Juno

[cutmymilk]

Liked the film myself, but I am a fan of Ghost World, Igby goes down and Wes Anderson films like Rushmore, though strangly enough I couldn't sit through the even the first five minutes of Napoleon Dynamite.

I've just ordered Ghost World based on the films you lumped it with. I hadn't even heard of it before!!

Wes Anderson is my third favourite filmmaker (after Kevin Smith and Woody Allen). You probably all think I'm a pretentous arse now, right!?

[El Leone]

I like The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Tis fun. Juno is terrible though.

[cutmymilk]

Steve Zissou is great but probably my least favourite Wes flick as it's just... different I guess.

Darjeeling Limited is pure brilliance, though.

[merf]

I can never understand what people are seeing in Darjeeling Ltd when talking it up so much, for me it was a terrible terrible film with hateful characters, little to no story and just revelled in its own 'look how clever I think I am' smugness, something people seem to be lobbing at Juno which I can see but to my tastes its nowhere near as much as Darjeeling.

[Concrete donkey]

I've just ordered Ghost World based on the films you lumped it with. I hadn't even heard of it before!!

Wes Anderson is my third favourite filmmaker (after Kevin Smith and Woody Allen). You probably all think I'm a pretentous arse now, right!?

Big Kevin Smith fan myself too, though haven't really been exposed to many Woody Allen movies. As for Wes Anderson movies, I love them all equally but Rushmore a little more equally than the others (and his original, Bottle Rocket a little less)

[funkydan]

Sorry, but I liked Juno!

A lot of the time on here, films tend to get over analysed and I for one think it is unnecessary. It's fine to not like certain films, but it doesn't mean that they are automatically **** (and before you answer.........no, it doesn't!)!

[PrayforMojo]

Sorry, but I liked Juno!

A lot of the time on here, films tend to get over analysed and I for one think it is unnecessary. It's fine to not like certain films, but it doesn't mean that they are automatically **** (and before you answer.........no, it doesn't!)!

Over-analysing is what the internet is for. Well, that and porn.

Sometimes things just rub you up the wrong way, y'know. What might be adorable and cute for some is always likely to be like fingernails scraping on a blackboard for others.

Anyway, at least you'll be glad to know, due to the overwhelming critical acclaim and box office success of the first film, a sequel has been rushed into production...

[funkydan]

Perhaps I'm over-analysing the over-analysing?!

[abigsmurf]

I can never understand what people are seeing in Darjeeling Ltd when talking it up so much, for me it was a terrible terrible film with hateful characters, little to no story and just revelled in its own 'look how clever I think I am' smugness, something people seem to be lobbing at Juno which I can see but to my tastes its nowhere near as much as Darjeeling.

I didn't think too much of Darjeeling Ltd. It was one retread of Wes Anderson's 'Quirky Family' formula too far for me. It didn't really have the Endearing characters of his previous films.

[cutmymilk]

But...it looks so pretty!

I like talky films that have little plot. Find them way more watchable than action set pieces and complex story arcs...sometimes I just want to chill out to some normal people (clerks!)

[cutmymilk]

Big Kevin Smith fan myself too, though haven't really been exposed to many Woody Allen movies. As for Wes Anderson movies, I love them all equally but Rushmore a little more equally than the others (and his original, Bottle Rocket a little less)

I reckon you'd love Annie Hall for his older stuff (1977) and Match Point from a few years back.

Despite what most critics reckon Woody Allen's output has been pretty good for the last decade, apart from Cassandra's Dream. That was a waste.

[MonkeySteve]

Sorry, but I liked Juno!

A lot of the time on here, films tend to get over analysed and I for one think it is unnecessary. It's fine to not like certain films, but it doesn't mean that they are automatically **** (and before you answer.........no, it doesn't!)!

This. Nicely put Dan.

Some people just need to chill the wotsit out. There is no film in existance that everyone will agree on, and debate is good, but some people seem to go out of their way to slate and belittle films and fans of said film, when it's really not necessary. Not so much here thankfully, but 'other' places.