Doctors are Sadists

Have any of you seen the movie Juno yet?  If not, you really have to check out the trailer.

Yesterday my friend Penny came into town and we met up after work.   I get off early on Fridays so I worked through my lunch so I could get off even earlier so we could hang out.   She is way pregnant, with only 5 weeks left to go, so this was going to be her last trip into Rotterdam for a while.

She’s been having massive whopper cravings, and lord knows it’s not hard to get me to go for a cheeseburger, so we went to Burger King for some sin food and gossip.  Then puttered around town for a while before hopping a tram to the theater to see Juno.

I heard about this movie a lot but wasn’t all that keen on seeing it.   I thought it would be something I’d just download, but since Penny was going to be in town and this would also be her last chance to catch a movie for a while… we decided to go.   I mean it was a good chick flick to go to with a girlfriend.

I liked it so much more than I had anticipated.  I think they chose the perfect people for the perfect roles, the storyline never bored me and the main character (Juno, played by Ellen Page) is such a sarcastic little shit, I loved her!

… and that’s not just because she’s CANADIAN!  Not just Canadian, but from Nova Scotia no less, where I come from (just in case you live under a rock or are a first time visitor and didn’t know).   How on earth this little girl from Halifax made her way up to being in this movie I’ll never know but I think she’s a fantastic actress and that we’ll be seeing her in a lot in the future.

There were so many funny moments, but the one that made me laugh the loudest involved this quote:

Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream

This was said by Bren, the character played by Allison Janney, whom I think is one of the most quirky and unique actresses out there (10 Things I Hate About You, The West Wing… etc) and can make anything sound funny.   Not sure why I found this to be so funny, but I howled and laughed.   Maybe I was on a sugar high…

I’d go into more but then I’d have to quote entire conversations and I wouldn’t want to ruin any of it for anyone.

Here’s the trailer, in case you’re too lazy to click the link in the beginning.  I’m not mocking you, I can never be bothered to click links either… even though people (by people, I mean my husband) are constantly spamming me with them on MSN.

If you’re a chick, go see this movie… I think you’ll love it.
If you’re a guy, go see this movie with your chick, she’ll love YOU for it and there’s some eye candy for you here and there so it won’t be a complete loss.

OH, and if you are a fan of Arrested Development you’d probably like this, it has somewhat the same humor WITH Jason Bateman and Michael Sera!