Juno
a movie
Netflix | Amazon
Overall Rating: 5/10
Meets Expectations: -3 (due entirely to personal squick factor)
Apparent Rating: 2/10
Normally a movie about a pregnant woman would go on a list of things never to watch, like sports news or fly fishing tournaments. However, Juno was an award winning movie that was supposed to be extraordinarily well written. I am all about the writing.
First. Let me say that the overall experience of the movie was really good. The writing was good, the directing was good, the production values matched, the settings were good, the acting was appropriate. The story’s premise is still inherently wrong and immoral and disgusting. There isn’t a way to get past that. The movie scoring a 2/10 in my personal ratings, shows it must have been phenomenally well done.
Scooting aside what I thought, Juno has some really big flaws. Like where does she get all that money? Seriously? 3 pregnancy tests and a gallon of Sunny D? That’s like $30 right there. She drives an hour out to the boonies and back in a station wagon. That’s like 8 gallons of gas. Sure the movie is from last year when gas wasn’t more than $4 per gallon, but still. Juno buys Bleeker a case of TicTacs. I don’t know what the case discount is, but a box of TicTacs is more than a dollar. Juno is always drinking on something non-water. Slushies or whatever. Those are $3-5 each in that multi-quart size. And she’s always eating. Junk food, but always eating— not eating at home, but at the mall or quickie marts or whatever. I didn’t have a couple hundred bucks a week when I wasn’t working and was just barely 16.
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