{"id":2836,"date":"2007-12-23T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T01:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2007-12-23T17:59:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T01:59:57","slug":"2836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"And I loved the soundtrack, too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So maybe <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0467406\/\">Juno<\/a><\/em> tries a little too hard, is a little too deliberately quirky and off in its rhythms, but it&#8217;s undeniably sweet and touching &#8212; and, I think it&#8217;s safe to say, one of the best films I&#8217;ve seen this year. It says something about a film when I&#8217;m genuinely sorry to leave its characters behind when it&#8217;s over.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/node\/70910\">Here&#8217;s Scott Tobias<\/a> on the movie:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">[Jennifer] Garner, in particular, has found the right role to capitalize on her high-strung, hyper-driven screen persona; her excitement over being a mother would be overbearing if it weren&#8217;t also so heartbreakingly sincere. That&#8217;s <em>Juno<\/em>&#8216;s appeal in a nutshell: It comes off as calculatedly irreverent at times, and its Wes Anderson-isms are too precious by half, but its sweetness is genuine and next-to-impossible to resist.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s not a perfect film, no matter what <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071213\/REVIEWS\/712130303\/1023\">Roger Ebert may say about it<\/a>&#8230;but then again, neither are Wes Anderson movies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I really loved it. But then, I really loved <em>I Am Legend<\/em> and would put both on my best of the year list. So take that for what you will.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe Juno tries a little too hard, is a little too deliberately quirky and off in its rhythms, but it&#8217;s undeniably sweet and touching &#8212; and, I think it&#8217;s safe to say, one of the best films I&#8217;ve seen this year. It says something about a film when I&#8217;m genuinely sorry to leave its &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2836\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}