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".
I still can’t figure out how Redbox makes any profit.
” A Republican would fire you....” and so would I. Missing work for such a stupid thing as trying to do all the recipes in a cookbook makes you look like your job isn’t very important to you, so bye bye.
I’m seeing it tomorrow with my daughter and if I am offended, I will let out a loud groan.
I loved her in “Enchanted”. Played the role perfectly. I’ll take a pass on this one, or any other Manhattan Yenta drivel.
Someone sent me a link to a Bob Hope film (from YouTube) in which he makes a derisive comment about Democrats. Naturally I found that quite amusing.
“Anyone else would fire you. A Republican would fire you!”....
...I’m a conservative and a small business owner. I’d sure as hell fire her for not showing up, so I guess they’re right! A dem would give her chance after chance I guess?
I am pretty picky about what I spend my $ on as far as going to movies. I don’t believe in rewarding hollywood for their propaganda. Sadly, I will not be seeing this one. It was too much to hope that it would just be a nice movie.
Good for you seeing the film for your wife. If that comment is the only Republican hit, it should not be too bad. besides they are bashing GOP which we do everyday so why are people upset? If they were bashing conservatives that would be different.
Everyone on this site bashes the Republicans...we are conservatives...let them bash Republicans like we do.
Go to the movie...they are talking about RINOs afterall.
Easy. They pay $17.99 for a new release just like the rest of us and rent it out a hundred times at a buck each. That's quite a bit of profit.
The real question is how does Hollywood make any money? And if I had stock in Blockbuster, I'd be pretty nervous at all the Redboxes and Movie Butlers popping up all over the place. I haven't rented a $4.99 movie from Blockbuster in ages. I used to spend $20 each week there. Now I spend $2-3 a week from Redbox.
Not in to Redheads but that Amy Adams is absolutely stunning in the looks department!
I think that would be all over the internet with her own mouth moving if that were true. Sometimes in this 24 hour media things are made up and picked up by various blogs. Of course if I find an actual video with those words coming out of her mouth than Wow! She is an idiot. For now she is a great actress who is doing phenominal movies until she proves otherwise.
If the movie is not returned on the first rental, they are out 16.99. Woner what percentage of rentals are never returned?
Now, if someone were to make a film about the true story of Julia Child's work with the OSS during World War 2, that I would love to watch. It would make a really interesting movie.
Julia was also a spy for the OSS during the second world war. That is where she met Paul Child
I’ve been boycotting Hollyweird for a while now but this WAS one movie I was considering seeing. I won’t now. And I’m glad to know that about the anti-conservative bias cause I would have hated to spend $10 on a movie and then leave angry.
That's the beauty of it. You need a credit card to open an account and late fees automatically accrue for 25 days at a buck a day (different services have slightly different policies) and after $25 has been paid, the movie becomes the renter's and they no longer have to return it.
MMmmmmm! Giada! I watched her show for 6 months before I realized that she was actually making FOOD on the show.
You must have been AWOL on this. Sorry to break it to you:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/sarah-knoploh/2009/06/08/megan-fox-take-out-white-trash
It was discussed on many Blogs.
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Quote:
“take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America”
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I was planning to see this movie as I was a fan of Child. Thanks for the warning. I can wait a couple years for tv premiere.
I was planning to see this movie as I was a fan of Child. Thanks for the warning. I can wait a couple years for tv premiere.
OIC, thanks so much for the info.
I so thankful the last guy on your list saw the error of his ways.
I didn’t realize that. What caused the shift?
Not guilty!
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