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This is a group for folks to discuss their favorite movies, what they've seen lately, and movies that have changed their lives! Jump in and start talking about whatever movie you'd like!

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Comment by wiffledust on April 9, 2011 at 6:30pm
i'm trying to get to "inside job"...i'll keep you posted! what are you guys watching?
Comment by nancy Sanchez on April 4, 2011 at 12:21am
ok I will take your advice...LOL
Comment by wiffledust on April 3, 2011 at 9:29pm
oh don't go through THAT again! i can promise you'll be fine if you pick up when she goes to italy!
Comment by nancy Sanchez on April 3, 2011 at 8:24pm
I will try to get to the better part..of course i will have to start from the beginning...
Comment by wiffledust on April 3, 2011 at 7:25pm
the second two thirds are better, nancy. but i completely understand why you stopped there. that was the worst part. the first third had me angry. like WHAT did you do with this great story?????
Comment by nancy Sanchez on April 3, 2011 at 7:07pm
I think I am the last person but maybe I do not count since I started the movie and lost interest about a third of the way in...I will at some point give it another try......
Comment by Elle MacNeil on April 3, 2011 at 11:17am
Good question, Lisa!  I am a big JR fan, so I'm really disappointed to hear it might have been her.  When I first heard about the plan to make it into a movie, I was apprehensive (me and central casting rarely agree!  LOL)...until I heard she was cast in the lead.  I was SO sure that would make it for me.  <sigh>
Comment by wiffledust on April 3, 2011 at 11:03am
the scenery was good, elle. but it could have been even better. i like julia roberts as an actress, so i hate saying this. but i think part of the problem with the movie was her. she somehow made the character unlikeable. and elizabeth gilbert is so likeable. but gilbert had a BIG say on the movie, and so i wonder how this got messed up?
Comment by Elle MacNeil on April 3, 2011 at 10:56am

Nope - you aren't the last person, Lisa.  That would be me!  I detest going to the theater...and haven't quite bought into Netflix yet, so I'm still way behind most of the world as far a cinema goes.

 

I liked the book, so recommend you read it.  I will watch the movie when it comes to cable...if it comes to HBO or Showtime.  (Yes, it was on STARZ this weekend, but we don't get that.)  But mainly for the scenery. 

Comment by wiffledust on April 3, 2011 at 1:21am
i'm the last person in america to have seen "eat pray love". i'm late, it seems, on all movies. however i think a good movie is either timeless or it's not. i had been looking forward to this movie, because i enjoy elizabeth gilbert very much. i hadn't read the book, but i loved the premise. when i started to watch it, i truly was angry. i thought julia roberts was terrible, and she is rarely if ever terrible. i thought the movie made no sense. i thought the dialogue was like nothing i'd heard out of real people's mouths. however , i continued to watch. the scenes in italy were more fun but also a cliche of the american girl in italy. julia just had no credibiity of any sensuality whatsoever. the quality being learned by the character. still i continued to watch. and i found myself thinking and becoming more introspective. and by the end of the film, i was , in fact, touched. so i can't give this a thumbs down. if it were that awful, i wouldn't have been glad i watched it or a better person for having watched it. but i think i may be. so now ...to fix the bad spots of the movie, i'm going to have to read the book!
 

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