I was watching television, and I saw a trailer for the sequel to one of my favourite indie movies of all time. You might remember JUNO, a movie where Ellen Page gets knocked up by Michael Cera, then she sells her baby to Jennifer Garner. But this time, the main character Juno ‘grows up a lil bit more’ and has to deal with her alternative brand fitting in with a mainstream society.
I feel happy for Ellen Page–she will no longer be typecasted as ‘play a snarky lil teenage girl who wants a more meaningful life.’ This role will really elevate her to the next level, possibly making her one of the biggest superstars in the indie world since Natty Portmans. This movie will be a huge hit, striking a chord with the butch failed-alt 30+ roller derby female demographic. Most of these women are ‘longing 2 b a part of something’ so rollerderby becomes something that they are ‘passionate’ about so that they can take out their frustrations about life/the scene/growing older/regrettable tattoos through physical aggression.
I think these same women work at places like burrito restaurants, coffee shops that play death metal, and dive bars, so they will probably ‘get the word out’ about this kewl new movie via the words of their moufs.
I am proud of Drew Barrymore for making her directorial debut in this ‘indie film.’ I think she has dated tons of indie bros like the Mac Guy, Spike Jonez and Tom Greens, so I think this makes her a qualified director for the indie aesthetic. If I had to put money on it, I would definitively say that this movie will be a ‘diamond in the rough’ underdog type of movie that will go on to win multiple Oscars.
Hope that it makes money, and gets tons of ‘twitter buzz’ and ‘viral mrktng.’
Seems like it has a ‘very questionable’ marketing campaign.
I feel sad that indie movies don’t have huge marketing budgets, so the stars of the film must literally ‘whore themselves out’ by performing meme-able sex acts in mainstream magazines.
Not sure if Juno Pt2 is gonna ‘bomb.’
I think that sequels are usually kinda kewl, but sometimes u can tell that the story just needed to end after part one. Some movie franchises work and make tons of money, but this is certainly an interesting experiment, since no indie movie has created a sequel. Kinda wish we could catch up with Zach Braff in Garden State Pt 2: Trapped in New Jersey. Or possible Lil Miss Sunshine Pt 2: The Muder-Suicide of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carrell, and Paul Dano. Maybe even Milk Pt 2: Harvey’s Revenge. Possibly a sequel to the Royal Tenenbaums.
Are sequels good ideas, or are they trying too hard to make money?
What sequels to independent movies would u pitch?
Should I join a roller derby league?
Previous HRO posts
Drewbarrymore is a mainstreamer who dates alts
/// Weak post about Juno by HRO circa 2k7
Spoiler Alert:
Juno’s aborted baby comes back 2 life and defeats her team in the Roller Derby Finals.
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First. And wtf at that picture…
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for real
i feel like roller derby is the type of thing failed alt or ‘punk’ girls do because they’re too fat to be pretty to alt boys
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//////////Reply by ripples
//////////Posted September 21st, 2009 at 9:32 pm
@musical chains,
true.
we need a sport that caters to fit, thin, tuggable altgirls. possibly something like the tour de france, but with fixies (and less boring somehow)
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//////////Reply by Anony
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
@ripples, Obviously they don’t eat enough calories to have such energy required for most “sport”.
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//////////Reply by blairnaze
//////////Posted September 23rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@Anony, that’s what dodgeball is for, all u need 2 do is dance by the sidelinez while all the alt boyz slam balls at eachother 2 fight over who getz to bone yr bony ass (truestory saw it in vancouver canada)
Fat uggos are funny to watch on wheels.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted September 21st, 2009 at 8:50 pm
@poisonorremedy, sonic restaurant
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//////////Reply by rollerbro
//////////Posted September 21st, 2009 at 8:54 pm
@poisonorremedy, fat chicks driving compact cars
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//////////Reply by tryin2findmyself
//////////Posted September 21st, 2009 at 9:27 pm
@rollerbro, fat uggos in smart cars eatin ‘froyo’
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I don’t think this is Juno pt. 2. I think this is a different motion picture.
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//////////Reply by Anony
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
@Jake, You must be new here.
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//////////Reply by i get jokes
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@Anony,
?
or you are
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//////////Reply by i get jokes
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
@i get jokes,
unless yr being post-sarcastic ironic…
damn…
fck the ntrnet
thought that those shirts say ‘varsity braless’ and it seemed gross.
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Its MayBee from arrested development!
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alt is trying to hard to be itself
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seems like i g2 read that marie claire… seems like all my problems will b solved.
NEW KRAZZY BESTIES MAWH
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hey faggots
I feel really bad about the bartender chicks.
That made me feel real empathy.
I wish women all found true love.
I really want to see a movie where an aging alt-bartender chick finds love and redemption. She would have bad tattoos, and in the end she would accept that her bad tattoos were stupid. She wouldn’t remove them though, because that stupidity is who she is, and she accepts that about herself, and her lover accepts that too.
