Brandon’s birthday is on Saturday and we will be in Alexandria celebrating with friends, so we had a little celebration by ourselves last night. It was one of the best nights we have had! We laughed so much and we were able to have a completely relaxing night.
We watched Julie and Julia, which we both liked! Brandon especially loved when Meryl Streep would exclaim “Oh Dear”. He said it all night long!!
I thought it was really fun to see Meryl Streep in such a sweet, funny role. I feel like so often she is uptight or plain old mean, but she was such a sweetheart and so lovable as Julia. I was sort of waiting for her to become a jerk!
I would be very interested to know how many people bought that cookbook after this movie, and how many people are doing the same kind of blog! It certainly would give you a topic to blog about…unlike this random blog I have never read the Julie & Julia book but I have the feeling that this movie followed the story line very well. Besides the one fight between Julie and her husband there wasn’t that normal story of “break up then have a dramatic get together, the end”. It seemed much more real.
The other thing that makes me think it followed the story line well is because towards the end of the movie Julie gets the call from a news reporter who had talked to Julia Childs who had said she felt the blog was disrespectful (or something like that, the movie wasn’t perfectly clear). The reporter had been looking for a comment which Julie chose not to give. In a normal story line I feel that they would have had Julie meet Julia and perhaps resolve this issue or something like that, but (most likely true to the story) she never meets Julia and there is never a resolution to this problem, you simply move on.
I hope you feel inspired after reading my obviously professional movie review… A few things I now feel like doing after watching the movie:
Read the book Julie & Julia
Possibly borrow or buy the Julia Childs cookbook
Try cooking something more complicated…or at least looks and tastes complicated.