Julie & Julia & Me

MOVIE REVIEW - JULIE & JULIA

I recently saw the movie Julie & Julia. After having just started a blog I was super into the idea that I can sell this blog for milllllionnnnns of dollars after one year. I think I am going to follow the Julie plan and make some kind of deadline for myself. Btw a great line from the movie was "I love deadlines. I love the sound they make as they go wooshing past." And....that sounds a little familiar to me. As I like to tell everyone; I am an idea man, not so much a do-er. Anyway I think a deadline is a great idea to make me write something everyday! Especially since after only 5 posts I have a cajillion readers. Incase you didn't know a cajillion is like totally a lot.

So, for my deadline I am going to write 1 movie/book/music review a day. This is great, because I can totally cheat and write about past movies I've seen, and I am sure I have seen enough movies/read enough books/listened to enough music to write about 1 of those a day! I know I'm brilliant. I am also going to write 1 personal ranting a day about either celebrities/life situations/ events during my day that pissed me off. This will be a little more daunting of a task, but I'm pretty sure I can find SOMETHING during my day that I find to be annoying.

OK! Now that that is done I am going to review Julie & Julia. When reviewing movies I think that I have to have my own rating system. The better the movie the more of a bitch spelling it gets. For instance a crappy movie like Vanilla Sky...bleh!....would receive a b, because it sucked in every possible way. A great movie such as Empire Records would receive a bitch, because it was awesome. A super rare unbelievably amazing movie, such as Goonies would get a BEOTCH, because it was one of the best movies of all time.

Julie & Julia definitely gets a bitch. Meryl Streep in my opinion is one of the greatest actresses of all time, and she shows it here with her ability to completely encapsulate the persona of Julia Child. Not only was her voice dead on, but some of the one liners she was able to deliver were unbelievable! If you don't want a spoiler don't read further........but one of my favorites was when she took two rolls of pasta out of a boiling pot by hand and said "these are as hot as a stiff cock!" Does it really get better than hearing that from a Julia Child character?! I mean seriously. I also really enjoyed her line when her and her sister were standing in front of the mirror and she said "Not bad....*pause.............but not great". This is how I feel every time I look in the mirror! OMG I'M Julia Child! Amy Adams was equally as good. She was so good that I only had the vision of her traipsing around New York singing "How will you knoooooow if heeeee loves her" while in a gorgeous pink gown once. That's pretty good in my opinion, since I associate her with wide eyed princess perfection. The only problems I had with this movie were that Stanley Tucci should only play gay characters like in The Devil Wears Prada, so I can think that he is available (come on he's a hot bear daddy no?), and the theater I was at didn't center the movie on the screen correctly so we were stuck watching boom mikes throughout the entire movie. I know this isn't the movie's fault, but they should plan ahead for these situations and edit them out. Why can't they make boom mikes green, so they can green screen them out in the editing process?

Hollywood is dumb.

Luvubitch!