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[trinityvixen]

Oh, good, it's not just me.

Really, I am turned off by this woman's writing already and I haven't even experienced it. Diablo Cody wrote Juno for those of you who don't know yet. I dunno about the movie--I'm a little less than pleased that it should be considered so "edgy" for a girl NOT to get an abortion when she's pregnant at 16--but the writer is really annoying me at every turn. An interview with her in Entertainment Weekly tried to cast her as the party girl (she drank more heavily during the interview than most people do in a month), and now she writes a column for them that reeks of desperate "LIKE ME! LIKE ME!" attention whoring that I'm even more turned off to her.

"Ha ha ha, look at my zany adventures and my ability to name-drop pop culture references," doesn't make you cool. It makes you a self-interested tool. This is definitely that anal-expulsive, free-thinking child you knew would never have his/her bubble deflated because of he/she cultivated a barrier of protective ignorance and deflected all criticism by going, "You just don't get it." That's how she comes off--so desperate to be edgy, she's just irritating. For those of you who watch Dexter, I picture her as a real-life Lila minus some of her issues and plus about a thousand more.

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I've heard the film is excellent...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I could see it being good. On the other hand, I could see the mile-a-minute, wordy retorts getting old, fast, like un-edited Tarantino (or any Tarantino after a while). I would hope that, in her fiction where people have to speak her words, some of it would be amended to suit realistic speech. Maybe the movie does that.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

This is why I've been crusading against Juno (and her) for like three months now. Too bad she's everyone's newest favorite person and she'll likely score an Oscar nom for her silly screenplay.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Look, I won't comment on a movie I've not seen because I just don't do that. I can say, "Oh, that looks terrible, and from what I know of the writer/director/actors involved, I've no interest," but I won't go on a crusade against something I've not seen unless the subject matter is inherently repugnant (say like a serious version of "Springtime for HItler").

All's I'm saying is that this writer sounds like every yuppie, hipster TOOL I've ever heard, and her brush with the mundanely exotic (omg she was a STRIPPER) makes her seem fresh. It really does nothing for me. I hate hipsters who "ironically" appreciate all these things they reference and think that the ability to wikipedia cartoon television shows of the decade they were teenagers makes them cool. That's how this Cody person comes off. I have no idea how much of that translates into her movie, nor do I care at this point because her autobiographical, non-fictional remarks are enough to make me distrust her fictional ones. I'm not going to see Juno in the theater out of annoyance, not as a judgment about its quality. As a result, I can hardly join in any enthusiastic boycott. Avoiding something out of irritation is hardly the same as avoiding it because of abhorrence.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Well, the international trailer reflects her pop-culture references to the extreme. The opening 20 seconds are painful.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's another good reason to ignore the movie or dissuade people of like minds from going, I'll admit. Still, I can't say it's bad, good or otherwise. It gives me the impression of glossing over with serious effort something that isn't really all that funny (teen pregnancy). Until I hear otherwise about its treatment of the subject matter, I'm reluctant to take an interest in finding out whether I'll be able to tolerate the dialogue.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

You know what's bizarre? I was talking with one of my English professors the other day, and he is related - very tangentially - to this Diablo Cody chick (that can't be a real name... can it?). I'd never even heard of Juno; we were just discussing the difficulties of the publishing world, and he told me (highly paraphrased) "my friend's cousin's wife wrote this blog, and then somebody paid her to turn it into a book, and now it's a movie with Ellen Page."

Ever since that conversation this Juno buzz is EVERYWHERE. Small world.

But yeah. Her "edginess" matches her name: both smell of fake. ;P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

<Diablo Cody, I believe, is her stage name, possibly literally as she was once a stripper.) Cute story. I love the indifference of the teller. "Yeah, just some girl I sorta know, wrote a book, has a movie. How's the coffee today?" I guess I'm just not ready to latch onto the NEXT BIG THING without proof of her first BIG THING being all that interesting. My life-long cynicism prevents me from looking at this up-and-comer like she won't just be yesterday's news. I distrust people who are famous for no good reason, no matter for how long they are famous *AHEMPARISAHEM*