Comments on: More Academy DVD Mini-Reviews (Watched or Ejected)

By: moqui

moqui — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:16:44 +0000

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.

By: Ripper

Ripper — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:05:47 +0000

Roger
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.

By: Ripper

Ripper — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:03:24 +0000

By: scott

scott — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:48:49 +0000

Peaches and Daddy!That was the NY Graphic,wasn’t it?

By: Mgmax

Mgmax — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:18:57 +0000

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.

By: Pribek

Pribek — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:06:45 +0000

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.

By: gfinoaktown

gfinoaktown — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:40:35 +0000

…did she express a preference for White Fang…or Black Tooth?

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:33:22 +0000

Indeed we are… but not via this movie.

By: Pribek

Pribek — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:07:56 +0000

Soupy Sales!!
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.