This past weekend we rented "Eat, Pray, Love" from the local RedBox. I knew going into it that it was a "chick flick" but that's ok, I don't mind those types of movies at times. I had also seen some reviews on Facebook where people had said that they had liked it.
They must have been suffering from insomnia and they are thankful the movie gave them some sleep. Ok, it might not have been quite that bad but it wasn't good either.
Again, as has turned into a bit of the norm, "spoilers" start right away...
The story is about a woman who found herself in a marriage that she didn't want to be in. She then left her husband and found herself in a relationship with a younger man. As is with the character, she finds that she isn't happy in that relationship before long as well. Having been in and out of relationships she decides that instead she is going to remain unattached and travel to Rome, India, and Bali (or somewhere equally unimportant to the whole story). In Rome she finds some friends and becomes "happy" again so she moves on to India where she lives at a temple/religious location. There she finds herself very unhappy and another American there gives her grief until he reveals that he is there because of past things he has done as well. He leaves and shortly after she "forgives herself" and leaves as well for the beach. There she "interns" under some religious guy she met on a previous trip there, gets run off the road by a guy who ... surprise, surprise ... becomes her love interest, and then after fighting to not get too attached at the end (but only at the end) finally gives in to him ... though you still don't know how it all turns out down the road.
The movie wasn't horrible, but it wasn't anything better than just ok either. In fact as a chick flick my fiancee found herself losing interest quite a bit and looking around the room or doing whatever caught her attention until she realized she wasn't watching the movie. I think that is the best proof I can offer to my views on the movie.
The plot is just slow and plugs along, never really rising or falling and thus is just kinda flat. Adding to that the movie was fairly long and felt even longer than it was. The transitions from place to place weren't well done either. There weren't any real surprises either, with a pretty predictable storyline from the start to the end, and that also added to the 'meh' factor of the movie.
The characters weren't all that interesting either, and granted the only one that was in more than a third of it was the main character but there was no real connection to any of them nor were they developed well.
Overall despite being not bad but ok the movie really isn't worth seeing in my opinion. They say the book is better than the movie but I'll likely not find out. I have plenty of things to read already with not enough time to read them all and this just doesn't fit in with the things that I like to read in the first place.
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