General Discussions => Inner Glimpse => Topic started by: davepeck on December 14, 2007, 09:47:17 am
Title: Juno
Post by: davepeck on December 14, 2007, 09:47:17 am
anyone see this movie yet? it\'s only playing in select cities right now, but i REALLY wanna see it. michael cera and jason bateman together again, rainn wilson, jennifer garner.. looks terrific, and has gotten nothing but rave reviews so far. nominated for 3 golden globes.
trailer:
imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467406/)
it\'s actually playing in cambridge, a mile and a half from the middle east. seriously considering getting up there early and catching it.
Title: Juno
Post by: jking on December 14, 2007, 09:58:04 am
i know a guy who saw a pre-release screening and he hasn\'t stopped raving! directed by the same guy who did thank you for smoking (a HUGELY underrated movie, if you ask me) and apparently the script is just amazing! as soon as it shows up near here i\'m gonna make it the first movie i\'ve seen in the theatres since borat....
Title: Juno
Post by: FrankZappa on December 14, 2007, 10:03:23 am
I heard an interview with the director on npr the other day and it sounds really really good. No idea what the plans are yet for boston but if timing works out I\'d be down for seeing it if you\'re going.
In the interview the director really went off on one scene where Juno is talking to a couple (from memory)
Juno: "Why don\'t you just get one (a baby) from china? They have so many over there, it\'s like they\'re shooting them out of t-shirt cannons at basketball games trying to give them away"
NPR Fresh air link (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16968724)
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Post by: RadicalRich1138 on December 14, 2007, 10:22:57 am
i heard it sucked, but still want to see it
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Post by: Me! on December 14, 2007, 11:07:29 am
I\'m def interested from the ads I\'ve seen.
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Post by: OMS on December 14, 2007, 11:52:51 am
heading back to nyc today. ill probably be seeing this this upcomming week. then on the 26th...there will be blood which will be fucking outstanding
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Post by: jocelyn on December 14, 2007, 07:09:59 pm
Looks pretty good, and I thought Thank You For Smoking was great. Is it ever going to go beyond just showing in select cities? Do I need to drive to Boston to see it? If that\'s the case I\'ll probably just wait for the DVD.
Title: Juno
Post by: leith on January 14, 2008, 03:06:27 pm
Finally saw this movie and it was stupendous! I laughed so hard through most of the movie. Ellen Page is fantastic and Michael Cera is just well Michael Cera and if you like him you know that\'s just perfect.
Title: Juno
Post by: princesscaspian on January 14, 2008, 03:13:16 pm
i\'d have to agree - i was certainly not wild about the previews, but i caught it a few weeks ago ( it was a game-time decision by my friends and i opted to check it out instead of wuss out and go to bed) and i\'m glad i did!
the script was extremely clever, and it really kept me guessing right up until the end - had no idea what was going to happen. very much enjoyed it - check it out if you have the chance!
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Post by: phirehead on January 14, 2008, 03:23:45 pm
I didn\'t know this movie was still playing only in select theaters-I really want to see it. Does that mean it will never come here and I have to wait and rent it??
Title: Juno
Post by: leith on January 14, 2008, 03:30:21 pm
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I didn\'t know this movie was still playing only in select theaters-I really want to see it. Does that mean it will never come here and I have to wait and rent it??
It\'s now playing everywhere.
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Post by: davepeck on January 14, 2008, 03:31:23 pm
i know it was playing in north haven. not sure if it still is..
bunk that i haven\'t seen it yet...
did i just say bunk?
Title: Juno
Post by: Dweasel Weasel on January 14, 2008, 03:32:56 pm
It\'s at the Criterion downtown NH and at the North Haven showcase.
It has some of the most hysterical dialogue!! great performaances too. More quotable quotes than caddy shack and garden state. (okay, not caddy shack. That\'s an exaggeration).
But it is more for the ladies than the guys. If you happen to believe that all men are scum or dumb, you will adore this movie. If not, you\'ll still laugh pretty hard, but leave feeling it didn\'t deliver the complete emotional package.
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Post by: freddiewaht on January 14, 2008, 03:43:05 pm
grabbed it off mininova last night burning as we speak.
