juno (don't read if you don't want to read spoilers)

So I know people either love or hate Juno. I realize that it is the most unrealistic teen pregnancy movie ever. No sixteen year old would ever be that calm and be like "Oh yeah, I'm just gonna get some stretch marks, tear my vag, just to give the kid away." Don't think so. But I have to be honest, I do really like this movie. Because it's a happy movie. In the end, you feel so happy for Vanessa with her new baby and Juno and Bleeker. It's the most adorable movie ever. Bleeker is the only character that isn't in the movie much and doesn't have much development...or so you think. But it's so clever because the connection between Mark and Juno is obviously because Mark is pretty much the older version of Bleeker. (Common sense, duhhh Bateman is Cera's dad in Arrested Development so it makes it even easier to connect if you're fans of the show.) So it's so cute when Bleeker and Juno finally end up together. But all the characters are so well developed I don't think I hate any main character at all they're all so good. You're behind every one of them. And it's a great movie about a family. I was watching the special features of behind the scenes shiz on the movie and they call this family, the MacGuffs a "dysfunctional" family. I completely disagree. What's so dysfunctional about them? They have weird names like Juno and Liberty Bell? The dad's married to the step mom? That's like normal in today's society. And the way the whole family backs Juno. I seriously don't remember a Step Mother actually NOT playing an antagonist. I even think Brenda might even be my favorite character just because of how great she got down the "mom" role. Forget about the "step" part, as you learn from this movie the mom doesn't have to be biological. Plus every scene she's in she has an excellent line "Go fly a kite!" "Doctor's are satists that like to watch lower people suffer" (or something like that). Again, she is definitely the most developed step mom in a movie that I've ever seen that's not a witch or a bitch. And everyone is talking about the language of Juno...that's what makes or breaks this movie for most people that I know that have seen it. And yeah, most people didn't talk like that when you were 16 but uhhh you did have your own lingo between your friends right? Maybe not that clever or witty, but movies are a bit overexaggerated.

So I saw the movie originally in theatres and thought it was adorable but didn't love it, now watching it again, I understand it. It's not supposed to be realistic or taken seriously at all. It's just supposed to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside and fall in love with the characters at the end.

mtv and britney spears

Whatever happened to good dare I say mind-blowing MTV award show performances? Seriously. The day Britney went crazy was the day MTV died. To put off the 16 pages I need to do by Thursday even further I was watching old school Britney on youtube. I was never a hardcore fan or even really that big of a fan but her dance moves were definitely something to watch. She had the most shocking VMA performances ever aside from the original "Like a Virgin" performance but the remake with her, Christina, and Madonna was a pretty good comeback to say the least. But seriously, does anyone even watch the MTV award shows anymore? if you do, do you watch them at all for the performances? Aside from last year's Britney "comeback" which everyone knew she was going to fail at and just wanted to watch her basically crash and burn...Which is pretty much the exact opposite reason we watched them in the beginning. We wanted to watch someone put on a spectacular show and no offense to anyone else but Britney always delivered. When you thought she couldn't beat the strip scene of "Satisfaction/Oops" she comes back and kisses Madonna. Which was pretty much the most talked about thing that year. It kind of makes you wonder that if she didn't go nuts what would she have topped that with. I mean of course now there's the new generation of Rihannas and Chris Browns but no offense to them...they're kind of dull. Don't get me wrong, I saw Rihanna live (for free) and she exceeded my expectations but during like award show perfomances it's all fireworks and fog machines and yawns. Chris Brown's dance moves are off the hook...but his songs? Not as catchy as "(You Drive Me) Crazy" or even "I'm a Slave 4 U." Britney had it down. She wasn't that good of a singer but good enough that the songs were catchy and got you going and she of course had the dancing nailed down. In fact, now that I think of it, people always diss the 90's with the boy bands and the pop princesses but at least they tried. Nowadays what do you see? Is anyone even really dancing that much? Or even singing? I am sick of people coming up with "songs" about jeans and boots with fur when it doesn't even come with a dance!! Even the dances of today: Soulja boy? What the fuck is that? Seriously. It's just a few feet taps and arm swings and a "superman." Come up with something more clever, please for the love of God. Even Justin Timberlake is turning ghetto. What is going on with this world? At least if you turn ghetto don't do the cheap dance moves just rap and make it good. Learn from Kanye West, goddamnit. I bet he could put on a show and by show I mean old school Britney VMA mind-blowingness.