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Oh, boy. When does Chigurh bust out the oxygen tank and blow a hole through entitled rich woman's head?

I stand second to no man in my loathing of J.R., but I watched the trailer anyway just to see if there's enough makeup and clever camera angles in the world to make her look attractive to me, and ... close. There are a few moments when I can see what everyone else seems to see. But there are also moments (that bit where she has sunglasses on and her mouth is flat and her hair indicates the humidity was 98% that day) when I can't understand why no one else sees her the way I do either.

Oh, I wouldn't watch this movie if you stuck a blowtorch in my ear. I'm thinking of having a restraining order put out on it, a 10-mile-radius restraining order.

Javier, you had me at "champion".

Eat, Pray, Call It Friend-o

@fenchurch

Love the name!

OK, so this is another rich person does something stupid for a year and writes about and gets a book and a movie deal. SCREW YOU! You're not getting my money!

admin, I would watch that movie every goddamn day. This, on the other hand...well, I think I'd be better off slamming my balls in a car door for 90 minutes.

Between this flick and Sex in the City 2 it shows Hollywood really has their thumb on the pulse of America right now. Who DOESN'T identify with a woman that abandons her pampered life to go and live as a bohemian for a year to "find herself"? Did GOOP produce this one?

I know there's a lot of backlash to the book (everyone seems to hate a woman who "has it all" and discovers she doesn't want it), and I didn't love the way it ended - TOO happy - but hey, that's how her adventure actually ended, and it's a memoir, not fiction. BUT - here's the thing - there are basic human problems and desires explored in the book. And if she's "rich" enough to explore them in her way, why shouldn't she? And if not everyone else IS, why shouldn't they read about her journey and take what they can from it? I find the book alternately aggravating and insightful.

As for JR - I've got no love/hate for her, but her voice just seems all wrong for this.

Cause it sounds like yoga-covered bullshit.

Yeah, screw all that Eastern philosophy/spirituality/yoga/meditation crap. Shit's been around for thousands of years. It's old and lame, yo. What could it possibly teach anyone about anything?!?!

Don't you be coming around here preaching no yoga-covered bullshit, Julia Roberts!

It just annoys me when people claim they have to go away in order to find themselves. It's as bad as the people who have to have plastic surgery to make themselves happy.

It works the other way around, you dipshits!

You make up your mind to be happy first.
Nothing else, no one else, is going to make you happy.

Mmmmm, yoga-covered raisins.

I have nothing against rich people having problems. But I feel like this movie is basically telling contentment to go fuck itself.

shouldn't this be called Spend "Money, Be Privileged, Whine"

"Oh, boy. When does Chigurh bust out the oxygen tank and blow a hole through entitled rich woman's head?"

He has to finish his long faux-philosophical speech and then flip a coin, so in other words, not long.

I still envision Patricia Clarkson for this role, even though she's a wee bit older. I have mixed feelings about the book, but comprise as others have mentioned above (sara Tonin etc. ) I might rent this movie, just to torture myself with envy that someone had the money to do this AND end up with a handsome dude. On second thought, I probably won't; there's a enough crap in my life already.

I don't know, I'd argue you can marvel at the mundane things that already surround you if you just open your eyes -- she lives in NYC, right, the cityscape is amazing. Think about how they built buildings that high, dug a subway that extensive (and who did it), and how all of the things like water, electricity, sewer, are all taken care of so efficiently. That is marvelous as far as I'm concerned. Hell, the fact that grass comes up in the spring is pretty damn marvelous.

Forbiddendonut; The logic of "it's old, therefore it has extraordinary wisdom" is fallacious.

Eastern culture has lots to offer, but its age isn't the determining factor. For example, I don't think rampant xenophobia is particularly enlightened, nor is institutionalized misogyny, or the caste system, or burning wives with the dead husband, or bigotry against blacks, etc...

The East isn't mystical, it's just a place where a lot of people have lived for a long time. Some of those people were wise and said some interesting things - others were just as stupid and small minded as the rest of us.

I've read the book, found it very self-indulgent and the character Liz unendearing. I personally enjoyed the Italian part the most for the descriptions of food, found the meditation in India part very boring and her philanthropy in Indonesia very patronising. But thats just me. Javier Bardem, mmmmmmm. Julia Roberts is absolutely perfect for the smug protagonist. Well-cast.