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A quick movie review
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:24 pmLis and I just saw Juno, a movie that Roger Ebert considers the best movie of the year. He's seen it three times and loves it.
Short review: it is, actually, that good.
You know, I almost regret how much I knew about it going in; I wonder what it would be like going in with no idea what it was about.
Just to give you genre: it's about a teenage girl and her family, and it's funny and interesting, and the entire family is intelligent and you LIKE them.
No main characters are stupid, there are no "idiot plots", the plot doesn't have misunderstandings or stupidity. The whole family genuinely loves and supports each other. All the main characters are basically decent people.
I'd use the word "heartwarming", except that I HATE heartwarming movies. It's not treacly or sappy or stupid -- it just works.
I'd love to see it again.
Except that would mean going back to a movie theater.
I'd forgotten just how much I HATE movie theaters, now that they have ads before every movie. I mean, okay, I've gotten used to the slide show while you're waiting which includes stupid movie trivia and ads for the local car dealership. I can deal with that. I CAN'T deal with actual, y'know, ADS, playing for the entire time you're sitting there waiting, and then for a good ten minutes after the start time of the movie. AFTER the lights went down, there were maybe a half-dozen ads -- and two trailers. I like trailers. I hate ads.
I mean, we paid ten bucks a ticket, and then MORE money to buy nachos and soda (the popcorn looked really gross -- they pre-bag it) -- and if I'm paying money to get in, I don't want to see ads. Okay, I can deal with little ads in the playbill, a list of sponsors in the back of the playbill, and maybe a quick verbal "thank you to our main sponsor this evening, Corporation X/Dr and Mr Jane Smith/The Foundation for Basketball in Ballet" or whatever. But not actual COMMERCIALS. That's just over a line. I can't point exactly to where the line is, but "thanks to our sponsor" is clearly on one side of it, and a three minute commercial for a brand of soda is clearly on the other.
So, I WOULD go back, except I don't want to deal with a theater. The second-run theaters around here are a lot more tolerable about that stuff: I can usually deal with them, so I may wait until second-run. Or buy the DVD when THAT comes out.
Short review: it is, actually, that good.
You know, I almost regret how much I knew about it going in; I wonder what it would be like going in with no idea what it was about.
Just to give you genre: it's about a teenage girl and her family, and it's funny and interesting, and the entire family is intelligent and you LIKE them.
No main characters are stupid, there are no "idiot plots", the plot doesn't have misunderstandings or stupidity. The whole family genuinely loves and supports each other. All the main characters are basically decent people.
I'd use the word "heartwarming", except that I HATE heartwarming movies. It's not treacly or sappy or stupid -- it just works.
I'd love to see it again.
Except that would mean going back to a movie theater.
I'd forgotten just how much I HATE movie theaters, now that they have ads before every movie. I mean, okay, I've gotten used to the slide show while you're waiting which includes stupid movie trivia and ads for the local car dealership. I can deal with that. I CAN'T deal with actual, y'know, ADS, playing for the entire time you're sitting there waiting, and then for a good ten minutes after the start time of the movie. AFTER the lights went down, there were maybe a half-dozen ads -- and two trailers. I like trailers. I hate ads.
I mean, we paid ten bucks a ticket, and then MORE money to buy nachos and soda (the popcorn looked really gross -- they pre-bag it) -- and if I'm paying money to get in, I don't want to see ads. Okay, I can deal with little ads in the playbill, a list of sponsors in the back of the playbill, and maybe a quick verbal "thank you to our main sponsor this evening, Corporation X/Dr and Mr Jane Smith/The Foundation for Basketball in Ballet" or whatever. But not actual COMMERCIALS. That's just over a line. I can't point exactly to where the line is, but "thanks to our sponsor" is clearly on one side of it, and a three minute commercial for a brand of soda is clearly on the other.
So, I WOULD go back, except I don't want to deal with a theater. The second-run theaters around here are a lot more tolerable about that stuff: I can usually deal with them, so I may wait until second-run. Or buy the DVD when THAT comes out.