Juno (2007)
Short, smart movie. Edges a little into cutesy (as opposed to "cute" which I'm all for) territory at the end, but it's full of really great one-liners and clever dialogue, which is more than a lot of movies give you. Also, you'd better like Moldy Peaches, cuz you're getting a film's worth of them/her.
The musical-taste discussion between Juno and Mark (Jason Bateman) felt like me now talking to me at 16. Iggy Pop and Mott the Hoople, pshaw. I remember my rave-loving ass borrowing Gang of Four's Entertainment! from the library and being like, "These beats aren't quantized enough, and where's the tremendous low end combined with ambient synth washes that characterize all the music I listen to?" Oh, nothing like slow expansion of musical horizons.
The musical-taste discussion between Juno and Mark (Jason Bateman) felt like me now talking to me at 16. Iggy Pop and Mott the Hoople, pshaw. I remember my rave-loving ass borrowing Gang of Four's Entertainment! from the library and being like, "These beats aren't quantized enough, and where's the tremendous low end combined with ambient synth washes that characterize all the music I listen to?" Oh, nothing like slow expansion of musical horizons.
5 Comments:
At 5:49 PM, ian said…
Wow... I am really out of the movie loop. But this one does have 3 stars from two of my favorite TV shows. Maybe I'll watch this one over break.
At 10:38 AM, Jon said…
What sucks is that Cera and Bateman don't have a scene together. HOWEVER, they did sneak in a particularly funny and semi-obscure AD reference during the scene where Juno tells her parents she's pregnant. It's awesome, I think I was the only one in the theater who laughed. That makes me elitist and special.
At 10:15 AM, ian said…
Dude, I watched it and I didn't catch thee Arrested Development reference. Is it the asking for money?
At 2:40 PM, Jon said…
Oh no it's when her dad goes, "I'm going to be a Pop-pop? I'm not ready to be a pop-pop."
"Pop-pop" being what the kids called the patriarch Bluth on the show.
At 2:06 PM, ian said…
Here I thought Ellen Page was a cute and innocent little girl; then today I watched Hard Candy...
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