Movie Review

Julia and Julie

Today's seasoned and shriveled movie revue.

I have sitting in front of the DVD player a NetFlix mailer that holds Cranford: Disc 1.  It's been sitting there since June 6th, 2008, which means the last movie MoSup and I watched together predated that.  We tried Cranford, which by all appearance is a movie I would probably love, but just cannot get into it.  Last night we watched Julie and Julia on Pay-Per-View..  Here's what I thought.  Meryl Streep comes as close as anyone could  I suppose, with the exception of Dan Aykroyd, to capturing Julia Childs.  "Julie," played by Amy Adams,  is Julie Powell, who parlayed her Blog,  The Julie/Julia Project into a book and this movie.   Despite director Nora Ephron indulging herself by making the left's favorite bogeyman, Sen. Joe McCarthy, a sub plot, I liked the movie a lot.  I can't put my finger on what it was lacking, but something keeps it from getting 5 stars.  I 'll go with 3½.  At the film's conclusion, MoSup, who last tasted wine at a Sunday Mass before the flu fright, suggested that a bottle of wine and some French bread- with butter (not a margarine substitute!) would be appropriate.  So we did that.  The movie has that kind of effect on you.  As an aside, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical would make a wonderful movie, don't you think?  Ahem. I would be played by ... I can't think of his name.  Crap.