Julie & Julia
by Nora Ephron
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Actor: Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Stanley TucciDirector: Nora Ephron
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Editor: Richard Marks
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-12-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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- Condition: Used, Very Good
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Julie & Julia
DVD Review: Movie-Love, BlueRay required-HATE, political slams-DESPISE
Summary: 2 Stars
Movie - I loved it, except for the political slams, as commented on below. Turning 30, wondering what you're doing with your life, work stress, juggling marriage, toxic friends, finding something you love to do and are passionate about, mostly likeable characters, flipping from Julia Child's life to Julie's life, I loved it all. It's also one of very few movies or TV that have lightly touched on what should or shouldn't be blogged about, which I think is long over due (on a more serious note). Just very light-hearted, endearing, and enjoyable with enough substance and story and character to make it actually matter in content. Excellent acting, enormous talent, well done.
Political slams in ENTERTAINMENT - TV, in movies,comedy, books, music etc. I AM FED UP, I DESPISE IT. Over the years, entertainment has become less entertaining, completely unreliable (constant cencellations after 3 episodes), endlessly repetitive (gotta fit in the mold, don't get too creative), un-imaginative (all stories must be ripped from the headlines, rather than actually written on your own), and recently totally political - sometimes directly offensive, sometimes little slams here and there.
To all of you in the business, from the very bottom to the very top, PLEASE STOP For this movie,the problem is the latter (political slams) - I finally watch a really relaxing, witty movie, actually unique and entertaining, and they just couldn't help themselves, just couldn't make an entire movie without slipping in political slams. I ignored all the political historical slams because for all I know, it was all actually true, and some truths about conversations have to be included and some excluded, who knows how it was chosen, and if any or all or none of it was true, it seemed like a part of the story the could legitimately belong (they hated McCarthy, Julia's father wanted the girls to marry republicans, he was a jerk at the wedding because he was a republican, her husband was investigated while working at the embassy because he was a liberal etc., it seemed to be part of the story, so it was fine). But then, In Julie's life, they had to have a current political slant even though there was nothing in the least that led you to believe any of the characters even cared about politics much less had any specific political persuasion, nothing in this present day portion of the movie had anything political about it whatsoever, nor should it have, the story was the story - for once. BUT not to those in SHOW BIZ, where everything requires some kind of political slant-someone who hates liberals or someone who hates conservatives-there's gotta be something in there to make it clear that every story needs this aspect, even if it has no business in the story.
She misses work and her boss actually says "anyone else would fire you, a republican would fire you, but I'm not a schmuck" How does he know she's not a republican, or her husband's not a republican, or a conservative independent, a conservative democrat who likes people no matter what party they are affiliated with? The typical assumption is apparently that all Republicans are schmucks and only republicans and certainly all republicans fire people for missing one day of work when you had the "flu" but were also cooking dinner for a writer from the NY Times and blogged about it all, making it sound like you called in sick but really weren't, even though you actually were sick, but not too sick to cook for the Times.
First of all, good workers, hard working, reliable employees don't usually get fired for missing one day of work, even if it was somewhat questionable. Secondly, I don't know if democrats or republicans fire more people, hire more people, give more or less benefits to their workers, are more or less understanding about personal lives of their employees etc. I have no idea, and neither does ANYONE else. I don't want my entertainment slamming democrats, republicans, independents, green party, non-party, conservatives, liberals, anyone for their political preference or social preference or religious preference etc. If the movie is about Washington, or politics, or international relations, or anything directly related to politics or a sensitive political issue etc., have all the haters you want if that's what the story is about, but keep your political opinions out of my regular non-political movies and TV and dvd extras and books and concerts. If it doesn't contribute to the characters, the story, the plot, STOP This prejudice DOES and WILL carry over to the real world and workplace at times where you have to be afraid to tell anyone anything you believe in for fear that they will stick you in a "box", tag it "R" or "D" and hate you for it before ever getting to know you. Luckily, most people are good people who judge you on who you are not the "R" or "D". But there are still some who just hate you because they are being told and taught to hate you because you have a different political persuasion.
Lately I am bombarded with hatred or nastiness or flat out prejudice in so many of my former favorite tv shows, constantly in movies, slipped into novels that have nothing whatsoever to do with politics, dvd extras in pamphlets in the package as well as commentary, non-stop in "comedy"-as if democrats and republicans are the only two groups of people we want you to make nasty jokes about, nasty pronouncements at concerts, it is endless and I am so tired of it. Life is so hard already, why can't I get some entertainment without hate?
