i'm really glad "juno" didn't win best picture...

yeah, i know that i'm really behind on my pop culture blogging. but in a few months, will that really matter? of course not!

so, i didn't love "juno". the truth is that i didn't even really like it that much. krista and i went to see it because of dreamy jailbait michael cera. i also will admit that i might have had a not-appropriate-for-children dream about jason bateman a while back. but when we left the movie, k & i were both underwhelmed, and we've discussed in recent weeks that perhaps we saw a different version of the movie, like maybe some prankster theater employee sneaked in the outtake reel, because that would explain why we didn't get what the rest of the world was so, erm, goo goo ga ga about.

maybe i'm too old. maybe i'm too angry. maybe i'm just tragically unhip. but "juno" made me roll my eyes A LOT. remember how people used to complain about how the kids on "dawson's creek" talked in a way that was too big for their britches? well, dawson and joey and pacey ain't got nothin' on the quips of juno mcguff. folks, NO TEENAGER ON THE PLANET talks like that. it is antithetical to all teendom to be that clever and self-possessed. actually, i gag a little at even describing juno as "clever and self-possessed." because what i truly believe is that the character of juno is pretty much what some insecure hipster chick with a look-at-me exhibitionist streak wishes she could be now, let alone when she was a kid.

that's right, diablo cody -- i think you and your scenester, contrived, more-indie-than-indie made up name are totally lame.

in my googling while writing this post, i came across this, which pretty much sums it up. and this little excerpt:

I want Blood’s Daniel Plainview to barge into Ellen Page’s pre-Oscar interview with Barbara Walters and bellow: “I drink your Sunny D! I drink it up! Slurrrrrrrrrp!”

is a billionty times more fantastic than ANY of the writing in silly little "juno".

(btw, i thought "no country for old men" was goddamn haunting and amazing and knocked me on my ass! if you haven't seen it, GO SEE IT NOW!)