<p>Ways it could have been a better movie:</p>
<pre><code> Her husband could have met/fell in love with the single mom that gets a house.
Liz could have gone to Rajasthan to ride Marwari horses instead of to the ashram.
The Texas guy could go to Italy and fix the ceiling for the Italian landlady.
The guy teaching her Italian could move to India to be an elephant trainer or Bali to open an Edible Arrangements franchise.
(what was that elephant part about anyway?)
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<p>There was no elephant in the book that I recall.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Dean Morgan</p>
<p>Frankly I had never heard of him.
But I clicked on your link & although he is 8 years younger than me, he attended the same elementary school- jr high & high school that I did. ( my sister is almost 7 years younger- I will have to ask her if she knows him)</p>
<p>So not as * exotic* as Javier. ;)</p>
<p>( according to wikipedia- Bardem and Penelope Cruz just got married :))</p>
<p>My daughter rode an elephant in India- as that was the touristy thing to do- but the elephant bit was apparently added to the movie.
[‘Eat</a> Pray Love’: How Does the Movie Compare to the Book? | Inside Movies](<a href=“http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/08/13/eat-pray-love-book-vs-movie/]'Eat”>http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/08/13/eat-pray-love-book-vs-movie/)</p>
<p>I didn’t care much for the book, for many of the reasons already mentioned. That said, I will probably see the movie when it comes out on DVD- I like Julia Roberts too, but also for the scenery!</p>
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<p>Everything goes downhill after Italy.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed all of it. I love reading about different parts of the world. The self indulgence didn’t bother. I just thought good for her for getting to live her dream and finding a way to make a living doing it with the bonus of getting her life on track in the process. I enjoyed going along for the ride on a trip that I very likely will never take. I thought it was a good easy vacation read.</p>
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<p>Everything goes downhill after EAT!!!</p>
<p>Hated it. An entire book devoted to the author’s quest to get in touch with her inner bull****. Blech.</p>
<p>Wow, worst movie ever. I didn’t read the book, but the movie makes me embarrassed to be a woman. The theater was filled with women, which is a good thing, because I wouldn’t want men exposed to it…it justs feeds into the stereotype that woman are whiny. Agree 100% with wjb.</p>
<p>“Dumb & Dumber” didn’t portray men in a particularly good light ;)</p>
<p>I hated “Diner for Schmucks”. The schmucks were the people who paid to see the movie, and most of the men in the movie were real jerks, IMO. I didnt think , in comparison, Eat, pray,love portrayed women in a terribly bad light.</p>
<p>After reading the book I found myself annoyed at her and felt she was “full of herself”. That is the term my D used. I changed my mind after hearing her speak at the local university not long after the book came out. I liked her and saw the book in a different light.
I doubt I will go see the movie but would watch it on netflix. I have never found movies made from books to be that good. Though in this case it might be worth watching due to the scenery.</p>
<p>I went preparing to dislike the movie (a friend asked me to go with her) and came away liking it. My friend didn’t, though! I think people can read a lot into the movie, and depending on your own experiences, either identify or not. One can say she was too “self-involved” or one can see a thoughtful examination and re-evaluation of her life. At least she didn’t decide she wanted to leave her marriage after she had a couple of kids, like many people do. It may even be the expectation that kids were the next “expected” step that tipped the scale toward leaving her husband when she did.
If the author had taken this journey when she was 19 and single, no one would be criticizing her. I think she may have lacked self-awareness early on, got married too young and matured a bit late. But I expect most of us have examined our choices at some point in time and had regrets, or not, but I don’t personally feel right criticizing her for doing so if a bit late in the game.
I found the movie entertaining, but don’t feel a need to read the book.</p>
<p>I’m in the middle of the book. Loved Italy - wish we’d never left. I’m trying to keep an open mind, but the whole guru experience must be way to far from my midwestern Protestant upbringing because I just don’t get it.</p>
<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>