RE: wanna see Juno for free?

Christopher Lloyd

November 20, 2007 by Christopher Lloyd | Staff in response to wanna see Juno for ...

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Quirk is fine. But you gotta work that quirk. That is, it's OK to use similar storytelling methods in different films, but you want to avoid repeating yourself. Anderson's themes of alienation/disaffection, use of glum static close-ups of actors accompanied by catchy but downbeat pop music have just gotten old to this observer.

It's like Ed Burns with his 5,077th film about living and loving in NYC. Or, as a friend remarked about the unnecessary third "Godfather" movie: "It's just more Italians killing each other and crying over their dead children. With opera."

In snobby intellectual circles, quirk is good until it becomes old, and then it becomes "twee."

I love that word. Just saying or typing it makes me happy: Twee, twee, twee.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to "Juno" as well.

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