<p>Okay, admittedly I did not read the book. I thought the movie was slow and not particularly good but it also seems to me there is a new genre – woman who has a life experience that helps her find herself, successfully writes about it and a movie gets made. While I think it’s great that Elizabeth Gilbert could find a way to travel for a year and eat pasta and fall in love and find herself, most women have to find themselves somewhere between their office, the carpool lane and the soccer field. I just felt kind of annoyed by the end of the movie.</p>
<p>Prior thread that discusses both book and movie:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/979227-eat-pray-love-has-anybody-read.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/979227-eat-pray-love-has-anybody-read.html</a></p>
<p>I saw this with a bunch of women and for the most part we enjoyed it. I kind of liked seeing all of exotic scenery and didn’t really think about too much. But then I liked Sex and The City 2, so maybe my standards are low.</p>
<p>I liked the Eat…very bored by the pray…and the love…feh</p>
<p>I went with some friends. I enjoyed seeing the friends. The movie was not one of my favorites…I know it’s a memoir but I thought it was mighty contrived.</p>
<p>D and her friend saw the movie when it first came out. They had not read the book. Their comment to me upon returning home was “there is 2 1/2 hours of our lives we can never get back.” They were bored by the movie before she even left Italy.</p>
<p>I read the book and saw the movie. The book (IMHO) was pretty good and quite funny in places. The movie was blah. It just didn’t convey the characters in the same interesting fashion as the book. OTOH, many people on the last thread said they didn’t like the book either.</p>