Julie and Julia

[james_davis_nicoll]

Needed more Julia and less Julie.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Well, yeah. I tend to fast-forward through Julie's scenes.

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

I loved the Julia parts of that movie. The Julie parts pretty much put me off Amy Adams for life.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes. I don't know who thought that Julia needed to be enterpreted for modern audiences, but they were wrong.

Also, Meryl Streep as Julia - more please. And more Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, also, please.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much the common review of the movie.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I've seen the movie twice, and Julie just becomes more annoying each time. The only interesting part about her sections of the movie were the strictly logistics bit of how she was going to cook all those complicated dishes in that tiny kitchen.

Julia and Paul Child, OTOH, were fascinating. I read the short bio by Laura Shapiro recently, which has some interesting insights and sadly tells how Paul Child suffered from steadily-increasing dementia for many years.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

The Julia parts of the movie were based on the autobiography, My Life in France, so if you liked those parts of the movie, you will probably like the book. I loved it.

Research for the book apparently included gathering up letters that Paul wrote to his brother back home, and that Julia wrote to her sister and friends, plus there are a bunch of Paul's photographs. What really struck me is how difficult something like that will be in fifty years from now, unless people are storing a lot more email than I think they are.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

Blog-based movies/TV shows, the bane of the modern world. There is a surprising number of those (it's a small number and yet any number bigger than zero is a surprise). Not to mention the sitcom based on a twitter account (thankfully canceled by now).
The Julia parts were wonderful but I have to admit, Strip's rendition of Childs' voice verges on a miss Piggy imitation here and there.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

The other thing that annoyed me about the film (and Powell's blog/book) was the whole idea behind it. What on earth was so special about doing every recipe in one year? Every recipe might be interesting, but deadline just made it seem silly and artificial -- and against the whole ethos of Julia Child's cooking, which was to ENJOY (and celebrate) food, not make it a chore.