"No mother-fu@#&^$!, I said all dark extra crispy! And send some of them noodle things with cheese! And make sure that the biscuits are hot! Beotch!"
I think there are several references to Republicans and Eugene McCarthy in the movie.
Julia's sister comes to Paris to visit, and the two of them tell Paul that being from Pasadena their Dad expected them to marry Republicans and breed like rabbits.
Julie stays home from work one day and calls in sick because a special dinner she has prepared for the woman who originally discovered Child has been ruined. When she goes in the next day her boss, a weird looking guy who thinks her blogging is interfering with her work, admonishes her to quit and says that "if he were a Republican" he would have fired her.
The sister becomes engaged to an acquaintance of the Childs' and holds the wedding in France. Julia's Dad and Mom come and Dad get's in a slightly heated argument with Paul and Julia, because apparently the State Department has restricted the books the embassy may have in their library and Julia claims many have been purged from government service for "no reason at all". Being state, it wouldn't surprise me if they WERE commies.
Finally, near the end of his career, Paul is called home to Washington. He's expecting a promotion, but instead is grilled on his acquaintances and sexual orientation.
Definitely a chick flick but possibly watchable if you can get past the agenda politics, especially the way it's tacked on as an afterthought having nothing to do with the plot. I've explained it at length because that's what Free Republic is about, but all those scenes probably add up to three minutes or less in the movie, so if you would otherwise enjoy the movie, you can probably still watch it.
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Thanks for the review. Maybe I’ll rent it. I really like the acting Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. I think Julia Childs was a neat lady.
I think Nora Ephron is a pig.
As mentioned if I felt it was worth seeing I would go. The tacked on smarmy agenda insures I will not.
I was looking forward to seeing this. I thought that they would elaborate on her ties to the British secret service during WWII. I thought that it would be a fun movie as I have the two books that are featured, and I love watching her old taped TV shows....
I thought too, that the premise of a young woman baking Julia’s recipes and blogging on it very unique. But that too, turned out to be a flat soufle in the end.
I saw it on Tuesday. It was in my opinion a “half-baked” summary of Julia Child’s life.
It was slow, tedious, without any tension or story line. Then they bring in the McCarthy thing again...and present it totally wrong.
It was in short, terrible. I won’t recommend it to anyone.
Oh yeah, Meryl will get another best actress nom for her portrayal, but the screenwriting sucked wet sour dough.
My mom was planning to see this movie today.
"No mother-fu@#&^$!, I said all dark extra crispy! And send some of them noodle things with cheese! And make sure that the biscuits are hot! Beotch!"
Ping
Hollywood has already been harder on Republicans and Conservatives (not always the same thing) than they are on Communists.
Commie sympathizers and American loathers.
Julia Child worked for the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) during WWII.
Saw it last night. I think it merits about 2 stars.
Streep does an excellent job of playing a ponderous glutton with the most annoying voice in the modern cinema.
Equally ponderous were the smartypants digs at Republicans and conservatives. On reflection, I think that most of the movie was shot during the brief Obama honeymoon, before the reputation of the ‘Rats plunged to the level of whale dreck in the Marianas Trench.
Speaking of reflection, I was distracted by the glare of the studio lights off the male lead’s bald pate. My compliments to the gaffer and makeup crews.
The script mentions that the real Julia Child hated the yuppie secretary’s blog and thought it disrespectful. I’m inclined to agree with Mrs. Child.
Overall, like the burned beef bourguignonne, Julie and Julia left a bad taste in this FReeper’s mouth.
Ho hum.
I'm saddened by this and feel that Hollywood has insulted Dan Akroyd.
When the boss said to Julie that if had been a Republican, he would have fired her, I said, ALOUD, in the theater: “You can tell SHE’S a Republican because she’s AT WORK!” That line was totally inappropriate and irrelevan to the movie, and I could not let that one slip by. Ruined the entire movie for me.
Saw it last Friday. The slap at “Repulicans “ is SOP for the amerika haters in the America movie industry.
In view of the usual crap coming out of hollywood the film was done well and a delight to sit through.
We enjoyed it. and recomend it. Better than most these days.
One thing I intended to mention but omitted was that the Childs had served in China sometime in the years before or during WWII, which supposedly was "enough" to put them under suspicion of communist sympathies by the "paranoid" McCarthyites. But that's absurd because Chiang wasn't run out by Mao till '48 when these guys were already in France, and Chiang was anything but a commie. He tried for all he was worth to eradicate them. Morons.