DOES ANYONE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY UNDERSTAND THAT HALF THE COUNTRY IS CONSERVATIVE? I'M NOT TALKING POLITICAL PARTIES WHICH CHANGE IN MAKE-UP EVERY FEW YEARS - I'M TALKING ABOUT ACTUAL PEOPLE AND WHAT ACTUAL PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK, BELIEVE AND FEEL. REGULAR DECENT AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T HATE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL PARTY (WHICH FOR MANY WAS CHOSEN WHEN THEY TURNED 18 AND NEVER CHANGED). Regular, normal, good people, get to know people, and how they act and what they think and decide if they like them or not. Regular people, have friends who agree with them politically and friends who completely disagree with them politically and love them and respect them all anyway. My family and friends are a haphazard mix of every party and the one thing we all agree on is the nastiness in the entertainment industry and the prejudice all over tv has got to stop. It is not ok to throw people into two boxes and decide you hate them, that they don't deserve even the slightest bit of decency and respect just because you have labelled them with a D or an R. In the real world, D's understand and agree with R's on many topics and R's agree with and understand D's on many issues. As for bosses, I've had two favorites in my lifetime of work - one was super conservative, the other super liberal and I respected and adored them both - they respected me, I still, all these years later, refer to them and their management styles regularly, remember what I learned from them and use it. Their politics didn't figure into that in anyway.
So how about you step out of your nasty prejudicial world for five minutes and make some good movies and good tv, and make us laugh, write good books, and entertain us with music without hating on our friends or family or even (g---forbid, ourselves, should we decide to be, hush, hush actual conservatives or liberals, depending on who you hate at the moment).
Blue Ray only features-I have no interest in Blu-Ray, not now, not ever.As for the previous reviewer who wrote about all the features you do not get as a DVD only customer, yet another knife in the back from the industry. A few years ago, I read about and watched all over the news about how Blu-Ray "won" the competition with DVD and DVD was "over". I was floored, Blue Ray had been out for 5 minutes, the companies met, fought, and decided, without any customer data, without caring what would happen with the future purchases or what the actual public wanted, that Blu Ray "won". Another example of an industry who doesn't care what the customer wants, they will do whatever they want and force it down our throats or destroy the format we love so you are so limited that you are forced to get blu ray. I will be the last blue-ray buyer on the planet if I have to-I tried one and prefer dvd-but now it's more because you are trying to force me to get something I don't want. I am an electronics junky when it comes to video but I was so angry that they decided the format winner after 5 minutes (ok, maybe a little more) and no customer information that I refuse to play along and give them my money just because they demand that I decide Blu Ray is better. I'll decide, with the rest of the country/world, what I want to watch my tv/movies on, even if I have to buy it used!
Since I'm ranting and giving advice, how about all the industries who want us to have no choice but to buy their product, that we may not want, actually give us choices - the freedom to choose what we like best and then manufacture it so it is a quality item that lasts, so we trust your company and want to buy more products from you, and whatever is popular - by purchase and use, not by force and elimination of choice, is the product that should continue to be manufactured on a larger scale? Try it, you might like having customers that buy from you because they want your products, like them, and trust that you make quality items. Rather than the current status quo of shoving something new down our throats,when we all just finally got the previous version, making it cheaply so it doesn't last(while charging a fortune) and we have to keep coming back to fight about warranties and parts, and customers are constantly changing brands because nobody can be trusted, and your taking away or destroying that which we enjoy so that what you want us to enjoy is our only choice - even though it is more expensive, not-compatible with many previous items, poor quality, and not noticably any better than what we had before and by the time we finally accept it - there you go again, forcing something else down our throats. Just give us the choices, and we'll decide which one is better. Make new products, and we'll decide if we want them - not because you stopped making everything else or gave less and less options for what we actually already own and prefer, but because we want it or it is better.
THE REVIEW/RANT IS NOW OVER. I know, it;s just a movie, but sometimes, it's not just a movie, it's an example of so many things wrong with this industry.
Description of Julie & Julia
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new generation to the magic of French cooking. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) co-stars in director Nora Ephron's delicious comedy about joy, obsession and butter. Bon appétit!Julie & Julia is a film that should be relished with gusto--accompanied by the freshest and best ingredients, pounds of butter, and bottles of the very best wine. It lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food's most influential and beloved figureheads: Julia Child--played here with zest, humor, and a sweet, subtle respect by Meryl Streep, whose performance is spectacular.
Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes you," she moans. So she gives herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and to blog about it. As Powell (played with chirpy determination by Amy Adams), begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own--and in the end it does provide the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. But mostly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to Child, to Child's amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any soufflé in the film), and to her outlook on embracing life, and ordering seconds. Streep throws herself into the Child role with real affection for her character, and while certain of Child's idiosyncrasies--including her warbly voice and unflappable haphazardness in the kitchen--are retained, it's Child's character and vision which form Streep's portrayal, and which make the film so involving and rewarding.
Nora Ephron directs with deftness and a light touch, though she seems at times to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan's onscreen tics in Adams (the self-conscious head tilt, for one). But mostly she simply allows Streep to channel Child and her love of food, her husband, and 1950s Paris. And that is a recipe for something truly sublime. --A.T. Hurley
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