Friday, January 11, 2008

Juno

Roger Ebert called this the best film of 2007. It's not the first time he passed the dutchie on the left hand side while he made his list. 2003 -- "Monster." 2005 -- "Crash." And now, 2007 -- this junk.

There's nothing here. Not since "Network" has there been such forced and aggressively bad dialogue. It's not funny or engaging, no matter how many jokes and quips spew out of the characters' mouths. And the music was God-awful. It was like listening to every song that wasn't good enough to make it into "Once," only "sung" by William Hung.

If I had to point out the positive things in the film, I could find them, but they're minor. Jennifer Garner was actually decent. And Allison Janney's character -- the stepmother -- was more nuanced than I thought she would be.

I keep reading movie critics talk about how great a year 2007 was for movies, and I still don't see it. "Juno" was supposed to be great, and it's really not. I still can only think of 5 movies that would make it into my top 10 of the year.

4 comments:

michaelgellis said...

ew. the music was good.

lshmizzle said...

i think you're hard to please. i thought juno was as good as the music. which is to say enjoyable and fun. go check out 'there will be blood'. it was particularly excellent.

blahblahblog said...

the dialog was so obnoxious and unbelievable. not since will and grace has there been such an underestimation of the public to know that nobody--not even the writers--talks that way. plus, juno or ellen page or whatever seems to be lesbian--so it was hard for me to buy she was into any boy. plus plus why the hell is hollywood so anti-abortion these days. plus, plus, plus don't write a movie just because you want people to believe you're hardcore--the music in the movie did nothing but make me think that the girl who wrote it with the crazy fake name has a bunch of records, tapes, cds etc out in her living room for everyone to see so they'll think she's cool but really she never listens to that crap.
I liked jason bateman though.

michaelgellis said...

what?! julie? seriously?! this coming from a bjork-goon like yourself?! i should slap you on the mouth.