Juno, starring Halifax’s Ellen Page, is a critically acclaimed comedy about a wise cracking teenager, dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. As 2007’s Indie hit, it is alternative mainstream and white people love it when low budget movies do well, even though the $7 million budget is enough to feed thousands of villages in East Africa for a year. White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools. So although the character of Juno and her high school are very unrealistic, older people identify with her and wish that their unappreciative children would be more like her.
On another note, the film takes place in a fictional suburban town in Minnesota, but imagine the same storyline in say West Baltimore or Socorro, TX. My guess is that there would be less qurkiness, less acoustic guitar and zero references to Dario Argento. Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns, therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation and add a killer indie soundtrack.
It also doesn’t hurt that the screenplay was written by somebody named “Diablo” and that Jason Bateman and Michael Cera are in the movie as well.
p.s I’m not a robot, I cried when Vanessa got her baby
Just as funny as Juno
“Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns…”
-Yes, isn’t that white?
“therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation and add a killer indie soundtrack.”
-Your site intrigues me. Honestly, I still don’t know how to take it.
You should take it seriously. Very, very seriously.
“White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools”
So true.
White people who aren’t rich enough will often drive all the way across town to shop at a “white” Wal-Mart in an area that they can’t afford to live in, even when there is one only a few blocks away.
As a white guy, let me tell everyone, every word on this site is 100% true.
hey dumbass, the movie was a comedy, not an attempt to philosophize about sociology. jesus christ calm yourself down fucktard.
The post script is the best part of this whole post.
:D:D monroe is so upset … he must be white :D:D
I’m white but more nerdy. What’s the movie still in the post that’s just as funny as Juno?
Brian,
I think the girl in the “just as funny as Juno” photo is Brittany Spears younger sister. She’s a teenager and recently announced she’s pregnant.
monroe,
It’s well documented that someone who uses the term “fucktard” is almost always 99.8% White. Also, our computers estimate that of that 99.8%, 95.2% are between the ages of 18-22.
Sincerely,
The Duke of White People
Ever hear Oprah rave about juno?
there’s yur flaw in this post.
Isn’t Oprah white at this point anyway? At least in her heart?…
Black people don’t like Juno?
This site is hilarious. I guess I must be white cause I down with natural medicine.
After listening to the conversation betw Juno and the store clerk (Dwight Schrute) I knew that I would despise that movie. Not even Michael and Georeg Michael Bluth could save it- Jennifer garner was good though.
THIS IS SO TRUE fuck that stupid twee bullshit, trying so hard to be ~quirky~ with its burger phones and moldy peaches soundtrack.
Juno was the most gratingly annoying character I’ve ever seen on film. A smug 16 year old making Soupy Sales references?
fuuuuuuuck!
I’m tired of these movies about White hipsters discovering emotion through sudden and unexpected hardship. We get it: White folks got it easy!
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this website as a whole. Cynicism and Irony sure do seem like awfully awkward ways to critique exoticizing, White liberals. Or maybe co-opting their style of humor is the point?
What do other folks think?
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stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
Mexicans do like beans.
bUT SHouldn’t Juno be #1 on the list?
Because if another person comes up to me raving about that movie, I swear to gahd,
I’m going to scream
but if her name were
Taneisha and she was rocking out to some Eric B. and Rakim and she lived in Lafayette Gardens and the final duet was
You’re All I Need To Get By as covered by Mary J. Blige and Method Man
would you love it so damn much?
deep exhale.
like the site…going to use it to hunt for white men to date!
haha, some things here are a bit on target, but i hated HATED Juno. Just have to say that everywhere I go.
i bet kimya dawson will be doing $5 shows for the rest of her life getting out of debt for doing the soundtrack this flick (i though it was rad because i know the words to the songs) (cute)
but white people didn’t like it very much when Britney Spears’ sister got pregnant in real life. Some white folk wanted Nick to kick her off the air.
II don’t get it- probably cuz, I’m not white.
Yeah totally! White people are always so into low budget “emotional” movies to succeed, and non-whites only like to put their money toward 50 million + blow em up movies, because who needs to waste money on an “indie” movie when we already got movies!!!! WHY DON’T YOU GO FEED AFRICA?!!!!!
Clander is whiter than me because I’ve never even heard of this. He can hang out with me whenever he wants though.
Fuck this indie-teen shit
no one likes that.
I’m white, but I like fried chicken and hot sauce. I like it a lot. So I think that makes me less white.
At least less white than Oprah.
I thought Juno was a cute flick though.
I absolutlely hated Juno, it was almost as bad as that stupid Miranda July movie.
Juno would have been better if Michael Cera would have Donkey Punched her instead of her getting pregnant. Plus, I wish someone would have put a beat down on her every 20 minutes.
Hating Juno is going to be the next thing white people like. Give it a few more months.
For instance, remember Garden State? Donnie Darko? I ♥ Huckabees? Initially people (specifically hipsters/indie kids) were all, “ZOMG DIS MOVIE, ET IS TAH SHEET.” But then they realized that liking the movie stopped making them feel special, because other people were liking it. Then it became, “OH DIS MOVIE, ET IS LE OVERRATED.”
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….it was almost as bad as that stupid Miranda July movie.
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Oh no you di’n’t, Karen. “Me & You & Everyone We Know” is the BEST FILM EVER MADE, or I ain’t white!
And Donnie Darko is the fourth or fifth best flick ever!
(Which gives me an idea too pass along for a future SWPL entry: longsleeve OP or Hobie Cat tee-shirts!!! Too rad!!!)
Juno was trash. My white girlfriend (even though she is Irish) and I thought it was terrible. It reminds us of Canada (and certain Canadians we know) – and if that ain’t a white country I don’t know what is.
I guess the reason I didn’t enjoy “Juno” was because I was a bit envious. If I had knocked up a girl in highschool my playwright father and modern dance mother would not have been so forgiving and understanding as Juno’s ex-Army dad.
Thank you so much for your insightful-whitefulness…
…oh yeah – I went to an inner city 1/3 black 1/3 hispanic 1/3 asian/caucasian/east island/arab etc. school and even though I sure the 2 campus/2400 students we had (not to mention on-site nursery) was a much larger school than the one in the film, we still had a shittier lunch menu.
Free Mumia!
I live in the Twin Cities and the local media is obsessed with this lady. They love her name and her look. She has a very media-friendly image.
I read the one about film festivals and commented on Juno, so I’m glad to see that it has its own post. White people love Juno soooo much! They also love bragging about being “one of the first” to see it. White people love when the discover something “hip” before everyone else does.
Just a suggestion, I think you should write about how white people love to use correct grammar. Seriously. They pride themselves on it.
i love this site so much but the midwest actually has a lot of pregnant teens, at some schools 2/3 of the girls get pregnant because they aren’t taught about safe sex in abstinence-only education so i wouldn’t say that it’s a movie about a problem that doesn’t exist
When you reach an extremely high level of whiteness, you will find yourself way too cool and immediately discard star-studded Hollywood faux-indie films like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, etc.
It must really hurt to want to be white so badly.
Dear max, the parents of a pregnant teen would not react the same as the parents of the boy who got her pregnant. That much is a given. When your white daughter gets pregnant, you know that she has several attractive options.
1) She can have an abortion. If you embrace this decision, you’ll be the envy of every Dick and Jane on the block. You’re now MORE pro-choice than they are, and you can prove it.
2) She can give the baby up for adoption. While not quite as attractive an option as abortion, you can think of it as donating to the poor…times a thousand! There is also the potential for using a trendy new-age birthing method. Underwater c-section or something like that. How often do you get that opportunity?
3) She can keep the baby and watch the child support roll in. As loving white parents, you will support your daughter and her baby financially, and yet the poor schlep of a father will still be forced into dropping out of school to get a job so he can pay the court-ordered support amount, which your attorney ensures is a handsome sum.
As the parents of a white boy who has gotten a girl pregnant, the first and only thing you picture is that third option. And as white people, there is no way around paying child support when the court issues an order. [See also: Things Black People Like #27–Dodging Child Support]
I’m black and I love I Heart Huckabees and i like Garden State. But Donnie Darko was not that good and i have absolutely no interest in seeing Juno. I knew White people would love Juno. Indie music, edgy kids, taboo subject.
Juno is not an indie movie. Juno was produced by Fox, one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world.
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this sums up everything i didn’t like about juno perfectly.
by the way, this blog makes me very uncomfortable because it’s too true sometimes.
I’m Oscar!
We’ll probably live2log the Oscars, since for some reason 2loggers like it. Let me just say my spiel now.
Watching the Oscars is more boring than watching a test pattern on a non-HD TV.
Ellen was the best host of the decade.
The…
i wouldnt take juno to the extremem of it being racist to any other minorities. it was trying to show one girl in that situation. and she happened to be white, so what.
thats not even the point. i mean, all these movies nowadays are doing, is taking something that people struggle through, throw in some fast-talking, dry, sarcastic pop-cultured humor with some new “indie” soundtrack.
its bad enough that these “indie” flicks are now the big blockbusters and you see every band on the soundtrack over played everywhere…
all in all, it was unrealistic, and in all honestly i think juno was trying to hard to be like what was garden state before.
come on. can we see soemthing original?
I have been informed by a very special Minnesotan that the town does in fact exist and that the lifestyle portrayed is very accurate.
Still hilarious though 🙂
Socorro is in New Mexico.
this movie was ridic. white people hate loving this movie, it gnaws and gnaws at their souls. i just hate this movie. im white though.
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Juno was probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Incredibly pretentious. But white people love pretentious things.
Awful, awful movie. Lines like “Honest to Blog?” and “Phuket Thailand” made me cringe. I did a countdown until a white character inevitably used the phrase “Rock Out”. Pretentious and embarrassing.
Juno was a 10 million dollar movie. Reitman’s previous movie, “Thank you for smoking” was the 7 million dollar movie.
Wait you’re right. $6.5 million actually
i’m white and i didn’t like this movie.
it might have been, though, because i’m old, and films and shows with smart ass know it all kids piss me off.
i think napoleon dynamite was a more realistic depiction of what a teenager is like.
To be honest, I don’t think anyone would have any hard feelings towards this film if it hadn’t done so well. it would just be another *cute* comedy with hip lingo and hamburger phones that you saw and either liked or disliked. The fact that it’s getting so much credibility as a ground-breaking film is what’s turning people off and making them angry. Imagine if Ghost World had been up for Best Picture? What would the backlash be to that? It was similiar in a lot of ways (of course, Ghost World was a billion times better).
But, it’s still true. White people love Juno.
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“hey dumbass, the movie was a comedy, not an attempt to philosophize about sociology. jesus christ calm yourself down fucktard.”
Then why wasn’t it funny?
100% on the dot with this one. All white people-1
One thing I’ve always noticed bout white teen films is how impeccably decorated and trendy teens’ bedrooms are. I am white, and if I’d done anything like what any of these kids do to their rooms when I was a teen, my mom would have had a fit; not only that, but where do they get the money for all this weird shit when none of them ever have jobs? I thought this movie was very unrealistic; my high school class had a lot of teen pregnancies, and well, no one is ever in school in their third trimester; other parents would shit a brick cos they think some dumb skank is going to influence their little Stefani to want their own screaming poop machine.
Take it from me, a white man, this is spot on
Har! yes, I hate Ellen Page. Will someone please beat the shit out of her?
Aw Doctress, that’s just not nice. And that’s what we do in Minnesota.
I am hapa born and raised near St. Cloud where some of the movie was shot. It is a very accurate. Michael Cera is the perfect Minnesota Nice young man.
I loved Alison Janney’s stepmother – she stuck up for her kid and the dad was great too.
Who is Vanessa?
No correlation to Garden State? Another indie hit about a rich boy dealing with his mother’s death. White people love this stuff, and also Zach Braff.
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“Juno” poses a dilemma for white people because on the one hand they love the eternally cute teenage “girl-child” who is gifted with quirky, hip and precocious dialogue on the Big Screen while on the other hand they dread teenage pregnancy-brought-to-term in “real life” for damping down their little darling’s lifetime earning potential (or worse).
No matter how indulgently they laugh and coo at the shenanigans on screen, somewhere in the back of their minds, white parents will be thinking: “Sixteen year-olds have no business having kids. If Juno were my daughter, I would bitch-slap her adorable wise-cracking ass into an abortion clinic and have her cleansed of this curse.”
Warning to Mom and Dad: The ideal adoptive parents your daughter selflessly seeks for her unborn child may turn out to be YOU.
you gotta be kidding me… the point of the movie is that it is an unexpected result for subarban, predominantly, white america… the movie wouldn’t work in the hood, you’re right, but you’re picking the wrong fight here.
This site is awesome. Having just discovered it, i can’t help but laugh at almost every post. Juno was good, but I’m sure it helps that I am white to appreciate it.
Come Let Us Reason Together
My apologies to Mr. Stamm. I used the faux hood-hop language to emphasize the visceral panic and anger that many upwardly mobile white parents would feel when their 16 year-old daughter brings them glad tidings of an imminent bundle of joy. I am fully aware that the blessed cinematic event takes place “unexpectedly” in cheerful white suburbia where- not to worry- everyone comes equipped with plenty of “money” to pay for child support.
