Julie and Julia? Anyone seen it?

What did you think? :shrug:

I haven't actually seen it but has she ever been in a bad movie?

:shrug:

of COOKING!

:rofl: I can understand...the nicotine fix is UBER.

But just cooking?

Uh, no.

It's not the sexiest of views...but you could dream.. Really ...it's in the movie. You might give up a smoke to watch it...if you are a fan of hers...dreams...

They like the Julia part better; said Streep is very, very good.

and then for someone to make the proper movie: "Julia (& edited)"

to compare this to? Please....

I did like that movie/French about Chocolate way years ago...

But, are you comparing this to Rachel Ray? :shrug:

What I saw of the preview was enough to turn me off of the modern Julie. I simply don't care for the character nor the inclusion in a movie that would have been even more wonderful focused solely on Julia Child. The "pasty imitation" comment was just to stay in the fun of foodie-puns ;)

Now as far as food movies I would recommend, I also liked Chocolat (the one you mention) as well as Big Night (Stanley Tucci's in that one, too), Tompopo, Babette's feast, and Like Water for Chocolate. I highly recommend all of those. There are others, but I can't recall them all right now.

of "Julie/Julia" and are judging by some clips in the MSM...

I avoid the MSM in this country for the most part, other than local news from The Houston Press (a fairly liberal rag, by the way ;))

I was completely turned off by the character of Julie. I simply did not care about her. I have never read her blog and really, who cooks every recipe in any cookbook, one a day? She could have just have easily picked up "Joy of Cooking" and done the same, though it certainly would have taken her longer than a year to accomplish that, and who knows how much wasted food and money.

Meryl Streep's portrayal of a cooking icon we all know and love was spot on. Why not dump the dual-story format and make the movie about Julia? I'd be very excited about seeing that :D

And both Julia and Julie had husbands. Both lived in totally different worlds. But, the narrative is more uplifting than downbeat focusing on the worst of relationships and why all is doomed. With so much in America in Movies and on TeeVee it was a delight to see two marriages going through different circumstances in very different era's and how they handled it. Plus the political commentary with Julia Child's husband being hauled up before the McCarthy hearings is worth the price of admission for that by itself.

It was about "creativity" and how the urge to create can pass beyond daily lives and whatever trauma or circumstances one is in. But, the reviewers make money out of "snark and cynicism" these days.

I didn't read a review...I just went to see it so they wouldn't ruin it for me. Being between the two generations made it a treat for this viewer.

You do know that movie previews are edited to make you want to see the movie, right? ;)

That's great you liked it. And I understand the kind of movie Ephron makes. This is one in which I have simply zero interest. I don't know how to be more succinct.

I also don't see the point in paying good money for a movie where I will only be interested in one half of the story. And it's not like it's the first half where I could walk out on the second half. It's interspersed over the entire running time, so I must watch that for which I do not want to watch.

In fact, had the entire movie been about Julia and not Julie, it would have been a fantastic biopic.

The parts with Julie were just meh. She seemed whiny and self-centered to me, and the fact that the real-life Julie had an affair when the book came out does not endear me to her character any more.

I've only seen a couple of movies twice before.

I initially saw it with some female friends; they both loved it, as did what seemed like the entire audience. It seemed like a movie that my husband would like, so we saw it this past weekend. He also loved it.

I have to say that both stories were wonderful, but Julie's story was especially touching. I cried a little both times that I saw it. (My husband had a tear in his eye also. :))

The acting was very good in both stories. Of course, Meryl Streep was wonderful, but the actress who played Julie did almost as good a job, in my opinion.

I highly recommend it. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

for great set design and good story lines between generations. I'd see it again, too!

Streep, Tucci, and Adams all put in great performances.

Of course we are both cooking junkies anyway so we were the right demographic for this kind of flick.

I wish it were just a full biopic of Child, no "Julie" parts at all.

Near the end, when her copy of her bound cookbook arrives in the mail, it is in a bubble wrap envelope. Did they make bubble wrap envelopes in the 50s? Somehow I doubt it. Stupid, stupid, stupid!