* Maria watched Juno on DVD and enjoyed it more than she thought she was going to. I liked it a lot when I saw it in the theater, but then recently I've run across some things on the web that take it to task for being too cute, for the characters being too clever or witty or hip, and basically just being unrealistic.
Then a thought occurred to me (yeah, honestly, a thought).
People rarely criticize action movies for being too unrealistic. Granted, there's a line, but you go see a good action movie for good action. You want Spider-man (or for 2008, Iron Man) to be larger-than-life and be awesome and take down all the bad guys.
Movies like Juno are action movies but with words instead of super-powers. You'd love to be that clever and hip and funny. Juno is a superhero, basically.
Hm, I was starting out defending the movie but I'm not sure I did such a good job of it ultimately.
* I watched Lost Highway finally. A now-ten-year-old movie by David Lynch that echoes (reworks? recycles? overuses?) lots of his other work. I mean... dead blonde? Strange short guy? Red curtains? Backwards filming? It's Twin Peaks all over again! I liked it, but not as much as Mulholland Drive, which again had lots of the same themes and devices, but just seemed to work better.
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juno was quotable
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