Juno: The feel-good movie for people who would like to think that they are above liking feel-good movies.And, that soundtrack? God-awful. If I ever have to listen to the Moldy Peaches again, my metaphorical soul might just curl up and die.
I felt sorry for Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner every time they struggled to make their soulless, barren, despicable/shrewish characters relatable or likable.
Re the Asian girl outside the clinic: Was it just me, or was it slightly racist? She could barely speak English. The whole scene made me sad.
How could a girl as intelligent as Juno not know the origin of her own name? Juno was Jupiter's wife, not Zeus' wife. You're looking for the Roman version, not the Greek version, Diablo Cody.
15 minutes into the film, and I was already sick of the running gag of the boys in short running shorts.
Why are all the characters charictures? They're certainly all very quirky and odd, but Cody and Reitman seem to mistake quirkiness for character development. NOT EQUAL.
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I just returned from seeing Juno. I was wondering if anyone else caught the fact that Juno was Jupiter's wife and not Zeus. I know someone will say it was a character mistake and not the writer's mistake, but we are led to believe that this kid is smarter than everyone else on the planet (hence her references to stuff that no normal 16 year old would make, or her advanced vocabulary). So I am chalking this up to lazy screenwriting and more indie-film forced dialogue.
The dialogue, wholly unbelievable amd misplaced, prevented this from being a great movie.
Yeah, it was sort of a problem for me. I really wanted to enjoy Juno, but I constantly felt like it was being forced on me as 'the movie every 22-year-old aware of the Moldy Peaches' existence ought to like.'
I have a hard time believing that was Juno's mistake, and not Cody's.
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