JUNO Is Really Really Bad...

I had high hopes for this movie but, sadly, this movie is really really really bad. It's nothing but a forced quirkiness bit of pop magic. Every character has some sort of strange tic or quirk that we're supposed to believe is charming and unique. The dialogue sounds like it was written "in the moment". It just sounds so fake and unrealistic.

Decent acting here and there but, overall, this movie is nothing special.

"It's nothing but a forced quirkiness bit of pop magic."

It seems I'm saying that about three out of four movies nowadays.

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there's no such thing as someone who has an abortion and has no problem with it.

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I loved Juno.

That's because David Lynch has talent. Go back to watching Transformers, you postmodernist piece of s***.

So it is kind of like Pushing Daisies?

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Anybody who trots out the over-used word "amazing" and puts it in all caps deserves total dismissal himself.

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I don't recall saying that David Lynch doesn't have talent. He certainly used to have talent, as ERASERHEAD and BLUE VELVET and assorted other works clearly demonstrate. On the other hand, nothing demonstrates the clear erosion of that talent so clearly as drivel like MULHOLLAND DRIVE and the unspeakable INLAND EMPIRE.


"post-modernist piece of s***"? Goodness, such language.

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Updated On: 12/1/07 at 08:58 AM

I agree that it was nothing special, but it wasn't that bad.

I'm still stuck on the "there is no such thing as a person who has an abortion and has no problem with it".

And so as not to hijack this thread, I am starting a new one where anyone who wants to can discuss this tangential topic:

Early pregnancy is so physically discreet, that the significance, in my opinion, attached to is determined by one's circumstances. Have born and raised children, the 12 week pregnancy (and yes I miscarried once around that time) dashed the anticipation of a child that might have come to be, but a three month fetus is merely a potential human being. One can imbue it with a name, and a personality, and love...but physically, it's still a clump of proliferating cells. With amazing potential, but they "ain't no baby".

I know that miscarriages and abortions are traumatic under many circumstances. I also know that frequently, they are a big fat relief.

Do I think people should use abortion as birth control? No. Do I favor non-medically necessary late term abortions? Nope. (But I also believe that the ones that ARE done ARE medically necessary.

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Baha. Just kidding. I didn't actually see it.

Pathetic. Cruel, this is the kind of nonsense I'd expect from HDThoreau2.

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