Juno

Stringer Bell

Stringer Bell

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Anyone else see this movie last weekend? it opened in Dallas on Friday.

Great movie. It was in danger at points of trying too hard to be hip, but it ultimately worked. Also, unlike Superbad, Knocked Up, 40 YO Vrigin, etc. before it, it was never in danger of overstaying it's welcome. Just a breezy 90 minutes and it was done. The end was great and left the viewer with a good feeling.

Michael Cera was great in his limited role. Jennifer Garner was surprisingly strong. Juno's parents (JK SImmons and Allison Janney) were both hilarious. Ellen Page did a great job too. Her character was probably a little too clever for a 16 year old, but she was funny and charming and made it work.

Anyway, go see it.
 
saw a screening of this last tuesday. great, great movie. very well written and very well acted. it was a fresh look at a tough topic. i highly recommend it.
 
Totally agree on every point w/ the OP.

Juno's hipness/maturity/cultured-ness is pretty hard to swallow, but she pulls it off. Jason Bateman was really good too, I thought.

Definitely worth a trip to the theatre. Heartwarming and touching, yet still really funny.

Jason Reitman is a rising star.
 
Isn't the chick in the lead role the one who was in the movie where she castrated some dude? Scary chick! Fitting she's in a movie with Vern Schillinger.
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Ditto. Great movie. I wish more movies focused on clever plot lines and well-written dialogue. This movie was better than most I've seen this year and probably cost nothing to make.
 
I didn't even realize that was the same girl from Hard Candy.

That movie made me more uncomfortable than almost anything I have ever seen.

She's a hell of an actress at a very young age...
 
My wife and I caught it last night. She hadn't wanted to see it at all, and came out afterwards really liking it.

Ellen Page was good, though I agree with her hip maturity level being a little too much. But she carried it splendidly. Her Dad and Step mom were both good as well.

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner (who I've never thought a whole lot of as an actress. Never thought she was bad, just not that exceptional) were also really great in their roles.

Yeah, ok, just about everyone was really good in it - very well cast.
 
I never heard of Hard Candy so I looked it up... turns out it was produced by Paul Allen.... I got to return some video tapes.
 
i know this might sound dumb, but i went to check it out cause of the actors in it (cera, the lady from west wing, the main guy from arrested development, the hard candy girl) knowing it was about pregnancy but NOT knowing it would be such a date movie. figured it would be funny but not super bad kind of humour. the 20 minutes of previews of mush and love stories was sorta uncomfortable considering it was my buddy, his girl and i. awkward . .. . .



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anyway, very well written. the hard candy girl was a little unbelievable at first cause her sense of humour is a little raw (for any age) but i think after the father explained it in the movie, i started to believe her a bit more. by the end of the movie, i was ok with it being a 17 year old. the only time i thought she was too old for the role was when she was with her fellow high school friend. not so much cause of the acting but because the hs. friend had that gauky wierd look teenagers get when they are still maturing, whereas the hard candy girl just looked like a young looking older person, least IMO.

good scenes all around. i can't remember the other one but the one i really liked was the when she told the parents. very emotional scene, very "real" or life-like if you will. the father was supportive and yet showed his disapproval which if it was a real life situation, i would think one would want to do (at least if it was me). definitely recommend it, worth owning (burned or otherwise)
 
I thought it sucked. I liked the idea, but that girl REALLY annoyed me... was it just me or was she trying too hard to be hip/cool/funny/whatever?
 
She is trying to hard to be hip/cool/funny, there are lots of kids who act that way at 16. I think by the end of it she realizes that she's not so smart and mature as she once thought she was.
 
I thought it was one of the best movies I have seen in quite some time. I loved it and my girlfriend actually cried in parts.

I agree with everything above, but want to trumpet one point. Jennifer garner absolutely nailed her part. I never gave her much credit before except as a nice looking face. But, she really shined in a tough role. She really added a lot of gravity to the movie to counter the humor. Without her, the movie would have been basically knocked up again.
 
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The one thing I really disliked about this movie was the sexual tension between Bateman and Page and Batemen essentially wanting to leave his wife for Juno. What the ****? In addition to being creepy, it was just completely unnecessary. I guess they needed to make Bateman somewhat of a villain so we were happy when despite their break up, Garner still got the baby, but Christ. They could've just had Bateman say he wasn't ready for a baby and this marriage was suffocating him and have him check out. There was no need for him to try to bone a 16-year old.
 
Had to push this up, just saw it last night, fantastic. Best movie I have seen in a long time. Everyone in it was fantastic. Way to use the dick, Janney.

SPOILER - And I was not offended by the Bateman thing. He wasn't actually trying to bone her, he was just a pathetic lonely man needing a friend who shared his interests and found him interesting, and who he eventually might get to bone in his new cool guy loft once she had the kid and all.
 
Saw it yesterday and share all the opinions. I think the Juno character was a bit overwritten. Whether the character was written to try too hard to be funny or they just overdid the cleverness, I think it was too much. Sometimes less is more.
 
saw it last night, i thought it was a great flick.

rarely when so many different characters seem "real".

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I don't think Bateman wanted to bone Juno, he was just trying to be young again. she made him realize how much he missed that. Did you see the look on his face when Juno was yelling at him and said "you're old" in the middle of her rant? it was like ice water in his face. he thought he had shown her he was still young and cool, but nope, she thought he was old. really great scene, I thought.
 
bularry, I absolutely agree he was not trying to bone her right then right there in the basement, her being however many months pregnant, with the uptight ***** due home any second. But once she grunted that thing out, and he had his cool guy loft all set up and ****? At that point, whether his divorce was final or not, whether she was 18 or not, he was most certainly thinking he would bone her.
 
He was definitely trying to get in Juno's pants.

My wife thinks that he probably did something to sabotage their first attempt at adoption, too. The scene when Garner comes home to find Juno crying and leaving and she immediately asks her husband "What did you do?" makes me apt to agree with Mrs. Thunderhoof on this one. I'm not saying that he did the exact same thing with the previous preggo, but I'll bet he did something to head it off. This certainly fits the profile of a guy who deoesn't want kids, too. That could explain why he very quickly said "cold feet" when Juno asked them about it in their first meeting.
 
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