RSSThe Eat Pray Love Movie Reviews Aren’t Exactly The Kindest
September 5th, 2010 by admin | Filed under How to copy DVD movies.
The New York Times Bestsellers list was home to Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert for a while. They made a movie out of it, starring Julia Roberts. The film was released today, and few critics warmed to it. The Sex and the City sequel released earlier this year, also a quasi-feminist travel film, was also pilloried by critics, and it may be the genre is starting to wear thin.
Voyage of discovery
The book details how Elizabeth Gilbert divorced her husband to go travelling and get in touch with her spiritual side. She got a huge advance from her publisher to make the book happen. The film, directed by Ryan Murphy, stars Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, James Franco and Javier Bardem.
Not many high marks in Eat Pray Love movie review scores
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film less than 40 percent on the day of release. Beth Accomando from PRI’s The World said “more like eat, pray for it to be over, gag.” Adam Graham from the Detroit News said the film amounted to “an insane fantasy for rich people.” The Chicago Sun Times and famed critic Roger Ebert was not amused. He said that to truly understand the film, “I guess you have to belong to the narcissistic subculture of Woo-Woo.” In the Christian Science Monitor, Andy Klein said that the sequence where Roberts learns to meditate, it “involves emptying her mind – which shouldn’t take much heavy lifting.”
Critics getting critical
While film critics are often gleeful (maybe too much so) to put as much venom as possible in a review, it seems that there is a common theme. Nevertheless, the book sold a lot of copies for a reason. It is a optimistic leaning work, that embraces an individual getting in touch with their spiritual side. Not everyone will react well to that. It may really have worked better in print. Some may discover it inspirational; others will discover it trite. Eat, Pray, Love, appears to be so optimistic and uplifting that it becomes banal.
More data on this topic
Rotten Tomatoes
rottentomatoes.com/m/eat_pray_love/
Roger Bert
rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100811/REVIEWS/100819999
SC Monitor
csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2010/0813/Eat-Pray-Love-movie-review
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