I barely ever watch oscar films. never like them. this year, for some odd reason, thought i would.

So the first film on my lilst was Juno. Avoided it but something wanted me to see it. Finally I did and

- People are definetely giving it a bad rep for no reason
- Its certainly not aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssss amazing as people are making out to be.

The movie is areally good film that just keeps getting better and better in people's mind even though its not. Same with people who didn't like it as much.

The film is a borderline B+ in my book. Could have been an easy A but i think that while the director, screenwriter and everyone weren't too far off, they tried a little too hard at times ... such as the dialogue (which got annoying), soundtrack, little editing and background scene stuff that got repetitive.

Borderline B+

Best Film Ranking: 1/5 by virtue of the fact that i haven't seen any other as of the viewing of Juno

Sickening Figure out the Chair yet?

also, can someone explain to me how the story ended with a chair!?

how it began yes. how it ended? i can't figure out how it ended in the literal or philosophical sense yet.

At least tell me you found the shop clerk at the start stupidly annoying?

because the last chair was what mothers sit on to rock the baby to sleep. goodness. how slow r u.

Aaah thank you good sir

Yes. Retarded dialogue

never insult Dwight.

Atonement

**LOTS OF SPOILERS!!!**


There is a certain level of crappiness associated to this movie. If fast forwards, rewinds, plays both at the same time without ever thinking that it might be a good idea to use the pause button so the audience can catch upto whats going on. men feeling each other up, women feeling up themselves, people thinking certain things happened when clearly they didn't. the girl diagnosed with dimesntia when clearly, she seems to have had it since she was 10, a war being fought where they spend more time singing, holding another soldier's hand on the merry go round and getting drunk .. my kind of war. every man the girl touches seems to either get thrown into jail for falsified rape or dies momentarily

and at the end of the film, you find out none of it is real.

Also, the most boring film of the year!!! horrible scene to scene flow. I wanted to kill someone. This movie reminded me of Eddie Izzard's British vs american skit.

A solid F.

Edit: After many requests, i'm changing this to a D. its still no Eragon.

To think you were at a B grade for a little while.......................saddness, I revoke our special sheep sharing agreement over this!!

Recap

1) Juno
2) Atonement

3 left to watch

Thank you, Atonement was terrible. Briony never comes across as sorry, just self absorbed.

As for Juno, actually the more I think about it, the more I think its a B+ movie then my initial A/A- reaction., the end is really the best part when it stops trying so damn hard with the dialogue, and sine that is the last part you see I think that leads to the favorable grade. it was good but with flaws.

I am still not sure what my favorite film is from this year.

The whole Juno beginning and ending with a chair thing reeks of tenuous bookending. Not so much with the beginning, but definitely with the ending. It seemingly ends with a chair simply because the camera happened to be settling on one in the baby's bedroom.

Juno's an average comedy that cynically cribbed visual and audio clichés from its indie contemporaries to make it seem more meaningful than it actually is.

it started on a chair because they had sex on a chair.
it ended on a chair, a rocking chair. a rocking chair is to rock the baby to sleep. the fact that it was empty was to symbolise she had not kept the baby, obviously.

your attacking the music. goodness me. what's next, the fact that they used too much snow to symbolise winter. grow up u JUNO-haters.

i know. but i don't see a reason why they had to use Punk music in the soundtrack just to emphasize this. Did you listen to the lyrics in the final song at the end. No, OK thats fine.

and how can her parents reaction be false. Are you an expert on middle class families now. What a generalisation. Not every "serious" movie has to be realistic or sensationalised for your own sanity.

this coming from someone who also loved Buffy and Angel. totally whateva.

I enjoyed it, i did not love it. I'm going to see the other BPs before i make my final decision about 2007.

i know.

Ok, my take. I found the movie on the whole enjoyable, though I did not really like Juno the character much. I didn't buy that she was 16. She might look it, but even with the forced "I'm a teenager!" dialogue, the way she talked was way too old. Also, the way she was taking pregnancy tests in the middle of a convenience store and her whole reaction overall was just completely wrong. Not quirky or immature or whatever. It was just completely unbelievable.

But, despite that, I liked it. Mostly for the stuff with Bleeker and Juno. It was all just so cute that my cold dead heart melted.

As for the music, the soundtrack was my kind of music, and I greatly enjoyed it, but Loyal is right. It was just wrong for her to be so into punk and the music to be all about indie. Why couldn't they have debated the merits of indie music, rather than punk? It was just weird.

Agree on Juno, but you must confuse Atonement with another movie

I have Michael Clayton left which I'll try to catch this weekend. But you should leave NCFOM for last bAbA. It's the best of the bunch.

No Country for Old Me

Lack of a score bothered me a lot and my biggest complaint is that i do have trouble understanding the whole southern cowboy accent where people spend more time muttering to themselves using a throaty voice than anything else.

Had some editing issues as well. thought some scenes ended abruptly while others started abruptly.

but all in all, a film that kept me interested and kept me intrigued. Loved how it went from one thing to another. quite interesting. would hate to live in a place like that though.

A-

1) No Country for Old Men
2) Juno
3) Atonement

Left: Blood and Clayton

no countries got nothing on Juno.

B+ for Juno..
F for Atonement..

sooo predictable.. and predictable is boring

I predict you to dislike Michael Clayton (not as much as Atonement).. and only ok with Blood...

now, surprise me