First off, I think the Post was dead on in critiquing that the one problem with Juno was the music.
The "Juno" soundtrack -- which narrowly missed being the No. 1 album on the latest Billboard Top 200 chart -- is totally boss . . . so long as you have an affinity for the sort of insufferably twee music proffered by Kimya Dawson...
It’s a curious collection of songs, given Juno’s assertion in the film that 1977 was music’s greatest year and, also, those old punk posters on her wall. Yet the lone circa-1977 song here is "All I Want Is You," by the children’s music singer Barry Louis Polisar.
Wonder what sort of zippy, snarky observation Juno would make about that. Maybe she’d paraphrase her father: Hey there, big, grating soundtrack version of "Junebug."
The review does praise the song at the end, which is quite awesome. But really, I’ve got to agree. I mean, I like a fair amount of quirky indy songs, but the most of the ones in the movie just did not do it for me at all.
Second, I may be going to see ’U2-3D’.
Billed by its producers as the first film to be totally shot, edited and presented in digital 3-D, "U2 3D" doesn’t just reprise 14 great tunes from the band’s Latin American tour of 2006. Co-directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington practically put us behind the mike with Bono. And when we’re not experiencing that electric primacy, we’re huddling with his devoted followers as they wave, sing and raise their cellphones in LED reverence. In many ways, watching the movie is better than concertgoing. We can enjoy that buzzy feeling of community without the fist-pumping biker obscuring our view.
In short, I don’t really have indy cred.
I agree; I found the music in Juno to be fairly off. I think the aesthetic in the movie suits the music fine, but I think that other music that would have been better would have worked just as well. But as these things go, I dislike that sort of music anyway. (Please ask about Jack Johnson some time if you're curious.)
Posted by: Moti | January 24, 2008 at 02:06 PM