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So after the moral atrocity that was Rambo, we get at last a film that just lifted my heart.
A smart, sassy and eminently empathetic set of characters combine in a successful interweaving of themes around teenage pregnancy, relationships and surrogacy.
Wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone.
Also, if you want to see more of the excellent Ellen Page, go and see Hard Candy (also great but different film).
A smart, sassy and eminently empathetic set of characters combine in a successful interweaving of themes around teenage pregnancy, relationships and surrogacy.
Wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone.
Also, if you want to see more of the excellent Ellen Page, go and see Hard Candy (also great but different film).
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Wow, just wow. I find it incredibly difficult to accept why anyone would think this was a good film. It was trying so hard to be indie and cool, and oh my god, the teenage slang :banghead: there was so much of it, and most of it was bull.
Ellen Page is good and the guy who was going to be the adoptive dad is good, but the actual film :yuck:
I can't believe this won Oscar for best original screenplay - guess that just shows how crap the competition was.
I'm adopted, so maybe I see more in this film than most people, but oh my god. I cringed constantly the whole way through & towards the end, just fell to pieces and howled for god-knows-how-long. Thank god for pirated films online - if I'd been in the cinema, that would have been kinda embarassing.
I only watched it because there was so much hype about it, but I'd heard loads of adoptees saying it was awful, but figured I can't really diss it if I hadn't seen it, so I watched it. God, that was a bad idea.
So, sure, if you like films that are supposed to be realistic, but the characters have no emotions and are unbelievably unrealistic, you'll love this one :thumb:
As for Juno, I thought I would hate it... turned out I thought it was alright at best. But not worthy of the raves and not Oscar-worthy by any stretch of the imagination.
I thought the storyline and the idea of a tragi-comedy about teenage pregnancy was kind of interesting if a little badly read, but the dialogue (the reason so many people seem to "honest to blog" love it) ruined it for me. It was a case of over-egging the pudding I thought. I cannot stand that contrived, convoluted, deep-voiced, slurry-mumble speak that is in so prevalent in American films nowadays. I just find it so forced and overly self-aware and so obviously done for humour that it's not funny. Makes me feel a bit awkward if I feel I'm expected to laugh... and don't. That's just me, I guess. But yeah, I didn?t believe in her as a character and all I was concerned about was how scripted her dialogue sounded. I get she was supposed to be this feisty chick but it was OTT.
I thought it was well-acted, I was really charmed by Jennifer Garner which is a first for me! But the over-written, over-praised script was dripping with the "indie-cool quirkiness" that I really loathe. Not only did Juno have that, it had it in spades with leftovers. I couldn't help but feel that the whole point was to create an entry in the "all-new teenspeak" genre in the way that Clueless did, and Heathers before it.
I liked the burger phone though, I want one!
But yeah, another example of what got on my nerves. Would a 16 year old girl in 2007 really say that as her waters broke? No matter how edgy and referential she was... I'd say the answer is a resounding now. Juno sounded less like a 16 year old schoolkid and more like the 30-something scriptwriter. Nothing wrong with that, but it didn't ring true with me and I have to believe in a character to love them. One-liner-machines aren't so loveable for me.
This is a criticism that apparently has been levelled by a few people, and actually I can see that this might annoy some people. I accept that the dialogue was staged and probably doesn't reflect reality that well - but I thought of it as a literary device to get a particular adult's stylisation of the subject matter across, and I was just genuinely endeared to a set of characters in a teenage pregnancy drama.
Another criticism that might be levelled at it would be that all the musical and pop cultural settings are 1994-backwards (reflecting the life of the original author). Again this wasn't a problem for me because 1) plenty of teenagers pick a particular era of music to identify with that were not born into. 2) I love both eras of music that the two characters are obsessed with.
I just really enjoyed it.
Juno looks good because Ellen Page is great, she has a fantastic stripy shirt on all the ads for it. What more do you want?
good film tho, very enjoyable. Ellen page was very good, not oscar deserving tho, i think the writer was lucky to get her oscar as well to be honest.
cant knock it too much tho, i love Michael Cera, playing the same old character tho
:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: 4 thumbs out of 5
I hated the ending too
yeah i probably would have related to it more 15 years ago tbh. I dont think its aimed at my age group, but psychologies magazine gave it excellent review so i thought it would be ok.