DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Officially Cool: An Honest Look At Juno

  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    Sometimes I think people who focus on trivial points about Juno hate teenagers or have lingering High School traumas that make them want to vent on the internet. Not all 16 year olds speak in sentences made of obscenities. Teens always idolize college students and older people. Is it so strange that an artsy girl would speak and dress like a college creative writing major? High Schools a joke and she wants to grow up fast.

    Oh and what's with the italic font on this page?
  • Chris · 1 year ago
    I haven't seen the movie (so therefore, my opinion is null and void right there I admit), and truthfully? I doubt I ever will due to the commercials showcasing this type of "hipper than thou" speech.

    It's just a pet peeve of mine.
  • Jason · 1 year ago
    Oh, how original - another post about Diablo Cody's writing style.
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    Juno's a humorous movie but the commercials were horrible. Might you be talking about the commercial before the DVD came out where they strung together a million Juno lines together. It's not like that at all. Director Jason Reitman was trying to avoid gimmickiness like that. My pet peeve are "it's the most catchphrased filled story of the year" ads. Honestly, I don't see movies because of that.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    Everyone tells you to love this movie. It is crammed down everyones throat. The people that love this movie need to realize why there aren't a lot like it - not everyone likes this.

    It deserves to be assaulted just as hard as any film, if not more so, because the reviewing press went entirely hands-off on it and just let it be everyone favorite movie.

    Girls like Juno need a man with a strong pimp hand. ZING.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    UPDATE!

    I just read the editing room script. I thought it was utterly hilarious!
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    Agreed. Negative reviews need to be seen as well as positive ones. The balance between Siskel and Ebert must be maintained.
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    Aziz! Light! Much better. Comments still look funny.
  • Zap Rowsdower · 1 year ago
    Kevin, the problem is not just with the awful, wordy script. The problem is Juno's character. Yes, she talks like a creative writing major, but that is why she is such a sniveling little shit. Nobody likes those self-absorbed morons in college, so why would I like them in high school?

    Juno, as a character, was just plain annoying and overly-sarcastic.
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    True, whether you like Juno boils down to liking the characters. If its not your cup o' tea, I could recommend other movies. The movie doesn't set out to appeal to everyone regardless of how much money it made. I just relate to Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, and Ellen Page's characters because I know people like that. Juno is someone I could've hung out with.
  • Zap Rowsdower · 1 year ago
    Right, I know people like Juno as well. They're annoying, self-righteous fuckwits. There's boatloads of em at Emerson College. If you like Juno then you will love my school.
  • El Bicho · 1 year ago
    "They’re annoying, self-righteous fuckwits."

    I am sure the sequel will have Juno posting comments on the Internet
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    Great post, Brian. You should write for FSR more often.

    Re: Juno - I finally got to see it the other night, and as a self-righteous fuckwit and sniveling little shit myself, I liked it. Although...Best Picture nominee? Really? It was a good movie, but it just wasn't in the league with any other nominee or Little Miss Sunshine.

    Re: The Editing Room - Isn't it nice when a gimmick like sarcasm never, ever gets old? Ever? And you can use it over and over again for different movies? Thought so. Besides, if it gets stale, you always just point out what's happening on screen in a condescending tone. Mockery is almost always fresh.