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No matter what you think of her movies, the 'Red Band Trailer' videos she posted on YouTube were some of the best interviews I'd seen in a long time. Someone give this woman a talk show.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!!

I keep hearing the name Diablo Cody and honestly, until a couple minutes ago I thought it must have been the name of an anime show. Regardless, if she wrote Juno and Jennifer's Body I'm ecstatic that she's not touching my metal band. Of course, before I knew who she was, the headline excited me.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I FEEL ANYMORE!!

I did like Juno, but the dialogue does make it a little hard to watch some times. Though, I think that's just because I'm not as much an Ellen Page fan as I thought I was. And I liked Jennifer's Body, but it was too sanitized for its own good -- it should have been more like Teeth. This new project sounds very autobiographical, and as long as she's more honest and less precious about it, it could easily be worth watching.

Or can he?

I like to see more women writers, so bring her on. I also heard really great things about United States of Tara. Go, Diablo!

When a movie made for 7.5 Mil grossed 143.5 mil. That's a lot of people who wanted to give their money to a movie featuring said terrible dialogue/ writing.

/little comment.

And if I may, just, add ONE more thing, the emotional estrogen contingent here seems to be forgetting this is the same person responsible for Jennifer's Body, are we forgetting, that little gem? That was her follow-up. I DO wonder what happened there....mmm could it be she couldn't co-opt the voice of another subculture to try to pass as her own. The reality is little Miss Powerpuff Girl here ain't no feminist messenger, she's just another hack trying to get paid. The stripper Tyler Perry.

I thought the definition of Hipster was one who heaps derision upon anything not sufficiently hip within their own narrowly defined definition of such. As such does this make BS a hipster, or merely a hater......

My take on Diablo Cody is that she's no worse than the Tama Janowitz's, Brett Easton Ellis's, Quentin Tarrantino and any artists that try to co-opt either a voice, time, sub-culture or locale and reflect it through their art.

We're entitled to find it trite, poorly realized and any other derisive terms we care to lob at it/her but it seems, IMHO, that a great deal of the scorn fired at Cody is inherently sexist. And, shock, shudder, who knew(?), there appears to be a double standard at work when she's compared to her contemporaneous male counterparts.....

YMMV

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The rationalism for her tends to be, she gets how young people talk. Which is just not true. She gets how adults trying to sound like kids sound like, and how stupid kids trying to sound like kids sound like. Which on the last bit you may go, but isn't that a contradiction goog!? Not necessarily. There is a difference in being something and acting like it.

Oh and for disagreeing with me on Diablo Cody you all are inherently homophobic bigoted arseholes. Because apparently that is the line of reasoning we are all forced to go down when insulting an overrated trendy dialogue writing one trick pony, who's one trick was showing us the life of a pregnant girl who's life is more boring than mine. I still maintain the Korean movie it didn't rip off is better. Because it has to be.

I mean you could argue Diablo Cody is no worse than other writers that love talking. However I don't know, they tend to have plot involved too right?

B'Slim:

Yowza. Struck a nerve there. I said nothing about quality of her writing, i said popularity or her writing. You asked when she became a popular celebrity, i replied with the amount of money she made on her debut film, a fairly decent indicator that enough people liked it to pay for it.

I agree, Jennifer's Body was not the best written film, but neither was Burn After Reading or True Grit (both far and away better films to be true, but by much more established writers with more practice) and many episodes of Buffy, all of Dollhouse, and much of Angel (In my opinion) Yet we don't hear castigation against my male examples (Cohens, Whedon) nearly as acerbically as we do against Cody.

The whole thing, especially your anger,just makes me think that there is certainly something going on here regarding anti-Cody backlash. I do appreciate your feelings on Fox going into porn as some sort of righteous punishment for not being the best actress around. That'll teach her for trying huh? Gag and DP that bitch! What sinful bitch, being good looking and confident!

Good one? I don't even understand what you are saying. On the one hand, you claim to "get" the sarcasm, which is a mystifying claim as then you go on to suggest that I believe that porn is for the WRETCHES of society, which i don't believe, but i interpreted B'Slim's comments as suggesting this. (PLEASE correct me.)

INTERNET FIGHTING! ALWAYS PRODUCTIVE!

You assume what Slim meant to say as well. Let's wait and see what Slim meant before we both jump to our respective conclusions.

Ok, first of all her being "good looking" is just your opinion. Second I will NOT entertain the notion that Cody has earned the stripes or has the caliber of the Cohens , Tarantino, Whedon or, how about, a Katheryn Bigelow, you've heard of her, right? That's just putting Cody WAAY out of her league and doing those PROVEN artists a disfavor. And did you just call True Grit weak scripted? Wow. Just, wow.

If you'll notice, I never said she was of the same level as the folks I compared her with, but rather that she seems to me to be working in the same vein of dialogue heavy, fluid plot ( does that make sense? I guess I mean plot as a vehicle more for the dialogue and ideas to be bandied around rather than the main show.) movies. I dont claim she yet has equal skill with them, but what bothers me is that I see a propensity to try and shut her out before she gets a chance to develop those skills at all. This seems unnecessarily hostile for reasons that only seem elitist at best and sexist at worst. I dunno. I really liked Juno, thought it was an excellent first try and get annoyed with the, to me, arbitrary hate. In terms of true grit, I thought in comparison to their other work was laboriously slow, uninspired, and lazy. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

God bless you Darth.

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