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

[Karen Weil]

True, true, true, Alex! It was a total clone!

k..w.
San Diego
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>

> "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

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

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

>>Sent: Jun 4, 2008 1:45 PM

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

>>names

>>

>>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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>>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"

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>>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:32 PM

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

>>names

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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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