Comments on: Julie and Julia and Nigel and Pammy Faye

By: dogpossum

dogpossum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:52:18 +0000

I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would. But I found Julie really irritating and not at all someone I’d like to meet. Unlike Julia, who I loved. And Stanley Tucci. MMMmmmmm, Stanley Tucci. Nom nom nom nom nom.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:22:39 +0000

I didn’t think Julia was always pissed, just that her manner – like her physical appearance – was not firmly bolted into the middle of “normal”. I liked her not-rightness, and the depth of her relationships with women. OTOH, “Julie” didn’t have much to offer, did she? I think it would have been more interesting if the tensions with her husband were featured – as the tensions with her friends were – but perhaps that’s asking for too much. Would have rounded out her character a bit though.,

I enjoyed the film very much, not least because it was a little reward for looking after the kids all weekend while Owy went to the Australian Amateur Home Brewing Championships. Also, I want Julia’s kitchen with its nice high benches. Even at 5’11″ I find ordinary height kitchen benches pretty miserable.

By: emica

emica — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:03:42 +0000

I went with my Mum & we both loved the film. I didn’t think it was a minute too long, it looked gorgeous, but i do agree with the general sentiment that, up against such a character, and one played by the amazing Meryl Streep, poor Julie/ Amy Adams is a bit over shadowed.

I just read that Virginia Willis piece and crikey that really rubbed me up the wrong way! Irritating?! What boring writing. And so stilted. And really catty. And self serving.

I’m interested to read the follow up book, how about ‘butchery & betrayal’ :)

By: Cristy

Cristy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:44:54 +0000

‘kay. Sounds like a good plan.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:20:31 +0000

I’ll sneak out with you, Cristy.

By: Cristy

Cristy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:29:56 +0000

Oh I really want to see this film! When to sneak out and who to do it with though…

Great review, BTW.

By: Dr Sista Outlaw

Dr Sista Outlaw — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:33:31 +0000

So it should, bloody hell … the onion scene made me laugh because to make Julia’s onion tart you need to mince 1 kg of onions and, as I frequently doubled the recipe, that meant I would mince 2kg of onions, which takes some doing, I tell you. That huge pile on her table! Alors!!

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00:08 +0000

Zoe, it’s worth the price of the ticket for the onion scenes alone.

The Virginia Willis thing is intriguing — I can see exactly why you are irritated, but on the other hand I can see her point too. That tension between trained experts and non-trained non-experts is, interestingly, addressed in the movie. By the onion scenes, in fact.

I saw the movie (which I mainly adored, esp Their Meryl and the lovely Stanley Tucci) with a resolutely anti-blogging friend, and it seemed to me that Ephron was carefully pacifying the anti-blogging brigade at one point in her dialogue. Maybe she thought the movie’s target demographic would need pacifying, and who knows, maybe she was right. But that irritated the bejesus out of me.