Going to the Movies..

I love a trip to the movie theater.. especially when the movie is worth the now eight bucks you have to pay..
However, I do not pay said $8 to hear you talk to your neighbor, watch you check your cell phone, or listen to you answer that damned thing either. I absolutely want to resort to physical violence when any of those things happen. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is important enough for you to interupt MY viewing of the movie that I PAID to SEE!

Alright, off my soapbox..
Saw Eat, Pray, Love this weekend..
I give it an overall 7 out of 10 and as far as adaptation from the book I give it a 7.5.
Julia Roberts as Liz.. is, for the most part, believable. Granted Julia is older and looks older than Liz is in the book, but I cannot honestly come up with someone in their mid-30's actress wise who I could see playing Liz instead of Julia.
They did an excellent job on the actors playing Ketut and his wife.. Richard in India...Wayan (although there wasn't enough of her & the way they thrust the house thing in there was like "oh yeah, she got her a house, we should add that") then there is Jarvier Bardem as Felipe. That was THE BEST casting of the entire movie. Not only because Bardem is HAWT, but because he is such a good actor.. I believed in him as Felipe wholeheartedly...
For the most part they did a good job on the three different locations she goes to on her journey..capturing the beauty and essence of each..I cannot imagine how hard it was to condense each the way they did. The screenplay was well written and they even added some memorable lines that were not in the book. I laughed and cried in most of the parts I did in the book..perhaps not as much.. and I was craving Italian food as soon as we left.

Disappointments:
I was not happy with the way they portrayed Liz's ex-husband. In no way did I picture him as a bumbling idiot and the moviemakers when above and beyond in making him that way. It was disappointing especially since they did choose a good actor for the role..
Moving on to the bad.. James Franco in no way, shape, or form is David. First of all, he was a bad actor badly playing a bad actor. And the relationship he had with Julia in the movie was not at all believable. I did not think these two were starcrossed lovers destined to forever be linked by their souls at all.. A.) He was too young.(Liz & David are closer in age in the book) B.) he was just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. It was painful to watch every scene "David" was in because of just how bad Franco is..


There were, as with all movies taken from books, alot of things done differently and a lot of things left out that I wished weren't.
The book resounded so much with me that I will forever love it.. the movie.. eh..notsomuch..

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