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By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:48:19 +0000

I’ve done some reading and apparently the director’s cut (even though it is only about a minute longer) “waves its freak flag higher” and includes Jennifer mailing the testicles of one of her victims to his parents.

I liked this movie when I saw it in cinemas and thought it had the potential to be one of those movies where a longer cut fixes almost any objections I had (like both Watchmen and Kingdom of Heaven did). So if I see a cheap used copy of this, I just might buy it.

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By: Mr. Subtlety

Mr. Subtlety — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:42:32 +0000

Dan – eh, I would venture to say that the first scene is clunkier and more self-conscious than most of the rest of the movie. The dialogue sounds smarmier and more disingenuous coming from Wilson than most of the other characters (Tom and I think this may be the point, but that’s debatable) and its just one line after another. Things settle down a bit in the cleverness department after that, and I think the other actors sound more natural with it. I, for one, thought the movie was pretty money; a far sight funnier and more real than most films of its ilk (owing, in a large and unexplored part, to the fantastic direction of Jason Reitman, who sets such a winning and consisent tone –without hitting you over the head with it — that most people seemed to forget he was there).

By: Dan Prestwich

Dan Prestwich — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:17:52 +0000

“Vern isn’t the ONLY person…” I meant to write.

By: Dan Prestwich

Dan Prestwich — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:01:04 +0000

To also jump in late on the discussion myself, let me put forth a few thoughts on the JUNO/Diablo Cody backlash. I think JUNO is a perfectly okay movie, it’s funny and likable enough. But it’s nothing special. It’s not a great comedy, it’s sweet but not all that moving. The direction is uninspired, striking the exact tone as a million cutesy quirkfests before it, with their hipster poise and their soft indie-rock soundtracks. It’s enjoyable and forgettable, your quintessential cute dramedy.

Yet somehow it ended up getting discussed as one of the best pictures of the year, Roger Ebert got all moist over it, it won an Oscar, etc. For all the people that fell in love with JUNO, I think just as many of us saw it and went “yeah, that was a cute movie” and then more or less dismissed it. (Same thing happened to me with LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.) So we were confused as fuck by all the love it got, which has lead to a nasty backlash, aimed at Cody because of all the press she got for the film (I mean, I would venture to guess more people know that she wrote it than know that Jason Reitman directed it).

The one other thing that baffles me is how that opening scene has become some sort of sacrificial lamb for people who liked the movie. Vern isn’t the person I’ve read who singled it out for derision but liked the rest of the movie. I don’t get it. The dialogue in that scene sounds exactly the same as the rest of the film, it’s no better or worse. My only guess is that these people got used to Cody’s writing style as it went along, sort of like when your bath water feels to hot at first but the you get used to it. The bath didn’t get colder, you just adjusted.

By: Mr. Subtlety

Mr. Subtlety — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:32:46 +0000

Tom — I tend to agree with you. Diablo takes a lot of crap from people who feel like her dialogue is too self-consciously clever, but my feeling has always been that she’s just writing characters who are self-conscious about their wit. I like to think that she has a sharpenough ear for the way people speak that things which sound kind of similar read very differently from character to character and are a reflection on his or her personality (as in Rainn Wilson’s very labored banter). And it should be noted that the adults in her movies tend to speak pretty differently from the kids.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:39:05 +0000

Well, I came to this review very late and “Jennifer’s Body” has long since been buried commercial, but I wanted to chime in on something anything, with regard to Diablo Cody’s writing and the dialogue in the opening scene of “Juno.” Now I can only assume that the deadly dialogue in that scene to which Vern was referring to is the “That’s one doodle that can’t be un-did, home skillet” line delivered by Rainn Wilson. That’s at least the most memorable fragment from that scene, seeing as how it was played up previews & commercials.

That isn’t a very good line on the surface, but then again, haven’t we all known people who thought they were cool and delivered lines that were intended to sound cool but that really only made them sound even less cool & actually stupid (hell, we’ve all probably been that person at one time or another, I know I have). That’s how I took it for that character – a character trying to be cool and hip but who was actually anything but. Maybe I’m just an easy mark and I’m giving Ms. Cody too much credit, but that’s how I took it, anyway. What can I say, it kind of worked for me in that context.

Now the whole bit with the living room furniture is another story. I honestly don’t know what the script was going for there & I don’t think the filmmakers did either since they treated it like a total throwaway quirk.