Juno - Pro Life?!?

[MIKOTHEFREAKSHOW]

has anyone seen Juno?

did you feel comfortable watching it? did you cry?

i just saw it last nite, it had a pro-life message, but what ruined it for me was knowing that the actress ellen page is prochoice.

=(

i read in an interview BEFORE the movie how pro-choice she was.

however, many pro-life people who see it will enjoy it i believe because it shows her going to an abortion clinic and deciding NOT to have an abortion..

[Aloysius]

I saw a commercial for that, and wanted to see it.

[Justin86]

The woman who played Our Lady in [i]The Passion of the Christ[/i] was also pro-choice, does this make the movie anti-Christian?

I really don't care what the actors themselves think personally, I care about how the movie portrays prolifers and our message. Judging from the first point it sounds like a positive portrayal.

[MIKOTHEFREAKSHOW]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1437548' date='Dec 22 2007, 02:21 PM']The woman who played Our Lady in [i]The Passion of the Christ[/i] was also pro-choice, does this make the movie anti-Christian?

I really don't care what the actors themselves think personally, I care about how the movie portrays prolifers and our message. Judging from the first point it sounds like a positive portrayal.[/quote]


well i didnt even know the woman who played our Lady was pro-choice.. =(

i get attached to the characters and when i see them on tv i tend to attach the characters they play to them... im weird like dat lol

also, like when i heard ellen page's interview, she actually says it's opposite of being a pro-life movie. so like she put the perspective it's not a prolife movie, it's not a prochoice movie, as the movie actually shows there is an alternative to having the baby... =(

oh well

[Jaime]

I thought it was awesome

[God Conquers]

I absolutely loved it. Michael Cera is my favorite comic actor right now.

The only thing I didn't like is that it took the "teenage wisdom" thing a bit too far.

[zealousrap]

[quote name='MIKO' post='1437672' date='Dec 22 2007, 09:03 PM']also, like when i heard ellen page's interview, she actually says it's opposite of being a pro-life movie. so like she put the perspective it's not a prolife movie, it's not a prochoice movie, as the movie actually shows there is an alternative to having the baby... =([/quote]

exactly. the whole point is that there was a choice to destroy the child's life and the girl chose to keep it.

on a side note that new Dr. Seuss movie (Horton Hears a Who) looks pretty pro life...with the tag line being "a person's a person no matter how small"
check out the trailer
[url="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809736283/video/5569574/20071219/174/5569574-700-flash-s.53017305-,5569574-700-wmv-s.53017272-,5569574-300-flash-s.53017296-,5569574-100-flash-s.53017290-,5569574-1000-wmv-s.53017282-,5569574-300-wmv-s.53017260-,5569574-1000-flash-s.53017319-,5569574-100-wmv-s.53017246-,5569572-10300-qtv-s.53017339-,5569572-6800-qtv-s.53017332-,5569572-2700-qtv-s.53017328-"]watch here[/url]

Edited December 23, 2007 by zealousrap

[tinytherese]

Did anybody see Bella? Now that's an awesome pro-life movie. www.childofourlady.blogspot.com

[Brigid]

I did see and love Bella.

I didn't know that anyone was making a movie out of Horton Hears A Who. I'm glad they are, though.

I saw the trailer for Juno, and wanted to see it. A few friends have seen it, and all have loved it. I was really surprised to hear such high praise - there's usually at least someone who doesn't like it.

It's too bad that the lead actor's not prolife, but I can't say I'm surprised. You don't find a ton of prolife people in Hollywood.

[CrossCuT]

[size=1]Im very interested in going to see Juno!
Judging from the comercials I have seen, it looks funny and cute!
Yes the whole teen pregnancy thing is good, but Im interested in seeing how it all goes down.
[/size]

[iggyjoan]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1437542' date='Dec 22 2007, 03:14 PM']I saw a commercial for that, and wanted to see it.[/quote]


AHH I know I wanna see it so bad!!

[Brigid]

I saw it tonight!!!

I liked it a lot... it wasn't my favorite movie ever. I thought it was funny, but most people thought it was hilarious. my sense of humor is a little different than most, though.

**very slight spoilers**
I wouldn't say it was pro-life, necessarily. it poked fun at a girl protesting outside of the abortion mill, and the reason that Juno left the place was because she said it felt like a dentist's office. (or something like that) the message was overall positive, though. have baby and everything turns out well in the end.
**end slight spoilers**

it wasn't good enough to go on my favorites list, but it WAS really good, and definitely worth seeing, even though there are some kind of uncomfortable spots. but I'm made uncomfortable pretty easily, and I was a great deal less uncomfortable than I was watching Rent, for example.

if anyone wants to know more about it without it being spoiled for you, go ahead and ask me. I hate when people spoil it.

[uruviel]

It doesn't sound near as good as Bella. But I guess it would be interesting to see.

[Jaime]

[quote name='Brigid' post='1442619' date='Jan 6 2008, 02:04 AM']I saw it tonight!!!

I liked it a lot... it wasn't my favorite movie ever. I thought it was funny, but most people thought it was hilarious. my sense of humor is a little different than most, though.

**very slight spoilers**
I wouldn't say it was pro-life, necessarily. it poked fun at a girl protesting outside of the abortion mill, and the reason that Juno left the place was because she said it felt like a dentist's office. (or something like that) the message was overall positive, though. have baby and everything turns out well in the end.
**end slight spoilers**

it wasn't good enough to go on my favorites list, but it WAS really good, and definitely worth seeing, even though there are some kind of uncomfortable spots. but I'm made uncomfortable pretty easily, and I was a great deal less uncomfortable than I was watching Rent, for example.

if anyone wants to know more about it without it being spoiled for you, go ahead and ask me. I hate when people spoil it. [/quote]

I'd have to see it again (and I will) but I thought she left the clinic because she was obsessing on the fact that her baby had finger nails.

[kujo]

I saw this movie the other night with my girlfriend, and we both LOVED it. I walked out feeling so uplifted. Despite its occasional crudeness and awkward moments between adult and teenager, I felt that this movie sat the viewer inside an abortion mill. Furthermore, as Juno is sitting in the clinic, thinking about the little facts the abortion protester had told her, her skin crawling from all the noise in the office, her mind still buzzing from the conversation had with the dimwit at the front desk, we see the truth behind the fallacy of the pro-choice movement. We see that this is NOT "uplifting" to women...this is NOT the "choice" of the "liberated"; rather, it is the choice of the enslaved, the scared and the desperate men and women in positions of power who have formulated this falsehood about what women "really need."

Besides that, the movie is HILARIOUS...and the song at the end is ADORABLE! I sang it to my girlfriend last night...and she got teary.