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Remember how when I was blathering about Burn After Reading, I said that I don't generally go on about movies? Well, I'm about to do it twice in one month . . .
I'm slowly catching up with my backlog of 2007 and 2008 movies-to-see. Okay, to be honest, I know that I'll never actually catch up. They keep making new movies, I keep getting distracted, and I have a pile of DVDs that I haven't even watched yet. But I'm trying!
Tonight I finally watched Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007). It is possibly the best movie I've seen in 2009. It butts right onto my Top 20 list, and maybe my Top 10. This isn't because of its story, really, or its dialog – not that those were in any way bad – but because it's possibly the best-cast movie I've ever seen, and every single cast member does incredible things with her or his part. If you like movies that are 99% about the quirky characters walking around being quirky, but you don't like them to be so quirky that they're unbelievable, then you might want to check out this movie.
Other random things that amuse me about this film:
I'm slowly catching up with my backlog of 2007 and 2008 movies-to-see. Okay, to be honest, I know that I'll never actually catch up. They keep making new movies, I keep getting distracted, and I have a pile of DVDs that I haven't even watched yet. But I'm trying!
Tonight I finally watched Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007). It is possibly the best movie I've seen in 2009. It butts right onto my Top 20 list, and maybe my Top 10. This isn't because of its story, really, or its dialog – not that those were in any way bad – but because it's possibly the best-cast movie I've ever seen, and every single cast member does incredible things with her or his part. If you like movies that are 99% about the quirky characters walking around being quirky, but you don't like them to be so quirky that they're unbelievable, then you might want to check out this movie.
Other random things that amuse me about this film:
Ellen Page is from my home town, and where I lived for the first 23 years of my life: Halifax, Nova Scotia. How cool is that?
Juno and Burn After Reading, in addition to being the only two movies to get me blabbing in this blog since I started it, share an actor: J.K. Simmons. I was indifferent to him as J. Jonah Jameson, but his roles in both of these films were memorable.
The soundtrack pretty much owns.
