Reviews

First and foremost, i DID like this movie. It was a sweet little love story and by the tale's end we see a happy ending for the title character and her baby daddy. The problem i had was with Juno herself... or perhaps with the script. While i won't lie and say i NEVER laughed during the film, i feel like i did a lot more eye rolling at some of Juno's dialogue.

Juno's dialogue was rife with pop culture references, name dropping and too much heavy handed sarcasm. To hear and see it performed, it didn't come off as naturalistic or believable to the plot, it just came off that Diablo Cody (screenplay's scribe) really wanted to impress people with her database of obscure minutia. Its almost as if she knew her target audience was teens and critics and she married her targeting to both demographics.

the other issue i had with this movie was with Juno's over the top immunity to life's ire. Having been through two pregnancies with my wife, i know even in the best circumstances one cannot keep up the ridiculous front that Juno did in this film. At some point reality sets in, emotions kick in and you feel... something. This didn't happen with Juno. She is the smartest character in the entire movie. Diablo Cody has made her very own Mary Sue in Juno. the little girl she wishes she could have been. Juno will not likely grow up to strip or do phone sex.

Fans will defend and say "Well Juno is just a genius girl who interacts in this environment and this is how such a unique girl handles the situation" or as i call it the 'Max Fischer Defense' but sadly with snarky lines like "They make his junk smell like pie" "that ain't no etch-a-sketch home skillet" et al that argument falls apart. EVERYONE inhabiting Juno's world talk like Kevin Smith script rejects constantly reading off of pre-written pages.

Film Critic (fans) love the heavy handed pretentious dialogue because "Hey i have seen that movie, i know the actors to which Juno references and its so witty" and teens love it because Cody has created a too-cool-for-school character they all want to be. "OMG she is JUST LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS-- LOL" I did like the film, a sweet little love story finds its way through the Jungle that is an overworked unrealistic script.

Gone bad is a small series of short films, detailing the lives of people beset by hordes of the Undead. There are currently two film s available online. The first involves a solitary priest praying to God for forgiveness. His life has been quite busy lately, dispatching the Undead. Specifically he begs forgiveness for killing the zombies of people he knew just days earlier. His prayers are interrupted by a sound, a zombie has wandered into his church. The priest levels his crucifix on the zombie, then raising up, we see it is the cross-hairs of a double barrel shotgun. The zombie is killed and as we pan away from the church we see other assorted zombies make their way toward the lone church.

The next film involves an old man fishing in a dark and night lit pond. Adjusting his hearing aid and radio, the old man thinks he's in for a quite and relaxing night in his boat. Beneath him however, an undead creature lies, his feet affixed to cinder blocks, the victim of perhaps an unfriendly acquaintance with the mafia. The fisherman's worm catches his attention, as does the swing of the Spanish music on the radio. In the end, the fisherman has made quite a catch, unwittingly dragging the ghoul up who drags the fisherman down for a quick snack.

These movies are clever, original and dynamic. They truly use CGI brilliantly, and its refreshing to see a medium that is typically saccharine, used for something so horrifying.