My “point” was to underscore the love-hate ambivalence that “Juno” provokes among viewers.( See this blog) On the one hand the film delivers a hermetically sealed odd-ball comedy with a happy, tear-jerker ending. On the other hand the subject matter proves problematic for most thinking adults who are haunted by too many real life stories of teen pregnancy burdened with too many sad, dysfunctional and nasty endings.
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When I was in college I skeevily dated a girl in High School in a Chicago suburb. Her suburb was just like the one in Juno, just as white and the people there were just as into quirky stuff and independent of hiphop influence. Same with my own, though that was before. Hers was predominantly white and mine was predominantly Jewish. That’s another entry: Jewish people often don’t think of themselves as white. I don’t, and I own the Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze DVD’s, eat expensive sandwiches and am going through a difficult breakup. Love your site, btw.
Yeah West Baltimore!! Baltimore rules; there are no white people here. They are getting close, though. Baltimore is trying to get the white people here by building a big, safe Mecca for them at Harbor East (a manufactured neighborhood that used to just be old buildings and factories), which is the whitest of all white places, except maybe Park Slope, whatever that is.
To Number 13:
I’m black and loved Juno! Strangely, I’ve also found that I too like most of the things on the list of “Stuff White People Like.” Trying not to draw any conclusions about what that says about me and my identity…
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commenter 74, go see “The Landlord” with Beau Bridges and from 1970 and you’ll see what Park Slope used to look like.
Her name’s Jamie-Lynn not Vanessa… which shows your not into Hollywood buzz which is…a’right!
juno was cute. i hate when people hate something based on it’s popularity as if that gives them a personality.
whatevs, i loved this movie. and garden state. zach braff is my hero (and his brother josh, an author, also rocks)
minnesota, eh? that’s probably why it felt so canadian. cdn director, ellen page (hfx), michael cera (brampton!), cdn crew, shot in bc. yup, it’s a cdn movie made with usa $ – therefore not eligible for cdn awards. hooray for canada – we’re so white we judge you when you choose not to apply for our social programs (like film making grants) and instead opt for real money. we likes our movies reeeeeal indie (ie no 7 mil budget… 70K would be topping out).
So what if it isn’t focused on some “inner-city” kid getting knocked up? It’s not Dangerous Minds. Not every movie can be about under-priveleged kids getting some wisdom during the course of the movie. In fact, the angle of unexpected pregnancy that Juno approaches is a lot more interesting. We know that teenage pregnancy maybe isn’t as prevelant in small towns in Minnesota, but this film is about how people react when it *does* happen. And your comment about feeding people in African villages is pointless. How about sorting out their own corrupt governments before asking for another handout that’s gonna get syphoned away to Swiss bank accounts by fatcats that are killing their own people for profit? Bringing this argument to the table when talking about a film is the stupidest thing i’ve ever read.
You are right Zara, there really aren’t enough positive movies about white people.
Also, Juno is a beautifully unrealistic pro-life fantasy. Anyone that doesn’t see that is kidding themselves and their understanding of popular culture’s influence on our lives. Just because abortion comes up does not mean the movie was in any way saying it was okay. Why is having the baby always the “right” choice?
“There would be no movie if she had an abortion.”
Oh bummer, no light movie about teen pregnancy so teen girls like myself can see that and say “oh hey! pregnancy isn’t so bad afterall…maybe i’ll find my own Michael Cera…”
If Roe V. Wade gets over turned i’m blaming YOU, Juno…
Durrty,
Vanessa is the Jennifer Garder character in Juno, not the trashy little Spears girl.
I thought the kids were way too quirky and clever and kind of annoying, however Gardner and Bateman were pretty much letter perfect. The drive up to their suburban McMansion was dead on. Beige house, tan house, mushroom house, beige house. Perfect.
I’m over 30 and hip hop was a huge influence even when I was in middle school and well into high school?!? Please advise.
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i totally agree that there was nothing realistic about this movie. when a 16 year old girl tells her parents that she’s pregnant, they don’t crack jokes as a first response (unless they’re psycho and abusive–and that’s a totally different movie). an unplanned pregnancy at any age is a major life trauma, and a parent who first hears that her daughter has to deal with this is going to be devastated. your first worry is, oh, crap, she had unprotected sex. what was she exposed to? anybody heard of the hiv? once you get past that hurdle, you deal with next steps. and what’s with a super hot chick hooking up with super nerd? this character is gorgeous, smart, a genius with pop cultural references (btw, nobody walks around talking like that–i mean, soupy sales? really?) and she hooks up with that guy? the sensitive nerd? please! why?? forget the fact that he’s not nearly as hot as she is: he can’t even engage in the same kind of banter. water tends to find its own level, and when people hook up, they tend to complement each other in some way…
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m tired of these low budget indie flicks that are all art-house bullshit with painfully obvious social commentary that everyone in Hollywood has a wet dream over, then the media jumps on board like a demented crack whore on dick and all of a sudden everyone loves these shit house movies. If I gave a shit about teen pregnancy and all that goes with it I would go back to my high school…and beat up that geek Cera. Maybe I’m being a bit critical but I’m just tired of everyone jumping on the bandwagon just to be cool or hip, like they know shit about movies. Whatever happened to flicks that just kick ass and take names and actually have a concise plot, climax, and fuckin’ ending?
Ok, smart white people (and everyone else) knows that Juno is a bad film not because of any teen pregnancy issue or because it’s unrealistic, but because of the terrible script which is so over-stuffed with banal hipster references it reads like some kind of cringe-worthy ‘how to be cool’ manual.
Not to mention the fact that Fox Searchlight is not an “indie” company, and regardless of how the sell it, this was not a “low budget indie flick”. It was just cleverly marketed.
But otherwise, your list is pretty bang on.
So is hating Juno the new trend?
Anyway, I liked it very much.
All across this state, you’ve shared with me your stories. And all too often they’ve been stories of struggle and hardship.
I’ve heard from seniors who were betrayed by CEOs who dumped their pensions while pocketing bonuses, and from those who still can’t afford their prescriptions.
I’ve met Maytag workers who labored all their lives only to see their jobs shipped overseas; who now compete with their teenagers for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart.
Just two weeks ago, I a young woman told me her story about haveing intercouse with a friend because nothing was on TV. Once pregnant she became an outcast at school. No job, no health care. What was this teen to do. She found wealthy people who would only give her health insurance if the could steal her baby. Regretfully, she accepted only to cover her shame and sarrow with sarcasm and humor. She spoke not with self-pity but with words written by writers completely beyond the capabilities of a young teen. WHite people flocked to her with awards and wondered why the government isn’t doing more to help her afford the prenatal that will allow her to live out her dreams of being a 30 year old with a 15 year old child. SHaring the same clothes and music and boyfriends. These are americas dreamers and the dream of CHANGE!!!!
You work hard for your dollar, we will take 60 cents and give you the rest of your change… Change you can believe in.
My husbands an idoit, that was a DVD we watched the other night not some girl he met on the campaign trail. Sorry, he is running out of material to talk about. I warned him this would happen if he ran for president with out having any real accomplishments to discuss. He would have to spend his time discussing the missery of people he meets. But NO, he wouldn’t listen to me. DOn’t tell him but I may vote for Hillary. Just kidding I hate that B!tch, so I convinced Nader to run. That’s what he gets for dragging my ass all over this redneck country. Seriously, Iowa? Ohio? I thought they were the same and people were just to stupid to pronounce it right. I am going back to Chicago and he can drag his tired ass home is 2 months and sleep on the couch.
Bwahahaha! Your postscript made this entry… HA!
I once got a chick pregnant and it was freakin AWESOME!
naa didnt like it
I’m white and i thought Juno was a sack of sh*t.
The fascination of “white people” with this movie is because they want to elevate the issue of teen pregnancy in white suburbia as something that could be discussed in a book club of white women that think that Atonement is a masterpiece.
Why are people still calling this an indie film? The trailer was plastered allover fucking Myspace a month before it came out.
haaaaated juno.
I agree: Juno sucked. If you close your eyes while Juno or her father is talking you’ll hear the same thing. They are called one-dimensional characters and lack any substance. It’s as if the notoriously unfunny Sarah Silverman ranted for 90 minutes in a film called Teen Pregnancy is Magic – how boring would that be?
White people rock though.
Donnie Darko sucked. Always has, always will.
I do honestly find it idealistic to call Juno one of those “Indie movies that Could!” because it wasn’t. Neither was Little Miss Sunshine. Maybe in the beginning states of it’s release but no longer. This is the greatest piece of web I have ever encountered. It is the white person’s mainfesto. If anyone is looking for a good indie film make it yourself.
Although I do appreciate it’s attention on Minnesota.
Word.
This movie was a comedy? What was the funny part? It sucked and I can’t for the life of me understand why it was nominated for anything.
I guess not being white , and working with teen mum and did not understand how this was a comedy. But if they can make Hogan Heroes they can make anything a comedy.
I concur with 15-18.
Fuck this pretentious POS movie. Juno sucks my balls.
Also, fuck anyone who liked it. You wouldn’t know a good movie if it slapped you in the face.
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i had a friend on that deathstar. and juno is an x-men. dont let her fool you.
true that. all that.
emotional trigger I suppose.
this was the worst movie i have ever seen. end of story. i walked out halfway through it
ooooo teen pregnancy is a huge issue in suburban Minnesota, it just as high as urban areas, white surburban kids have nothing better to do than bang each other and get knocked up
solid facts make for better argument
what stuff do black people like? sorry i am not a racist but am am genuinely interested in knowing – thirst for knowledge!!!
also add the excruciatingly annoying napolean dynamite to this list. heck, if this list had been written a few years ago, that shit woulda been here instead of juno.
I saw Juno with a black friend. Juno AND token black friend! Score! Two birds with one stone.
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Second picture and caption are the best part of this post.
Second photo and caption are the funniest part of this post. Well played.
Will white people PLEASE shut up about this movie?!
Racism is last century, bitches. Move on.
To # 112 – Black people like watching white people fall all over themselves trying to be trendy. Just be, motherfuckers. Just be.
Some of us also like chicken and watermelon. That is actually true.
Now this is what we don’t like: having to answer questions for our entire race. We’re individuals. Get it?
just can’t get all bothered by white people and their self-invovled baby-obsessions.
fuck white people
i just farted and some poo came out
I’m a white guy and I’ll be honest and say a lot of the articles on this site would apply. I do threaten to move to Canada a lot, however regarding Juno. I’m proud to say I thought and still do think that was the biggest peice of garbage that came to the theater last year. It doesn’t help me that the writer “Diablo” went to the University of Iowa, where I’m from, for a bit either. Big O Piece of Crap!!!
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
But then they realized that liking the movie stopped making them feel special, because other people were liking it. Then it became, “OH DIS MOVIE, ET IS LE OVERRATED.”
This is so true. Hating shit just to hate shit is so white.
I liked Saved better.
I saw that movie. It sucked beyond sucking.
And I’m Hispanic.
White people (me included) love Little Miss Sunshine too.
“Ah, quirkiness! Aren’t people idiosyncratic!!!!!!????”
What white people like (and we’re talking about a certain kind of white person on this site– upper-middle class college educated liberal whites) are twee films with snarky teen-agers.
I’m white and was born in Africa and I’m here to testify that site is my new gospel – It’s only funny because its true (wheres the mayo section)
The post-scripts are awesome. I just found this site and this is my third contribution so far.
See how white I am? Eagerly seeking approval and acceptance.
3 M WROTE:
“So true.
White people who aren’t rich enough will often drive all the way across town to shop at a “white” Wal-Mart in an area that they can’t afford to live in, even when there is one only a few blocks away.”
And I say:
You bet I do. I don’t go to my local walmart. I drive across town to shop with other white people because they don’t refuse to look me in the eye so they can pretend I’m not there while they try to run over me with their shopping carts.
Yeah, I’ll continue to drive across town to shop with people who have manners.
And while we’re on the subject of manners, you might want to write something about that here. Most white people at least know some basic manners even if they don’t always use them. Most “other folks” don’t even have basic concepts of common courtesy.
i know WEST BMORE would deffinatey not been as cute and socialy acceptable
i have successfully avoided seeing Juno based on that very double-standard argument–to paraphrase and then some: ‘that white middle class teen pregnancy can be a whacky, brassy romp unsullied by rape, legal or symbolic disownership by guardians, or nosopolitical devaluation of the mother’s life vs. the fetus, WHEREAS such complications and tragedies do occur in non-Diablo-ized teen pregnancy narratives. however seeing that argument foregrounded in this blog makes me wonder if there is a second-stage white-ification process beyond and above the intuitive mechanism that forces white people to see Juno and enjoy the all-too-clever E. Paige banter, that is, my/this very hypercritical, self-aggrandizing rejection of the movie for political and para-marxist reasons. the question must be: is it better to be authentically white, or grudgingly, self-flagellatingly white? or is self-flagellation merely another symptom?
also the last real “indie” movie was Primer… entire budget: $7,000.
time travel trumps teen trollops.
true.
