah fucking right. Nothnig could ever be as pretentious as that movie. Have some balls and just go see the damn movie. It's getting rave reviews EVERYWHERE, unlike the shitty Garden State.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/garden_state/ lol rotten tomatoes

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:25:30 AM »

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon/ -- lower is better when it comes to Event Horizon

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:40:40 AM »

Event Horizon is Movie of the Decade...

... which is funny, because it was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:46:26 AM »

What's this, hating on movies you haven't seen? Being contrarians to troll others? Dismissing rave reviews?

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #21 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:47:38 AM »

I never did any of those.

Well, I guess I made fun of Rotten Tomatoes.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #22 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:48:27 AM »

I'm not talking about you Cajole

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #23 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:49:21 AM »

24 Seasons 1-3

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #24 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:52:45 AM »

Die Hard

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #25 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:54:34 AM »

The Wire

(I just finished Season 4)

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #26 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:00:38 AM »

When you guys are done jerking each other off, let's get back to talking about Event Horizon

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #27 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:09:31 AM »

Event Horizon starred Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park and Morpheus!

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #28 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:14:24 AM »

Yup, how can you go wrong?

demi · « **Reply #29 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:16:14 AM »

Who is this cheeseburger? Someone you find on CraigsList, PD?

Yeti · « **Reply #30 on:** December 29, 2007, 08:23:26 AM »

That's Sherry. She's my favorite 'villain' from the 24 series.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2007, 09:16:41 AM »

Juno is amazing. Ellen Page's witty comebacks always amazed me. My favorite has to be:

"You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events."

Barry Egan · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2007, 10:13:06 AM »

hyper-snappy dialogue in Juno ruined the whole thing for me. It was ok.

Quote from: Yeti on December 29, 2007, 08:23:26 AM

That's Sherry. She's my favorite 'villain' from the 24 series.

She's also on the Larry Sander's Show

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #33 on:** December 29, 2007, 11:08:51 AM »

I hate witty dialogue argh

Gay Boy · « **Reply #34 on:** December 29, 2007, 11:36:58 AM »

Quote from: Dr. William Weir on December 29, 2007, 11:08:51 AM

I hate witty dialogue argh

no! diablo cody is so awesome though.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2007, 12:49:29 PM »

Well, it's clear that she feels that way, at least

Gay Boy · « **Reply #36 on:** December 29, 2007, 01:42:03 PM »

Quote from: Spencer on December 29, 2007, 01:20:27 PM

Been tryin to tell you fools it's a good movie.

Everyone who sees it loves it. It's just some EB'ers automatically decide to hate movies if critics love them for some reason. There was a similar backlash to The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine last year.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #37 on:** December 29, 2007, 01:55:03 PM »

I saw it, I don't bow to eb trends (really liked LMS), and the dialogue in Juno really did ruin the movie.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #38 on:** December 29, 2007, 01:58:22 PM »

some of it went over-board but the movie would have been damn boring with traditional dialouge.

Though in the end it was Jason Bateman's character arch that really sold me on the movie.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #39 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:03:01 PM »

Any movie worth its salt will be viewed in good time, but I guess some folks (myself included), hate being seeing something repetitively hawked as amazing by folks with so-so credibility. This forum tends to latch on the "hot", new thing at times and the result is usually that the thing in question is not that great. The Departed wasn't even Scorcese's best and was pretty forgettable, outside of an awesome Jack Nicholson performance. Little Miss Sunshine did not live up to all the hype, but was a solid, indie film.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #40 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:08:45 PM »

I'll watch it for free.

Garden State has pretty much made me gun shy for indie comedy films. Garden State was a total shit pile. Ellen Page sucks ass too. Cera isn't bad but he alone cannot save a movie. I know there is a ton of Arrested Development fans that come out in force every time Cera is in a film so all the reviews are tainted to me.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #41 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:21:42 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on December 29, 2007, 03:08:45 PM

I know there is a ton of Arrested Development fans that come out in force every time Cera is in a film so all the reviews are tainted to me.

What trend is there for that? Purely Superbad?

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #42 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:26:28 PM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 29, 2007, 03:21:42 PM

Quote from: The Experiment on December 29, 2007, 03:08:45 PM
I know there is a ton of Arrested Development fans that come out in force every time Cera is in a film so all the reviews are tainted to me.
What trend is there for that? Purely Superbad?

That and Juno, yeah.

