lol... what the heck

ok, i just watched it. not a terrible movie i guess. it had some real smart ass little comments and subtleties that made me laugh throughout it. not a real gutbuster or anything, but i don't think that's what it was all about. good girlfriend watching movie. was definitily subtantial times better than hard candy was...

Yeah, it was a date movie... not bad, but not oscar material imho.

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I liked it but then I liked Garden State too.

youre a girl so i guess you have en excuse

and yet I typically don't like 'girl' films..

one thing that i dont like about it is that its another remake from an asian movie...dont the writers have original stories to make? and yea...the acting sucked

sure it was, worse movies have won oscars in the past. it wasn't really my type of movie, and i can see it wasn't the type of movie many inthis thread were into, but it was a good story. the acting was fairly good, but moreover the story was really well done. it was a life story. shit like that does happen. 16 year old girls do get knocked up, shitstorms ensue, things don't always go as planned, but life goes on bla bla bla. just because i wasn't super in tune with story doesn't mena it wasn't a good one, and they did a good job of telling it.

so my opinion goes like this. was it a good movie? yes. was it a movie i was really excited for, and did the movie excite me any? not really. would i watch it again? not by myself for shits and giggles, no.

What is it a remake of? It won best original screenplay at the Oscar so I took that to mean it wasn't a remake.

Anyway, I don't think it was the best film ever or anything but I enjoyed it and I cried at the end. As far as the acting goes, I thought it was fine but I thought Jennifer Garner was better than the lead actress. Perhaps being a woman that is unable to have a child helps me 'get' her character but I thought she did very well with that role.

amazed me it got an Oscar

not the worst Ive seen but certainly not a movie Id recommend

Saw it last weekend I liked it.

I actually liked it quite a bit
While not 100% realistic, I enjoyed the dialog and I enjoyed Allison Janey as the stepmother...she actually reminded me a little of my stepmother.

The scene I really loved that most people almost laughed at, was when Jennifer Garner feels Juno's belly in the mall. That expression on her face...I remember the feeling I had when I felt the first kick of my first child in my wife's belly. That rush of excitement and that moment of pure joy...those who've never experienced it themselves won't understand.

The film geek in me also got a kick out of the Dario Argento vs. HG Lewis debate (I'm in the Argento camp myself, but I love HG Lewis when he's splashing the screen with gallons of fake blood)

I think the best expression inthe whole movie was the look on bleeker's face when she tells him that she's pregnant. That's the expression and respnse I imagine myself having exactly....

That is the scene I was thinking of in particular when I said that Garner did a great job. That was a very well done bit of acting from her.

This is a movie that I'll probably wait for the DVD....

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ya, i waited for the dvd. http://www.rapidsharefilms.com :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I thought Juno was ok for a chick flick.

haha, yeah, that was classic...and if I had knocked up some gal as a teenager, I'd probably have the same expression...come think of it, I had that expression at 25 when I heard the news ;-)

I thought it was great - smart dialogue (Ed. WTF? dialogue isn't a word according to spell check), genuinely likable characters, not you're typical high school romance story, and a good ending. It was a overly cheesy at times and most people I've talked with about it agree that the beginning was pretty bad so I was a little more than shocked to see it nominated for Oscars.

I wouldn't think it can really be enjoyed by the majority of people over 25. It's weird that everyone is comparing it to Garden State. Maybe it's the Indie subculture thing. I guess if you aren't into Indie Music or Film then you would have a harder time enjoying this.

As far as weird angsty teen girl movies go....

Ghost World = 5000x better than Juno

I loved Ghost World and it is indeed better (in my mind) than Juno but it is also a rather different film. It was actually the first Scarlett Johanson film I remember seeing and I still think she was better in that than she has been in most things since.

I love Scarlett Johansson. hot hot hot. She was best in Ghost World and Lost in Translation.

Yes, prior to the Monroe style copying.

I would go that far, but yeah, Ghost World > Juno

Garden State was crap, but Juno rocked. Not surprised it didn't go over well here on GFY. Not enough car crashes and titties for this crowd.

Ghost World was solid, I couldn't get past how creepy the whole Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch relationship was though. And yes, I did rent it just to see Scarlett.

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Busted

Perhaps for some reason he was thinking of last year and The Departed..which as indeed an inferior copy of an Asian film(s).

Off topic-

Banthis you seem to have a hard on for SuperBad and an Oscar. I am sure your aware those types of movies do not get nominated let alone submitted. Unless by chance it pops up in some off category.

Think for a second and go over Spielberg's entire movie catalog and then count his Oscars and nominations. Then think of this again each time you want to say "what about SuperBad people". :winkwink: