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Well yeah. That's it. Although, to be sincere, if you want to me to say what film I thought was the best of 2007, I would say The Life of the Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (wich was released in 2007 in non-geraman speaking countries). Now that was a film I thought was ABSOLUTELY Beatiful and I would recomend to everybody.


I really wanna see that movie. I thought Ulrich Muhe was fantastic in Funny Games, and the whole concept just sounds great. From memory it won an Oscar last year though didn't it? Best foreign film?
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I saw Juno a couple days ago and loved every part of it. As for the soundtrack, if you don't like cute acoustic songs with amateur vocals, then you definitely won't like it, but I loved it and I think it worked very well.

And there actually is more pedophile stuff in Juno! Gaah! More hard candy in this movie.

I know I am quoting a post from last year but has anyone noticed that every one of Ellen Page's movies has a strong pedophile theme?  Or at least the three or four I have seen.  It's weird because she is actually in her 20s but she looks like she as 14 so it's creepy when these old guys hit on her in movies even though really it's just fine.
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The only thing I find creepy is the sense of relief I had when I found out she was 2x.
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I was REALLY annoyed at Ellen Page at first too, and during the first 15 minutes I was wondering wether I was gonna finish watching it (I was eating at the time tho, so I needed entertainment and kept on watching) but man, she really, really grew on me. I think she does a great job of portraying teenagers, that often have this gimmicky shell on the outside to hide what's going on inside. And she really lets you know from time to time that it's a shell. By the end of the flick I was almost in love with her. She was so... NOT PERFECT, if you know what I mean. Her flaws are really attractive and adorable.
Actually Juno is just a snarky little bitch, guy.
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Actually Juno is just a snarky little bitch, guy.


Actually it's his opinion and I don't see why yours is any more valid, guy.
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Dude I'm not serious. I am just goofing around and that's how roll! I had thought people might have known that, don't take it the wrong way lars :)
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Dude I'm not serious. I am just goofing around and that's how roll! I had thought people might have known that, don't take it the wrong way lars :)


Sorry mate, thought you were being a wanker! Didn't mean to annoy if you were just joking.
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My girlfriend's pretty obssessed with the movie. I found it entertaining, but not something I would talk about for the rest of the day. I found the scenes with Juno and that married guy (what was his name again?) really, really awkward and creepy. But hey, that's just me. The soundtrack was pretty refreshing to me, but since my girl's been playing it nonstop I've been a bit sick of it. Good movie overall; just not something I'd go out of ym way to watch more than once.
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My girlfriend's pretty obssessed with the movie. I found it entertaining, but not something I would talk about for the rest of the day. I found the scenes with Juno and that married guy (what was his name again?) really, really awkward and creepy. But hey, that's just me. The soundtrack was pretty refreshing to me, but since my girl's been playing it nonstop I've been a bit sick of it. Good movie overall; just not something I'd go out of ym way to watch more than once.

I will quote you because this is exactly the same thing I am going through.  My girlfriend bought it on Blu-Ray and it's weird because you can see artifacts from the analog film it was recorded with.
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Juno was kind of that "shone in the face of adversity" films, because there are a couple of first timers here. Initially a comedy picture is more challenging to write than a drama. Diablo Cody's first screenplay, Ellen Page's first film as a lead actress (she was absolutely adorable in X3 btw), to which she did really well. Lots of comedians would agree that timing is the key part of comedy, and Page is quick, precise, and stops just short of going too far. The dialog was surprisingly witty (compare it to other recent films), and even though I also disliked the "jive" lingo Juno shares throughout, it's understood as part of her character (as others have said, not normal) and I grew to like her.

It's understandable why people would hate it, it's unconventional. Plenty were outraged at the endings of both No Country and Blood.

