Per the blog, I’m getting ready to launch a new project pretty soon (maybe by Monday!) with my “Marion Cotillard’s Road to Oscar” contributor K. I’ll absolutely circulate a message to my favorite people once it goes up, so you should get a heads up soon.

By the way…what’s the status on some new blog action from your corner of paradise?

How on earth did you make it past the first 10 minutes? I at least had the benefit of liking Page…not as much in this movie as elsewhere, but nevertheless. Otherwise, I might’ve hung myself.

intersting review. and yeah i love the seconf page of the review.it reall zooms in on the juno as hipster thing much more than i did.

yep more hipster than social misfit.cool apro critic agrees with me. :)

anyway juno will be if/if it isn’t already the biggest movie boxoffice wise in the histroy of fox searchlight.

ok the so little miss sundhine was directed by ex music director/and juno by a ex stripper.

oj which former profession will fox searchlight’s nest award winner/box office maven/mainstream crossover ‘indie’ comedy have on the resume ???

and joel i liked neith o.t nor kevein smith. :)

sorry to dislike/say no juno so much put it’s got to be losers up/hipsters down for once. :)

(translation i’m living in a daydream….)

sorry kids no juno/no no country/no atonement…

geek start the revolution. :)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is also one of the PGA nominees!!!

Craig, we would never strangle you with a cute hamburger phone. Actually, to be honest, that hamburger phone annoyed the sh*t out of me.

As for the QT/KS question, I think Juno suffers from having come afterwards. It also seems to want to have it both ways: Ironic distance and emotional truth. The critics who liked it and fans were obviously able to peel through the layers of snark to find something warm and gooey in the middle. Or they liked the snark so much, they didn’t care if there was anything in the middle or not. That’s cool. I missed the boat on this one. They can’t all be winners.

The Rex Reed review Cozzalio refers to is especially funny because Rex just sounds like a withered old man try to be relevant to the kids.

This was my issue with the film as well Joel, the pregnancy is as superficial as the government secrets in any Hitchcock esponiage film, it’s just the McGuffin and it feels shallow, and it’s hard to root for a girl with so little introspection.

You’ve mentioned a few times that everyone has jumped on the No Country train. It seems to me that you pride yourself on your individual tastes, never giving in to the populist choice. So I say rejoice in the fact that you haven’t jumped on the Juno bandwagon. It’s wonderful to diverge from the herd. :-)

As you know, I did enjoy the movie and found it touching. However, I did not think it was the greatest movie of the year, and I don’t get how it has been raised to Oscar-worthy status. In that way, I guess I’m missing something about that movie, too.

I could completely understand where Scott and the other critics were coming from though. The first 20 minutes of that movie is grating. If the movie had been a 42-minute TV pilot rather than a 90-minute feature, I would have been out of there by the end of the second act. Since I paid for a ticket, I waited it out and enjoyed myself.

I think Juno has more charms than Little Miss Sunshine, but I also think it’s a more carefully constructed and overtly cynical attempt at making a crowd-pleasing mainstream comedy than LMS was too. In that respect, it kind of bugs me, but I was still entertained.

The movie, like Knocked Up, takes an overtly political situation and diffuses it by ignoring the politics. This is fine, but the movie also glosses over the effect of this pregnancy on the main character beyond her self-esteem. Juno doesn’t struggle with being pregnant, she struggles with her status in school. Is there any turmoil within the family? Do they even really acknowledge it? Do any of her friends? Not really. The movie seems very superficial in its treatment of the entire storyline. I’m not saying it has to be an afterschool special or veer into Lifetime TV territory for the third act, but it would have given the entire movie a *little* emotional weight if it felt like any of this were real. It’s the John Hughes version of teen pregnancy. Juno was 20 years too late for Molly Ringwald.

As it was, it was a cute movie with cute characters and a cute soundtrack and a cute ending taking on a not-cute situation. I enjoyed it for what it was, I just felt it was kind of superficial and that sort of bugged me. But it was a comedy and ultimately comedies tend to be pretty simple and superficial, so I don’t know. I just let it go.

It’s kind of sad, I was almost more elated that “Juno” went 0 for 3 at the Golden Globe last night than I was about any of the winners… I almost didn’t care who beat it, even if I’ve been backing Marion Cotillard since June.

So many films this year have been heavy and had darker themes, maybe I was desperate for something a little easy going, but the fact that you didn’t enjoy it as much me is cool, different strokes….

If you must see Juno again to see if you would change your mind about the film, I would like you to, even if it doesn’t change your perspective, but do what ever you feel necessary Craig.

Neat….

I wholeheartedly LOVED Juno & I didn’t even expect to like it.

I am really happy that your article was even handed. You didn’t like the film but took exception to the reviewers that you felt didn’t give it a fair shake.

It really is impossible to enjoy everything. When I don’t like something that everyone else is going for I think of myself as a maverick. As someone who is comfortable enough to create a path for herself & who has no need to be part of the herd. Though I consider myself to diverge from the mainstream in a lot of cases, I have adored some things that were popular & well loved by many. That’s fine by me too.

As long as it’s not every time. LOL

Craig, I doubt seriously that another trip to the cinema to see Juno is going to change your perspective. It MAY. But I don’t think so.

I thought it was wonderful. So do lots of others. But that doesn’t matter. IMO you should revel in your non-Junoness. Strike a tough non-Juno pose. Stand tall. Tell all your friends that you didn’t like Juno & exactly why. Be celebratory in your opposition to Juno. Play Sonic Youth loudly & proudly, seeing as Juno had great disdain for that “noise”. Tell everyone that you know about the great youth culture/teen movies that you think are meaningful & have great impact on the culture at large & then say snidely, “Unlike Juno.” Thumb your nose at Juno. Say no to Juno. Throw a non-Juno party.

Remember, Craig, if you don’t like Juno then it’s an unqualified vote for subversion & anarchy.

And we all need more of those….