Juno

[Nighthawk 0]

Which also raises the point... Would they give her the kid? I wondered that at the time, but it wasn't really important.

 

Aren't adoptions pretty strict?

[tekcop 0]

Er... Marvin, I don't think money was ever a concern for her.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

the fact that Vanessa doesn't need the money wouldnt have mattered if it were Mark's kid, she would have gotten Child Support from him anyway unless she declined it (and who would do that?)

And Vanessa just seemed wacked out to me..she might have been ready for a kid but she was ready under the assumption Mark would be with her. Her successful career is down the drain now for sure.

 

 

[At Home 0]

Uhg, Juno sucked. I still can't really stress enough how terribly written and brash the dialogue was. Thank god the supporting cast was there to make it a little less shitty than it actually should've been.

 

This pretty much sums it up:

Smug self-satisfaction has all but become our national language these days, so why not make yet another so-called independent release that traffics in little else? Ellen Page is a genuine talent, and an actress to watch in years to come, but she’s bound to be typecast as a surly, improbably articulate hipster with the requisite heart of gold. Here’s hoping I’m wrong. And while she does her best, she’s saddled with some of the worst dialogue ever put to paper, though it’s exactly what we’d expect when a fame-obsessed nitwit from the blogosphere (Diablo Cody, if that is your real name) finally gets her big break. Contrived, false, and about as earth-bound as any of the Star Wars disasters, this film fooled the critical establishment from top to bottom, apparently because it happened to be the one film all year that paid homage to both Soupy Sales and the Thundercats. Overwritten to a degree once considered impossible, the movie is obnoxious, hateful, instantly grating, and chock full of so many applause lines that it becomes a stand-up routine, almost against its will. Perhaps there never was a chance for the movie, as I despised it inside of ten minutes, but if this is what passes for wit and insight in our increasingly hopeless pop culture landscape, we might as well give up the ghost and move on to a new hobby. And did I mention that the little whore has a hamburger phone?

 

 

[Angle-plex 0]

He expected the baby to be the Antichrist.

 

Injecting the devil rape scene from Rosemary's baby would be so terrific.

[Nighthawk 0]

Ha. And Thundercats was a lie. In case anyone else doesn't know... it's supposed to be Thunderbirds.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

the fact that Vanessa doesn't need the money wouldnt have mattered if it were Mark's kid, she would have gotten Child Support from him anyway unless she declined it (and who would do that?)

And Vanessa just seemed wacked out to me..she might have been ready for a kid but she was ready under the assumption Mark would be with her. Her successful career is down the drain now for sure.

Who you crappin'? A few months of maternity leave and she'd be fine. There's day care for kids less than a year old now; my boss has been taking her 9-month old there since he was maybe 5 months old. You sound like Dan Quayle talking about single moms.

[tekcop 0]

Yeah, Marvin's a dumb shit. I mean, normal people don't raise kids by themselves ever, do they?

[Nighthawk 0]

Yes, but there's still my question... would they allow a single parent to adopt?

[tekcop 0]

See, that's a different matter entirely. It crossed my mind during the movie, too. Do single people ever get to adopt? I'm curious now.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

See, that's a different matter entirely. It crossed my mind during the movie, too. Do single people ever get to adopt? I'm curious now.

Quick search popped up this

 

Approximately one-third of children adopted from the public foster care system and one-quarter of all children with special needs are adopted by single individuals today, but many fewer singles adopt healthy infants domestically or internationally. This strongly suggests that single parents offer families of last resort for desperate children who have no other choices. They are as unwanted as the children they take in.

 

Also, while Im pretty sure that single mothers can raise kids on their own, Vanessa will be raising the kid without a father (I cant really see Mark ever wanting to be a part of the kids life) for the forseeable future. Sure, she could find a guy crazy enough to want to put all his stuff in boxes and all but something tells me that search will take a while. Thats the only issue I have, you read a lot about how kids raised without father figures in their lives turn out worse than even kids with divorced parents who have joint custody or whatever..

