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

[Alex Smith]

"Juno" was a tepid plate of manufactured quirk. It was a glorified afterschool special that STRAINED to attain the offbeat charm of, say, "Napoloen Dynamite", "Rushmore", "Ghost World" etc.

People suck.
Alex in NYC



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>From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>

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>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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