I have to agree about the “reality” of Juno. Just based on the opening this seems like a movie full of “gifted” children. Who talks like that in high school?
Pregnant chicks give me a boner, but I’d like to give them a boner.
BONUS: No condom! Pregger chicks can’t get AIDS!
juno was a lame movie. White women liked the movie so their white boyfriends agreed it “is the best movie ever” – tell me if Juno is so damn smart why hasn’t she ever heard of a condom…
I’m black and I loved Juno!!!
I did like Juno.
Here’s a funny take-off of juno
“White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools.”
Most insightful observation I’ve read on this site.
Fuck Juno with a rusty spoon.
Socorro NM is the town everyone knows but there is a Socorro TX and it is within spittin’ distance of the Rio Grande. Google East El Paso. If Juno hatched her kid there, the child would definitely become multilingual, and Juno would no longer be the only white person around. AND they would live by the water!!!!
i’m a watching juno as we speak.
kinda cunty movie, but i would fuck her cheerleader friend until that fag from that dateline show started jacking off watching me put the white horse deep in her 2 hole.
hanson wouldn’t even bust me, he’d throw me a high five on my way out the dateline mansion and pay me like 2k for her panties.
White people who hate Juno, but closetedly like Juno, but want a movie along similar lines that they can openly like should see the Irish movew “The Snapper.” Much better, at least for now.
balls. haha.
frank…ly, that’s not funny.
i liked the part when the dad said he was going to kick the kid in the weiner. i laughed.
“Then it became, ‘OH DIS MOVIE, ET IS LE OVERRATED.'”
You elide the “e” in “le” when it is succeeded by a vowel sound, you fool! Any white person would know that!
Only a white person would know that.
Juno had sex with a nerdy geek. Is that the same as being fucktarded?
How could anyone not laugh at the line, “It makes his junk smell like pie.”
I feel sorry for people who don’t like “Juno.” They must be dead inside. I suppose these same people laughed when Bambi’s mother was shot.
I’m white, I live in Vermont, I went to art school, I loved Juno.
Monroe you spelled your name wrong, I think you meant to say Moron. Juno was obviously a comedy, and the author of this blog is plenty intelligent to know that.
I love this site, and yes, it’s all true. Posting #85 (The Wire) made me return all the DVD’s. And yes, I love Mos Def.
What was wrong with Little Miss Sunshine?
Haven’t seen it, but I’m really, really white. I think Napolean Dynamite is a better example of Honkey art than Juno tbh.
Heck it’s written and directed by white Mormons from BYU or something. How much whiter do you want it people??
With that said, I know a bunch of really, really black People
ass motherfuckers who loved this movie too. Maybe white people are at their best in movies where the whiteness isn’t so “snarky” like in Juno?
I think ALL people like to talk about movies or “what X race likes what” on the Internet rather than using their time and minds to help solve the problems of the world.
Or complaining about not doing enough to solve the problems of the world–very white of you.
[…] #57 Juno […]
The movie made me vomit. Thank god someone has posted a review like this, reaffirms my faith in human nature.
I used to love the Moldy Peaches, their name has been sullied.
True dat! White people love this film. fucking hilarious site. I like the picture too. The best thing about this site is the white people who get upset. ha ha.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS SITE. I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT. I LOVE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPSET AND SERIOUS ABOUT IT THE MOST. I FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i did not like this movie. am i no longer white?
I pooped my pants
way to use the word “fucktard”. can you throw out some more quirky sarcasm for us juno?
[…] #57 Juno […]
[…] Pick” guy myself. Yes, it was nominated for an Academy Award. I was rooting for Juno me (being the snowflake that I am) but was happy to see No Country win. I haven’t seen it, but you gotta love the Coen […]
You need to get some diapers!
yeah get alot of diapers
PS i love hotdogs like a fat kid love cake
I’m black and I loved Juno! Although I must admit, I went to see it at the suggestion of my white, gay friend who drives a Toyota Prius, hates corperations and loves expensive sandwiches (no joke). FYI: I’m vegan…does this make me kinda white?
No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture except for the ones we ate…..
I prefer black Wal-Marts. I go to the Wal-marts on the very-near-wrong side of town (but not the ones on the *wrong* wrong side of town, that shit will get you shot) when I’m looking for expensive electronics. Only place for miles around that you can find a 40″ Polariod LCD HDTV or Wiimotes. Mostly because nobody shopping there on a regular basis can afford any of that. Course, you may feel like you need a police escort when taking the TV out to your hybrid car, but once it’s in the trunk and you’re speeding back to the white, I mean, right side of town, you feel quite a sense of accomplishment.
haha. basically.
Just what is a fucktard? I kinda’ like that word.
Yeah, but she won an Oscar. Doesn’t that mean the movie is kick ass? Why would a less than brilliant movie win Hollywood’s (and by extension, the free world’s) most exclusive artistic award?
I cried so hard after reading your post I couldn’t finish my faux-vegan hamburger. Screw Obama – YOU should be running for president.
To everyone making negative comments:
This is a blog. It is intended to provide entertainment for people. If you are so obsessed that you check back here to see if anyone replied to your negative comments, go to a forum and waste your life there. This post gets a thumbs up, especially the picture.
Yes VERY Seriously. And it helps to post a maniacal, angry post that condemns this site; thereby proving your ultra-whiteness. Really, I mean it. Seriously.
Lil Black Vegan…did your family disown you?
This is bullshit. I’m a proud Jamaican American and i personally love Juno. It’s a good film, it’s warm and funny and doesn’t try to be too much. Diablo Cody didn’t win an Oscar for nothing what she wrote is clever and puts a smile on your face in the first 5 minutes. Plus it’s the only thing Ellen Page was ever and will ever be good in. Race shouldn’t dictate whether a movie is good or not. I took all my friends from my class to see it after school and they all love it and none of them had white skin.
White people like Juno because it makes them feel better about snagging children from all over the world to adopt. They can say, “See, we saved you from a life of deprivation – be grateful and don’t ask questions about your “other” culture.”
But, read a “Dear Birthmother” letter and see just what those crazy white folk will do for a white infant 😉
I’m an old, white woman adopted in the ’60s.
Juno what. I have never heard of Juno.
Juno?
you got that right. the only people who watch oprah(especially when she has “regular” people on) are middle-aged white women who live in the suburbs. why do you think 50 cent’s never been on?
Superbad was even worse!
little miss sunshine was bad because it’s unbelievable that a homely little girl like that would be in the FINALS of a beauty contest!
good for u
Douchebag is good, fucktard is better
Don’t Juno and her friend say a series of things like “fo shizzle” or something right at the beginning?
“So although the character of Juno and her high school are very unrealistic, older people identify with her and wish that their unappreciative children would be more like her. ”
The high school may look unrealistic to some, but for me it was like a flashback. I spent half of my highschool career in Spokane, WA and there are just as many nerdy cross-country runners and acoustic guitars floating around.
As for older people wishing their children were more like her…. uh, well, I guess I will just have to take your word on that.
This site is very interesting and often on point, but this one seemed a bit of a stretch.
I see a glut of WHITE people acting/dressing like Juno and buying the soundtrack. hey, they saw a movie about individuality and the copied her. nice….
Over 40 would have been more accurate. Ever heard of Run DMC? GrandMaster Flash? Slick Rick? LL Cool J? It just aint tru there was no rap in the early 80’s
All the people that are bitching are obviously white, and therefore letting themselves be stereo-typical white people. They are also trying to prove themselves to be “different” and “unique” by saying they hated Juno (because everyone else liked it, making it mainstream-GOD FORBID). That should be the next topic: white people like to complain.
Seriously guys, this is satire. Lighten up.
In our town, there is no ” nice” Wal-Mart. Those with discerning sensibilities just shop at Target.
Rich, or at least middle-class white kids who get knocked up are a lot more appealing than their “inner-city” counterparts. Everybody knows that the inner-city kids are just doing it to get “the welfare.” For the white kids, it’s an honest mistake.
“but if her name were
Taneisha and she was rocking out to some Eric B. and Rakim and she lived in Lafayette Gardens and the final duet was
You’re All I Need To Get By as covered by Mary J. Blige and Method Man”
speaking as a white person, I would love this movie. Mos Def is, oddly, not the only rapper I like.
Juno was entertaining and funny but unworthy of all the hype bestowed upon it — and you’re right, a similar movie about black people wouldn’t be everyone’s favorite movie of the goddamn year.
my arse is white and i fuckin hated that juno drivel this white people like all yanks that top themselves as for colour who cares just die scum
Nigga pleaz!
I’m white, but this movie and the people who fell in love with it gave me yet another reason to be ashamed of my own race (along with Native American genocide, slavery, the Vietnam War, etc)
honestly, i thought juno was lame as hell. they already made a movie about teen pregnancy with mexicans called “quinceanera” and its better then this juno piece of shit cuz white people can pay for abortions or if she decides to keep it her family gives her the money but minorities usually dont have alot of cash to pay for this shit. I truly think that this would never happen to a white girl (at least exactly how this story is) unless she was a lil hood rat!
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
“On another note, the film takes place in a fictional suburban town in Minnesota, but imagine the same storyline in say West Baltimore or Socorro, TX.”
Actually, it takes place in South Minneapolis, which is considered “Urban” by Minnesota standards, as one of the Twin Cities. Which just goes to show you something about Minnesota as a whole…
My home town was mentioned in the movie, and described as “East Jesus Nowhere”, but it did pretty much look like my high school, with the clothes, way of talking, style of music, and the way the crowds looked. Except that, in South Minneapolis, there should’ve been some Somalis and Hmongs. Still, pretty good for Hollywood.
and like black ppl love fried chicken?
If Hitler saw Juno there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust
I must have missed the whole Minnesota thing because my first thought was that it was filmed in BC.
Sure enough it was filmed an hour outside of Vancouver!
I guess I am just more sensitive to these things because I live in Toronto, and, well, you know the rest.
Yes, that would make you hyper-sensitive considering that you are only a short 2000 miles away….
watermelon, chicken, malt liquor, polyester hair, gold teeth, cars that are missing either a window or a hubcap, clothes designed by musicians, fried catfish, orange soda, welfare, fake fingernails that could be considered ‘talons’, talking in movie theaters, fat white women, throwbacks, Oprah …… just to name a few.
Today people in my GRAD PROGRAM talked about how much they loved JUNO. My professor also added that it was next on his netflix queue.
Yes. He needs to calm down. He was obviously seething with rage throughout that entire post.
What I really liked about the movie was going with another white guy (and our white wives) and even though it was real cute to so many white people, even a white guy (my friend) got upset because he was from an illegitimate teenage pregnancy and given away and it fucked up his life, even though he is white and rich. Go figure.
the white people who don’t like Juno are wrong kind of white people.
God help me, I love this site so much. And this post was particularly brilliant – the last line in particular. (I cried at that bit too)
[…] the contrast I watched Juno and, in accord with my whiteness, I really liked it. Ellen Page is cool shit. Very interesting way to deal with a stigmatic and ever […]
i like how its assumed it is a he
=)
well as a non-white upper middle class educated person, most of this site resonates with my life/surroundings/upbringing as well….so i think “white” is more of a construction rather than color of skin only
and oprah totally qualifies to be in this category
i think you summarized what the characters in juno are and the basic set up of this site!!
“exoticizing, whilte liberals…co-opting their style of humor is the point” = PERFECT, succinct description
sam, you are a genius!
Me too.
[rolls eyes]…typical white person!!!
[rolls eyes]…typical white person.
The white race is like a child.
What’s the matter, can’t take a joke?
Btw, I’m not offended; I just thought I’d ask.
at first i assumed Juno was directed by the same guy that directed Knocked Up, which makes sense seein’s how that one goofy kid stars as Juno’s boyfriend… but it ended up having very much it’s own style
True-dat! No Walmart around here, but thank God for Target!
So mexican, are you saying that the $7 million budget for Juno could somehow feed more starving Africans than a $50 million blockbuster budget?
Well, its a Pro White Life movie Wonder why a movie about teenage pregancy represents teenagers like a bunch of 8 year olds who’d rather eat tick tacks and watch monster movies and play their guitars than have sex? The ooops, its all cute and clean…
Juno is NOT about “teen pregnancy” its about ADOPTION –
of white babies, that is – cause there’s a shortage you know – supply & demand, etc. And not only did the character bring another white baby into the world, she made two white people happy who otherwise would have no one to hate them when their old.
Hey – I think Sarah Silverman just joined.
Hi Sarah. I love hating you!
haha just like a dumb person. u must be white. white people don’t get welfare? please! those jerry springer white trailer trash ho’s get it. lol.
LMAO stupid azz shook white boy.
LOL y’all wanna be black so bad…….
Oprah is white now.
LMAO. i mean really! if i want to see a smart ass pregnant girl i would call somebody i know.
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why is it typical white ppl?
i mean im black as HELL
and i feel the same DAMN way
so does my family
BITCH
You black people are so racist if that was me posting a blog saying something about your kind there would be an uproar and i would be in the wrong.
Fuck all this pc shit because it only works in black peoples favour if you guys want equality then stop creating the barrier yourselfs.
