# Ellen Page **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344 "2008-07-31T12:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/1 "2008-07-31T12:55:22Z")
I first saw this young lady in _Hard Candy_ and boy did she make an impression. Last night I watched her in _Juno_ and again I was amazed at how talented she is. If you’ve not seen either of these two films I urge you to do so ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/2 "2008-07-31T13:10:35Z")
I agree - Page is a good actress who I imagine will only get better with age. She seems to be good at picking roles too (although if you blinked you missed her in the X-men movies). I didn’t get to see that one she was in with Sarah Jessica Parker but I probably will eventually, I didn’t hear anything about it which suggests it’s probably not all that good. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/3 "2008-07-31T13:23:29Z")
I love Ellen Page but I really didn’t like Smart People (the one with SJP). It’s very depressing for a so-called comedy. They should have called it Unhappy People. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/4 "2008-07-31T13:45:11Z")
I expect her to be written off as a one-hit wonder eventually. She came across like a decent high school drama club kid in _Hard Candy_. The role of _Juno_ was indubitably entertaining, but it was kind of one-note, and not very deep. I’d much more expect her to pull off something like playing Kumar’s girlfriend than remaining in the discussion with Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/5 "2008-07-31T13:46:14Z")
Hard Candy blew me away when I saw it. One of my friends is one of those people who will rent pretty much everything at Blockbuster, and he told me to see it over a year ago. I had no idea who Ellen Page was, but damn. Juno is a really neat movie too. Did anyone see her movie [An American Crime](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/)? I’d read the story behind it on one of those crime websites (it’s really messed up!) and saw the movie on IMDB but never heard a peep about it anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/6 "2008-07-31T13:50:56Z")
[QUOTE=myskepticsight] Hard Candy blew me away when I saw it. One of my friends is one of those people who will rent pretty much everything at Blockbuster, and he told me to see it over a year ago. I had no idea who Ellen Page was, but damn. Juno is a really neat movie too. Did anyone see her movie [An American Crime](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802948/)? I’d read the story behind it on one of those crime websites (it’s really messed up!) and saw the movie on IMDB but never heard a peep about it anywhere else. [/QUOTE] I was shown on Showtime a month or so ago. There was a discussion of it here about how no one really wanted to see that, and I don’t think anyone ever did. ---
**Author:** ![MrBelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MrBelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBelding)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/7 "2008-07-31T18:44:40Z")
She was amazing in Juno. Hard Candy and Smart People are on my netflix so I’ll see those pretty soon too. I was really surprised because I didn’t think she was that great because she was so average in teh X3. However, there wasn’t much to work with there. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/8 "2008-07-31T18:47:04Z")
_Juno_ = _Napoleon Dynamite: The Chick Flick_. What an overpolished turd. _The Tracey Fragments_ = unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/9 "2008-07-31T20:29:48Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] _The Tracey Fragments_ = unwatchable. [/QUOTE] You = correct. I’ve met her a couple times and she’s a very nice girl, but in terms of acting the jury is out for me. I expect we’ll get a pretty good idea of her talent when we finally see her as Jane Eyre ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/10 "2008-07-31T23:10:49Z")
After seeing Juno, I thought it was _Hard Candy II_. Same character. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/11 "2008-07-31T23:32:05Z")
Ellen Page could read the phone book for two hours, and I’d watch. She wouldn’t even have to read it out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/12 "2008-07-31T23:34:13Z")
I thought she was a cute young lady - until I saw her being interviewed. She’s so unbelievably vapid and annoying I can’t even look at her anymore. Every answer she gave had to be witty, or quirky, or funny in some way, except they weren’t. It was very uncomfortable to watch. I kinda figured I wouldn’t like Juno anyway, and that just confirmed it. You couldn’t strap me down to watch that movie at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/13 "2008-07-31T23:41:38Z")
I thought she was a cute young lady - until I saw her being interviewed. She’s so unbelievably vapid and annoying I can’t even look at her anymore. Every answer she gave had to be witty, or quirky, or funny in some way, except they weren’t. It was very uncomfortable to watch. I kinda figured I wouldn’t like Juno anyway, and that just confirmed it. You couldn’t strap me down to watch that movie at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/14 "2008-07-31T23:47:51Z")
Wow, double post. Haven’t seen that here in a long time. No idea how it happened. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/15 "2008-07-31T23:48:22Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Wow, double post. Haven’t seen that here in a long time. No idea how it happened. [/QUOTE] It’s a glitch in the Matrix. Better bug out. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/16 "2008-07-31T23:50:05Z")
Did it look like the same post, or was it the same post?? ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/17 "2008-08-01T00:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=Saint Cad] After seeing Juno, I thought it was _Hard Candy II_. Same character. [/QUOTE] Do psychotic stalkers of pedophiles often remind you of quirky, unwed, pregnant teens? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/18 "2008-08-01T00:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=Crawlspace] Do psychotic stalkers of pedophiles often remind you of quirky, unwed, pregnant teens? [/QUOTE] Only when portrayed by one-note actors. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/19 "2008-08-01T00:48:52Z")
Speaking of one-note actors in relation to Ellen Page . . . Michael Cera sure has been a disappointment. I thought he had created a brilliant role on Arrested Development, until I saw him in a few other things and realized that’s not a role. That’s him. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344/20 "2008-08-01T03:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] I thought she was a cute young lady - until I saw her being interviewed. She’s so unbelievably vapid and annoying I can’t even look at her anymore. Every answer she gave had to be witty, or quirky, or funny in some way, except they weren’t. It was very uncomfortable to watch. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Ellen Page as a person is someone I would strangle if I had to be around for any extended length of time. But then, I really enjoyed Juno, so I guess Ellen Page the actress is OK with me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page/458344.md?page=2)