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Eat Pray Love (2010)
Bubblegum enlightenment for the travel-less.....
LOL!! "I'm OK You're OK" - Hug-HUG!
Perhaps the many people who did not like this boring film truly understand pain & joy as well as spiritual growth - enlightenment and have been working towards it for a long time..... I mean a hit of Owsley would enlighten these clueless people, ten fold - but acid we found just opened the door, one still has to walk through it and continue to open more doors which leads to the many more doors of self growth. - mostly it's painful, it's a long never ending road. But who doesn't know this? So of course many are blown away at the shallowness of this movie trying to show them the fun excitement & romance spiritual growth is suppose to be sure it;s looks beautiful & seductive in this ridiculous film - It's like watching an infomercial....Get your spirituality and enlightenment NOW for three payments of $9.99 (or by watching this 2 1/2 hour silly naive movie) - This movie is so incredibly shallow with it's bits & pieces of eastern philosophy thrown in, however, the truly lost will see it as heavy, oh what a deep message this movie has and people who didn't like it just didn't get it darn it (stamping their feet) and they just don't understand "pop" spirituality.....Duh.....No, many have gone through these thoughts & feelings light years ago they see the inter phoniness of this movie, to the unaware the movie seems new and so soulful....LOL Who hasn't gone though the pain of self growth knowing the ONLY way to truly grow is through the pain and opening up of ones self to honest real feelings, it's a lifetime of hard work of awareness and honesty with ones self. - who's not aware of this? This comic book of a movie approach offering only airhead pretentiousness while this Liz(Roberts)character is an extremely selfish, whining self-absorbed, self-obsessed human being, expecting everything from everyone and to understand & agree with her side how she sees things but gives nothing of herself in return you know...."do as I say not as I do" and she never really does, right up to the Cinderella ending... .... and if this "speaks" to you.....WOW! Do you have a long journey ahead of yourself with nowhere near enough time.......
This movie is laughable and manipulating and Roberts is constantly trying to be so....oh, just so endearing and quirky....so cutesy, exactly like the bubble-heads with no direction (or personality) want to be like and will use Roberts as their guide in life, who see deep meaning in the this appallingly shallow pretentious film - But to the shallow lost non thinking people this film will seem like a break through, fresh & new, enlightening to them.
Again, this is one selfish person, "Liz" - Of course it has a fairy tale silly idea of what enlightenment is and how to attain it..... that will be very attractive to those who want and expect the decadent music & happiness way to enlightenment as this soap opera movie offers with the usual Hollywood happy ending & self fulfillment because life always has happy endings - such shallow insights? What realization, huh, what a journey, what a joke!- No work necessary just believing ones grown & understand growth is enough for them -So much growth they can hardly recognize themselves- Hollywood "growth" -
Wake up - Get Real - Get in touch already!!
Bedtime Story (1964)
Brando said, "The most fun I ever had making a film"!
I was ten when the movie came out, my dad encouraged me to watch it years later when it played on television. I was hooked...
Brando is uproarious as the American GI in Europe, an egotist, sometimes crude, a hustler, preying on gorgeous woman through sympathy, his good looks and his almost pathetic hilarious charm....David Niven is the slick, cool, rich charming Englishman and yes, he's also as conniving as Brando. Though Niven is a bit smarter than "Freddy" (Brando) - It makes for a weird but funny and brief partnership between Niven and Brando, to seduce & fleece some very rich, sometimes beautiful, but always naive, trusting & very willing women.
And thus begins an even funnier competition between Brando and Niven, as the movie really gets rolling along...as each character underestimates the other in cons and setups, then untimely outwits the other...all the way until the final twist of an ironic and funny ending to the film.
Yes, there are indeed a couple of silly and corny scenes...but overall the movie is a very funny farce, as enjoyable & well written comedy to come out of that early 60's era, (1964) or any era for that matter....Brando is truly terrific - Accept no substitutes, i.e., "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"!