BlogNosh 12/03/07

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Let there be a Juno backlash, and let it begin with Modern Fabulosity. And let it continue with Craig Kennedy: “Some folks are even looking at this as being an Oscar contender. I don’t think it is, but when I’m ultimately proven wrong I’ll be the first to admit it. Of course, if I’m right I’ll be shouting it from the rooftops.” Finally, at Reverse Shot, Elbert Ventura concedes that Fox Searchlight has found “this year’s Little Miss Sunshine“–which should not, under any circumstances, be considered a compliment.
The Reeler talks to Jennifer Venditti about Billy the Kid and, most interestingly, the subject’s complicity in its construction: “He met Heather, and after that he would come up to me on the way home and say, ‘I think tomorrow we should do a scene where we’re holding hands walking down the street.’ Of course we didn’t do those things, but he was going with it in his head and getting into it.”
Both Alan at Burbanked and Chris at Movie Marketing Madness have complaints about the new one sheet for Be Kind Rewind. I hate to say it, but their fears were confirmed by a friend of SpoutBlog, who called with a four word review on his way out of a Rewind press screening this afternoon: “It sucked my ass.”
Anybody else wish Kevin Smith would quit crying wolf and just actually stop pillaging his first film for scraps already?

cjKennedy said 1 year ago
Listen, I don’t want to be a part of some kind of a backlash movement. It’s hard not to be a loudmouth when you feel like you’re the only one who feels a certain way.

Aside from the sad need for my own vindication, I wish Juno no harm. Ellen Page was great and I expect bigger and better things from Diablo Cody in the future.
Paul Moore said 1 year ago
Juno is a good movie. It’s just not great. It’s a surprising display of young talent all around, which is more exciting than another Nicole Kidman or Russel Crowe vehicle. But if it winds up at the Oscars, it’s because The Academy wants to woo that pesky Internet generation back to TV. Not because Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Ellen Page or Michael Cera are movie making savants.

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