Just got back from the theatre and wow! crowded! Who knew that so many seniors had their date night on a Monday? Good thing for my daughter and I that they don’t eat popcorn…at least that line was smaller.
Got an aisle seat about 6 rows back from the front and within the next 15 minutes the entire theatre was full to bursting. I hate sitting next to people. It’s a personal space thing.
There were even a few fellows in attendance. They were all about 80 but hey.
The movie started off great! People were laughing so loud and hard that I often missed the next few lines. I realized about two-thirds in that the jokes were getting a bit spaced out. I suppose this is where the so-called ‘cinematic tension’ comes in. But was there tension really?
Some spoilers ahead:
She finishes her challenge to herself, we know her husband loves her, we’re at the movie because it was a book, obviously Julia Child had her book published…what tension? I kind of feel the way I did going to see the movie Titanic. Are we really expecting a different sort of outcome?
Both Meryl Streep and Amy Adams were awesome to the point of bursting. Stanley Tucci? Love him!
Okay, here’s another question: did she have time to do anything else besides eat, sleep, shop for food, cook and blog? And did the cat eat anything she cooked? Where did all her friends go while she was doing all this cooking…and then why did they show up to eat in the end? Whose friends were they? What happened to the bitchy friends at the beginning? Did she have to buy a lot of new cooking utensils? Did she ever have trouble finding ingredients?
I suppose these were cut for the sake of time. The movie was pickin’ long. I’m thinking those old folks were wearing their colostomy bags for date night or something.
Anyway.
Great flick, go see it. Think about butter and its applications in your life.
