That's what I thought too but the interview that was posted had the interviewer saying it wasn't so. I guess he wasn't in the know.
This movie was sold out like crazy last week in Bethesda. But that theater is always packed on the weekends...I'm glad it's expanding though. I really wasn't in the mood for a movie starring teens, but it was so well done, well written, well performed, and sweet.
Roger Ebert picked this as his movie of the year, for what that's worth. I haven't seen it, but No Country For Old Men is going to be hard to beat in my book.
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In plot, yes. But the tone is very different. Knocked up goes for raunch and really punctuates the comedy. Juno has more of an indie sensibility and angles for cleverness, and more of a low-key humor. They're both very good films, and funny in their own way. Although I personally thought Juno was a better movie since Knocked up was a bit uneven in patches.
Oh man, What a great movie. I really enjoyed it and loved the characters. Sort of in line with Garden State, very indie, very hipster, very cool.
Saw this the other day. I feel dumb calling this the "new Michael Cera movie" since he's really not even in it that much. I'm shocked he got second billing. A good movie, but the girl was just a little to smart ass for my tastes. Practically everything she said had a smirky remark to it. Still, she's a good actress with a bright future it seems.
I haven't seen it (one of the local theaters had a cardboard cut-out advertising the film months ago, but somehow decided not to run it once it came out), but I'm getting less and less offended by this. Thinking back on the crap-storm that was "Dawson's Creek," the first (and last) time I heard the show was in a room with my sister trying to sleep off a bad sunburn while on family holiday back in 1998. I kept pissing her off by yelling, "KIDS DON'T TALK THAT WAY!", and because I was 18, I felt I had a little insight. But with kids getting on the internet, talking more, reading more, seeing more, snarking more, it's a different reality. Just based off clips alone, I can totally see that sort of character existing in just about every high school in North America.
I was somewhat disappointed in this movie. A movie like this should have had a better soundtrack. Cera was under utilized as well. Furthermore, I didn't like the anti-men sentiment showing in regards to the Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman character. I thought it would have got an R rating instead of PG 13.
Saw this movie last weekend, Ellen page just rocks the house but she's pretty awesome, if you haven't seen Hard Candy check it out. Michael Cera is in it very little so don't expect a Superbad like dose of him going in. What I liked about it most, aside from the great script, is that it takes a lot of things you'd expect from this genre of movies and kind of throws you a curveball
I didn't think it was necessarily anti-men. To me, they made the Bateman character pretty sympathetic and the Garner character pretty b****y. And Faos, my 16 year-old niece and her friends are a lot like Juno. Except for the whole pregnancy thing.
So does Ellen Page's voice sound like how she does in Juno in her other movies? The Daria tone is annoying.
If you get a chance, check out the "bonus features" on the second disc of Superbad. There's a segment called "Everybody Hates Michael."
