Julie & Julia review

I actually got to go see a movie on opening night. Woohoo! I do not go see movies very often at the theater due to a lot of things. 1 – Finding the time to go. 2 – Theater is usually full of people who talk/text or such all through the movie. 3 – Really not that many movies that hubby & I are willing to pay $10.75 per ticket. We usually wait for Netflix.

I went with a friend and saw Julie & Julia. It was a good movie. Not wonderfully fantastic and all things great movie. But a good one. Which I will want to buy when it becomes available.

It is a movie about a blogger, Julie, and Julia Child. The movie didn’t really develop the character of Julie enough for me to really connect to her. She and her hubby had some issues to work out and he left to stay at his office for a bit. I found myself agreeing with him more so than her during that argument. I had a hard time remembering his name [Eric] and never really got the whole lead up to why decided to blog Julia Child's cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I feel that there are some deleted scenes that would have helped with the background. Why Julia Child? I liked her character well enough, but wasn't really rooting for her. Plus, I already knew her blog was a hit. Otherwise there would not have been a movie.

I wish they would have shown more of Julia Child. Not necessarily cut from Julie but I really enjoyed Julia. Also, I would have loved to see her get her start on television. I reality, I would love to see a whole movie about Julia Child’s life, but then I am odd that way. Meryl Streep was perfect as Julia. I could almost forget that I was watching a movie about her, rather watching her life.

One thing of note, I saw my high school gym teacher at the movie. And not just any gym teacher. This was the one that had the bad temper, broke a desk [accidentally] during driver’s ed, and was the gym teacher all students feared getting. The cliché gym teacher. Anyway, he was there with his wife. It was interesting to see him in that movie of all movies. I could tell he was there when he would have rather been watching G.I. Joe. Made me rethink all the stories I had heard about him through the high school grapevine. No, I didn’t go say hello. I couldn’t remember his name. He probably wouldn’t remember me. I graduated with over 555 other students. I am not athletic. He wouldn’t remember me either.