I saw Eat, Pray, Love last weekend and was not over enamoured with it. It stars Julia Roberts as a woman having a mid-life crisis and decides to go to Italy, India and Bali "to find herself". I didn't feel very sympathetic to a character who is married to a good guy and has a nice life. Sure, her husband flitted from one job to the next but her life seemed okay. It was a fairly enjoyable film but was excessively long at over 2 hours (2hrs 10 perhaps?). My favourite bit was when her boyfriend (played by Javier Bardem) says he's taking her to a deserted island where there would only be "you, me and 200 parrots" but in his accent it sounds like "you, me and 200 pirates"! I'd heard about it on the radio and forgot til he said it and it really made me laugh!! Probably not a good sign that the high point of the film was that!!
This weekend I saw The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud. Another only okay film. It stars Zac Efron as a young man whose brother dies in a car accident and his life effectively comes to a standstill. It did make me cry a couple of times but was a little predictable and I'm never normally one for guessing what's going to happen in films. The major plus point to watching this film is that Zac takes his top off several times and there's also a scene akin to the one in Pride and Prejudice where Mr Darcy comes out of the water in his wet top!
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