Too cynical for apple-pie sentiments

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Too cynical for apple-pie sentiments

by 10loves10 @ 2009-09-21 – 08:18:58

So yesterday evening while nursing a mild hangover with a glass of Californian rosé, I settled down in front of the telly to watch 'Juno'. Two reasons for this. First: because someone has compared me to the girl protagonist and second: because there was nothing on TV. I have no inclination to write a long and prolix critique of the film so I shall surmise it by the moral of the story as I understood it: it's okay to have underage sex, get up the duff, unload your scion on to someone desperate enough to have it, and then at the end of it all sing a song with your pimple faced baby-father because that will make everything fine and dandy.

A lot of people saw this film very differently... so I guess I'm far too cynical for this kind of shite and its apple-pie sentiments.
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- alecweston ^Pro
- 2009-09-21 @ 08:26:59
You are up very early again. Can it be you have a salaried job?
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- brokendownangel ^Pro
- 2009-09-21 @ 08:43:35
Not seen it, don't want to now either! Having a 10 year old daughter put me off the plot somehow
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- Old-Nick ^Pro
- 2009-09-21 @ 09:59:16
That does not sound like the sort of film I would want to watch. Far too few explosions and/or monsters....

Mind you, watched "the prestige" yesterday and thought it was great. Only a few explosions in that....
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- Bushka
- 2009-09-21 @ 11:33:39
Haven't seen it! Have a lovely day...
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- londonsdead85
- 2009-09-21 @ 13:09:59
I can not tell you how much I hate that film. It has the worst script ever writer but yet the woment won best oscar for scriptwriter. Ah!!

They ruined that Moldy Peaches song for me too

Sorry for the rant but I have argued with so many people on this movie- everyone loves the stupid thing
- - 10loves10
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  - 2009-09-21 @ 17:04:06
  I know dude, the number of people that told me to watch this film...infinite!
  
  I hate the whole concept: like a totally kooky girl, with a totally unconventional family set-up living this unorthodox life etc except that everything about her and her life was totally conventional and totally orthodox starting with her supposed kookiness and finishing with her stupid and shallow suburban existence.
  - - londonsdead85
    - 2009-09-22 @ 00:19:26
    You are right the concept is so poor.
    
    First, she mentions loads of songs in the film but gets all the albums they are on wrong- which basically means the scriptwriter just wanted to sound cool but had no knowledge.
    
    Second, the film bypass any conflict whatsoever- the abortion issue is avoided by her not liking the smell in the clinic rather than taking any position, the love triangle that is developed between Juno and the couple she is given her child to starts out interesting and then half way through the film jumps ship and then formulates some random reason for the guy to leave his wife rather than all the chemistry that was developed between him and Juno up to that point and I dont think any parents in the history of this planet would accept their daughter being pregnant that easily.
    
    Third, every other word in interviews the scriptwriter for the film said was that she used to be a stripper and this became like a sex sells fucking marketing tool which has no merit and helped to gloss over how shit the film was and create hype.
    
    Fourthly, the hype got so extreme that when I saw it I swear the audience in the cinema were laughing before the jokes were being told.
    
    Another rant, sorry, but I think you are the first person I met who didnt like this film so this is venting 3 years of arguments!! I feel better now..
    - - 10loves10
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      - 2009-09-22 @ 09:06:20
      Agree with you on every point. The film was a total mess, aside from the blatant gaps in Juno's knowledge of music, cinema, world at large, the girl had about as much charisma as a dead rabbit...Her best mate irked me to the point where I wanted to punch her out and her baby-father boyfriend was so sickeningly one dimensional he looked as if he was part of the set rather than an actual character. What fucked me off even more though were all the attempts to make 'Juno' unconventional which looked sooooo fucking contrived. Like what was the point of her smoking a pipe in like two scenes? And is anyone really allergic dog saliva? Oh and being addicted to blue slushies makes you an outsider? The list goes on and on. I just can't abide this kind of shit...typically sweet as apple pie nonsense trying to disguise itself as something else...I bet middle America thought it outrageous...seriously though how does shit like that get funded? It's just wrong.
      Also, my opinion of the several people who kept recommending it is ever so slightly lower.
      Oh and the song at the end...I almost gagged in to my wine glass!
      - londonsdead85
        
        2009-09-22 @ 13:54:37
        
        Haha- all those 'oh Im so unconventional' moments were awful. I think it is films like this that make me want to further retreat from the human race as I really cant understand the universal love.
        
        How did we go from the 1967 film 'teenage mother' with its 'means nine months of trouble' quotable brilliance and large underwear to this?
        
        And you are right, I honestly could not be friends with anyone who likes this film.
        
        At least the scriptwriter Diablo Cody wrote a new film called Jennifer's body starring hollow headed Megan Fox which opened this week in the US and bombed massively. There may be justice after all...
        
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