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Post by Neo Het Is Evil Dead on Jun 17, 2010 18:59:52 GMT -5
I can't stand this movie and that's because there's a certain way to make certain subjects funny and this film didn't follow it.
To Me , a movie about teenage pregnancy should be an abusrdist film like the films done by Monty Python and Mel brooks , not a dramedy in which you're suppose to take certain scenes seriously.
I don't know why but this movie just doesn't sit well with me and I think it would sit a bit better if it had the over-the-top moments that The Producers and Monty Python and The Holy Grail had.
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Jun 17, 2010 20:34:37 GMT -5
Rainn Wilson's character is the only one that bothered me, luckily he wasn't on screen much. Him talking like that is much dumber than Juno doing it. To be fair, "Your eggo is preggo" is one of the few genuinely clever lines in the movie. But totally agreed on everything else Rainn Wilson said in that movie. Like I said earlier, I genuine love the movie, but it's in spite of the dialogue, not because.
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Post by The Line on Jun 17, 2010 20:40:19 GMT -5
I really enjoyed it when I saw it, though it's been a couple of years now. The whole vibe of it really resonated with me, for whatever reasons. Only disappointment with it was that we didn't get a semi-Arrested Development reunion in it, but that would've gotten in the way of the narrative. word for word, my exact thoughts(except I saw it only a year ago)
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Post by kidglov3s on Jun 17, 2010 20:43:03 GMT -5
Wow, I never really gave much thought to the slang used in the dialogue, which I didn't find to be intrusive or disruptive as in something like Dark Angel. What grips me about the movie are its emotional peaks. I definitely cried when I read the note Juno left for Jennifer Garner's character, and when she received the baby. The dark intentions of Jason Bateman's character were revealed very powerfully as well, and watching it again I loved how they built it up gradually. I also remember it having an interesting look, and cool music.
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Post by wwerules60 on Jun 17, 2010 20:52:39 GMT -5
Has anyone that bashes the dialogue ever been around teenage girls that fancy themselves as hipsters? They make up stupid words and stuff like that all the time, I don't think anyone actually talks like Juno but they talk in a similar way and the spirit of it is perfect in the movie.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jun 17, 2010 21:06:36 GMT -5
Largely because the service has the gall to charge you $12 dollars for what every other email company offers for free, and doesn't even offer POP3 access. Not to mention a database system that is incompatible with every email and database client on the market. I mean, the sole reason I keep the service is because it's the same email address I've had since 1998.
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Post by Paul on Jun 17, 2010 21:07:34 GMT -5
Largely because the service has the gall to charge you $12 dollars for what every other email company offers for free, and doesn't even offer POP3 access. Not to mention a database system that is incompatible with every email and database client on the market. I mean, the sole reason I keep the service is because it's the same email address I've had since 1998. Ha! Okay; that was well done.
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Post by Paul on Jun 17, 2010 21:14:10 GMT -5
Juno is given some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard a character say on film. Nobody talks like that in the real world. Not really true, and, again, the entire point of the character was that she was an oddball, and wasn't like most other people. And they beat us over the head with that character trait by making her talk like an alien of some sort. That's just bad character development.
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Jun 17, 2010 21:16:38 GMT -5
Has anyone that bashes the dialogue ever been around teenage girls that fancy themselves as hipsters? They make up stupid words and stuff like that all the time, I don't think anyone actually talks like Juno but they talk in a similar way and the spirit of it is perfect in the movie. The point for me personally isn't that it's not realistic, because I surprisingly have met girls that talk like that. But it doesn't mean I have to like it. Tons of movies have realistic, but still bad, dialogue. I think Steve and Chocuka actually nailed it. The acting overshadowed the fact that I couldn't get into any of the characters.
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Post by sunwukong on Jun 17, 2010 21:22:48 GMT -5
Has anyone that bashes the dialogue ever been around teenage girls that fancy themselves as hipsters? They make up stupid words and stuff like that all the time, I don't think anyone actually talks like Juno but they talk in a similar way and the spirit of it is perfect in the movie. Dude, I'm a linguist. I've done research projects on everything from Valley Girl dialects to the generational differences in teenage slang. NOBODY on Earth talks like people in this movie. It's hyper polished crap.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jun 17, 2010 21:32:35 GMT -5
I thought it was good (not great, just good) but it REALLY wore the "Hey, we're gonna be this year's hip, indie comedy! Quirky characters with heart? Check! Super-cool soundtrack? Hell, we've got half of Kimya Dawson's known recordings in this baby!" on its sleeve.
That tended to wear on me at points.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2010 22:36:20 GMT -5
Juno looks and acts just like my wife, especially when I first met her several years ago and we were a little younger. For that reason alone I liked it, because now when I'm describing her somewhat odd personality to people I can say "my wife is basically Juno" and they get what I mean, wheras before I had no basis of comparison.
Taken out of that biased context, I thought it was pretty average. I had no idea it was so hated. I thought it was one of those movies that just sort of came and went with little impact on the world one way or another.
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Post by thatguybayne on Jun 17, 2010 23:40:43 GMT -5
I loved this movie which is why Jennifer's Body pissed me off so much. I hope you didn't see it in the theatre ... No, thank god! I will admit she did redeem herself with United States of Tara but the fact she was part of a writing team might be the reason.
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Post by Massive G on Jun 17, 2010 23:43:05 GMT -5
because the dialogue was critically acclaimed, award winning - and flat out terrible.
because Diablo Cody is just the worst.
And because Michael Cera is an annoying, one-note douchebag.
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Post by Krimzon on Jun 17, 2010 23:45:31 GMT -5
I saw it for the first time recently. I thought it was a very good movie. It would've been even better if anybody but Michael Cera was cast in that role. I'm BEGGING him to show a 2nd dimension.
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Post by Paul on Jun 17, 2010 23:50:43 GMT -5
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Post by Kris Kobain on Jun 18, 2010 0:03:17 GMT -5
I've never seen it and wasn't aware of the hate. I was at my friend's dorm messing with her roomate at the time's stuff and picked up the soundtrack and was impressed with the song selection. That alone makes me want to see it.
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Post by mcclanahan on Jun 18, 2010 1:26:13 GMT -5
personally I liked Juno...I thought the story was decent and most of the acting was good...plus with the whole pregnancy fetish the movie is basically porn with a great story but no nudity for me
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Post by mcclanahan on Jun 18, 2010 1:36:24 GMT -5
Has anyone that bashes the dialogue ever been around teenage girls that fancy themselves as hipsters? They make up stupid words and stuff like that all the time, I don't think anyone actually talks like Juno but they talk in a similar way and the spirit of it is perfect in the movie. Dude, I'm a linguist. I've done research projects on everything from Valley Girl dialects to the generational differences in teenage slang. NOBODY on Earth talks like people in this movie. It's hyper polished crap. you've obviously never met an actual person, hell people spoke in a similar manner when I was in highschool (graduated '05), having wrestled for the last 5 years I've learned that the language of the rat is very close to the diologue in Juno, and my frequent trips to the mall (I'm a shopaholic) let me hear a great number of teenage girls saying things almost identical in their natural habitat...all while I think "what the f*** are they saying"...people DO talk like that, whther you're a linguist or not you can't deny it, to do so would be like saying no one speaks Klingon or Romulan
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 18, 2010 1:49:46 GMT -5
It just really wasn't very good.
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