Would’ve loved to drop in on the chat but decided to go see Be Kind, Rewind instead. Looking forward to your review on the podcast!

And the fact that she wore million dollar shoes does not make me any more or less a fan of Diablo Cody.

I just wanted to add yet again I gained so much respect for Tilda Swinton tonight. she already had it, but man… from not giving a crap about clothes, hair, makeup, and that speech… she’s just plain cool to me.

with dialogue and just about anything else, suspension of disbelief is relative to the world the director creates, and Reitman simply doesn’t acheive it, which makes all of this stand out so much.

As for all the characters sounding the same, no they dont all spit dialogue rapid fire in the same way, but they ALL put jokes above any actual emotion. Juno is ALWAYS on, even to the point of a double joke Thundercats/Thunderbirds reference while having her water break… talking like a jackass while meeting Bateman and Garner for the first time, the parents are cracking jokes the second she leaves the room after telling them she’s pregnant, I mean jesus christ, is everyone a stand up comedian? Even her dumbass friend is quick on the ball with the references. In the end, not only does it fail to ring true in its own contextual world, Cody makes me HATE these people, and can only deliver an emotional moment for Juno by forcing her to break down and cry, a segment convenient to the script out of the blue from everything built up – this wasn’t Juno’s tough facade breaking, it was simply a lazy 180 from someone too talentless to properly set someone up for a fall.

I find it weird to hear defences acknowledging that the dialogue is weird and unrealistic and ‘just a movie’ now, when the majority of the pre release buzz was so highly based on it being ‘real’ and ‘honest’ – even during the Oscar pre-show there was Ellen Page explaining that THIS is what connected it to people, and for the love of christ I can’t see how the hell people could soak anything real out of that fraud of a script. screw her and the million dollar shoes (thats right) she walked in on.

It’s kind of regrettable because the FX team probably was pretty talented. But the film itself is barely watchable.

Great picture guys.

The only major surprise I saw was that Transformers didn’t win for effects. I also wasn’t necessarily expecting Juno to win for screenplay, but it doesn’t really bother me either. I was happy to see No Country, the Coen brothers, and Javier Bardem all represent, and the one thing I honestly wish I’d have watched the show for is Bardem’s acceptance speech. But then again, that’s what YouTube’s for.