I think I want to roll around in a bed with Ellen Page; like we wouldn’t need to have sex, just play around like little boys in bed together.
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there is a rollerderby in melbourne, its fucking shit…
i know some of the chicks that compete cos im in the alt scene, and the chicks are fucking gross failed feminists fat bitches, all with bad tattoo’s (some home made)… one has a ’skate or die’ tattoo, what a faggot…
feel sad for people who feel so removed from others that they resort to some stupid roller-scene and get tattoo’s just to feel involved…
h8 u fat feminist bitches
sluts
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//////////Reply by shamu
//////////Posted September 24th, 2009 at 3:25 am
@melbourne, wow bro, need a ‘fucking hug’?
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carles i like u, i’maletchu talk. But I just gotta say that My Meme is one of the best and most ‘relevant’ memes of all time!
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//////////Reply by spokentroll
//////////Posted September 21st, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@KANYE WEST, fuck you. your meme was retarded.
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//////////Reply by bradford cox
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 am
@KANYE WEST,
ur doin it wrong
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I’d rather have a real Juno sequel where the ironic twist at the end is the boy Juno falls in love with, the 22 year old guy, is actually son. It’s Juno 2:Cougar on the prowl, Pauly Bleeker dies of being too damn boring at 17, Juno is a sad sack, and moves to New-York city at age 17 because she’s so Alt. 20 years later she’s a sad florist who can’t keep a man, she meets some cougar heart throb who her old alt-granny friends force her flabby 40 year old ass on, she get’s all good with the kid, dates dates dates, crying tradgedy BLA! She fucks the kid in a emotionally vulnerable State. Turns out alt granny Juno is preggers, so she keeps it this time, but the baby is a ratard baby, and they’re sad. They keep the ratard and want to cope with it, and the guy invites his parent(s) to meet the baby, turns out that it’s and old ass Jenny Gar, and Juno is all liek! NOAH! I FUCKED MY SUN! And the kid is liek “Wut is she talking about mom” And then Jennifer Gar, explains that it isn’t her kid after all… That baby Juno gave to her…. was ran over by a mac truck…. But no really Juno fucked her son, it’s over, lessons are learned. Never put a baby up for an adoption, because you’ll probably get fucked by Karma in the future amd Karma comes in the form of your given baby.
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//////////Reply by Anony
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 am
@BlkHpstr360, The special edition DVD and/or bluray come bundled with a free razor blade.
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I’ve always referred to Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist as Juno 2.
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i dont really make out with my ‘besties’. how gay.
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You saw this trailer during Gossip Girl, Carles loves Gossip Girl.
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welcome back, Carles.
your posts were really sucking for a while
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tuggin to drew berrymore and juno goin at it
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lost in translation sequel bill murray joins mens roller derby team to win back scarjo
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isn’t ellen page like 32?
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when confused white kids wanna be asian.
http://www.we-are-awesome.com/nights/eatthishorse/img_0062.html
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
@king, w0ah, †h3¥ r åw£søme
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Uh, ‘nick&nora’s inf. playlist’ was juno pt. 2
‘away we go’ was juno pt.3: all grown up
‘(((((500))))) days of summer’ was juno pt. 4: juno vs. garden state
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I’d like to see a Requiem for a Dream sequel.
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
@Nate, LOL
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pitchfork changed backspacer review after being published with some notable mistakes (and after reviewers mail address appears on pearl jam official message board)… just one more prove that some of them not even heard the records they write about…
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fuck this
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h8 that broad. y does everything suck.
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oh sweet. i always wanted another movie where drew barrymore acts like she is still in her mid twenties.
oh sweet. a multi-billion major film studio is releasing another quaint faux indie film.
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I’m tired of this Jewvies(Jew Movies) assault, when the hell are those stupid ass honkies gonna come back and take hollywood. Jews do shit to take away from that “We run the world!” theory shit, this is why people hate jooz becuz they always in shit, get the fuck out of my hollywood you damn jew fggts. And no i don’t h8 jooz.
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//////////Reply by mainstreamer
//////////Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
@BlkHpstr360, a spirited argument but perhaps jews just make better movies much like black people are better at basketball?
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not buying the premise for this movie. mousy teenage alt girls tend to write shitty poetry, learn how to play the bass guitar, and/or do a shitton of drugs. roller derby tends to be for older “feminists” with anger management issues.
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im getting legit annoyed at u calling it a sequel. lol but i think u didnt mean it as SEQUEL? idk… ima tell myself that so i can sleep tonight.
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feel like drew barrymore keeps latching onto younger up-and-comers like tom green and justin long and ellen page to delay her descent into complete irrelevance.
maybe becoming an alcoholic at the age of nine just fucks up everything that comes after that.
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feel like i will ‘enjoy’ this movie now that i’ve seen ellen/drew facesucking
mstrm magz 4ever
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This movie makes me want to be myself. Be free.
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