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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2008, 06:07:30 PM »
You mean the Tumbies?
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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2008, 04:16:27 PM »
Swag to die for:


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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2008, 08:07:31 PM »
I get so mad when I read movie reviews.  Really, really mad.    Same with record reviews.  Especially when reviewers write "sophomore offering" rather than "second record" or "second cd".  I think, "who do they think they're fooling!"...  I may even agree with them as far as liking what they like (NOT movie boy, though) but their pretentious writing style always infuriates me. 

Speaking of which, here's a nice dose of nausea for you:

"The sky's always yellow around Gang Gang Dance--even when their vaguely mystical music veers dangerously close to hippie drum-circle nonsense, violence is brewing close at hand. The New York quartet's latest album, last year's Hillulah (Social Registry), could be the sound track to a momentous and dreadful trek, maybe to meet a holy recluse or get crucified. Liz Bougatsos processes her wounded, wondering vocals with distortion, turning them into a sort of exhausted, delirious sickbed wail. And the songs always seem to be taking a turn for the worse: plastic-bucket busker's drums accelerate into a bass-heavy flutter like a muffled death-metal blastbeat, or lonely sonar pings dilate into possessed warning sirens. Eventually all the little snatches of instrumental strangeness get funneled into a tornado of noise, with bits of keyboards or drums spilling out of it and smashing to the earth--and then out of nowhere the whole thing clicks over into a disco track. Of course, Hillulah is edited down from a heap of live material recorded in 2003 and 2004, so it doesn't give much clue as to what Gang Gang Dance will sound like here and now--they're consistently weird, though, so there's basically no risk you'll be bored. The band might also be selling advance copies of their artsy DVD, Retina Riddim, which is due early next year."

-Liz Armstrong of the Chicago Reader

I really don't think it gets any more pretentious than that. 

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #33 on: February 07, 2008, 06:29:09 PM »
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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #34 on: February 07, 2008, 06:40:23 PM »

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #35 on: February 07, 2008, 07:11:06 PM »
From that link:

During a panel at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, "intellectual-property migration specialist" (they have those?) Keith Boesky said, "People are making a game based on Juno just to cater to the [casual] market." While he didn't specify anything at all about the game, another panelist was Minho Kim – director of operations at free-to-play, microtransaction-driven game pub Nexon America – leading GameSpot to wonder aloud "if it would follow Nexon's free-to-play business model." Just brainstorming here, but the property seems ripe for microtransactions ... just look at all those layers. Jeans and a skirt? Cha-ching!


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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #36 on: February 07, 2008, 07:49:36 PM »
Juno game in talks for Wii.

::gags::

Finally, a video game with dialogue more convoluted and ridiculous than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night!
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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #37 on: February 08, 2008, 04:33:10 PM »
Finally, a video game with dialogue more convoluted and ridiculous than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night!

Woah woah hey..

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #38 on: February 11, 2008, 08:27:35 PM »
Finally a show I would watch!

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"Fifteen-year-old Amy Nicholson, pregnant after having one uncomfortable sexual encounter with the school's Don Juan, Ricky, tries to figure out a way to deal with her dilemma, as all around her peers face the reality of their own sexual (or non-sexual) choices. Unable to face her loving but "nice" middle class parents, Amy confides in her best friends, Lauren and Madison, who are supportive but not too helpful, and struggles to deal with her feelings for Ricky at the same time she's being wooed by the sweet and possibly smitten Ben."

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2008, 12:45:19 PM »
I went to see this movie last weekend after getting really baked. It wasn't that bad until I started to regain my senses and realized that I just wasted a night
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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2008, 08:29:30 PM »
I get so mad when I read movie reviews.  Really, really mad.    Same with record reviews.  Especially when reviewers write "sophomore offering" rather than "second record" or "second cd".  I think, "who do they think they're fooling!"...  I may even agree with them as far as liking what they like (NOT movie boy, though) but their pretentious writing style always infuriates me. 

Speaking of which, here's a nice dose of nausea for you:

"The sky's always yellow around Gang Gang Dance--even when their vaguely mystical music veers dangerously close to hippie drum-circle nonsense, violence is brewing close at hand. T
-Liz Armstrong of the Chicago Reader

Hey! What's wrong with hippie drum circles? That lady needs to loosen up.



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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #41 on: February 16, 2008, 10:46:08 AM »
Uh-oh.

oh, this article is most delicious.  It's like the writer is channeling Tom.  "Both former strippers", hahaha.

I saw this movie at a late night screening filled with an audience around Juno's age or a little older.  There were lots of laughs but no one seemed to get the Soupy Sales, Sonic Youth, or Diana Ross references.  I guess The Melvins are the big cred reference.  I doubt anyone in the audience knew who they were either.
 
thought the writing and acting were great, but there wasn't much to listen to, or look at, so I'm not sure why it would be nominated for best picture. 

I was going to wait to rent Juno but I've actually seen two of the films nominated for best picture, TWBB and NCFOM (strange for me) so I'm thinking of watching the Oscars this year and want to have a sense of the other films.  Don't think I'll make it to Atonement or Michael Clayton, though.

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #42 on: February 16, 2008, 12:13:25 PM »
Juno is playing everywhere.  It wont quit.  I really wanted to see There Will Be Blood the other night, but the theatre didn't have it.  It had all these awful movies like "Fool's Gold", "The Eye", and "Step Up 2 The Streets".  I considered Juno for a solid 2 seconds and then remembered I could barely get through the previews in the theaters before biting my own arm.

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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #43 on: February 16, 2008, 04:31:29 PM »
Juno is playing everywhere.  It wont quit.  I really wanted to see There Will Be Blood the other night, but the theatre didn't have it.  It had all these awful movies like "Fool's Gold", "The Eye", and "Step Up 2 The Streets".  I considered Juno for a solid 2 seconds and then remembered I could barely get through the previews in the theaters before biting my own arm.

I think it might still be playing at the Vista if I'm not mistaken.

There Will Be Blood I mean
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Re: The Movie Boy Reviews 'Juno'
« Reply #44 on: February 18, 2008, 10:30:40 PM »
Juno is playing everywhere.  It wont quit.  I really wanted to see There Will Be Blood the other night, but the theatre didn't have it.  It had all these awful movies like "Fool's Gold", "The Eye", and "Step Up 2 The Streets".  I considered Juno for a solid 2 seconds and then remembered I could barely get through the previews in the theaters before biting my own arm.

I saw the Juno preview at Before The Devil Knows You're Dead* at BAM, and the oldish Brooklyn Heights crowd was laughing really loudly.  I responded with an audible, Tom-style "really?"


*Incidentally, a horrible movie and the first I walked out of since Mad Love in like 1994 - I mean, we all love Sidney Lumet, but c'mon, guys.
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