eat pray love. the movie version.

as part of our first official meeting of the "pdc dance moms book club", we decided to watch the film "eat pray love" becauser we read the book.  i don't know if it's hollywood or just the way life goes but most of my book club meetings are viewings of movie versions of the books we read.  so i checked it out from the library for us to watch.

if you read my post on the book, you know that i avoided the movie when it was in theaters because it knew it would give me the traveling bug.  i also avoided it because i absolutely love "dog days are over" by florence and the machine and was worried the movie would ruin my love for it because it was in the trailer.  (surprisingly it was not in the film.)

if you read, you would also know that i didn't care for the book.  and not surprisingly, i didn't really care for the movie.  i mean i will always love julia roberts (but i mean she was a little too old for this role, gilbert was supposed to be in her early thirties) and all the men in the movie were hot (more on this later), but it was still kinda whatever.  the only thing that i did enjoy was the forgiveness/wedding flashback scene with julia and billy crudup (by the way when did he get so gross?  he is not the golden god from "almost famous".)  i was worried that that scene was going to be melodramatic especially since there was that emotional but i saw as awkward scene about richard from texas' alcoholism.  i loved richard from texas in the book, and in the movie, but that scene was too much.  i mean they could have set up that scene using the book version (and thus real-life version) and it would have been fine.  but i thought it was very tender that they got their "real" first dance.  it was sweet and sentimental.  and not at all cheesy . . . in my opinion.

i also did not agree with some of the actors/actresses picked. i mean all of the men were hot and gorgeous.  james franco, swoon!  i would have been a basketcase in india for him!  and giovanni, double swoon!  and so enjoyed that.  but thought wayan was a little oldish and not as pretty as i imagined her in my head as i read.  also the swedish guy was not drool worthy enough, i mean swedes are hot!

all in all, the film was ho hum.  i mean the india part bored me, just like it did in the book.  she also annoyed me too, just like in the book.  i guess i kinda had high hopes, julia roberts!  plus ryan murphy directed and adapted the screenplay.  i mean everything he makes is amazing.  but his magic was missing from this, maybe it was because of elizabeth gilbert's lameness.  i'm not sure who to blame.  but all in all, if you haven't seen it, don't stress out about life, just wait til tbs starts airing it every weekend.