 

[Jingus 0]

In Juno's case, the Single Parent question is irrelevant because they're not going through an adoption agency. It's one private citizen transferring custody of their child directly to another.

[fazzle 0]

The hell kind of big plot twist did you want at the end of freaking Juno?

 

She should have given birth to a hand.

 

[At Home 0]

The hell kind of big plot twist did you want at the end of freaking Juno?

 

She should have given birth to a hand.

 

Or died. That would've been a good ending to a terrible movie.

[Annabelle 0]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

 

emotionally ready? are we sure? one superficial scene in a mall does not mean she was emotionally ready. while the husband was no angel, she played a major part in diriving him away. she was a real bitch to him for the entire movie. from everything i saw, i can safely say that i do not believe that this child is necessarily in the best hands.

[The Truthiness 0]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

 

How was Garner supporting the life her and Bateman had? Wasn't Bateman a succesful commercial song writer? I remember him telling Juno that a battery commercial paid for the kitchen.

[TheBigSwigg 0]

Also, for eschatology in the movies, I may be the only one who watches Christian movies for laffs, but if you have the right mindset... A Thief In the Night.

 

I watched that at my church when I was about 7, and it scared me to death because everyone I knew acted like it was a soon to come reality. Now, it's an old joke between me and my cousins

[Guest blame that goot.]

Wacked out? Garner's character had a really successful career and seemed completely ready to take on a kid, both fiscally and emotionally (loved the scene in the mall). Why would the kid need child support when it was obviously Garner who was paying for the house and supporting the life she and Bateman had?

the fact that Vanessa doesn't need the money wouldnt have mattered if it were Mark's kid, she would have gotten Child Support from him anyway unless she declined it (and who would do that?)

And Vanessa just seemed wacked out to me..she might have been ready for a kid but she was ready under the assumption Mark would be with her. Her successful career is down the drain now for sure.

Who you crappin'?

Edwin Ditka all of a sudden.

[RepoMan 0]

This ant-hipster elitism is growing far more grating than any hipster elitism in the movie. Everyone who hates this movie just wants to hate on it because it was a hipster movie that found a large audience, b/c it's a really good movie with a great cast. I'm sick of the petty bitching.

[4hartthreat 0]

Absolutely agree with you repo.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

This ant-hipster elitism is growing far more grating than any hipster elitism in the movie. Everyone who hates this movie just wants to hate on it because it was a hipster movie that found a large audience, b/c it's a really good movie with a great cast. I'm sick of the petty bitching.

[Jonathon 0]

I just hate that I heard some girls at the mall say "Honest to blog?"

[At Home 0]

This ant-hipster elitism is growing far more grating than any hipster elitism in the movie. Everyone who hates this movie just wants to hate on it because it was a hipster movie that found a large audience, b/c it's a really good movie with a great cast. I'm sick of the petty bitching.

 

It's the fact that movies like these (with intentionally quirky casts and dialogues, hackneyed everything, etc) are populating and slowly destroying the "independent" movie scene.

[Jingus 0]

Everyone who hates this movie just wants to hate on it because it was a hipster movie that found a large audience, b/c it's a really good movie with a great cast.

So we hate this movie because it's good? Interesting logic.

[Matt Young 0]

Just rented the movie for free last night. It was pretty good, but I agree with many of the gripes in this thread. 7/10.

[Nighthawk 0]

Yeah, the anti-hipster elitism is worse than hipsterism is fucking not true.

 

I agree that it's not cool. But it's nowhere near as bad.

 

If you disagree, my problem is with you.

 

I don't hate Juno, I hate you.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Is it ok to like Juno because Marvin hates it so much?

[tekcop 0]

Absolutely.

[RepoMan 0]

Everyone who hates this movie just wants to hate on it because it was a hipster movie that found a large audience, b/c it's a really good movie with a great cast.

So we hate this movie because it's good? Interesting logic.

Re-reading my post I should have put despite instead of b/c.