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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.
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Amy Adams is just so delicious. But the idea that some bim can make a life out of cooking someone else's recipes (and by life I mean blog, book and movie) just irks hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteLook at MEEEE! I'm living someone else's lifeeee!
Am I just terminally jaundiced or whizzed that I didn't think of the idea myself? Probably a little from column A and a lot from column B.
I'd prefer to see the book and movie called "The Schlong Cookbook and Barn Army Training Manual."
I've always pictured you as a Cary Grant sort of guy.
ReplyDeleteSince you've got netflix, you want to stream it in. I used to jack it off the 'puter, but this Samsung blue rayer does the same thing. Nowadays, I hardly ever bother with putting a disc in. Side note: I was in Peace Corps with the owner of Netflix. Good quality guy, even if a Democrat.
Julia was an original, the rest of them are not. Mastering the Art of French Cooking DID change the world.
ReplyDeleteOh, since Roy Scheider is dead, I'm stumped. Maybe Nicholson.
Casca
Damn Casca, you nailed it (sort of)
ReplyDeleteChristian Slater was who I was trying to remember. He's me.
Tom Selleck. Carrying a Thompson sub-machine gun. That's how I picture Roger. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Rutger Hauer.
ReplyDeleteI'd be played by Orlando Bloom.
Liam Nielsen , from "Taken". He's almost a modern day John Wayne ! smibsid
ReplyDeleteSave the liver!
ReplyDeleteTim
Rodge - Always appreciate your movie recommendations. Julie & Julia added to my queue. Merci vrai roi de la France.....
ReplyDeleteJust watched the Beeb's Cranford this weekend. I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did. It's a good'un.
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