Eat Pray Love

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I am quite excited about this! It brings a story of a woman who decides that she is not happy with her life so she embarks on a trip of self discovery visiting Italy, India and Bali.

What are everyones thoughts on Eat Pray Love?
 
I'll probably see it, but I found the book to be quite self-indulgent. I'm not too pushed on Elizabeth Gilbert, and I don't think Julia Roberts is right for the role.
 
Movie Bob described this as Two Hours of watching some whiny rich chick eat pasta.

Someone will have to tell me if that's an accurate assessment.
 
Haven't read the book but the trailer didn't impress me.

I was waiting for the point - there didn't seem to be one, other than unhappy woman goes to lovely places and cheers up. :confused:
 
It's true her films sell, and as I said, I'll probably see his one out of curiosity. Doesn't meen it'll be any good though.

I also heard that Elizabeth Gilbert was paid an advance to go on this 'journey of self discovery' which made it a little false for me.
 
I saw it last weekend and I enjoyed it. Isn't going to win any awarRAB, but it was a great 2 hours of getting away.

I thought the cinematography and the way the scenes played out to be many times beautiful and inspiring in the first 2/3 of the film (the New York, Rome and Calcutta parts) but the end/Bali section seemed different to me (the "Love" part). Just seemed flat and predictable. But that should not stop you if you have an interest in this film. It's a Julia Roberts film. Many times her films are just enjoyable to watch, she may not be the best actress, but....

You can tell Julia is getting older now but if anyone has ever seen Katherine Hepburn in the 50s film "Summertime" where she goes off to Venice to find herself, it made me realize Julia could play this role down the line.

I think possibly it may be more of a 'girls' film even though I'm sure some men could like it, but also for me, there were parts that reminded me of my past. I went off to France several years ago to live, and that part reminded me of the international set of frienRAB I made being far from home and how one bonRAB with others in that situation, and secondly, I've always wanted to go off to India (I'm sure this is common with many people), but have always waited for the 'right time' which has never come (and I am convinced there is no such thing as 'the right time').

Anyway, in a film like this, there are bound to be cliche scenes and predictable scenarios. Like I said, don't go see it if you do not like Julia Roberts. It's a Julia Roberts film first and foremost.
 
She's not had a hit since 2004, before she took a break to have babies, Duplicity her big LEAD role did v poorly in the boxoffice, only 40m in US, serious ouch!! Valentines did well, but it was a huge ensemble cast, not her name getting bums on seats.

It's doing OK in the States,70m which is average, she's not the draw she used to be at all, I didn't like the book so won't watch the movie, but it was a Worldwide best seller, so should do OK.
 
Saw a trailer for this film. Looks good apart from the casting of James Franco as Julia Roberts boyfriend/husband.

He seems far too young for her, unless that is part of the storyline?

I have to admit, I know very little about the film. :o
 
:D

Not a fan of hers, and the role seems tailor-made for getting an Oscar nod (and as she is playing a real-life person, she may get one)
 
I've never heard of Movie Bob that does sound like the trailer I saw for this film.

I think a lot of men are going to struggle with this film because it does appear to be aimed at women. I'm forty-something, I haven't lived, I'm unhappy. I need to find myself etc.

Erin Brockovich has been mentioned but that was an more accessible film to men. I can see this film leading to some break up in relationships as women start blaming their partners for them feeling unfulfilled with their lives. lol
 
Julia Roberts was fantastic in Valentine's Day. I was more interested in what was going on with her than anybody else's storyline.

I won't be seeing this film though because I saw the Oprah about it and was kind of repulsed by the whole self absorbed, self indulgent, self obsessed quality of the whole thing.

None of my frienRAB seem interested thankfully so I won't have any trouble avoiding it.
 
I saw this last night, way too long, 2 hours 20 mins, the story was a bit cliched, and I didn't really enjoy it, which was a shame as from the trailer I thought I would, I just couldn't feel anything for Julia Roberts' character who seemed to have everything but still wanted more. What I found odd was that there was no theme music/titles at start just went straight in, also a couple of mistakes, Julia Roberts was good but I didn't think the film was.
 
Ive been to see it and felt exactly the same as what has been said.

I get the whole travel bug thing because I have that myself and would love to just up and experience traveling the world and all the different cultures.
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The places all looked amazingly beautiful and was really well shot, and the people she met were all great.

What I found hard to work out was what exactly the problem was that led to her character having so much touture and sadness all the whole way through on this self discovery type journey

It felt hard to relate or feel for her in those scenes, and came across rather self absorbed on her part for someone who really didn't seem to have anything much wrong in her life really.
 
I saw this a few days ago and while it was beautifully shot especially the locations and the food in Naples, I did find it hard to relate to Liz Gilbert, her moaning and crying did start to grate after a while, maybe that's the fault of the script because I felt more sorry for Steven and David.

After seeing the film, not only do I want to go to the location she visited, I also wanted to go out and eat Italian food!
 
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