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Post by: phirehead on January 14, 2008, 03:55:26 pm
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i know it was playing in north haven. not sure if it still is..
bunk that i haven\'t seen it yet...
did i just say bunk?
Bunk?
I drove by North Haven yesterday and didn\'t see it on the board thingy... I\'ll have to see if it\'s playing in Wallingford-that is really nice theater.
Bunk?
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Post by: leith on January 14, 2008, 04:06:48 pm
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grabbed it off mininova last night burning as we speak.
JOOX.net
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Post by: Dweasel Weasel on January 14, 2008, 04:27:39 pm
I went to see The Pirates Who Don\'t Do anything yesterday in North Haven and it was still playing there....
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Post by: skalnbyc on January 14, 2008, 04:56:30 pm
We tried to see it on Saturday, but Fandango had the wrong times listed for the theater. Ended up at No Country for Old Men instead. Given the reviews, I\'ll try to go again in the next couple days.
Title: Juno
Post by: BennyBoomers on January 14, 2008, 06:22:10 pm
Definately worth seeing ASAP...there was something "napoleon dynamite" about it the way it was made and the great soundtrack.
funny funny stuff
Title: Juno
Post by: Overexjoesure on January 14, 2008, 06:58:33 pm
Just got back from seeing it. All in all a decent albiet hipster flick. Benny\'s right, it definetly has that subtle pretentious Napolean Dynamite brand of humor to it.
Well worth the ticket price to see Michael and George Michael, and also Schillinger in a non-Aryan/homosexual role.
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Post by: galenas on January 14, 2008, 08:32:57 pm
yeah, thought this movie was really well-written. worth seeing for sure.
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Post by: skalnbyc on January 14, 2008, 08:42:18 pm
That\'s it, I\'m just gonna go see it tonight.
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Post by: Overexjoesure on January 14, 2008, 08:54:30 pm
Good choice.
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Post by: Drew_Kingsley on January 14, 2008, 10:03:41 pm
This movie made me go home and work on my screenplay (which had been gathering dust since my screenwriting class ended in May).
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Post by: lilblondie on January 14, 2008, 10:12:48 pm
it really was the cutest movie ever....very clever and witty
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Post by: Overexjoesure on January 14, 2008, 10:14:34 pm
The last scene was my favorite.
Title: Juno
Post by: leith on January 14, 2008, 10:20:07 pm
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Just got back from seeing it. All in all a decent albiet hipster flick. Benny\'s right, it definetly has that subtle pretentious Napolean Dynamite brand of humor to it.
Well worth the ticket price to see Michael and George Michael, and also Schillinger in a non-Aryan/homosexual role.
Just curious what you meant by this.
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That\'s it, I\'m just gonna go see it tonight.
Yes you should take Lauren out for her Birthday. You guys will like this movie.
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This movie made me go home and work on my screenplay (which had been gathering dust since my screenwriting class ended in May).
Why was that? Inspired by a cleverly written movie or disappointed and determined to write a better movie?
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it really was the cutest movie ever....very clever and witty
very witty
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The last scene was my favorite.
I really liked that scene also.
Title: Juno
Post by: Drew_Kingsley on January 15, 2008, 01:51:45 am
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This movie made me go home and work on my screenplay (which had been gathering dust since my screenwriting class ended in May).
Why was that? Inspired by a cleverly written movie or disappointed and determined to write a better movie?
Inspired by a cleverly written and quirky, yet accessible movie. I don\'t mean this in an "I\'m that good" way, but it feels like a flick that I could have written.
In an unrelated note, I\'m pretty sure if you didn\'t like Juno, it was "pretentious", and if you did like it, it was "cleverly written and quirky, yet accessible"... and neither one is wrong.
Title: Juno
Post by: leith on January 15, 2008, 01:59:56 am
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This movie made me go home and work on my screenplay (which had been gathering dust since my screenwriting class ended in May).
Why was that? Inspired by a cleverly written movie or disappointed and determined to write a better movie?
Inspired by a cleverly written and quirky, yet accessible movie. I don\'t mean this in an "I\'m that good" way, but it feels like a flick that I could have written.
In an unrelated note, I\'m pretty sure if you didn\'t like Juno, it was "pretentious", and if you did like it, it was "cleverly written and quirky, yet accessible"... and neither one is wrong.