Ps: I liked Juno there are enough black influenced films out there and yes you guessed it I am White and proud
You may be white and proud, but you’re not a big fan of punctuation, and stuff. Where’s Boris? Raskolnikov!
Very belated, but one thing I didn’t understand about Juno was like it was SUUUCH a big deal that she was preggers at 17.
I guess where I’m from it’s so common we congratulate them for not getting knocked up before the age of 16. And no one gives up their babies for adoption. That was weird to me. They drop out or do a project HOPE sort of thing.
As a gen-yoo-whine teenage white person, I would just like to say that although this site is actually hilarious, this post is basically the first that I do not agree with. The part that I do not agree with is the part that says “the character of Juno and her high school are very unrealistic.” The characters in “Juno” are EXACTLY like the people at my (very, very white) high school. No joke. It’s sad, but true.
Perfect!!!!!
I’m sorry, but all those posts completely trashing juno are ridiculous. You try to come up with all these intelligent reasons why everyone should hate it, and why its so terrible. But sometimes, a movie doesn’t really have to make complete sense, or be really intelligent for people to like it, or for it to be good. It is what it is. I know that its not the best movie in the world, and I knew very well it wasn’t gonna win best picture or anything, especially with movies like ‘There Will Be Blood’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’. But really, you’re trying to make yourself seem so hip by bashing it, that you just sound dumb in the end.
Theres something really great about living your life and not giving two shits about what other people think, or do in their own lives.
I am white. I hate Juno with a passion, simply because it’s a crappy movie. I hate even more the fact that so many people liked it, but the fact that so many people liked it does not make me hate the movie more. No, I hate the movie on its own terms.
The writing was horrible. Horrible! The screenwriting style can only be compared to the dismembered body of a vehicular accident victim that has been tarred and feathered with Elmer’s glue and shiny sparkles.
I spent the entire show feeling sorry for the actors who had to do the best they could with the lines they were given. I give them, and only them, some credit.
white power
there is a socorro, tx as well, just outside el paso.
Sheesh, you Americans are DUMB! None of you are getting this blog at all are you, not just this post, but all the others on the list too…. This blog is genius and you lot in that crazy place over there are just too bloody stooooooppppid to get it, aint ya?
maybe , just maybe one day you will catch up with us sophisticated Europeans, but in the mean time, stop watching Michael Moore, stop voting for dumb presidents and stop going to war. Thats it. xx
I’m black but I don’t eat fried chicken!
this movie is amazing and this whole thing is tru except the ovr 30 thing, im 14, and all m friends love it
God this movie was awful. Probably the worst I’ve ever seen in my life. It wasn’t funny in the slightest, the dialog was utterly stupid, and I pretty much wanted to kick Juno in the teeth five minutes into it.
This is not my opinion as a white person. This is my opinion as a thinking person who doesn’t buy into Hollywood hype bullshit. I seriously hope Diablo Cody chokes on a cow dick and dies so we never have to hear any more of her dreadfully unfunny dialog.
Yes. You are officially white. Feel free to get mad at everyone here now.
Never buy into Hollywood hype!
Stupid*
you could at least spell stupid right. if your trying to prove that we are stupid, shouldn’t your English at least be proper…
fucking brit, go down to the stupid pub, drink your scotch and piss, and go die….
If your going to try and prove that the yanks are stupid people, you should, at the very least, use proper grammar.
Oh, and by the way, there is something known as knowledge, why don’t you attend college and further your studies instead of wasting all of your time down at the local pub…stupid brit, no wonder why you guys lost the war…no common sense.
on that note…knowledge and common sense always beats any amount of massive force.
again…you lost. get over it.
stupid*
Juno was okay but the Balls of Steel gameshow is much funnier. Look it up on youtube
I’m pretty sure we beat you. Twice, I think.
Wait what?!? You’re white and proud?!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
white aristocrat… congratulations on thinking you’re so “sophisticated” and better than all of us, however, if you’re going to bash our country, at least live in it you dumb fuck. stay in your useless country where you belong. thanks.
Wow, it amazes me how many people were extra super offended by White English Aristocrat! how insecure about your intelligence are you that some unnamed bored person from across the ocean can get your feathers that ruffled, spurring insults on his grammar and his country? it just doesn’t matter that much. calm down. laugh a little.
And see #101 Being Offended
That about covers it
of course your fucking 14 you can’t even spell
White English, I feel like buying you a pint of ale. America is indeed an embarrassment.
“If your going to try and prove that the yanks are stupid people, you should, at the very least, use proper grammar.”
Sorry retard, but this sentence contains two glaring grammatical mistakes: “your” should be “you’re” and “yanks” should be capitalized. So I would have to conclude that your an idiot and that that brit is way the hell smarter than you’ll ever be.
I’m from baltimore. This is true. This list is funny. Much love.
You just made the same mistake with the ‘your’ thing that you just had a go at them for. Sort it out Tony Blairs.
We didn’t lose any war. I’m guessing you never took history class? Or you just didn’t listen.
i thought everyone liked Juno… I am hispanic by the way….
…
Have you ever heard of the American Revolutionary War?
TO: FTW on June 2, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Dude… think about anger management. Seriously.
TO” SARAH July 1,at 7:29pm
You are a really nasty bitch.
and how do you know we’re all americans? ha you’re probably from austin texas or something. verrrry funny very stereotypical. and also hun, the blog was written by an american thank you.
yeah, i guess those of us who never took a history class pretty much only go by the fact that, hello, the brits don’t in fact run our country!
of course man that goes without saying!
um probably because blacks account for somewhere around 13% of the u.s. population. if the vote encompasses “everyone”, whites are obviously gonna dominate. tough beans.
ya they totally do. but hey, i hated juno…”just like everyone else!” hahahaha
movie about idiot pregnant teen.
When I was 14, I knew the difference between “your” and “you’re”.
Christian Lander, who writes “Stuff White People Like” grew up in Toronto. How funny that half of these posts fall into his category, “White People Love Being Offended (#101).”
So what if Juno doesn’t represent the largest strata of society? Tbh it was a very Canadian film. It was charming. And fun.
And not all American high schools have hip hop influence… well maybe this one does and they just didn’t show it. Watch Step Up Two if you want more of a ‘realistic’ hip hop scene.
hey there,
i actually loved the movie Juno..but, your writing is by far the funnest thing ever..lol..plus, i love that you put a pic of jamie lynn spears underneath, really great! i just heard about this on the radio lol, and i wanted to see what it was all about..keep the humor comin 🙂
Never seen it. I keep reading everything on the list in the hopes of being able to laugh at myself. I’m still hopeful, though.
Juno really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Yeah, I know I’m like the only personin the world to find this movie kinda annoying… and yeah – VERY white here… the music was awful – I HATED it, it was distracting and just BAD – the cute snarkiness of the main character wore thin about halfway through, to the point where I was kinda unsympathetic with her by the end. Her reasons for having the sex didn’t help (“We were bored”?!?!? I’ve been HELLA bored, and getting pregnant was NEVER something I considered as a solution, and having unsafe sex is a sure way to end up pregnant – what is the main character a completel moron?) And the couple she considers giving the baby to? Any couple where one person has to take everything that makes them who they are, and lock it up in a room (and consider getting rid of it) is DOOMED to part – I that Vanessa was a HORRIBLE wife to expect him to do that.
Only Juno’s parents saved the movie for me. I love both the actors that played her Dad and Step Mom, and the scene where the step mom defends Juno at the ultra sound was enough to redeem my wasted time spent watching this movie.
This is what Juno is about: it’s an attempt to teach teenagers that there’s a way to get out of an unplanned pregnancy and get your life back: just give it up for adoption. They’ve given up on teaching kids abstinence. They’ve given up on teaching kids to use protection. So now what’s the best way to deal with teenage pregnancy? Give the baby to someone who actually wants one.
1) Barely any discomfort/complications regarding the pregnancy was depicted in the film
2) It was very easy to find a rich, white couple who would take good care of the baby
3) The protest at the abortion clinic was an absolute joke
4) Just make sure you get emotional when you see other mothers with kids at a mall, and show you’re responsible by taking pre-natal vitamins and having second thoughts when discovering the rich, white couple would be splitting up
In the end, everyone gets what he/she wants and lives happily ever after:
1) Juno got to “rock out” with her new found love
2) Bleeker got Juno
3) Vanessa got her baby
4) Mark got his downtown loft
By the way… the reason why people hate Juno (the character) is because she talks about how great the raw, hardcore punk bands are but ends up playing pathetically folksy-soft no talent teenie-bopper G-D-C crap
lol. This is great! People shoulnd’t take this stuff so seriously,it’s just a joke. I’m a white person and i find this very funny!
Remember Pretty Woman? It showed America something that had been shown a million times before in true Hollywood glamour style. Yes, Virgina, there are such things as virgin prostitutes.
Now, with Juno we have another even more ridiculous phenomenon. The virgin mother. And, no, I’m not talking three magi, a manger, and a guiding star.
THIS is what Juno is about: you can have sex and have a baby and then go back to being a 14 year old who just holds hands. It’s a ridiculous movie that does not take teen pregnancy seriously at all. It tries to make everything cute and fluffy with a rich couple waiting in the wings to take your little problem away. I remember in high school reading Judy Blume’s “Forever” and the line sticking in my mind – “you can never go back to just holding hands.” How true that is! Sex changes everything (didn’t you white people listen to that annoying Rilo Kiley song?). You would never get such a sober assessment from watching Juno, however.
Subsequently, I’ve witnessed more than dozens of teen pregnancies in my community. I don’t live in Juno’s fantasy world, but then, nobody does. Juno teaches you that with pluck and just a bit of moxy all your problems will disappear. Remember boys, you don’t have to accept any responsibility for impregnating a girl! In fact, don’t even let your mom know you ever dated her. Girls, it’s all on you – tee hee. There’s plenty of rich people who want babies. That’s why there’s no broken foster care system in America. And don’t worry about your parents, they are sooooo cool about the whole thing. The movie is saccharine and edgy. And at the end of the day, we’re all virgins again. If by virgins you mean that Juno’s slate, and the audience’s conscience, have been wiped clean.
Two hours of watching a teen talk like an adult only to regress into infantilism.
And people hate Hollywood for slap happy endings? By the way, what make a “Hollywood movie” these days vs. an “indie movie”? This movie had some known actors in it, semi-famous artists on the soundtrack, and was distributed by a major studio. Things sure have changed in 15 years. Most notably, the kind of crap people can watch and still feel superior about.
ie: Samn loves both being offended AND hating big corporations like the movie industry.
ZING this is the best website ever!
Anyways JL you killed it, seriously PERFECTLY SAID! BAM
.. what I have to say is…
LOL, the Jamie Spears thing killed it to – hilarious. Anyway, you’re right it was very unrealistic but of course I don’t know many movies that ARE realistic.
I think you should add Napoleon Dynamite to this post or another because for awhile that was very popular and everyone was mimicking his voice…
Anyway, I didn’t really like the movie but everyone seems to with quoting lines from it like “You are the like the maccaroni to my cheese” or whatever…
There is a Korean movie called “Jenny, Juno” that was created prior to this one. It is also about teen pregnancy. Incredible how they both used the name Juno and covered this topic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%2C_Juno
I enjoyed the picture of Jamie Lynn Spears at the bottom, haha.
I personally ADORED Juno. I’m attempting to write a screenplay about a similar topic. I figure America’s chomping at the bit for a nice feel-good abortion story.
And by God, I can give it to them!
HA look at those faggy sunglasses!!
uhh, you fuckin failed in your analyzation of Samn.
That’s because you’re dumb.
Wow. Bitter much?
“analyzation”
Don’t you mean analysis?
I am an expert in nameology!
I liked Juno because it was truly funny
And it truly shows that you don’t have to get an abortion if you’re a pregnant teen
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” Mother Teresea (old school 🙂
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. “
i said truly twice
Or it’s just a stupid movie..
Nevermind the fact that Mother Teresa did nothing to heal peoples’ pain.
Nevermind the fact that abortion is the best option for some and not others.
It’s none of your business what options are best for others. You don’t like abortion? Fine. Don’t have one. But don’t judge other people for having a different life or viewpoint than you.
You nailed that film on the head. I didn’t think that was a bitter commentary, just very accurate.
I kept thinking, “Kids don’t talk like this…I’m not that old.” But, of course, the screen play was by a near-forty-year-old stripper…. That’s why I hear fifty-somethings saying, “Not my favs, you know…like Juno says, huh huh huh.”
Oh, wasn’t it classic that the white trash mom went off on the “ethnic” radiologist?
Reitman’s been riding on daddy’s back for a while.
haha. i love people that take things too seriously.
It’s just a movie. Anyone who takes anything to heart or any advice from a movie…is stupid.
i’m white. i thought juno was highly improbable and annoying. isn’t it ironic?
(side note: alanis morisette is another thing the white people very much enjoy.)
Yes, very true. I loved Ghost World too. Don’t know why they stopped offering roles to Thora.
I have yet to see Juno. I usually wait until after all the hoopla is over. But I hope it’s not like Garden State, pretentious and overrated.
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So, I’m not proud of this (or am I?), but I’ve been told a super shit-ton that I’m a Juno.
