the world is your acorn

We watched Julie and Julia last night, and I was super disappointed. I don’t know what I expected, but I didn’t expect to be so thoroughly irritated with the Julie side of the story. At first I thought the acting was bad, then I thought it was that the character was pathetic. By the end I was just infuriated that a potentially really awesome movie about Julia Child was ruined by this Julie bullshit. On top of all that, I felt a distinct lack of over the top food porn. Don’t get me wrong, there was definitely some. But it didn’t blow me away, or make my stomach growl, or make me jealous that I wasn’t there. Maybe because half of the things were dessert. Maybe there was good food porn but it was ruined for me because I was fixated on the Julie train wreck. Who knows. I haven’t read the book, and maybe it’s totally different, but now I won’t because I probably won’t be able to get past this Amy Adams portrayal of Julie Powell. I don’t know if she is really that annoying, but I prefer to just always remember her Iron Chef appearance: