I pray to love and love to eat

Tell me if you agree that Eat Pray Love would have been much better if it had not been Julia Roberts.  Yes?   I don't mean this as an insult.  In fact, it's a compliment.  She's just too larger-than-life for the role.  I think one of the main ideas of the story is to put yourself in her world and experience some introspective insight but you can't do that because it's (one of the reigning queens of romantic comedies) JULIA ROBERTS!  So I'm watching this and thinking- "You can't have problems. Snap out of it and make me laugh already.  You're gosh-darn JULIA, don't you know?!"  ...Am I wrong?

So while the plot was, at times, slow and occasionally felt pointless- I thought it was nice.  A nice, OK movie.  Perhaps the book is worth reading but nah.  I don't want to read about the institution of marriage being described as an institution.  And I kept hoping her story would end with her ex coming to find her and they rediscover themselves and their love.  ...Am I silly?


And speaking of movie reviews, Brenda loves Toy Story 3.  In fact the first time she saw it she came away sobbing uncontrollably.  I thought she was traumatized but through her heaving breaths she exclaimed- "I'm not (gasp) sad, (gasp,gasp) I'm (sniff) HAPPY!! (gasp, heave, gasp...)". 

...Speaking of movie reviews and sobbing, I'll admit that the movie that has made me cry the hardest is (hands down) "Ice Castles".  I was about 12 and everyone laughed as I sobbed...