i saw juno for the first time the other night.
it was a decent movie overall. not terrible, but at the same time, oscar-worthy? i'm not a professional critic and i don't watch too many movies, but something tells me that the academy wanted to reward a great story (ex-stripper writes a better than average screen play -- let's make a big deal out of it rather than reward the same ol' guys who write great material every year). not to take away anything from the achievement, as the writing was pretty clever overall ... i'm just saying that perhaps if it was just another screenwriter who wrote the script, maybe it wouldn't have won...
the acting and performances were all good, and i enjoyed the movie overall. a solid movie, but perhaps a little bit overrated, though.
the one thing i didn't really believe was just how nuanced and mature this 16 year old character was. The teens at my high school, myself included, were nowhere near as hip/mature/emotionally intelligent as Juno herself, so I found it difficult to believe that there could be a teenager with this sort of maturity.
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