Awesome. If you think you have the talent then by all means follow that to whatever end it leads to.
Title: Juno
Post by: FrankZappa on January 15, 2008, 04:48:58 am
I saw this a few weeks ago and though it was one of the best moives I\'ve seen in a very long time. It\'s funny that you said that drew, because we had almost the same conversation as we were leaving:
The writing on it was like seeing an awesome guitarist, you are so blown away you want to race home and practice like crazy because you want to be able to do something that good. Then you see the next scene (hear next song) and that one is even better and you hate how much you suck and want to burn your guitar and never see one again because you could never hope to be even close to that talented.
you know, how most of us felt the first time we saw tim play.
Can\'t wait for it to come out on dvd. Might even go see it again in theaters.
Title: Juno
Post by: FreeSpirit on January 15, 2008, 08:17:54 am
:?: hmmm... how about a B-fam "movie day" on Saturday before Daniel Street? :chin:
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Post by: Igziabeher on January 15, 2008, 08:24:08 am
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:?: hmmm... how about a B-fam "movie day" on Saturday before Daniel Street? :chin:
how about "that sounds really gay"
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Post by: BennyBoomers on January 15, 2008, 08:28:37 am
Thanks for the heads up about Mininova Freddie!
Didn\'t know about this site...I got Juno downloading now. I couldnt wait for DVD to see it again.
Title: Juno
Post by: Dweasel Weasel on January 15, 2008, 09:06:41 am
I guess this was Diablo cody\'s first screen play. She claims that she wrote it on her laptop in a Starbucks.
I just found it interesting that "fatherhood" seemed to be the only thing that brings legitimacy/depth to any of the main characters. The only male figure of any depth was her dad - and even he was relatively imperfect (see first marriage). the "scoundrel" of the movie is "not yet ready to be a father."
Even the boyfriend is basically a blank character (i.e. "pork sword") until he comes to grip with fatherhood.
Maybe I\'m reading too much into it.
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Post by: Overexjoesure on January 15, 2008, 11:19:35 am
No, your right on. It pretty much highlighted male inadequacy in modern day America to a T. Unfortunately they lacked examination concerning Bateman and Vanessa\'s marriage. I mean, the chick had to be cool at some point. She DID paint with an Alice and Chains shirt on.
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Post by: SlimPickens on January 15, 2008, 12:33:44 pm
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No, your right on. It pretty much highlighted male inadequacy in modern day America to a T.
That\'s cause men were built to be fuckin\' hunters! Sword in hand, ice in veins, dinner on mind, hunters! Not the kinda pansy ass, powder puff, stupid metrosexual morons that woman have been trying to make us into since the 60\'s!
I wanted to see this movie until I saw the direction these reviews started going in. Now I just want to go chase down a tiger and tear it apart with my bear hands.
lol.
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Post by: Overexjoesure on January 15, 2008, 12:37:13 pm
hehehehe
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Post by: skalnbyc on January 15, 2008, 03:12:03 pm
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Now I just want to go chase down a tiger and tear it apart with my bear hands. .
Come out to the SF zoo.
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cleverly written and quirky, yet accessible movie.
Summed up well right here. Glad I went last night.
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Post by: leith on January 15, 2008, 04:18:16 pm
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:?: hmmm... how about a B-fam "movie day" on Saturday before Daniel Street? :chin:
how about "that sounds really gay"
Actually that\'s exactly what I would expect from the teacher we all know and love. FIELD TRIP!!!!!!!
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Post by: Cori on January 15, 2008, 06:32:03 pm
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This movie made me go home and work on my screenplay (which had been gathering dust since my screenwriting class ended in May).
Hehe...it made me go home and work on my thesis which is flash fiction, not a screenplay, but still I felt inspired to write. It was such a good movie that I saw it twice in the theaters and I already got the soundtrack which totally kicks ass.
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Post by: ChrisF on January 15, 2008, 06:44:10 pm
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:?: hmmm... how about a B-fam "movie day" on Saturday before Daniel Street? :chin:
how about "that sounds really gay"
does it have to be before daniel st?
