Ping me to get on or off the list
Posted on 08/07/2009 11:50:40 AM PDT by AJKauf
Julie & Julia, an unbearably cute movie from Nora Ephron, hangs all of its laughs and most of its tears on absurdly small obstacles, aiming at an audience for whom the idea of taking a year to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking — why, that’s almost one and a half food items a day! — seems a really interesting and daunting challenge.
Julie Powell (played by redhead Amy Adams, who stuffs her performance with Meg Ryan perkiness) is a bored worker whose job is to field complaints about Ground Zero for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. It’s typical of this movie that the charred underbelly of New York City receives barely a glance. The charred beef, though, is meant to make us cluck in despair, and Julie’s day job is mere quirk meant to show how weird office life is.
Among the phony conflicts Julie faces: Her husband gets angry with her because she keeps calling him a saint on her blog. She freaks out when it’s time to boil a lobster (she doesn’t object to eating dead animals; it’s just being the one to dump the critters in the pot that gives her moral qualms). She falls asleep when she’s supposed to take her boeuf bourginon out of the oven. Then she skips work the next day to fix the problem. Her boss finds out (since she blogs all the details) and says: “Anyone else would fire you. A Republican would fire you!”....
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I met Nora Ephron once - the same week I met Julia Child - at a graduate program at Radcliffe. Hah!
Nora was very nice, and Miss Childs was adorable. She really did talk that way.
Isn’t Ephron the one who said once that she didn’t know any Republicans?
I won’t be going to this movie. How about you?
I imagine the movie didn't have time for a slap in that direction.
If I stopped seeing movies that don’t in some way bash Republicans, there wouldn’t be much to see.
I’ll probably see it and let the swipes at the right roll off my back as always.
Rats. I wanted to see this movie, but I don’t want to pay $10 to be gratuitously insulted. Do they think Republicans never go to movies? Or do they just want to insult half their audience? No wonder Carl Bernstein cheated on her.
That’s a shame. I wanted to see this.
Nora Ephron, the former Mrs. Carl Berstein.
Typical Noo Yawka sensibility from Ms. Ephron, who has made a career of shallow caricature.
As an aspiring foodie, I almost wanted to see this movie. Guess I’ll stay home and watch reruns of “Everyday Italian” instead. Ahhh, Giada!
Gonna take a side of bashing, my most wonderful wife watched transformers with me!!
That transformer chick... whatshername... megan fox said that she likes to see every Conservative “heartland” American dead.
Frankly the GOP deserves some of the bashing, they’ve been a bunch of spineless weenies for a while now. It’s conservatives that are getting the shaft from both sides.
It's amazing how much of that there is, huh? I swear the Left loses sight of the fact that national elections have been more or less 50/50 for a couple of decades.
My favorite example of this phenomenon would be The Dixie Chicks. I paraphrase a statement I saw the lead singer given on stage to a big crowd (I saw this on TV): "Thank you! Thank you! I just want to say that it is deeply embarassing that stupid Republicans are ruining this country and attacking foreign countries that have done us no harm. Republican are stupid and evil, people! Oh! And by the way -- our new album is in stores tomorrow! I hope y'all buy it!"
I'm thinking at least half the audience said "No thanks".
She is easy on the eyes.
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I look forward to paying $1 to rent it from a Redbox, which, politics aside, is the only way I financially support Hollywood these days.
It took a lot of "rolling" for me when I saw "Night at the Museum, Battle of the Smithsonian". Getting past the line where the character says while looking at the White House, "They say a good man now rules the union", was hard.
But the one I just couldn't get over was the depection of General Custer as George Bush saying, "I feel so guilty leading so many Americans to a needless death". As the Godfather once said, "That I will not forgive".
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