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Ellen Page's first film as a lead actress (she was absolutely adorable in X3 btw)
She was the lead in Hard Candy, and I think maybe a few other films. I would definitely agree that Juno is her breakthrough role though.
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It's understandable why people would hate it, it's unconventional.
I don't hate it because it's unconventional. Hell, I don't hate it at all. It's simply a bad movie, end of story.
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just finished watching it for the first time a few minutes ago and i gotta say i enjoy, not one of my favorite movies or anything, but i found it pretty enjoyable.
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Juno was kind of that "shone in the face of adversity" films, because there are a couple of first timers here. Initially a comedy picture is more challenging to write than a drama. Diablo Cody's first screenplay, Ellen Page's first film as a lead actress (she was absolutely adorable in X3 btw), to which she did really well. Lots of comedians would agree that timing is the key part of comedy, and Page is quick, precise, and stops just short of going too far. The dialog was surprisingly witty (compare it to other recent films), and even though I also disliked the "jive" lingo Juno shares throughout, it's understood as part of her character (as others have said, not normal) and I grew to like her.

It's understandable why people would hate it, it's unconventional. Plenty were outraged at the endings of both No Country and Blood.



"shone in the face of adversity"?

what da heck do you mean. this started off as a minor project by a major studio, so it's not like there was a danger of backlash from the beginning. it's also about two middle class white kids, and has a pretty undeniable pro-life message. this film is right in with mainstream american values, there's no adversity to be overcome here.

it's not unconventional in the slightest. it's a romantic comedy which throws an BIG ISSUE in the mix so it can milk the subject and get some good drama out of it. what this film is, is a major studio release dressed up indie with a precious soundtrack and precious names attached to it.





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just finished watching it for the first time a few minutes ago and i gotta say i enjoy, not one of my favorite movies or anything, but i found it pretty enjoyable.
This sums up my thoughts on it.  I found it pretty enjoyable, too.  Nothing too deep but it was cute and somewhat funny.

I had no idea it was Ellen Page in X3.  She looks like she's 12 in that movie.

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I saw this a while back in the cinema. A lot of the people seemed to like it. I liked it when I saw it. I didn't love it, though, and after a while, I got pretty fed up with Ellen Page and her weird language.

I've always hated Ellen Page since I saw her in Hard Candy (I hated that movie so much). Juno was basically the same character in Hard Candy but not psychotic and wanting to castrate somebody (who knows!) But putting all that aside, Ellen Page managed to get me to like her by the end of the movie and the scene with her in the car crying felt very real to me and that scene was very important to me to show that she wasn't just some jibberish-speaking indie-weirdo.

Jennifer Garner surprised me a lot and this is probably the best performance I've seen from her - although she doesn't have a whole good range of good performances, but I really thought she did well in this. Same goes for Jason Bateman. I thought he did a really good job also. In fact... y' know what... I thought every single actor in this movie pulled their weight and turned out a great performance in the end. Props to J.K. Simmons as well. He is an awesome character actor anyways.

The soundtrack annoyed me. It's simply not my kind of music. That's all I have to say about that. But at the end when

Jason Reitman directed this. I didn't know Reitman also directed Thank You For Smoking until after I saw Juno, and I hope Reitman continues to make these kinds of comedy movies. Though I think this movie was way overrated, I really liked it and I had a fun time watching it.
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and has a pretty undeniable pro-life message.
I'm not sure, DC says she's pro-choice. The film didn't deny abortion as an option and say it's wrong.

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it's not unconventional in the slightest. it's a romantic comedy which throws an BIG ISSUE in the mix so it can milk the subject and get some good drama out of it. what this film is, is a major studio release dressed up indie with a precious soundtrack and precious names attached to it.
It's unconventional in that the film shows teenage girls that aren't stereotypical, and that these non-stereotypes are "strong" in a real "human" sense.

I also think it's overrated, but worth your money.
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Props to J.K. Simmons as well. He is an awesome character actor anyways.

Yeah - I forgot to point this out. He's really awesome in a much more 'wholesome' role than he usually plays. I've always liked him as an actor and it was nice to see him in a role like this.
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I just want to clarify that the first ten minutes of this movie are absolutely horrible and ugh it's the worst but after that it gets better and I'm a faggot and kind of liked the last scene.

THAT SAID I still didn't really like it that much but it wasn't a horrible movie, just kind of annoying!  Hardly worthy of a BEST PICTURE nomination but hey what can you do.