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 15, 2008, 07:38:21 pm
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:?: hmmm... how about a B-fam "movie day" on Saturday before Daniel Street? :chin:
how about "that sounds really gay"
:lol: you = not invited, anyway! ;)
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does it have to be before daniel st?
:shrug: no, but I don\'t see all of us making plans to hang out without a breakfast show l8r! ;)
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Post by: davepeck on January 19, 2008, 12:46:00 am
finally saw it tonight. knew i was going to love it 5 minutes in. fantastic movie.
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Post by: lele on January 19, 2008, 09:37:34 am
Great movie!! Loved it :)
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 20, 2008, 12:32:14 am
really cute, worth seeing!
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Post by: ChrisF on January 20, 2008, 12:34:52 am
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really cute, worth seeing!
so much for .info movie day. i guess im the only one who hasnt seen it
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Post by: oldnewbie on January 20, 2008, 12:40:35 am
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really cute, worth seeing!
so much for .info movie day. i guess im the only one who hasnt seen it
you\'re not alone.
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Post by: freddiewaht on January 20, 2008, 12:48:57 am
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finally saw it tonight. knew i was going to love it 5 minutes in. fantastic movie.
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Post by: Todd on January 20, 2008, 12:54:37 am
Def. one of the best movies I\'ve seen in a while. Juno is SOOOO someone we all know!!!
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 20, 2008, 07:50:04 am
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so much for .info movie day. i guess im the only one who hasnt seen it
hey, I put it out there, but didn\'t hear anything back... so, sooorry chip! :shrug: I\'d still go and see it again, though! ;)
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Post by: jocelyn on January 20, 2008, 11:18:41 am
Cute? Meh, I\'m not into cute. Is that really the best description of this movie?
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 20, 2008, 12:06:53 pm
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Def. one of the best movies I\'ve seen in a while. Juno is SOOOO someone we all know!!!
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Post by: ChrisF on January 20, 2008, 03:53:58 pm
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so much for .info movie day. i guess im the only one who hasnt seen it
hey, I put it out there, but didn\'t hear anything back... so, sooorry chip! :shrug: I\'d still go and see it again, though! ;)
i thought you put it out there f0r 1/26 but its all good.
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Post by: ds673488 on January 20, 2008, 04:28:22 pm
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really cute, worth seeing!
so much for .info movie day. i guess im the only one who hasnt seen it
you\'re not alone.
i havent seen it either..everyone i know is raving about it. im gonna see it this week for sure.
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Post by: Todd on January 20, 2008, 05:18:18 pm
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Cute? Meh, I\'m not into cute. Is that really the best description of this movie?
No, I wouldn\'t give the description as cutesy.
Jocelyn- You NEED to see this movie!!
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 20, 2008, 05:23:03 pm
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Cute? Meh, I\'m not into cute. Is that really the best description of this movie?
Quote from: dictionary.com
Word History: Cute is a good example of how a shortened form of a word can take on a life of its own, developing a sense that dissociates it from the longer word from which it was derived. Cute was originally a shortened form of acute in the sense "keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd." In this sense cute is first recorded in a dictionary published in 1731.
:lol: ok, cute might be the wrong word, but it really had me from the beginning to the end, and I adored all the characters!!!
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Post by: ChrisF on January 20, 2008, 05:43:03 pm
^^^^^ thats a real textbook callout!
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Post by: ds673488 on January 20, 2008, 06:44:15 pm
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^^^^^ thats a real textbook callout!
:lol:
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Post by: jocelyn on January 20, 2008, 08:48:06 pm
I hardly think Robyn meant it was an acute movie. BUT, that was a cute pun Chris. :P
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Post by: SlimPickens on February 21, 2008, 09:33:48 am
Slight Spoiler warning: don\'t read this if you still want to see this movie:
Really enjoyed it. Very cute movie. Yeah, I said cute and I mean it in the original definition: keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd. It also had some hysterical dialogue.
I thought the soundtrack was great: despite the fact that Juno seemed to be a punk fanatic, the soundtrack was so very unpunk (acoustic, female, almost child-like melodies with mature themed lyrics). Seemed to go so well w/ the overall theme of the movie.
