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It is also a remake of a Danish flick (Brødre) from a few years ago that was pretty damn good. If you don't mind subtitles it is well worth the rent. |
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Also had one of the best trailers in a while. EDIT: Best teaser in a while. I liked the teaser better than the trailer, which is rare. I don't get why it's so "cool" to hate on Juno.
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11-10-2009, 09:55 PM | #3693 |
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The soundtrack is grating. But for me the characters are empty. Everything that is said in the movie is just so scripted. The film just rings artificially to me.
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11-10-2009, 09:56 PM | #3694 | |
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11-10-2009, 10:00 PM | #3695 |
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11-10-2009, 10:00 PM | #3696 |
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11-10-2009, 10:07 PM | #3697 | |
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Pulp Fiction worked in large part because of the realism of the dialogue. They seemed like real people having real conversations, even if it was sometimes about surreal subjects. Juno was a bunch of characters trying to seem real through their dialogue and failing. It was a movie that had a lot of lines that you'd think someone might say in that situation if you knew nothing about them or social dynamics. No matter how iconoclastic you want your lead to appear, no one is that flippantly sarcastic, nor are they so wholly removed from their own situation that they can constantly engage in a meta-analysis of the minutiae of their daily existence. No one constantly and recursively breaks the 4th wall of their own existence as they live it. It was a bad piece of masturbatory performance art for the writer and about the writer.
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11-10-2009, 10:11 PM | #3698 | |
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11-13-2009, 11:24 PM | #3701 |
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Saw The Box tonight. Not at all what I expected. Interesting plot, worth a rent at least.
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11-14-2009, 02:02 AM | #3702 |
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11-14-2009, 05:07 AM | #3703 |
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I read the summary at Wiki tonight. Sounds pretty convoluted, but maybe it translates well on film?
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11-14-2009, 11:51 AM | #3705 |
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Watched a movie called "Shotgun Stories" last night on netflix. It's a low budget movie set in a small town in Arkansas, with lots of weird family dysfunction, the kind of movie I just love. Highly recommend.
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