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sidehacker wrote:Better yet: show Juno to Ray Carney!

Would pay good money to see this

DVD Featurette Titles wrote:Diablo Cody Is Totally Boss, Jason Reitman For Shizz, and Honest To Blog! Creating Juno

It's as though they took our mocking at face value

domino harvey wrote:

DVD Featurette Titles wrote:Diablo Cody Is Totally Boss, Jason Reitman For Shizz, and Honest To Blog! Creating Juno

It's as though they took our mocking at face value

I hope the two-disc version comes packaged in a hamburger phone and is labeled "Fo Shizz Up the Spout Edition!"

domino harvey wrote:

DVD Featurette Titles wrote:Diablo Cody Is Totally Boss, Jason Reitman For Shizz, and Honest To Blog! Creating Juno

It's as though they took our mocking at face value

Almost as great is reading the comments below the article, for a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the typical Juno fan (sorry to be so superior, but...actually, fuck that, I'm not apologizing).

Mr_Flix_1983 reveals, "SWEET!!!!! I saw this movie with my girlfriend twice and we both loved it! I really hope screenwriter, Diablo Cody wins the OSCAR for 'Best Screenplay.' She really wrote some great lines for this film. My girlfriend and I have Diablo to thank for calling each other 'Mac' and 'Cheese'!"

Thanks Diablo.

Ha I almost posted that comment too! I for one am really glad I don't remember anyone calling anyone else "Mac" and "Cheese" in the movie. I still like this film better than most people here but it's just so easy to make fun of that I can't help myself.

portnoy wrote:The film plays its humor off the otherness of the Asian character - her naivete, her inability to speak grammatically or idiomatically 'proper' English - she's every stereotype of a square, conservative FOB Asian American, and she's (I believe) the only non-white person in the entire movie. I'm not the type to try to find things to be offended about, but every choice has an imperative behind it, conscious or not. The choice here to utilize stereotype as a means of essentializing a minor character seems well within the problematic ethnic representations found in many recent comedies of quirk - Jared Hess's well-documented problematic relationship with Latinos, the Wes Anderson films and their use of Asian characters. Dismissing my concern for how this film addresses its only non-Caucasian character as some sort of oversensitivity seems like an unwillingness to acknowledge that there remain tremendous problems in representation in modern American cinema.

I can see how the basic grammar error served up by an Asian could rankle a little. But I thought it was done partly to highlight the lameness of her solo protest -- which left-leaning viewers would be prone to snicker at anyway -- a protest which turns out to be surprisingly effective.

Although the scene starts off poking fun at Su-Chin, the joke turns out to be on Juno. Su-Chin turns out to be friendly, caring, non-judgmental, informative. While Juno is the one who is exposed as flawed and potentially unstable. So I think that scene does a nice job of reversing expectations while playing with some of our pre-conceptions.

And there is another Asian character in the film, Vijay, the only member of Bleeker's track team we meet, who is portrayed as just a regular, nice kid (impressed by Bleeker, he intends to raise his sperm count)-.

For some reason, whenever I think of this movie I sing the theme song from Weeds in my head. Dunno why... Maybe the song is similar to the soundtrack in some way.

domino harvey wrote:I for one am really glad I don't remember anyone calling anyone else "Mac" and "Cheese" in the movie.

"He's the Mac to my Cheese", I think is how it went. Sorry.

Morbii wrote:For some reason, whenever I think of this movie I sing the theme song from Weeds in my head. Dunno why... Maybe the song is similar to the soundtrack in some way.

God help us that Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" is now known as "theme song from Weeds"

Yes, it's much better that her songs be enjoyed in obscurity

Antoine Doinel wrote:Yes, it's much better that her songs be enjoyed in obscurity

Rather than totally baked?

portnoy wrote:God help us that Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" is now known as "theme song from Weeds"

Sorry, that's the only place I've ever heard it

Well there's no hamburger phone, but the two-disc is covered with orange Tic-Tacs. Fox isn't being shy about their new "digital copy" branding either.

I don't know what the "digital copy" branding means....?

But I do like how the cover illustrates what the movie is suddenly about in the last ten minutes (Juno + Paulie forever!).

^^^^^ SPOILER ALERT ^^^^^^

I love how retro that cute boy is! He has like really short shorts and a headband!

Those covers are actually really well-done, I give Fox Searchlight credit for not giving us another floating heads or split-screen cover

chaddoli wrote:I don't know what the "digital copy" branding means....?

It's a new thing that Fox is doing for high-profile new releases. The disc comes with an iPod/iPhone-ready copy of the film.

domino harvey wrote:Those covers are actually really well-done, I give Fox Searchlight credit for not giving us another floating heads or split-screen cover

That may be true, but they've resorted to another tired convention: illustrations of their precious protagonists on the cover!



"awwwww, that's sooooo cute!"

Oh I agree, they definitely know their target audience on this one

Jeff wrote:

chaddoli wrote:I don't know what the "digital copy" branding means....?

It's a new thing that Fox is doing for high-profile new releases. The disc comes with an iPod/iPhone-ready copy of the film.

This is the first Apple friendly digital release I've seen. The digital copy of Live Free Or Die Hard that came with that special edition was PC version only.

Though the idea of watching any film on something the size of an iPod or iPhone makes me shudder.

Antoine Doinel wrote:This is the first Apple friendly digital release I've seen. The digital copy of Live Free Or Die Hard that came with that special edition was PC version only.

It's a new thing at Fox. I think Juno is the second disc to have the Mac friendly version. The first one was some Family Guy movie.

domino harvey wrote:Oh I agree, they definitely know their target audience on this one

Well, I pointed that out as a fan of Rushmore, one of the only WA offerings that still deserves love.