<p>Best film I have seen in many years.</p>
<p>yep! I agree. Roger Ebert listed it as his number one film for 2007. It’s the kind of movie that I could watch over and over again (oh, wait, my daughter did that last night - saw it for the second time).</p>
<p>Yes, it was the first film that surprised me in a long time. And the young actress is fantastic.</p>
<p>seeing it tomorrow night, saw Kite Runner last night. Another great film as I stated in my earlier thread.</p>
<p>Juno was great. I heard it was filmed in Canada but I’m not sure what the setting was supposed to be. There weren’t any cell phones.</p>
<p>You’re right, muffy. It was filmed in British Columbia.</p>
<p>Yes, awesome movie…thoroughly enjoyed it!</p>
<p>I believe the setting was supposed to be Minnesota - references like St. Cloud, Mankato and the mall scene kind of looked like Mall of America. My daughter and I also really loved the movie. The average age of our audience was 60+ and daughter was the first one to laugh out loud at the funny lines; I think a lot of current pop culture references went over their heads (mine too sometimes!)</p>
<p>loved it!!!</p>
<p>My 23 year old son thought it was great, and here I thought it was a chick flick! </p>
<p>I hope to see it this week along with Kite Runner.</p>
<p>What I said about Juno in the previous movie thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/5137463-post37.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/5137463-post37.html</a></p>
<p>I thought the no cell phone thing was a little weird, and they sure didn’t dress very warmly for minnesota .
But I liked it- I saw it with my daughters- my younger one wanted to see it, but then said she didn’t like the music- I expect it made her feel awkward- my older daughter liked it- but said she was surprised that I wanted to see it with them, because teenage sexuality is not something that I am comfortable with.
I said- " no- duh?"</p>
<p>I would also agree with you coureur
It didn’t occur to me that you could fall in love with someone that liked you for you until about 5 years after I got married- at which point I must have been 30.
So in high school- I wasn’t vaguely where the main character was.</p>
<p>Well, she learned that from her dad which was another nice aspect of the film–parents do know more than the kids and can offer some wisdom–even ones that are portrayed as somewhat hardscrabble blue collar.</p>
<p>I also enjoyed the crushing of the spirit and dreams that Justin Bateman had to endure form his more Yuppie wife. I know many men who secretly feel this way. I would have liked one more scene showing him in his downtown place trying to live HIS dream. The conflicted feelings he and Juno had for each other were very well played.</p>
<p>Good movie. We went with our 16 and 15 year olds. I thought it was a pretty good take on teen pregnancy…certainly didn’t glamorize it.</p>
<p>I assumed they were in the Minneapolis/St. Paul suburbs…the mom referred to St. Cloud as East Jesus.</p>
<p>I saw it last night. It’s a great movie.</p>
<p>The conflicted feelings he and Juno had for each other were very well played.</p>
<p>I didn’t really get that she had any feelings for him other than she thought it was cool that her babys dad was a musician- while obviously it was difficult to discuss her situation with her “boyfriend”, with the adoptive parents that was much more out in the open obviously, even if the mom was overly romanticizing the transformation a baby brings.</p>
<p>I disagree. She called him, put on lipstick (which she rarely seemed to wear) when she went to his house and avoided visiting when his wife was home. They even shared a “prom” dance together where the conflicts really nearly bubbled to the surface. I think she found herself very attracted to him but did no know what do do with that feeling as she also knew it was impossibly wrong on so many levels. I think he had the same thing thing going on. As a former HS teacher for a brief time I think there are a number of girls that age very attracted to older “cool” men.</p>
<p>you may be right- I did register she put on lipstick- but I wear more stuff on my lips in the winter cause they get dried out- but I had the impression that the shared interest in music was frowned upon by Vanessa- hence the secrecy-but I also picked up that Brad or whatever his name was, was more worried about her being “caught” there, than Juno was.</p>
<p>( I also * thought* that the Zeus connection was wrong- my D didn’t go to Reed for nothing! 
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<p>I have never understood the attraction of high school teachers for girls- even my mom had a friend in high school who was dating a teacher ( she married him a few years later- he recently had a big honor as one of their all time football coaches- I met him at the ceremony- he is in his 80s- but couldn’t help thinking 
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Of course I don’t think high school boys are that appealing either- they are either pretty awkward- or golden boys who have to keep up their image.
high school is an awful time.</p>
<p>But in retrospect the lack of computers and cell phones was odd- if she was so insistent on a closed adoption- why not just email the ultrasound pictures ( and don’t they give you a CD now?)
A few weird things- like in my own high school, a cheerleader would have never had a really odd friend like Juno, wheras in my Ds high school they would.
I also thought it was odd that her stepmother and best friend were at the delivery but her dad and the babys dad weren’t.
If she was so perceptive, she would have noticed that she was making all the decisions when to be fair- Bleeker should have been given a chance to have a say.
I don’t know how common it is for girls to stay at their high school during a pregnancy- I can’t remember seeing any for years, but I wonder if in Seattle they get steered to one of the “alternative” high schools.</p>
<p>Overall though I liked it- even though my girls were snipping at each other, which took away my big chance to have a “discussion”</p>
<p>Hey home skillets, what’s cooking?</p>
<p>Loved loved Juno. </p>
<p>I have been trying to write about high school time in a novel because I think 1968-9 is the navel of all time. Kept writings from the period which get dissed as being, wait for it, too adult for a kid’s voice. But I was a kid!</p>
<p>So I think there are kids like Juno. And all screen writers, especially, comedy, tweak for greater wit. I write lines in my head and save them for other times. The real zingers I think up at the time seem to rude to say so I don’t. But some of us do have Juno’s verbal tic.</p>
<p>And I think the movie is entertainment. So realism? Meh.</p>
<p>The cell phone thing? You got me there. The Hera/Zeus thing? I noticed that too, but my son, who’s a classicist, assures me that many say Juno who also say Zeus, not Jupiter. Good joke with Juneau.</p>
<p>I will say that it’s sad for a grown woman (me) to tear up in envy at a sixteen-year-old’s relationship. All I can say to that is “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”</p>
<p>Real precocity? See the first iteration of Bob Dylan in I’M NOT THERE. Portrait of the artist as a really young man.</p>
<p>did anyone else think the cheeseburger phone was absolutely HILARIOUS</p>
<p>or when bleeker put deodorant on his thighs </p>
<p>or when juno tried to make a noose out of licorice but ate it instead</p>
<p>and her outfits were so entertaining. sometimes i looked at what she was wearing and just went…“huh?”</p>