Julie and Julia and The Time Traveler's Wife

I had a movie day! That's where I sneak off to the theatre and see at least two movies. And eat a whole bunch of popcorn :)

This time I saw, first, The Time Traveler's Wife. It was really interesting. Not the best movie I've seen lately, or ever, but interesting. The acting was very good. The script.....um, strange. I told my parents not to go - the time changes and implausible premise would drive them crazy. One strange twist, don't read if you want to go see it - Spoiler Alert. The couple are trying to have a child, but the wife keeps miscarrying. They think it's because the child is inheriting the gene anomaly that causes the father to travel through time and is traveling out of the wife's uterus. Yeah, I know. Anyway, it become a health risk for the wife to get pregnant, so the husband has a vasectomy. Hang in there, it gets stranger. The wife is angry with him, so she sleeps with......no, not another man..... she sleeps with a pre-vasectomy-younger-time-traveling-version of her husband. And she gets pregnant. When the older-post-vasectomy guy confronts her, she says, well, it's not like I cheated on you. Okay, weird. I do have to say, this movie did make me laugh out loud and cry, which is usually a big criteria for a fave flick. But the time didn't fly by (no pun intended) so I guess it would get 2 or 3 stars.

When you go to see two movies like that, you need to time it. These two worked out perfect - refill popcorn, find other movie, sit down and it starts. Perfect.

The second one I saw was Julie and Julia. I liked it very much. Meryl Streep is once again, just incredible. I forgot that she was Meryl Streep and thought she was Julia Child. Especially when Julie was watching Julia on tv. It did make me hunger for French food though. Especially boeuf bourgonion, which I am probably spelling wrong. They make it at least three times in the movie and it looks sooooo good. Much of the film happens in Paris, but I don't think they really filmed in Paris, it looked a bit too ummmm, how do I say it? ummmm, clean. I love Paris, but it is a bit ummmm, not-clean. Anyway, I would recommend this movie. I liked it better than TTW, but this one didn't make me cry. I did laugh out loud though. Several, okay, lots of times. The people next to me did move half-way through, but I'm sure it was for some other reason! It was a true story, or rather two true stories, but I wish they would have fictionalized the ending and changed the relationship/meeting of Julie and Julia. I like happy endings. This movie, a solid 3 stars.