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- First reviewMarch 28, 2010
- Last reviewAugust 14, 2010
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Eat, Prey, Love? One out of three isn't bad
PostedAugust 14, 2010
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from Phoenix, AZ
A pleasant movie, but for some inexplicable reason it dwells on Gilbert's ex-husband, the guy she meets in Italy, the guy she meets in India, and the guy(s) she meets in Bali.
In the book, this was covered in a score of pages, emphasizing her attempt to put all of these things behind her in order to immerse herself, reinvent herself, and purge her life of these entangled interludes. She does this through food in Italy, prayer in India, and an adventure in Bali.
In the movie we get almost no food and hardly any prayer, replaced with pervasive, and relentless, love and relationship threads. The take-away moral of the movie is that Liz just won't be happy until she finds a good man (a sentiment repeated by every native women she meets). Sadly, this is the antitheses of the book.
The movie should have simply been titled "Love." We could then, at least, hope for the sequels "Eat" and "Pray."
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Missed the Point
PostedMarch 28, 2010
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from Phoenix, AZ
A rehash of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The Golden Compass, Star Wars, and The Lion King, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is every hero cycle movie you've ever seen, dressed up in the costumes of Alice in Wonderland. It even includes a moral.
This is regrettable, because Lewis Carroll hated the preachy morality tales of the era. He openly mocked them in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. So to rewrite Alice in Wonderland with such a shallow premise, two dimensional characters, and predictable plot is like watching Ivy League schoolchildren dress up in leather jackets and pretend to be "rebels." The irony would be laughable, if wasn't so sad.
All of this is a disservice to the amazing costumes, sets, special effects, and effective use of 3D. So if you enjoy the technical aspects of film making, you might enjoy this corruption of Alice in Wonderland. I'm sure Lewis Carroll wouldn't.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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