Maybe it’s my Catholic upbringing, maybe it’s the fact that Susan Sarandon’s daughter Eva Amurri is so blindingly hot, maybe it’s how cute Jena Malone and Patrick Fugit are together, or maybe it’s the completely unnecessary way Diablo Cody turned the Jason Bateman character into a villain when the movie didn’t need a villain, but after watching the movie Saved! again the other day, I realized I much prefer that movie to Juno.
I mean, I liked Juno, but if I had to choose one teenage pregnancy comedy to watch right now, I’d have to go with Saved!.
In and Of Itself
2 years ago
I love both movies, in toooootally different ways.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see Bateman as a vilain. He was just a guy, opting out. A large part of Juno was Juno figuring out that grownups are you know, people.
He was a jerk. He was completely 1 dimensional and unlikeable. If he'd been more sympathetic and his reasons for leaving more justified, the movie would have been far richer.
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