I love both the actors that played her parents (Allison Janney & JK Simmons). They\'re both classic "midwest" character actors, that always seem to standout. One of my favorite scene\'s was when she went for that Ultrasound and the Allison Janney character launches into the "technician" for making an inappropriate comment.
A friend from work mentioned that her teenage son had complained about Juno\'s dialogue, saying that teenage girls don\'t talk like that. In a way I gotta agree, I mean none of my teenage cousins talk like that. I kind of expected to see that the movie had been written by a man. The movie seemed to lack that feminine feel... up until Jennifer Garner flipped the switch from humorless corporate robot, into "Mom" at the end of the movie. Then I see that the writer was a former Lettermen writer named Diablo Cody, who looks surprisingly like Ellen Page (check out this picture of them together: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2804652544/nm1959505 (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2804652544/nm1959505)). With a name like that, I\'m thinking there are some autobiographical elements to the story.
I also thought that one of the interesting parts of the story was how things developed between the Jason Bateman character and Juno and how she seemed to be the driving force behind him realizing how his life had gone in a direction that he wasn\'t happy with. While it seemed easy to demonize him (his timing couldn\'t have been worse), but when you step back, those two weren\'t right for each other.
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Post by: booztravlr on February 21, 2008, 01:18:08 pm
I def wouldn\'t have watched this movie if this thread wasn\'t created. Brittany and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by: FreeSpirit on February 21, 2008, 03:44:52 pm
glad you finally watched it! I can\'t believe this movie is still in theaters in CT... we have a ripped DVD if anyone hasn\'t seen it yet but would like to! ;) btw, the soundtrack is good too!
Title: Juno
Post by: jocelyn on February 21, 2008, 04:36:41 pm
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Def. one of the best movies I\'ve seen in a while. Juno is SOOOO someone we all know!!!
Ugh, my mom just went to see this movie, and now she won\'t stop talking about how Juno reminds her of me when I was younger, which makes me feel kind of weird.
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 21, 2008, 05:06:34 pm
oh come on joc, I could see a lot of similarities in there. I could see you sitting in the living room set out on the front lawn and wouldn\'t bother to question why. The passion with which you both talk about music, the dry perfectly delivered jokes. Nowhere near everything is the same but there are definitely some parallels.
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Post by: Todd on February 21, 2008, 05:18:59 pm
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Juno is SOOOO someone we all know!!!
dingdingding
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Post by: jocelyn on February 21, 2008, 05:20:22 pm
I do want a hamburger phone really badly...
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Post by: FreeSpirit on February 21, 2008, 05:22:41 pm
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I do want a hamburger phone really badly...
from imdb:
"The hamburger phone in the movie is owned by the writer, Diablo Cody."
"The hamburger phone also turns up in Bleeker\'s room, and can be seen clearly in the background."
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 21, 2008, 05:58:06 pm
awww, they have matching hamburger phones.
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I do want a hamburger phone really badly...
when is you\'re birthday? :chin:
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Post by: jocelyn on February 21, 2008, 06:14:45 pm
Next Wednesday, but I don\'t celebrate my birthday...
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Post by: leith on February 21, 2008, 06:17:42 pm
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Next Wednesday, but I don\'t celebrate my birthday...
We\'ll celebrate for ya.
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Post by: jocelyn on February 21, 2008, 06:19:35 pm
I\'m alright with that I suppose.
I think our mothers should get the gifts on our birthdays. I mean, they did have to deal with us tearing our way through their vaginas with our bulbous baby heads.
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Post by: leith on February 22, 2008, 12:19:46 am
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I\'m alright with that I suppose.
I think our mothers should get the gifts on our birthdays. I mean, they did have to deal with us tearing our way through their vaginas with our bulbous baby heads.
Bah! They have Mother\'s Day and every other day we show our love for them. Your birthday is YOUR day. The only day actually dedicated to YOU. A day to celebrate your Birth. A day in which pretty much everyone gives you the benefit of the doubt. A day to celebrate making it through another year on this crazy Blue Planet. A day in which you get gifts just for being you.
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 23, 2008, 09:20:09 pm
yea, what he said. Also, I just found this. (http://www.sourcingmap.com/desk-top-corded-hamburger-telephone-yellow-p-2805.html)