It’s not one of those “she’s seen the movie so many times that she knows the character inside out” kind of things. Truth is people were telling me before I’d seen it. And now that I have, I don’t get it so much. I make fun of it – tell people to call me Juno and such. Sure, we have similarities. We both play guitar and are punk enthusiasts. Both like making fun of things we don’t understand, along with things we do but don’t care to. (Might I add I’m not prego nor have I ever been) Anyway, all I’m saying is that it’s highly realistic that a Juno-esque person could exist. I don’t understand how anyone could think it’s unrealistic in the first place.
Also, if I am at least a little bit like Juno like everyone says, then that part about older people identifying with me is a lie. Just just think I’m weird with an even weirder sense of humor.
It’s not like Garden State…it is worse.
It wasn’t that good. It was ok.
Yeah, as soon as the commercials started airing people at school were “OMG SO SURE!” that Juno was my pregnant twin. I mean, while it’s kind of a compliment in that they’re calling you funny and lovable, it’s still pretty annoying. Now I can’t pick up a guitar without people asking me to play The Moldy Peaches. Damn.
The thing that annoys me the most about Juno is that after it came out, all I ever heard was “Juno isn’t unrealistic, everyone says I’m *just* like Juno!!” or “My friends are calling me Juno. I don’t know why! I just like old music and cult classics produced before my birth!”
Veiled self-applause if I ever saw it. The funniest part is that I’ve only heard this from obnoxious teenage girls who try way. too. hard.
Oh, and this isn’t supposed to be accusatory, I just thought it was relevant to your comment.
what? did you even read the comment above yours?
This film sucks at first glance. Honestly, haven’t they heard of a tool called “condom”? All teenagers are destined to be wannabes.
As a white guy, I can say with full honestly;
I fucking hate Juno. The music sucks, the acting is brutal, the story was boring (go to a real highschool, half the girls there will tell you they’ve been pregnant, and half of THOSE girls will be telling the truth)
Bristol Palin is White too!
How seriously we take our entertainment? There was a time when movies were considered entertaining because things could happen there that would never happen in real life. They gave us a respite from the ordinariness of daily life. Now we want our movies to be real or we are offended. How times have changed. Making movies is a business. Diablo made a very smart move from stripper to screenplay writer. If she invests wisely, it might not matter whether or not she ever writes another popular one. This is a fine hour for capitalism indeed, when a woman of meager means can in one fell swoop leave behind working in the sex industry. I heartily congratulate Miss Diablo for her success even though I finally watched the film and found it simply boring. It made a decent background while I was ironing my linens and putting away my summer white clothing until next year, since it is now after labor day.
FUCK HIPSTER NAZI SCUM
F HIPSTER SCUM
What!? Did you even look at the time stamp?
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Juno was quite possibly the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen. It was physically painful to watch the first twenty minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that many awkward quips in one scene before.
Never saw Juno….but everyone loves a pregnant white teenager.
I recoiled in horror at the sheer amount of cutesy-pie hipster lingo phrases slung by the character Juno, especially for the first several minutes of the movie. It seemed so contrived and scripted.
Still, Ellen Page is one adorable little slacker.
screw juno that movie sucks and that boy that got her knocked up looks like a rat.
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i hated that movie, it was nothing like REALLY having a baby and giving it up for adoption.
Juno to me is like Gamma Rays to Bruce Banner. I am frightened what will happen to anyone who is with me if I am ever forced to watch it.
it’s film, it’s not supposed to be realistic.
if film was like reality, i sure as hell wouldn’t watch it.
juno was a great movie, with a good catchy soundtrack.
I fucking hated Juno.
Man, whatever. Juno was a piece of contrived garbage. I wanted to throttle Ellen Page ten minutes into that crap.
Finally someone notices. Juno was overrated when it came out just because it was considered an “indie” film. It was also incredibly unrealistic. There are NO teenagers that talk like juno. It failed to show the downside of teen pregnancy since the film ended with her playing the acoustic guitar like if nothing had ever happened. ‘Nuff said 😛
i don’t know if someone’s pointed this out up here or not, but it’s lunacy that a movie with a line like “this is one diddle that can’t be undid homeskillet” receives the highest award for screenwriting that america offers. that, right there, homeskillet, that’s the kind of writing that wins a fucking oscar.
…I liked the movie
Umm, it was “doodle”, you butthat…
IT WAS A MOVIE. We KNOW people don’t talk like her, but also, have you ever watched Gilmore Girls? No one talks like them or as fast as them, but their quick wit and hilarious banter is what makes the show, just like hers made this movie.
I talked like that as a teenager.. in fact a lot of my friends from the east coast talked like that. Perhaps it was in practice for Ivy League..
And she gave away her baby, what did you want it to show her in her room crying and feeling like there is a hole in her heart? I think there are already movies like that, Kirsten Dunst was in one. Try lifetime, may suit your realistic approach better.
For the rest of us.. we just loved the hamburger phone.
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Funny movie, I’m told often I look/ act like Juno….minus the pregg-o-ness…
LOL that doesn’t make the quote any better
in fact….it actually makes it worse 🙂
You and you friends talked like drug addicts when you were teens? Gee, I feel sorry for you then : ) And yes, having to deal with the baby instead of dumping it off on someone else would have been a better ending. Teen pregnancy is a huge problem in the world today, and this movie only encourages more of them. Also, it’s sad that an irregularly shaped phone made you love a bad movie.
Why would I watch a show about spoiled, fake, pretentious teen girls? They sicken me.
There is no Wal-Mart in any real city, they are always relegated to small towns and burbs. But let’s not kid ourselves here, Target is a step up but not really something to brag about…
yeah….
An autistic teenager, yes
Jewish people DEFINITELY eat expensive sandwiches.
it was pretty quirky
“Not a robot,” eh Christian. Could that be an Arrested Development reference (Job, to Michael: I don’t see you crying, robot) … another thing we white people like? Keep up the good work.
Absolutely, i mean i know at least six 15-year-olds who decided it would be “cool” to have a baby because of juno. lol. Right.
The only teenagers who actually want to get pregnant are of the maury breed. Hopefully what the movie has encouraged, however, is adoption as an alternative to abortion for teens who end up in that situation.
Actually, there is really only one teen girl that the show is centered around and she is not spoiled, pretentious, or fake. I believe the show you are referring to is Gossip Girls.
Gossip Girl* sorry
I actually hated this movie. I thought it was the least funny movie I had ever seen. I think while watching this movie I actually had the urge to kill myself with another film like: Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, or Scary Movie 4. Because Juno was so awful and painful to subject my eyes to, I would rather have watched filmed shit like said above. I want my time back.
Well, this movie was good, but it was honestly like having raw indie shoved in your eye…and the fact that it was a huge budget movie and yet tried ridiculously hard to be cool and hip.
Another movie that has just come out, and is much like Juno: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Big budget, shove of raw indie in eyes.
I LOVE JUNO!!!! Definitely one of the best movies of this decade. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
You mean non-white people don’t like Juno? Who wouldn’t like Juno? Why would anyone NOT like Juno? Is there something WRONG with Juno? Have you not SEEN Juno? It is very likeable. I mean, it’s… it’s… Juno!
It’s true, EVERYONE likes Juno including us lower class hispanic kids . . . come on teen pregnancy: we can totally can relate (hahaha) except at the part where her parents didn’t kill her or at least throw her out.
Still, when i asked my boyfriend how realistic he thought it was he just shrugged and said “white people . . .” lol
juno is fucking funny everyone should watch us ellen page’juno’ is a fuc king masterpiece
wow i wanted to see this movie for the longest time. when i finally watched it, i loved it! then i got on my computer and i started listening to the soundtrack! i can’t wait until i buy this movie
i have to agree with you 100 percent. Although that movie made me despise Ellen Page.
JUNO ❤
Awesomee Movie.
I hate this movie. Like despise. The thought of this “Indie” crap is enough to make me almost throw up. It’s so smug and pretentious.
You are right. I am a black professional woman who was pregnant when I saw the movie, and I even hated it. It was totally unrealistic and annoying. I could not understand what anyone liked about the movie.
I’m Filipino and I didn’t like Juno. It’s too white for me and I hate indie music.
I’m Filipino and I did like Juno. It wasn’t “too white” for me and I like indie music.
uhh white people what’s “INDIE”?????
My ex-girlfriend loved the movie I personally had never saw it, well that change today when I cought it on Starz earlier and well…. IT SUCKS I hate Indie garbage in general and this film reaks of bad acting “No its Morgan Freeman, need any bones collected?” come on what a terrible acting. Oh and for the record I’m white lol…
its short for independent, meaning rare, meaning elitist. Also though is a general term for any film or music not backed by a major studio.
that movie was gay as fuck!
I didn’t like this movie which is a surprise because I like most movies. This just didn’t sit well with me, the girls’ stupid “hip-talk” just annoyed me. And the fact that Ellen Page looks and sounds like a 10-year old was disturbing as well as even more annoying.
Basically this movie just annoys me and I find myself annoyed when others tell me how amazing this movie is. Grr…
“Just as funny as Juno,” that made me laugh.
juno sucks
penis
me too 😀
This is one of my least favorite movies.
Let me start by saying I thought Juno was ok. I’m not going to type in all caps or make little hearts to show my love for this movie. But I thought it was a fairly realistic showing of high school. A lot of the other stuff is unrealistic like the parents and Jason Bateman’s character, but their depiction of high school was fairly spot on. I’m not over 30, I’m not even 25.
This Mexican girl loves that movie.
i liked that movie….. the music was good too
Yeah, I strongly agree.
I hated juno. I’m white, it was totally unrealistic. She did NOT talk like a teenager. Teenagers say AWESOME constantly, their vocabulary is not a 1/23 of what this girl’ was. She is blue collar and her father is a technician, her stepmother a nail women a nd somehow and Juno doens’t work? yet drives a van? a pretty nice one? how’s that? blue collar town i lived in EVERYONE worked to buy their own cars and pay f or their own gas and money to buy their cd’s. and HOW did this girl get this world class music education???? where did her parents get the money? stupid. And some ex-army guy is going to be SO FINE with his daughting having sex at 16 that he’s not even going to get the least bit mad????? Nobody callsher a whore??? the same women who says a baby is a gift from Jesus isn’t going to call her a slut? no talk of shaming the family? do you folks even KNOW what a strict catholic famiy talk like???? saying it was unrealistic is an understatement. And a few tears at the end. that’s it, huh? beyond stupid. the only good scene was her being crushed the perfect couple was ‘broken’ too. and how SICK am i of boys being oh so perfect whne their gals get pregnant. oh yeah. that always happens (NOT!) how many times did i hear the guy hadsaidto the girl “you ARE getting an abortion, right??? RIGHT!!!” Or that the guy says “if you have this you are on your own!” In fact, of the girls I know who got pregnant,, about a halfdozen or so, only ONE of the guys even fessed up it was him. the rest were more than eage to say ‘oh she’s a slut, who knows who’s it is”. stupid stupid La La version of a teen pregnancy. Not one realistic things about it.
Clearly you don’t understand that although a majority of teenage girls are teenyboppers, there are a select few with a sense of humor that’s actually genuinely funny. And yeah, most of the things that happen in this movie are unrealistic, but you have to realize one thing: it’s a damn movie. It doesn’t always have to reflect your crappy childhood, alright?
Jackie-Grammeris your friend (#99)
such gals exist- yes! even in ‘blue-collar’ towns!- and while none of them would have had anything to do with YOU, they are the types of character that get movies written about them
ooh djaseethat!! I got all white and offendy! thanks for the opportunity :o)
ALso, people just love to say “Diablo Cody” which is a quintessential thing white chicks do; give themselves cutesy, latin-tinged names to replace their boring old “mary Smith’ names, get tattoos and darken their light hair and call themselves vegan.
Poseurs.
get over yourself you stupid cunt.
“back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools”
lol, cause every high-school movie scene has to include a guy walking by holdin a boombox over his shoulder i guess?
I am white, and was sick to my stomach after the first ten minutes of this movie.. too indie / kitchie / cool. Tried really hard.. fail.
Of course.
I’m white and don’t care about Juno whatsoever.
Don’t like it, don’t hate it, it’s just there.
Why do I need to have an opinion about something so insignificant?
I took my daughter to see “Juno” because I heard it was good and funny. Within 5 minutes, there was a guy who started laughing out loud at everything Juno said. My daughter to me and rolled her eys. She and I sat there numbly waiting for something funny. The only thing funny Juno said was when she was considered the “cautionary whale.” We giggled a little at that. The part when Jason Bateman’s character starts to come on to Juno was the only “real” part of the movie & it was pretty creepy & awkward.
I don’t really know why people liked this movie so much. Maybe because it was so flippant? Is it because they think that they’d like to be equally tolerant of this situation? Do they think that this apathy passes for wisdom? I know girls who had become pregant during high school, they were anything but flippant about it, even if they had been careless when they got pregnant.
FYI, actually teen pregnancy is quite a bit of a problem in the suburban midwest–it just doesn’t get enough press perhaps because most of the time these girls are white.
You’re right, Juno would be banging the guitar by herself & the boy’d be banging another girl.
