What up, peeps. It’s Thursday morning, which means it’s time for your favorite Morning Wood. I know you guys fight through the rest of week’s Morning Woods with fake smiles and halfhearted laughs while anxiously awaiting the Thursday Wood, and I want you to know that it doesn’t go unappreciated. I try to get to each and every fan email, letter and post card and hope to one day have time to respond to them all, but until you get your own personal reply, I hope this mass ‘Thank You!’ will suffice. Each and every fan out there means the world to me and without you guys this would be just another boring blahg.
Over the weekend I joined my lady friend and her family for a viewing of Juno at our local movie house. Good stuff. Highly recommend seeing this one. . .and not just because we saw it at one of those cool places that serve alcohol. And those places freakin’ rule, by the way. Why go to a big ass, corporate owned, $8 for JuJu Fruits theater when you can go to the locally owned place in a strip mall next to the Dollar Store and sip on a nice, cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for three fiddy? It’s a no-brainer, really. At least for this guy.
After the jump is more Juno, plus Michael Cera and Zach Galifianakis
Back to Juno. Like I said, solid flick. The chick in the movie is Ellen Page and she does some damn fine work. She’s got that cooler-than-the cool-kids thing going on and has a dry sense of humor and wise-beyond-her-years persona that makes you love her the second she opens her mouth and makes some off the cuff quip about life from her world view.
Her old man in the movie is J.K. Simmons who does a great job as well. You might remember Mr. Simmons from his days as the aggressive, Nazi sympathizing, sodomite ‘Vern’ in the HBO prison show Oz. This role is slightly different.
Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman are the couple hoping to adopt Juno’s baby upon arrival. I’m honestly not a fan of Horse Face Garner, but the recent resurgence of Bateman’s career (via Arrested Development) has been a great thing. I think the guy is a great actor and he doesn’t disappoint in this one.
This brings us to Juno’s baby daddy, Paulie Bleeker, played by Michael Cera. To know him is to love him. He’s fucking money in this film just like he was in Superbad and just like he was in Arrested Development. My only question is this. Is he really acting? Each of these roles are basically high school guys in varying degrees of awkwardness. He nails it, no doubt, but is this an act or is he being paid handsomely for portraying himself in every role? I have no idea. And it doesn’t really matter, I guess, because he’s funny as shit.
As you can tell, I dug this movie. It was funny. It was smart. It was different than most of the crap that is getting thrown at us these days, which probably explains why it’s playing at the strip mall theater by the Dollar Store and not at the Megaplex. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
3.5/5
The video below is ‘Between Two Ferns,’ an interview of Cera by brahsome.com favorite Zach Galifiankis.
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Geez. You basically took a knee, a shot in the throat, and gave this movie the common courtesy of a reach around and it’s still only 3.5/5? Yowza.
Well, everyone I know who has seen it has raved. I saw I Am Legend yesterday and loved it. Man I miss Raleigh…the Colony always had cold beer and Raleighwood as well. man..no placed in Richmond like that I don’t think!
I too expected more than a 3.5. Needless to say, hope to see the filck this weekend…