Juno

On that note, it's interesting to note that for a movie based on a girl who claims to love punk music, there's a lot of soft acoustic music on the soundtrack.

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I went to see this movie with my girlfriend, and she'd been raving about it for around 3 months.
So much so that around early December, late November, I was obliged to trawl through about 60 sites looking for a release date, eventually finding January.. 17, I think, which is when it came out in Australia.

I disagree with CountDeMoney on the soundtrack, as this is not a blockbuster movie that has been advertised through the shithouse, doesn't have massive superstar actors, and therefore wouldn't necessarily need a huge soundtrack.
It's a movie that is quiet and un-assuming in a way, because it doesn't have stupendous action scenes, shootouts or elaborate casino heists, rather a story unfolding bit by bit, and I thought the music matched it perfectly.

So...how many of you are running out to buy the soundtrack?

Iroquois, that's what I mean...the soundtrack doesn't fit the movie...to me, it detracts from it...so I'm not sure where all these, "it fits like a glove" comments come from...

I guess it's like that song with the chorus that goes:
"I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair"... I guess that's the kind of "punk" juno is?

Hehe, you have a point there. I think the reason people think the soundtrack fits the movie is because...

Juno = soft indie movie
Kimya Dawson = soft indie music

I know that I've used "soft" already in other posts, but no other word seems to describe Juno or its soundtrack better.

I really enjoyed Juno because I thought it was well written, and the lead actress, Ellen Page, was very charming in this movie.

Personally, I thought this was the best comedy of 2007.

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I loved Juno with all of my heart. Michael Cera is lovely.

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Didn't buy the whole thing but I bought some the best songs off of iTunes. In fact listening to one right now..."If I was a flower growing wild and free/All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee."

I mean seriously I don't how that song can't fit the movie.

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I already bought it.

I got it... legally :shiftseyes:

Oh no, they found out



lol just kidding.

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In regards to how funny this movie was...

Yeah, me too. Daniel Day Lewis is one funny mofo and There Will Be Blood is one funny movie. But Juno gave me a warm sensation in my pants and a gigantic smile on my face that I have yet to get rid of. There Will Be Blood might be funnier, sure. Juno, though, is a whole lot easier to watch and just about the best film of 2007.

with the rest of my fellow MoFos I say, ooooooooooooooooooooooooook fellow weirdo

Great Review Yoda! I loved Ellen Page is this film, she is a phenomenal actress and I can't wait to see her future work. I thought all of the performances were excellent. Some of the funniest lines were all in the trailers, but for the first time I can remember, that didn't spoil the film. I also loved the soundtrack and will be picking that up shortly. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

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I saw Juno yesterday. I think my experience of the film might be influenced slightly by experience of the cinema, which was not good. Hordes of teens running in and out, talking, on their mobiles, moaning that they want to watch a different film, throwing sweets and kicking the back of the seats...all of which made me think that real teens aren't as wise and wisecracking as Juno...

Anyway, the film itself is obviously well made, nicely indie and a change from the majority of 'teen movies'. I liked Juno's parents, Juno's clothes and the way some of the scenes were shot. It was amusing in places, although it wasn't ever really laugh out loud funny.

But, I have to say, I didn't find it 'lovely' or 'charming' or any of the other things it has been described as everywhere. My main problem with it was the way it took something really quite sad and shocking - giving away your child - and made it seem cute and easy, like she really can just 'pop it out, hand it over and get on with her life'. Although Juno's dad tells her it will be hard, it never really is. She doesn't have any feelings for the baby beyond wanting a good home for it. Apart from the scene where there never seems to be any real emotion, anything at stake or any difficult decisions to make. This is where the film is just too laid back and quippy for its own good.

The scene where the stepmother attacks the sonographer for saying 'thank goodness for that' when she finds out Juno is giving the baby up for adoption is an odd one, because really this is the attitude of the whole film. Everyone is relieved and thinks it right and proper that she should give her baby away instead of keeping it, and I suspect that that includes a good deal of the film's audience. I actually found the end quite upsetting, and certainly would not describe it as a 'feel good' movie.

The soundtrack has been mentioned a few times in this thread already, I hated it. The songs were twee and irritating, and really didn't fit with Juno's professed musical tastes.

I'm not saying it was a bad film, but there were just a bunch of things that stopped me really enjoying it, or thinking it was 'lovely'.

Thank you, TN, for posting this. I read a review of this movie (in the New Yorker, I think) that said essentially what you've said. But whenever I mentioned the essence of that review to my teen daughters who saw it (or here in the shoutbox), I got run out of town on a rail, as if I'd committed some sort of hate crime!

The reviewer (an adult male) also stated that he was in a theater of mostly teens. On his way out he heard pockets of teens talking about the film and heard comments from them like, "Gee, pregnancy looks kinda fun!"

And so, although he DID find the film funny and witty and engaging while watching it, his perspective changed once he realized that its target audience was indeed being given a very sanitized version of what it is like to have an unwanted pregnancy and then an adoption. Women like this often struggle for the rest of their lives with their decisions, and yet this movie ends by having Juno picking up her life where it largely left off. He found this unrealistic.

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Well, unlike most people, I thought this was a pretty great year for movies. Juno, Into the Wild, There Will Be Blood, Lars and the Real Girl, Once, No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford all get a solid "A" in my book.

There's also a ton of stuff I haven't seen yet - La Vie en Rose, Lust, Caution, The Kite Runner, Black Book, The Things We Lost in the Fire, The Great Debaters, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Away From Her, etc.

Someone must have been throwing food at you during the scene where she has delivered the baby and is crying her eyes out in the hospital bed. I had the feeling she was keeping herself from getting up to see the baby, and from saying she wanted it after all, through sheer force of will.

Juno talks glibly about giving the baby away, but her actions toward the father, and the way she tosses off lines about "popping the kid out" suggest that she is in no way breezing through the experience. I guess it is possible that teens could miss those nuances, though.

I'm not sure it is intended as a "feel good" movie, really. It seems to me to be a film about facing a very terrifying problem and applying the best intellectual decision-making, and how emotionally hard that is, even under the best of circumstances.




Perhaps obviously, I liked this one. I did think Juno was wise beyond her years, but then weren't we all? I found the sound-track a little obtrusive, but I'm starting to think that's down to the place I saw the film - I've been distracted by soundtracks of the last three films I've seen there. The soundtrack content fit the tone of the film, IMO, even though it wasn't aligned with Juno's musical taste - which I think is fine. Her musical taste had formed before she found herself in this predicament, so as a reflection of her mood, it could have been very different from her norm.

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