Juno – (WATCHED – barely…. This is an Academy Award nominee? It’s not 1939 for sure. What 16-year old references “Soupy Sales” in dialog? As one reviewer noted, “What 66-year old??)
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1. Pribek:Soupy Sales!!
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:07 pm 2. Roger:C’mon Roger, this is the first thing I have heard, anywhere, that has, for me, conjured up any interest in seeing this film.
I think we, as a society, are ready to re-discover and fully appreciate the insightful, comic genius that is Soupy Sales.
Indeed we are… but not via this movie.
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:33 pm 3. gfinoaktown:…did she express a preference for White Fang…or Black Tooth?
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:40 pm 4. Pribek:Well, I don’t really know anything about the film except, I did see O’Reilly the other night saying that it should win. Grain of salt please…
I read the above and I flashed back to seeing Soupy Sales on “To Tell The Truth”…surreal.
Jan 27, 2008 - 2:06 pm 5. Mgmax:It’s so odd that people fixate on the Soupy Sales reference. A 16-year-old who’s into pulling up weird old references, that’s who! When I was a kid, I would throw Judge Crater and Peaches and Daddy Browning into the conversation. So there.
Anyway, my favorite bits are when Juno gets the pop culture references wrong– “Thundercats are go!” I’ve seen people suggest those were the writer’s mistakes… uh uh.
Jan 27, 2008 - 6:18 pm 6. scott:Peaches and Daddy!That was the NY Graphic,wasn’t it?
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:48 pm 7. Ripper:Roger
Jan 29, 2008 - 11:03 am 8. Ripper:You would think that a 16 year old who is so culturally and psychologically aware (Soupy Sales?), witty, sharp, “with it” and all that jazz would know how not to get ‘knocked up’. I am also surprised she did not reference Fatty Arbuckle while she was at it.
Roger
Jan 29, 2008 - 11:05 am 9. moqui:You would think that a 16 year old who is so culturally and psychologically aware (Soupy Sales?), witty, sharp, “with it” and all that jazz would know how not to get ‘knocked up’. I am also surprised she did not reference Fatty Arbuckle while she was at it.
I liked the movie enough to put it in my personal top 10, but not top 5. And, to me, Ellen Page was a bit of a weak link in the movie. I can’t tell if her part was slightly over-written, slightly over-acted, or both. Her “whip smart attitude” sounds to my ear more like something a 26 year old would write, wishing she’d said it a decade earlier, than what a true 16 year old would come up with.
FWIW, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is my best picture honoree.
Jan 29, 2008 - 8:16 pm