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grigorss - 2008-01-31 15:08:44
All's I knows, is that I own enough action figures such that I could "swede" forty or fifty movies without ever leaving my living room.
Also, could any soundtrack truly be called "relentlessly twee" when it includes tracks by both The Kinks and The Velvet Underground?
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Paula - 2008-01-31 17:14:37
Grigorss: your action figure collection is, indeed, like your own personal MGM lot. You should construct a wee commisary.

As for the second part--the soundtrack includes two of the most fey songs by those respective bands, so yeah I'm sticking with the "relentless" observation. :)
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2fs - 2008-01-31 22:38:25
I'd have to agree w/Paula on the "twee" thing - first, someone at the Onion suggested it would be a good idea to ban all future use of "I'm Sticking with You" from movie soundtracks, and I'd have to agree. It's great in its context...but every time it gets used like this, it loses a bit of its silly power. And Ray Davies invented twee, and don't you forget it. Ray Davies has more twee for breakfast than you've had in your entire life. Anyway: really. I think most twee bands miss the emotional complexity of Davies' anti-macho, anti-presentist sentiments...but there's no doubt he's a huge influence.
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Sue T. - 2008-02-01 10:33:00
The music was the only thing I hated about "Juno." Not the old songs, but the Kimya stuff. Ugh!!
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Paula - 2008-02-01 13:18:58
It fit the Wes Anderson-y feel of the movie, and yet the characters were supposed to be into the Stooges and Patti Smith and whatnot, so there's some inconsistency there.
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