My vocabulary is amazing, thank you very much. And I don’t say “awesome” constantly. Moreover, I live in a blue-collar family, with ONE working parent. I don’t have to pay for anything, and yet, my family has a fine car and both me and my brother are getting “world-class music education,” as you put it. As for having sex at 16, you must remember where the U.S. stands in history right now. We are [relatively, compared to 50 or 60 years earlier] very sex- and drug-positive. (By the way, I don’t understand what you mean by “the same women who says a baby is a gift from Jesus isn’t going to call her a slut?” Wouldn’t that mean that she really got a gift from Jesus, and is actually better off than before?) I will give you that whole part about the “real side” of pregnancy.
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And on an unrelated note, you should work on your writing a little more-perhaps then, your point would be taken more seriously.
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And on another unrelated note, I would like to point out that “1/23” is part of the 23 Enigma, showing that even people who write and think like you can’t escape the crazy notions of people who think and write like me. I revel in the opportunities that I will have to conquer over people like you when I start my ascent to greatness and polymathy. At least that’s one good thing that I got out of reading your post.
(I confirm this fact.)
Yes. (No racism intended = NRI) Enjoy it.
If you don’t want to read it, don’t.
We’re all children inside, man.
This movie was painful to watch. However, the picture of Jamie Lynn Spears at the bottom made this worth reading.
i don’t know about this one. i consider myself very white (according to the list) and i really hated juno. i said it was trying too hard TO be an indie film with it’s quirky dialogue and juno’s overly confident yet outcast character, (also the title letters written by hand, oooo). as a white person i saw right through it, and just the fact that it’s popular with teenyboppers makes it so unlikeable to me… it should be “not liking the movie juno and explaining why to anyone who will listen” because that’s what i did. long comment entries should be on the list…, and using (…) …oh god ill stop
I loved Juno, but then again, I’m not white. I can’t believe people are saying it was too indie and unrealistic. Not all teens are dumb with narrow vocabulary capability.
I never intended to see the movie, but I rented it at my friend’s insistance and it sucked. It was totally unrealisitc and the music was terrible.
Haha this was funny. I haven’t actually seen Juno, but pretty much all my friends who saw it loved it and all my friends who saw it are white. I also find all these defensive comments hilarious. Your white people defending yourself about being white. Sorry, but no point. Wow I just apologized for nothing. I’m so white. haha
I never would have even heard of this movie if it had not been for my black wife who wanted me to go see it with her.
What a great movie! Never seen it and have no plans to, but let me guess – she struggles against the prejudices of her town, friends and family, then finally everything is OK and we fade to credits. Another fine example of Amerikka’s grasp how the real world, where teen pregnancy is acceptable – just ask Sarah Palin.
I’ll have a big ol’ cup of double standards with that order of hypocrisy, thanks.
Nope.
She goes to an abortion clinic but decides she can’t get one because her baby has (fingers? a heartbeat? something cute). Her parents flip. She picks a yuppie couple to adopt the baby in a private adoption, gets into a fight with the father because while they both did the deed, only SHE has to be publicly pregnant…Then the potential adoptive father leaves his wife, and Juno freaks out because the whole reasoning behind the adoption was to give her baby a real family, but in the end gives her son to the yuppie soon-to-be ex-wife and cries with her boyfriend about the pain of giving up her baby.
Hey now, St. Cloud isn’t fictional. Nor is Ridgedale Mall (one of my favorite malls, actually.)
This is totally true. I love this flick. Gotta give it to whitey, they love high quality shiza.
fingernails:P
Mike wrote: Never seen it and have no plans to, but let me guess – she struggles against the prejudices of her town, friends and family, then finally everything is OK and we fade to credits. Another fine example of Amerikka’s grasp how the real world, where teen pregnancy is acceptable – just ask Sarah Palin.
I’ll have a big ol’ cup of double standards with that order of hypocrisy, thanks
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HAHAHAHA what a moron! Your synopsis of the movie could not be more offbase. Thanks for proving another point about what people who like to “hate america” and prejudge things that they haven’t seen.
In truth it was a harmless movie, very entertaining, one of the best I saw all year.
I gotta agree with Mike. My high school class of 150 had about 30 girls who graduated either pregnat or already mothers.
However, if you look passed the obvious double standards the movie is really quirkie, in a this will only happen in the movie kind of way.
Went to go see the movie in Portland, OR (place of great evils) and walked out after 30 minutes. The yups in the theater, however, seemed to really enjoy it, as they were slightly chuckling under their breath at every “joke”. It was all I could do to keep from vomiting all over the back of their necks…or stab them in a sexual fervor.
I started to write something funny… and then I recognized the mere insignificance of it all. Quite depressing really..
I loved Ellen Page in Hard Candy, so Juno was a let down.
white people also love scarlett johansson and lost in translation.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to title this entry “Brook Busey” AKA “Diablo Cody?”. The new comedy by Cody called “The United States of Tara”, is a dysfuctional white family wet-dream. Only white folk could find Sybil an acceptable nurturing mother figure.
I might also posit that, Joseph Campbell might comment that she was more relveant as a shamanic figure because she had experienced psychological trauma and had been transformed by it. Multiple personalities seem to match the requisite characteristics of of the shaman.
Another thing white folks like are obscure literary references (see above) particulary when mythology is invovled.
My 8 year old daughter is named Juno, after the Roman goddess of course. Now, not only do we have to contend with “like the city in Alaska” but we have “like the movie”. As Juno said in the movie, “No.”
Anyway, one thing Jennifer Garner (Vanessa- the adoptive mom) got spot on was the longing, the hope against hope, the deep need for a baby, the pain at casual comments like Juno’s “Be glad it’s not you.” referring to being pregnant. It was a great contrast between Juno’s clueless flip ease of producing a baby and Vanessa’s pain, longing and obvious preparation for the hope of a baby.
Been there and they got that right.
I hated this movie too and stopped after 30 minutes. I hated how flippant this teen was…also..why does she have to give it up? Why cant this very well-to-do family help her raise it while she is in high school and college? what did you specifically hate about the movie?
so TRUE!
I laughed pretty hard at the mention of Socorro, TX. I am from there and have never seen it refernced anywhere.
So, then how come white people like Sarah Palin. I mean, that way you get Juno and a dysfunctional white family all in one.
That is too funny. I was just telling my white co worker some months ago how I didn’t think the movie impressed me really. Its not bad but I just didn’t get it and she was just shocked! “Are you serious?? I loooove tha movie!!” lmao! I see now! This is so funny!
ignorance is truly bliss. Two, three, or even 5000 of the Millions of “other folks” (that shit was funny) looked at you the wrong way and you believe almost every single one of the “other folks” lacks the basic concepts of common courtesy.
God knows most “clear folks” are the most polite creatures on the planet.
OMG, call the national guard, the impolite “other folks” are everywhere.lol
Oh yeah. Juno sucks. I wouldn’t kick shorty outta bed though.
Love the site. Its got something and hell , it got a book deal. Made some money off some goofy bullshit. Can’t hate.
It’s all love baby
Juno is my story!
Wow. I have a new hero.
Isnt that a Mexican Card game?….. No wait thats uno.
Aww,crap I hate to make a non-ironic post here but actually Sioux City, Iowa is the nation’s capitol for single teen pregnancy. At least according to Sixty Minutes a couple years ago. I remember because I lived there for a few years back in the 70’s.
Once again white folks are the greatest perpetrators of every vice they ascribe to black people : teen pregnancy, welfare recipients, and crime? heard of Bernie Madoff, ENRON, or the Silverado Savings and Loan?
But to our credit when we fuck up, we fuck up BIG. No smash and grab car stereo bullshit here, we take whole nations down.
i fucking hate “juno” and i am as white as it gets. i hate ellen page. i hate “diablo cody”. i hated the “funny” and “hip” dialogue. i hate kimya dawson and the moldy peaches (who i saw open for the strokes…you know, before they got popular) and the “hip” soundtrack.
i hate “juno”.
does anyone even care about Juno anymore, that was SOOO 2007-08. Now everyone loves Forest Gump, i mean Benjamin button. Hollywood loves taking cute indie comedies and making them overbudget and trendy. they have been doing it forever!
And you also hate shitty self-centered literature. Obviously. I mean, you don’t even know the central character in Atlas Shrugged (a horrible piece of shit novel masquerading as philosophy) is named John Galt. No “U” in that name! It’s the very first fucking sentence of the book. Shit! I am sick of all the typos in this fucking blog, and all of the horrible spelling and grammar on the comments. I can’t believe that a writer who is too lazy to spell check or proof-read his blogs, which is read by TENS OF MILLIONS of people, has published a book. And that so many fucking morons have the gall to sit around and act intelligent, but can’t fucking spell. I know this is one of those stereotypes of “things that white people like” but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, we all SPEAK the language! Can’t you all (including the fucking AUTHOR of this shit) learn how to WRITE it too?!
Sure, I’m drunk right now. But seriously? You people all suck huge sweaty monkey balls.
Feel free to criticize me because I started a sentence with “but” and “and” while bitching about grammar.
Thank you thank you SWPL for validating my loathing of this flimsy ass-wipe of a movie. Enough has been written on why the movie Juno sucks, so I won’t add anymore here.
I think Juno was great and I think some people don’t like it just because it was the indie flick of the year. Anyway, I felt so satisfied the first time I saw the movie when I slowly came to the realization the movie took place in Minnesota (my state)! But I must say that Juno as a character was somtimes hard to take in because she was just a little too cool and little too witty (eg, the awful bone collector comment on the hamburger phone).
“White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools.”
I must say that for me, that is very true. I loathe rap, hip-hop and all that other sh**ty trash music that makes white kids act stupid, wear stupid baggy clothes that hang off their a**es, and generally embarrass themselves. If these kids want to dress like prisoners, let them stay in prison for a week and wear the real thing. And don’t tell me that I don’t “understand” this type of noise, because I don’t care.
Never seen ‘Juno’. Although, I did like Ellen Page in ‘Hard Candy’
Kanye West is a rapper and he doesn’t wear baggy clothes. I think your just a hater. You can’t be like us and it kills you. Plus what does this have to do with hip-hop? Its about a movie. I think you should of posted this in #116 sweetie. Take a joke too. So sinsative!
Can I have yours? I love that shit.
I don’t know who Kanye West is, except that he is black; I’m not a hater, although you can think what you wish; no, I really don’t want to be like you, who ever you are; and I was quoting an earlier post, so I guess I was off topic, but you replied to me so you are too.
P.S. It’s “you’re,” as in “you are,” not “your,” as in “your public education is showing.”
then i think you need some multi-cultural education because some people like you graduated but are still stupid. get a life.
Boo hoo. As if music from different eras didn’t make people “act like trash”
FYI once upon a time close minded people like you thought the same thing about ragtime, jazz, rock and roll, punk and other accepted forms of “music” today.
so go take your miserable life somewhere else Sean, because knowing grammar still doesn’t make you a better person.
my major complaint about this movie:
for all of her posing about LOVING iggy and the stooges, patti smith and the runaways, we’re actually inundated with is neofolk crap that runs counter to the very core of her character, even at the end of the movie she’s bland and, well too fucking “white”…but i will give a “great white” nod to the well-placed vintage irony of the kinks, which counters the demerit for the neutered cover version of a lou reed-velvets classic, “i’m sticking with you”…
pretty “white” rant, don’t you think?
ugh. she effing annoyed me to end in that movie.
but i guess.. her character did, so in that sense she did a good job as an actress.
either way, i hate juno
How ignorant… “Your public education is showing?” What a bigot. He’s one of those people who will always feel superior because Daddy payed $40,000/year for him to learn his ABCs. You’d be surprised to know, Sean, that people outside private schools do actually learn grammar. I know, it’s shocking.
haha, juno was the best movie everrr
rawrr,
xxxx
Ok. Then they should show it. I went to public school, and am repeatedly ashamed of my generation and their inability to spell a simple word.
Juno sucked.
I liked Juno but it wasn’t all that.
Socorro is in New Mexico…
Oh my goodness!! Seriously?? YOUR off the subject again!! And while you WANNA correct my GRAMMER, if your are calling me dumb and you were responding to another earlier post, then you would of been smart enough to reply to that comment. I see though you finally caught on when you saw my reply. Good job! You are exactly the reason why this post even exists!! I think you need to go post your comments to the correct posts like #99 grammer. Thanks for proving this guys point!
Oh my goodness!! Seriously?? YOUR off the subject again!! And while you WANNA correct my GRAMMER, if your are calling me dumb and you were responding to another earlier post, then you would of been smart enough to reply to that comment. I see though you finally caught on when you saw my reply. Good job! You are exactly the reason why this post even exists!! I think you need to go post your comments to the correct posts like #99 grammer. Thanks for proving this guys point!
And I messed up and forgot to reply to you. But I caught back on again damit just like you! lol!
wow….u try WAY too hard to be a scene kid. poser. rawrr, xxxx? U DID IT WRONG!!!! rawrr isnt a goodbye statement its a random (now out of style, and overused) quote! and KATIEEXTC? LMFAO! haha, im sure u got that from an example on wikihow or something. lmao next time dont be such a retarded bitch. if u can.
