*eyeroll*

[moominmuppet]

Judd Apatow is very hit or miss for me; I find his assortment of regulars pretty thoroughly hysterical (especially Seth Rogen and Jason Segel), and there's stuff of his I utterly love (Freaks and Geeks, Superbad, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall especially), but I barely made it halfway through 40-Year-Old Virgin, and I'm currently finally watching Knocked Up, and about as irritated by it as I expected. I can totally buy deciding to continue an unexpected pregnancy. Happens every day. But everything about the relationship between the two of them feels so far beyond unrealistic that I can't particularly get into it, even as an over-the-top sort of thing. Because a one-night-stand she's horribly incompatible with got her pregnant, she's going to try to create a romantic relationship out of it? Seriously? I could even buy it a bit more if they were just trying to be good co-parents, and ended up falling in love, but this is one of the most unbelievable premises I've heard in a while. It's frustrating, because I'm so enjoy watching the cast, and am so disliking the movie itself.

Comments

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It garnered a lot of conversation on prochoice blogs, especially in combo with Juno and Waitress, about the way the topic of abortion is handled, too. I didn't personally find it too problematic in that regard (certainly not like the clinic scene in Juno), but I can see their arguments. I watched it mostly to have first-hand context for making a decision about what I thought about how it was handled, actually.

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

I'm not on a whole lot of pro-choice blogs. But Anna was livid with Juno after some of her customers started making references to her being similar to the character, something that went over like a ton of bricks with my wife.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

*snort* I bet. For a few months after Juno got big, our antis actually changed some of their usual repetitive screaming to stuff from the movie (about fingernails).

For Juno to be a movie, she needed to decide to continue the pregnancy, obviously. But I just don't understand why the clinic needed to be portrayed that way, why they didn't show the kind of counseling that happens (and often leads women to the realization that they want to continue a pregnancy), why it had to be antis yelling about fingernails. Gives people a bad and inaccurate image of clinics, and encourages the antis. Friggin' lovely. *grrr*