Julie and Julia
Julie and Julia -- or maybe tiring and tiresome would be more appropriate. This is the kind of film that makes you sit back and recoil in horror. You just got taken. A rank chick-flick that parades as high-art. An abject participation in the prevalent orgy of food-porn. And if that was not all, it is a strong pusher of the new cultural posing for men: men are the new blonds!
The film charts the parallels of the lives of an over-friendly, annoying, in-your-face Julia Childs (a famous American who made her name writing long cookbooks that hid butter as the secret recipe in plain sight) and Julie - the tired, bored, depressing blogger whose secret recipe seems to simply be ordinariness.
It is sad to see two perfectly fine actresses (Meryl Streep and Amy Adams) end up in such a tragic film. While Meryl Streep still has fun playing Julia, it is Amy Adams who really kills the films with her utterly killjoy Julie.
I am sure this film is making its rounds for Oscars and shows up on many top 10 lists for 2009. Be careful and watch it only if joy of cooking isn't what is on your mind.
The film charts the parallels of the lives of an over-friendly, annoying, in-your-face Julia Childs (a famous American who made her name writing long cookbooks that hid butter as the secret recipe in plain sight) and Julie - the tired, bored, depressing blogger whose secret recipe seems to simply be ordinariness.
It is sad to see two perfectly fine actresses (Meryl Streep and Amy Adams) end up in such a tragic film. While Meryl Streep still has fun playing Julia, it is Amy Adams who really kills the films with her utterly killjoy Julie.
I am sure this film is making its rounds for Oscars and shows up on many top 10 lists for 2009. Be careful and watch it only if joy of cooking isn't what is on your mind.