Juno

[Lucky Rathen]

I didn't think I was going to like it, but I watched it last night and absolutely loved it. A brilliant performance from Ellen Page, which is what really makes the movie. The dialogue is really quirky but funny as hell. Really likeable characters (especially Juno herself), and there is great music all the way through. It reminded me a little of Napoleon Dynamite, but about a hundred times funnier. All in all 100% thumbs up, my favourite movie of 2008 so far.

[Johnny Mac]

I saw it last year in Canada.

Yeah, it's pretty funny, and great performances all round.

Quality cast.

Well worth a watch.

[KarmaTsunami]

i really enjoyed it. The first scene I thought the dialogue was going to bug me all the way through, but it was just the opening scenes. After that it was all uphill. Ellen Page was fantastic.

Glad it managed to get an Oscar for Orginal Screenplay last night.

[Jan Deal]

I really enjoyed it... Although there was disturbing references to Sonic Youth in it. I think I was the only person in the cinema who gasped in disgust.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

I really enjoyed it... Although there was disturbing references to Sonic Youth in it. I think I was the only person in the cinema who gasped in disgust.

I absolutely pissed myself laughing when she said "I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucks! It's just noise!", then I realised that I was the only person in the cinema laughing and I was getting some reaaaaaaally strange looks. I then had to explain (quietly) to my girlfriend that you really have to have heard a Sonic Youth album to get that joke.

[JJ 10 Easy Wishes]

Originally Posted by Elwood Cobra Kai

I absolutely pissed myself laughing when she said "I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucks! It's just noise!", then I realised that I was the only person in the cinema laughing and I was getting some reaaaaaaally strange looks. I then had to explain (quietly) to my girlfriend that you really have to have heard a Sonic Youth album to get that joke.

i did exactly the same thing, that was the best line in the film

i actually found the character of juno really annoying for the first half of the film, and it was only when she stopped putting on the sort of alternative kid routine and showed glimpses of how sort of scared i suppose she was that I warmed to her. So basically good character building I would say cos they probably made it that way on purpose. Although at the same time I used to hate Jason Lee's character in Mallrats a little bit. perhaps i'm odd

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by JJ 10 Easy Wishes

i did exactly the same thing, that was the best line in the film

i actually found the character of juno really annoying for the first half of the film, and it was only when she stopped putting on the sort of alternative kid routine and showed glimpses of how sort of scared i suppose she was that I warmed to her. So basically good character building I would say cos they probably made it that way on purpose. Although at the same time I used to hate Jason Lee's character in Mallrats a little bit. perhaps i'm odd

She was quite irritating during the initial sequence when she was taking the pregnancy test / on the phone to her mate etc. but she stopped it after about 20 minutes. I assumed they were trying to show how young she really was with all the annoying teenage speak, and when she stopped it was to show that she'd had to grow up quickly with the pregnancy. However I could be totally wide of the mark. Wouldn't be the first time.

[The Kernel Loaf]

I watched the first 20 minutes and had to put it off because the dialog was too cringeworthy.

[Larsen B]

Originally Posted by The Kernel Loaf

I watched the first 20 minutes and had to put it off because the dialog was too cringeworthy.

Well presumably you've learned from reading this thread that you should have persevered.

[KimyReizeger]

Originally Posted by KarmaTsunami

The first scene I thought the dialogue was going to bug me all the way through, but it was just the opening scenes. .

Hey Banana, shut your friggin gob!

Thought it was good; quirky and fresh..regardless of the disparity between a character who is young and naive yet wiser and wittier than the world around her, for the best part it avoided smart-arse-edness.

I actually thought the Mark / Vanessa relationship was slightly contrived; pushed to the point where they both ended up looking unnecessarily pathetic / neurotic. But yeah, details..