Julia Effing Roberts
One thing that you need to know about me is that since the age of fifteen I have hated Julia Roberts. Pretty woman had been out for a while and Julia was super popular. All my friends thought she was hot but I never understood why. She was too skinny and her lips were too big.
Then she started making more movies and in almost every single one of them she continued to play the same role that she did in Pretty Woman, namely a vapid woman who makes it despite her stupidity. (There are a few exceptions, like Erin Brockovitch, but by and large she plays the same role over and over again.)
Well last night my girlfriend and I went to see a movie with her in it — Eat, Pray, Love. I wanted to see the movie because the book was a great read (I love reading memoirs). However, the movie presented the main character in a slightly different light than the book.
In the book the main character is on a quest for truth, for God…but in the movie the main character is confused, indecisive, and thoroughly confused. In other words, the makers of the film fit the main character from the book to Julia Roberts’ standard character that she tends to play in movies.
Ugh. She’s so limited as an actress and as she’s gotten older her looks have gotten even worse (this is, of course, just my opinion). Despite Julia Roberts and the drawbacks that she inherently brings to a movie, Eat, Pray, Love was pretty good.
The movie was made even better due to the theater I saw it in. The chairs were plush and reclined. I ordered a beer and an Arnold Palmer during the movie and they were brought right to my seat! My girlfriend and I shared an appetizer and then I had an awesome gourmet entree.
So I’m not really sure how good the movie really was. Either the power of the story offset Julia Roberts…or the kick-ass theater did. Or maybe it was the special alchemy of both of them!