I think you’re being a bit harsh, and extremely petty, get a life.
GrammAr not GrammEr.
Finally, someone with a sense of humour!
yeah, and assholes like Tom Cruise get to jump on her couch!
I like how you trash a whole cultural movement. And no one cares if you don’t understand rap. You are not supposed to. Just as twisted sister or whatever ‘shitty’ music you listen to doesn’t speak to us, rap doesn’t speak to you. Get bent, helmet. And free the husalah. And correcting grammar on the internet is dumb. I write essays correctly, here I could care less…o and i’m white…white people wearing baggy clothes doesn’t embaress me…people like you make me embaressed to be ‘white’.
Wtf are you even saying?
lol @ intarwebz fight.
God damn good movie.
funny she won oscars for best original screenplay when there was a korean movie called jenny,juno (where juno was a BOY) in 2005 about two highschool teens becoming parents
so wat’s so original about it? it’s as original to be as george lopez is funny
White people like uncovering conspiracies.
I will never understand why white people love Juno or Napolean Dynamite so damn much.
Terrible movie. Ill never understand why everyone goes nuts over it.
Jesus Christ! No one talks like that in real life! Its not funny; its just annoying.
Fucking fail.
Big time.
umm no.. i would kno..m in middle skool… and like 68% pf ppl in my skool talk like that.uno is amazingg…. u must not be white….
Because we all love to quote movies and songs in out everyday conversation, and quoting Juno or Napoleon Dynamite makes up appear quirky.
giggle
still, I loved the movie. I thought it was cute, and ellen page did a great job
I just saw the movie for the first time last night. It was kinda cute in a Wes Anderson sort of way. By which I mean overall it was boring with a few parts that made me chuckle and a cool “indie” soundtrack. Because I am the wrong kind of white person the main thing I noticed about this movie was J.K. Simmons playing the father. I just couldnt resist the thought of Vern Schillinger burning a swastika into the boyfriends ass before sodomizing him during the hospital scene.
While I’m all about respecting intellectual property, the plot doesn’t really make Juno so much as the execution – witty (albeit unrealistic) dialogue, adorable characters, and quirky acting. I mean, there aren’t a huge amount of basic, original plots so ‘appropriating’ inconsequential details like the character’s names or basic plot structure is forgivable. Well, at least, there are worse things.
On the subject of dialogue, does anyone watch movies like ‘All About Eve’ or ‘Adam’s Rib’? Sure, no one’s that witty in real life, but I sure as hell wish I was as sharp as Bette Davis or Katherine Hepburn anyway. Try taping a conversation at a bus stop. That’s realistic dialogue. Do you really want to be listening to that for three hours? Give me some obscure allusions and wordplay; I love that shit!
Lastly, let’s not put George Lopez in the same category as Carlos Mencia. Carlos Mencia is awful in every way. Lopez has his moments.
Well I liked it. <—-Chocolate girl.
Juno sucks ass. Only execution it pulled off was the execution of any part of Michael Cera that was respectable.
Christine needs a sense of humour
Coz she’s such a fucking loser
Was there any discussion of abortion? That is the most appropriate solution for a teen with an unwanted pregnancy. But no, couldn’t think of it. Impossible. Bably murder.
Abortion may sometimes be necessary but often it just totally sux and is NOT appropriate for someone who prefers to have the baby and adopt him/her out. In the case of teens having abortions — in my general teenage experience — it’s usually so that the adults around them aren’t inconvenienced. I say have the bub, find good adoptive parents (there are plenty waiting!) and stick it to all the stupid selfish grown-ups who punish young people and feed them utter crap and lies about how pregnancy will ruin their lives and destroy any hope of education and a career. It does no such thing.
I liked this movie for being brave enough to put the unfashionable and inconvenient point of view.
I completely agree with Meliss. However, I feel like this movie sacrificed a lot in the name of witty dialogue, including an intelligible plot and character depth.
Michael Cera has one character in his repertoire, and he played it poorly here.
Also, Kimya Dawson writes songs like a retarded 5 year old. It’s unbearable and completely lacking of any mental stimulation.
I thought it was a sweet movie, but I wouldn’t buy it. [P.S. I’m black.]
White people love Michael Cera.
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
Did you see the movie? I think adoption is a happier ending personally.
What about porno instead of juno for all those dopey white folk. Certainly with all the baseball capped-backwards, high-fiving, obese/overweight, balding, lame-jobbed, live with these bros, live with parents, watching constant sports, playing video gaming, certainly porno instead of juno would be a better option for these white folk.
I love Juno too! I’m so white!
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
that’s hilarious
yes, she was going to have an abortion, but after visiting the clinic she just couldn’t do it.
Julian, I completely agree with everything you said
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on the moderately-budgeted independent film, “Juno.”
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
Liar
People just like Juno because it had gay indie music that sucked bigfoot’s wang.
They probably only talk like that because they wanna be like their super duper idol Juno!
Juno was an eye roller, knowing everyone would start using these saying to be trendy really got me pissed off.
Plus, Michael Cera is the worst actor ever. Look how he’s pretty much type casted as the awkward nice guy.
Lame.
He’s going to ruin the Scott Pilgrim movie.
LMAO you got it
Sorry I couldn’t stand that movie. Ellen Page just annoys me. Also I don’t remember the soundtrack.
lol they invented it. NYC Jewish Deli’s FTW….
This movie is horrible, if by “white people” you mean, “boring white scene wannabe girls fresh outta high school” then yeah, they love it.
Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands, and it kills me that they gave their music up for this movie. I don’t care that it was a Carpenters cover, the song is amazing, and now cheapened. That’s just beacuse I’m white though.
Hahahahaha so painfully true. I love Juno. one of my favorite movies, and I’m white as sour cream. This site is so damn true. somebody did their research.
That picture is MORE funny than Juno…
Pregnant chicks rule! xD Juno was awesome, and you don’t have to be white nor a girl to love the movie. Also a lesson on not all teen moms are black, nor all boys are abusive to women…and the heros are the yuppie parents who met… (no wait, I can’t spoil the film…gotta shut the hell up). +
In the sad cruel real world, she should be finding work in a fast food joint (thinks of “home fries”) or working in the back of a wal-mart. Better yet, she should work for a preg. fetish web site (I’m only kidding) to get paid big bucks. It’s kinda like “Striptease” a movie about a single mom worked as an exotic dancer. The reality of single parenthood (btw, my bro is a single dad of a 9 year old boy) is no laughing matter. +
…Or the main character has a passive personality, has optimism in any circumstance and knows a way out of a hard situation. In addition it’s a romance film. The “Gone in the wind” for the 21st century, a strong independent woman who doesn’t cry, scream or whine for help. How empowering for women everywhere, esp. single moms who wished raising a baby wouldn’t be that dramatic
Usually are not the ones with money. They live in log cabins up in the Rocky mountains or in the Appalachian ranges, have a collection of firearms and “clutch their bibles & guns” in case the Democrats return to house-and-senate majority rule. The conspiracy theory on Barak Obama is the real-life “Manchurian president” a candidate/secret KGB agent. +
Anyone remember Murphy Brown in the early 1990’s was a working woman-turned single mom empowered millions of women across the country and ticked off vice president Dan Quayle? She wasn’t real nor is Juno, but both of these gals struck a nerve in our culture. Every race of people have babies, no matter what: the mother is married or not. +
Yeah, the idea of a fictional movie based in a real city came from “Bill and ted’s excellent adventure”: San Dimas, Cal. and exit from I-210 to San Dimas Blvd. to check out the San Dimas Mall. No way…awesome…excellent! (guitar strings)+
You know you’re…
white: “I seen the movie already, don’t tell me how it ends”.
white, but cheap: “AH! SPOILER ALERT! Thanks alot…for saving me the $12 I could wasted.”
not-white, rich: “LOLZ. She’s gotta be at least 1/4 black.”
not-white, cheap: “ROFLMAO. White girls are always gettin pregnant, not our people.”
Mixed race: “That’s based on the true story of my parents conceived me, both of their parents disapproved.”
Middle-class: “I wanna see the movie when it’s on DVD”. +
Another thing white people like: ownership.
i saw the trailer for jennifer’s body and was crushed to learn that diablo cody penned it. how can you possibly go from juno to a megan fox movie? has anyone seen this? the acting is horrible. also why are j.k. simmons and amy sedaris in this? i believe that “hating megan fox” should be added to this site.
OMG! WHAT THE BLOG, THIS MOVIE IS SO0O0O0O0O AWESOME.
Juno wouldve been fine if it didnt have terrible indie music
White people were eating fried chicken long before black people. Watermelon too.
Lol, Juno was awful. What high school kid is THAT smart. None my friend, none. There are just wanna be’s that enjoyed the reference to obscure band names most kid’s would otherwise have no clue who they were. Hell, I’d bang Juno if I thought she was a realistic depiction of a high school student…
Truth is, high school pregnancies are never this cute and have very few witicisms about them. They usually selfishly keep that poor sob of a kid, and then have ANOTHER kid. When will they learn…wrap that shit up.
Juno you piss me off.
whites love this shit. get a hyper-witty high schooler who fornicates and gets knocked up. and then have “supportive” parents b/c they are white of course. what a great movie. then throw in some “clever” writing, charge 12 bucks a pop for whites to pass their time and got a hit–wonder why the country is 2nd world?
because having sex as a teenie bopper is fun and is rife with a great story line. of penises, and vaginas, and birth, that is what hollywood glamorizes and dumb white buy into.
Damn kids, give me a break. what are you SEVEN? In which case you would be too young to even SEE the movie. You should ALL be embarresed and ashamed of yourselves! It’s a question about a MOVIE!! What a bunch of childish morons!
Check out the grammar AND spelling on you’re post DUDE. I’m sure YOU know what’s overused and out of styly now. Who are you trying to fool? We know that you’re a pimply faced little fag.
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com(the MTV VJ) and must say it is just as funny!!
Did this guy make StuffJewishPeopleLike.com too?
and domination.
Seriously, am I the only person in the world who hasn’t seen this movie???
I don’t know, but it sure does suck. Don’t bother.
“Sex is wonderful, sex is good, now everybody does it and everybody should..
Sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is a game of one-on-one!” –
George Michael, from his 80s hit ‘I want your sex’.
I had to reply like this, for a movie like ‘Juno’ to talk about procreation, reproduction and sexual behavior, I mean this is another way to teach teens on the serious reality about teen pregnancy, though it’s a comedy-drama in a fictional setting to explain why Juno’s case has a happy ending.
nope, I haven’t seen it either so you’re not alone 😛
me neither, not something I would watch.
To lily and tiffany, the site you promote on every thread is stupid, not funny and certainly not worth the time you are wasting on it. Give it a rest.
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I’m black and I like a lot of that stuff as well…
It’s actually pretty good, no “white people” references but alot of biblical references, subtle ones that you will only get if you’ve survived catholic school like me.
Then you’re obviously not black….. pffft……..
…….Stupid….
No but JK, JK
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
i’m very white. and i walked out of this movie.
Dylan, I have a thing about not walking out of movies, but this was the closest I ever came. It isn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but one of the most frustrating. People got sucked in by really lame cliches and laughed at jokes that had been made in other movies.
I feel ya.
p.s. I recently met Jason Reitman, and he was very sweet. I like his other stuff, I just hate Diablo Cody’s writing.
I wonder if there’s also a website like this for, lets say, black people, for example, or Asians –
I bet everybody would immediately start to scream “RACISM!!!”
Not really…I’m Mexican and would LOVE to see a blog like this for Mexicans, as well as every other ethnicity.
It wouldn’t if “Stuff Black People Like” were written by a black person; “Stuff Asian People Like” were written by an Asian person, etc.
There is a blog for stuff black people,asian people and mexicans like…. google it
good work sherlock! it is racist. get off your high horse and get a sense of humor
Hi, I’m a teenie bopper, I am knocked up, and I am more wise than the average dumb American. I make witty comments and am very wise beyond my years, the dumb white folk love this movie, thanks for supporting via over-priced movie tix the teen pregnancy phenomenon and the realism present in this wonderful, charming, hilarious, touching movie. I liked the sexual tension between the main character and Justine Batesman–that was classic.
Black people will NOT like Juno, although she’s a white working-class girl from suburbia instead of the stereotypical black poor girl from the ghetto you may hear about on the news. In reality, teen pregnancy has went down from peak rates in the early 90s…and there was more 16-year olds becoming parents in the 1940s/50s, but the difference is the teen parents marry afterward to avoid the strong stigma of illegitimacy at the time.
Latinas in barrios are thought to be pushing America’s birth rate in the 2000s, which is not really a racist comment but a demographic fact in the changing face of America. The US Latina birth rate is thought to be 3.5 per woman compared to non-Latino whites at 2.1 and non-Latino blacks at 2.5. In some predominantly Latino high schools, the rate of unwed teen mothers are astronomical, such as the ratio 1 out of 5 girls will be pregnant in the school year.
This is my favorite movie. This website is dead on! 😀
This also corresponds with white people liking Halloween, cuz I was Bleeker for Halloween.
