[kj] OT because there's fuck-allKJnews to talk about:Great names

[Karen Weil]

You're spot on about "Juno." What an overrated film; I hated most of the 
dialogue.
But I confess to being a major "Ghostworld" fan.

k.w.
San Diego
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> Aristocrats was almost as big a let down as Juno, which played like a 

> lobotomized Ghostworld-meets-DeGrassi High episode.

>

> (There needs to be a name for the sub-genre of movies of smirkingly wry 

> precocious teenage girls surrounded by eccentric characters who, though 

> misfits, eventually have some deep revelation about life that causes them 

> to "come of age" -- that's like a whole cottage industry of movies, a la 

> "My First Mister," a horrible take on this genre with Leelee Sobieski 

> [2001] as the stock precocious, sarcastic teenage girl protagonist, also 

> surrounded, like Juno, by eccentric  or weird adults who don't understand 

> her; humor is replaced with the protagonist being droll and precious in 

> these films. I always picture the LiveJournal demographic thinking they're 

> brilliant.)

>

> -Oliver

>

> GREG SLAWSON wrote:

>> Yes to the last question, but I wasn't that impressed 

>> w/"Aristocrats"--mostly a lot of toilet/sex humor.

>

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