is not Bourne Ultimatum or Michael Clayton or No Country For Old Men
It is Juno!
The script has been written by a first-timer who is an ex-stripper. What more can you want?
The movie is about this 16 yr old girl who gets pregnant and then she decides to give the baby up for adoption to someone who really needed it.
And unlike other movies on such a theme, Juno is not about adopting the above setup and making it into a drama in which everyone becomes teary eyed and I am like why-the-hell-did-I-agree-to-watch-this-damn-movie-in-the-first-place (read Taare Zamein Par, which Adnan I havent YET watched; though one day I saw the ending and heard the song "Ma" - which was enough to make me watery eyed)
Back to Juno; the pace is brilliant; for the first half of the movie I was smiling all the way and then at the same time you could make out what sort of tensions might come up in the second part of the movie and they do; but the manner in which they come up you are like yeah of course you saw it coming. More importantly the manner in which they get handled are more like hhmm now I didnt see THAT coming in a movie!
I mean you expect shennanigans like people crying and ranting; nothing like that ... just the pace takes it on.
One more thing about the movie is that it hasnt tried to be larger than life - i.e. it has not tried to deal with "issues in general" - abortion, teen-age sex, adoption, divorce or anything like that which you could assume will be associated to a movie like this and perhaps that makes it so special.
Its just that - its about Juno - and not Women Power in general which a lot of movies do turn out to become.
I can go on a lot more but then I dont want to spoil the fun for you.
I think if you all like movies and havent seen this one you are missing out on something.
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You are missing out on so much if you do not watch TZM. If you are home this weekend, you must watch it. Now you already know what happens to the teenage mother. Watch TZM to see what happens to the baby when he grows up! :-)
u're quite a senti boy :)
1. u hv to see TZP!!
2. Saw Juno when it came out earlier this year .. yes it's a nice movie n I enjoyed it but I dno y it got all the Oscar hype it did .. I didn't think it was that awsm!
but yes it could hv been disastrous and wasn't so by that criteria it was a good movie :)
Big Issue - the more people tell me I SHOULD do somethign; the more I walk away from it.
I am an egoistic bastard after all...
Zeeks - you know me too well hon! mmuuaah
sounds like a good flick...hasn't released yet in India.
i haven't watched Juno yet.. but yes.. i've heard it's great. Looking fwd to it. Caught Michael and Lives of others. I'm curious what did u like in MC that u put it second? it seemed so usual to me.
Chaits - you should
Michael Clayton because of its brilliant acting mainly & it so holds ture for today.
Both Juno and MC are such realistic movies and acted brilliantly.
:) your loss you know...
Nutty explain me how!
well! what if everyone was like you, a self proclaimed "egoistic bastard" (u said it not me!) and didn't watch Juno or Michael Clayton just 'coz you told them they abs should watch it! it would be their loss 'coz they'd miss out on 2 really good movies. right?
similarly your adamant refusal to watch TZP just 'coz everyone else thinks you should really makes no difference to those recommending it or to the movie itself but you're missing out on a good movie (if you're interested in movies of crs .. seems like you are though) ..
hence - your loss no?
QED :D
actually not because I would make ppl do things and push them to do it; but not so in hte reverse case
so not so QED hon
heard a lot about juno, maybe now i'll rent it
finally saw it...the juno....quite the cool....loved the song in the end
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