If you read the reviews on Superbad online, you'd think Jonah Hill never said a word in the movie.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #43 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:34:31 PM »

I wouldn't call the traditional review media Michael Cera fanboys though. I mean Juno is going to get oodles of oscar nominations. Superbad is well superbad. lol. The michael cera fanboy logic really doesn't fit that.

I know oscars/critics don't mean "everything" but to credit its success amongst the old school critics and likely the academy in claiming that they are all michael cera fanboys makes little sense.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #44 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:56:55 PM »

Superbad > Juno

Gay Boy · « **Reply #45 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:58:00 PM »

Quote from: Willco on December 29, 2007, 03:56:55 PM

Superbad > Juno

You've always preferred mainstream nonsense sir.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #46 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:12:07 PM »

Gilmore Girls is amazingly great. I should probably see this movie.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #47 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:34:13 PM »

Jennifer Garner

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #48 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:47:10 PM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 29, 2007, 03:58:00 PM

You've always preferred mainstream nonsense sir.

Not true. My favorite films of all-time are usually box-office duds, critical duds or non-mainstream genre films. I'm just not an art house sheep that's driven by a Rotten Tomatoes score on what to like!

Gay Boy · « **Reply #49 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:49:25 PM »

I am not driven by RT. I just use that when EB trashes my artsy comedy tastes!

and ARVIE Jennifer Garner is great in it.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

She seems to be the selfish/mean one at the start but she turns out to be the awesome nice one and Jason Bateman turns out to be the selfish/mean one.

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Himu · « **Reply #50 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:57:29 PM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 29, 2007, 04:49:25 PM

spoiler (click to show/hide)
She seems to be the selfish/mean one at the start but she turns out to be the awesome nice one and Jason Bateman turns out to be the selfish/mean one.
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Yeah that totally surprised me.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #51 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:08:46 PM »

When he was

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dancing

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with Juno I started to get creepy pedo vibes from Jason Bateman. $:-\$

Oblivion · « **Reply #52 on:** December 30, 2007, 03:16:25 AM »

This thread has convinced me to watch Event Horizon. Thanks, fegs!

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #53 on:** December 30, 2007, 04:24:41 AM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 29, 2007, 05:08:46 PM

When he was
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dancing
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with Juno I started to get creepy pedo vibes from Jason Bateman. $:-\$

Ellen Page will duct-tape him to a chair and fake like she's cutting his balls off.

Eric P · « **Reply #54 on:** December 30, 2007, 10:46:50 AM »

this movie was good when it wasn't trying too fucking hard to be adorable and quirky

it drove me fucking mad

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #55 on:** December 30, 2007, 11:36:26 AM »

Self-aware pretentiousness? Eww.

Eric P · « **Reply #56 on:** December 30, 2007, 11:49:27 AM »

well the whole herschell gordon lewis / dario argento discussion, watching the movie on VHS (wtf? no.) the old carpenters compilation. the arguments about music being better in 77 vs 93. the sound track, oh jesus fucking christ the sound track. her three favorite bands

it just goes on and on and on and on

but aside from that, it was really rather funny. jk simmons was great.

Gay Boy · « **Reply #57 on:** December 30, 2007, 11:50:52 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on December 30, 2007, 11:49:27 AM

well the whole herschell gordon lewis / dario argento discussion, watching the movie on VHS (wtf? no.) the old carpenters compilation. the arguments about music being better in 77 vs 93. the sound track, oh jesus fucking christ the sound track. her three favorite bands

it just goes on and on and on and on

but aside from that, it was really rather funny. jk simmons was great.

Wait her 3 favorite bands was a problem? You can't be serious to say naming Patti Smith is a negative. Patti Smith is one the greatest female musicians like ever.

Eric P · « **Reply #58 on:** December 30, 2007, 12:14:24 PM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 11:50:52 AM

Wait her 3 favorite bands was a problem? You can't be serious to say naming Patti Smith is a negative. Patti Smith is one the greatest female musicians like ever.

no, it was the whole self aware nature of them.

like "look how precious i am listing my favorites to show how cool and stuff i am"

Himu · « **Reply #59 on:** December 30, 2007, 01:16:43 PM »

Quote from: Gay Boy on December 29, 2007, 05:08:46 PM

When he was
spoiler (click to show/hide)
dancing
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with Juno I started to get creepy pedo vibes from Jason Bateman. $:-\$

Totally

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Author Topic: Hmmmm Juno was really good (Read 5339 times)