“We are, like, major.”
The day all hardcore Kimya Dawson fans and Chan Marshall’s Miami hangers-on have dreaded is here, as the Juno Soundtrack has taken Soundscan’s gold medal, with 65,000 units sold. And take note, because this is the first time a soundtrack for a Best Picture nominee has dangled its legs from atop the flagpole since Titanic did it a decade ago. And in a possible Juno-boost, soundtrack artist Cat Power’s latest album, the swell Jukebox, debuted at number 12, her highest sales week in a long career.
As of today, Juno, which cost less than $5 million or $10 million to make depending on the source, has stuffed $102 million under its striped shirt, and I’m sure mini-cheeseburger cell phones aren’t far behind. Please let us know if you see any new Juno consumerism trends out there, like a Target display with Juno dog shampoo or something.
You have to wonder if Juno will get the rare Boogie Nights treatment with a second soundtrack installment. It would be slim pickings, but why not paint the world orange with some Stooges tracks and select cuts from Goblin’s Suspiria soundtrack. I like to see hipsters look for an exit.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Good. Now everyone who left the Garden State soundtrack in the CD players for 3 solid years have something new to listen to.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
God help us all.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
The world would be a better place if it listened to just a little more Goblin. Admit it.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
@ Kevin
Admitted.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Dawn of the Dead wouldn’t be the same without Goblin’s soundtrack.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Well if we are on the topic of Goblin …
I saw Steve Moore of Zombi perform the other night. Now there is a man who knows his horror movie soundtracks.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Trainspotting, The Wedding Singer, and Romeo + Juliet also each had a second soundtrack volume released later on as well.
But unlike those other soundtracks, the Juno soundtrack pretty much covers most of the songs in the film. Bah. So much of that damn movie was just the soundtrack blaring in your face. Effing annoying moviemaking.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Jason Reitman’s iTunes “Celebrity Playlist” is what he considers to be ver.2.0 of the Juno soundtrack. A lot of really great songs on that list as well.
If it does get a 2nd soundtrack release, expect most of the songs from that to be on the disc.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
i finally saw this movie last night, the music is cool, but how in the hell is this movie getting nominated for best picture and best directing?!?!?! i can think of at least five better in both categories. i get the screenwriting nomination (which will be cody’s one and only - ever) but i guess i thought it was just ok. yes it’s touching, and the dialouge is hip (for a while), but nothing groundbreaking at all.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
@Orange Cinema… I absolutely agree.
I hated Juno for the first fifteen minutes. Her character seemed so pseudo-sophisticated and worldly-wise and so she couldn’t take anything seriously–but that was part of her character arc, which once you buy into isn’t so cloying. I was pretty annoyed with her, by which I mean the screenwriter, not the lovely Ellen Page. I felt like the writing, in general, was really inconsistent. There were times when the dialogue was chock full of self-aware strained hipster speak that I could not stop gritting my teeth, but then there were other times when it was fine. And that was a problem I had with the movie in general. There would be patches where I was “in” the movie, but then something would jar me out of it, like waves of horrible dialogue, but also the abrasive soundtrack, the inconsistent characters (which made me wonder if the movie wasn’t originally like 25 minutes longer and just edited poorly because certain characters developed in very awkward ways), and that godawful Michael Cera. He’s sort of charming playing the stumbling stuttering straight man / awkward guy but he just sort of relies on the fumbling break downs taught in comedy improv classes. It’s beyond annoying. I will say that, for the most part, I really liked her parents and enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would, but I went in expecting to hate it, so that’s not saying much. I could list dozens movies that I liked more in 2007 easily and think that besides maybe Ellen Page, none of its Oscar nominations are even close to warranted. But I guess it made some people “feel good” about themselves, like they were a part of something clever. And that stands up against art.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
i love juno’s soundtrack!! is the best ever!!! all the song are just perfect!!