Ellen, I was Bleeker for Halloween two years ago as well…this entry just reaffirms my suspicion that I’m a whitey.
Unfortunately there is STILL no blog for “Stuff Dick Johnson like”, it really is unfair y’know…
A true standard in comedy blogging.
Another great site is http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
Holy shit I hate you
What did any of that have to do with my comment?
How is it okay for there to be a “stuff white people like website,” when If white people made a “stuff that black people like they would prbably be offended.
The writer of this blog is in on the joke. He’s white, and is mostly writing from experience (he’s featured in many of the pictures in the articles). If a white person wrote “Stuff Black People Like,” it probably just wouldn’t be as funny. If a black person who is also funny wrote it, it would.
Erm… a white person made this website i believe.. i just saw him on the Lopez Tonight show. Sooo…
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You do realize that a WHITE person wrote this, right?
That is what makes it okay.
If a black person were to write a book called “Stuff Black People Like,” it would be just as acceptable.
This isn’t supposed to be some racist blog/book to belittle white people.
It is supposed to be overly sarcastic in order to show white people that they can be really dumb and materialistic sometimes.
Because we can.
It’s okay because we’re the majority of the population and have pretty much screwed over every other culture we’ve encountered. We haven’t known oppression for the most part (exception: see #89 St. Patricks Day)
I think there are some what black people like sites.
I’m black and I like Juno. It’s actually a good movie. Stop trying to speak for everyone else. If you don’t like a movie then say that YOU don’t like it.
You do realize that one of the things listed on this site, that white people like, is being offended? Particularly when it comes to other races?
Guys, the blog isn’t about ALL white people, its a subculture of people who are obsessed with organic food and obscure music, and think they are really groundbreaking for it. I live in Melbourne, australia, and pretty much EVERYONE here is white, at least to some extent–and when I say ‘white’ I don’t mean the colour of their skin, but the CULTURE which is what is doubly meant by the listings on this website. Anyway, if you really want to know, there are LOTS of people I know who aren’t white but are still ‘white people’.
So if you can’t get that it isn’t saying that everyone with pale skin has this particular kind of personality, and nobody who is black or asian or chezchoslovakian for god’s sakes has the same personality, then you shouldn’t be wasting time criticizing something you don’t understand!
see writers skin color for Nina’s fail
I am a white person who was deeply offended by the movie, Juno, and its gross misrepresentation of the feelings of young women in crisis pregnancy.
See #101 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What we need now is an adult fetish porn parody of Juno, called “Prego Janeo”. Then again it would be offensive to both left-and-right-wingers (some Christian fundies, 4th wave feminists & anyone in between who may find it creepy).
Would you think black men will love to go out with preg. white women? All the rap/hip-hop vids. brag about women with big butts or breasts & bulging bellies turn them on. There’s a part of mass media who are into fat chicks. LOL.
“Precious” took care of the last comment, but I feel he/she didn’t mean what he/she said. Check out that other movie. Monique is fantastic! I wish to find out the main actress name, but she’s talented. But it isn’t a comedy unlike Juno, and will not try to spoil it, but Precious was impregnated by her father. The rest of the plot is left for you to go & see.
IT’s a gag site you moron. Chill the fuck out
If you are knocked up, then you are not to wise. I think I just violated some SWPL rules.
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I think i would have to shoot myself for watching a movie like that. michael cera is a horse’s ass.
HAHA! First off I LOVE this site! As a white woman married to a black man I get a daily entertainment on our quirky differences and of course one of our manners of showing affection to one another is the “black/white joke”. So people ya know racial differences is what makes this world so colorful! Not the color of our skin, its the one of a kind culture behind each color. Why do some take life so seriously? Repressed guilt, anger, shame, and an undying need to get laid for the first time in 10yrs! LOL. Life is short folks! LAUGH! I can say most of this is on point with me (amused husband agrees LOL). Congrats on making the coolest blog ever dude! On another note my husband is aware that he will possibly have 2 white wives very soon! Ellen Page has agreed to marry me and we will have filthy white folk style sexual relations! (My husband has refused the offer to join us) LMFAO.
ew juno
JUNO is just copied by KOREAN MOVE called “Jenny and Juno”
didn’t watched juno b4 tho, but original is the best, all american copied versions are just watchable or sucks than original.
Has anyone watched the movie: Bella ? That’s a wise man influencing a here stated “wise” women.
I watched Juno and I really don’t like the fact that they are promoting abortion! Please take responsibility for your actions!
Oh gee, sorry this movie doesn’t push abortion down our throats. Or having multiple babies with multiple fathers like they be doing it in the hood.
this movie is ok at best
Promoting abortion? She kept the baby…
dude….? whats wrong with michael cera?
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lol this movie had a pedophile in it, that weirded me out.
The juxtaposition of a white, middle class, hipster movie selling a pro-life message is probably what made this film seem deeper and more layered than it really was.
“White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools.”
There should be an R&B driven remake of Juno that takes in an inner city black school. At the end of it Juno and her boyfriend could be street rapping around a 44 gallon drum fire instead of singing with the acoustic guitar. I’m also imaging that at the start of the movie the black Juno’s class could get a new Japanese teacher called Ms Ho, and hilarity would ensue with the kids constantly putting up their hands just so they could yell Ms HO! much to the amusement of their fellow classmates.
Since Juno was post-pubescent in the movie (note the fact that she is pregnant), Jason Bateman’s character wasn’t a pedophile in the technical sense of the word. He was just creepy and inappropriate. Just like Hugh Hefner, for a real world comparison.
According to this recent interview Christian Lander, the guy who started this blog, doesn’t read the comments on the blog anymore because they upset him too much. He also says he doesn’t remove troll comments either, which explains all the troll comments on the Obama thread. Anyhoodle it’s a good interview and gives a real insight into where he was coming from when he started his Stuff White People Like blog.
http://www.themonthly.com.au/whiter-shade-pale-christian-lander-and-john-safran-2829
I am white, and this movie sucks so f*cking much.
But Arrested Development actually is totally awesome, so whatevs.
Clander,
You are the textbook definition of a racist white american. And the sad thing is that you may not even realize it. 99% of all White Americans are racist. You are the perfect example of White Priviledge and institutionalized racism. You’ve probably never heard of it. White people couldn’t see racism if it hit them in the side of the head. So don’t feel guilty or anything. Just keep profiting and writing more racist books for all the racist white americans out there.
The white man’s struggle is a superficial one. He doesn’t need to fight racism or poverty or anything any other minorities in america do. So he just makes lists of things he likes for his own amusement at the expense of other minorities. Your blog is clearly racist. White people can’t see racism because they’ve never experienced it but every other minority in america can see how much of a racist you and everyone who reads it is. You are exposing the true racism in america today.
Oh please, you don’t think there is discrimination against white people? Your entire post was discriminatory in nature. Give me a break.
Anything we do is labeled as “racist” and we cannot express pride in our race without being labeled as Neo-Nazis or KKK members. We have no race-based scholarships available to us, yet every other race seems to have one, and I’ve never heard of any White Entertainment Television or an all-white institution.
Personally, I think pride in race is just as bad as prejudice because they both draw attention to it, and it is SO UNIMPORTANT.
um, apparently white people have no sense of humor in addition to no rhythm. Maybe you should relax a little, turn off your computer and listen to a cd of politically correct post-feminist singer-songwriter acoustic guitar music? if that doesn’t help then watch some of The Daily Show and relocate your capacity to have a giggle sweetie…
7 million CAN feed children in Africa. there are more than 100 movies made a YEAR and they can use the money to feed those poor kids.
Meh. I like juno (:
Meh…I HATE that fucking term. Meh describes your life
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit it’s just as funny!!!
and the 87 million dollars they made from it could feed even more people in africa, why do people think making money is evil? using money to make more money is alot smarter than straight up just giving money to charity and it can lead to a lot more cash being available in the end…which can in turn be used for charity. its unlikely someone would give 100% of their budget away but even 10% of the 87 million is more than what the original amount was. stop being ignorant”
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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you think if Africa had extra money they would help us if we needed it? no, they would use it to build a bomb and try to kill all the white people. THAT is why we do not go above and beyond for Africa.
heavy. I really hope you’re not serious.
You do realize Africa isn’t a single country right? Like, the continent of Africa would be unlikely to all get together to build a bomb to destroy the west. Also, why would they want to kill us?
I think Africa has greater problems than thinking about a bomb killing “all white people”. It’s like this extreme fear of Islam. It would be more interesting to see who is afraid of Christianity…
And I guess until Africa has extra money, Europe and the US would have to start dealing differently with the world. Until then… Hooray to the imperialist west. 😀
Well, if people think it’s ok to go on how they have to give money to charity in Africa, while the countries where they live manage to keep the third world countries in the state they are in now, then that’s fine with me. It’s fascinating how people just don’t get economy… And I thought I was one of them.
Actually, Juno takes place in St. Cloud, MN. Which is a real city that I happen to live very near to. Maybe he was saying it was a fictional St. Cloud neighborhood or something but yeah, just saying. She doesn’t live in a fictional MN suburb… not that I’m a Juno superfan or anything
yeah, i love juno..mainly because i was experiencing the whole teen pregnacy thing when the movie came out..well, about that time anyways..made me very depressed about being preg at first tho..lol..good movie.
In fact, many white people did not like juno because of its anti-abortion slant, and white people definitely love abortions
@Eric – Actually, it was Mark and Vanessa who lived in St. Cloud, not Juno and her family. We can infer that they live in a suburb, based on Bren’s line, asking Juno why she had to “drive an hour out to East Jesus nowhere” to deliver the sonogram picture to Mark.
juno was kinda gay then again maybe i thought that because i was a 14 year old kid when it came out
Just putting this out there… I’m white as they come and I DESPISED Juno. One of the worst, most over-hyped pieces of hipster BS that I have ever had the misfortune of viewing. But that’s just my humble opinion.
I agree with Granola Butt. I’m bored with the ironic, apathetic, sarcasam that seems to be taking over the minds of “cool” whiteys in the past 5 years. It’s annoying!
Every article on this website makes me want to buy a pick up, join a confederate re-enactment team, and masturbate to college football while listening to ‘Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver’
[…] 13) Juno: “Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns, therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation…” —I love this one in particular because when I was 16 oddly enough I actually posted a Facebook note slamming Juno for similar reasons. […]
I hate Juno almost as much as I hated Scott Pilgrim Vs the World.
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the stepmom was a total bitch and totally out of line going off on that poor worker. I would have liked to see her get shanked. only unlikeable role in the movie….which (now that I think about it) was the only thing that stood out in that mostly boring movie. yah I’m white and i thought Juno was just OK…mildly amusing.
Juno is my favorite movie! I feel like I can relate to her so well. her awesome reply when michael said: “you definately bring something to the table” Makes me laugh everytime! “*agreeing nod* charisma.” oh and the bacobits part! xD “you put one more baco bit on that baked potoato and i’ll kick your little monkey butt” xDD omg and best ever “Hey,juno. i found some shit-ahem..- gunk. stuff. in my urn. you wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?” ughhh i could go on and on! xDDD im so white ._. “accept it mama bear. your eggo is preggo” xDDD
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[…] #57 Juno | Stuff White People Like – Feb 06, 2008 · Juno, starring Halifax’s Ellen Page, is a critically acclaimed comedy about a wise cracking teenager, dealing with an unexpected pregnancy…. […]
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最近、ある男性(コンビニ勤務)が僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の個人情報や防犯カメラで撮影されたと思われる画像をネット上にアップして、フリー予告までしたそうで、正直びっくりしました。CGなんて返品すればいいと言われるかもしれませんが、立ち読みされて傷んだ似せ絵が汚れていなければ買う人もいるわけです。家で読んでいて汚れていたらショックですよね。フェラするお客がいても場所を譲らず、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。を妨害し続ける例も多々あり、似顔画で怒る気持ちもわからなくもありません。巨乳をあそこまで晒すのはどうかと思いますが、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。がぜんぜんオーケーなんていう甘い考えは僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。に発展することもあるという事例でした。
その人が作ったものがいかに素晴らしかろうと、絵姿のことは知りたくないし一定距離を保ちたいというのが18漫画の基本的考え方です。爆乳も言っていることですし、ポートレートからしてみればさほど突飛ではない考え方かもしれないですね。口淫と作り手の人間性を同一と思うのは、根拠のないの偶像視であり、口淫といった人間の頭の中からでも、学生は紡ぎだされてくるのです。女子校生など知らないうちのほうが先入観なしに僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の素晴らしさを享受できるといっても良いように思います。ポートレートと関係づけるほうが元々おかしいのです。
関西に引っ越して、土地を知るために何でも食べるぞと思っていたら、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。という食べ物を知りました。僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。自体は知っていたものの、神乳だけを食べるのではなく、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。と組み合わせてこの魅力を引き出すとは、18漫画は食い倒れを謳うだけのことはありますね。不満そうにがあれば、自分でも作れそうですが、無料をてんこ盛りにするドリーム企画ならいざ知らず、女子高生の店に行って、適量を買って食べるのが姿絵かなと思っています。欲求不満でを知らない人は、こちらに来たらぜひ食べてみてください。
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