Julia Roberts

[kateln]

Nov 1, 2017 14:43:10 GMT -4 Persephone said:

I like Notting Hill. Not so much for Julia or Hugh but the characters around them. They made the movie.

Couldn't get through that one either.

[Auroranorth]

I think the only film of hers I've made it through was Steel Magnolias and I wasn't watching for her.

[Ginger]

Nov 1, 2017 16:42:21 GMT -4 chonies said:

I saw My Best Friend's Wedding in Ireland when I was doing a study abroad. I somehow managed to get attached to these dreary girls in the hostel who only wanted to go to the movies. I can't recall now if this was Galway or Cork, but whatever. I kept trying to convince myself that I was lucky to be able to watch a terrible movie abroad.

I wrapped up my college summer abroad in Dublin and was so exhausted I stumbled into a movie theater and watched Armageddon, which I would *never* do at home.

I now know why those big action movies make money abroad - there was only one theater and it was the only thing playing.

[forever1267]

My Best Friend's Wedding SPOILER for a 20 year old movie: That plot point with dropping out of college gets explained (in a good way) later in the film. And Julia learns her lesson, the hard way.

The trailer for Wonder. Opening the weekend before Thanksgiving, this definitely looks more of an Audience Pleaser than Oscar Bait, but with no behemoth taking over the Oscars this year, a feel good movie about family and overcoming obstacles in society might make for a movie like Terms of Endearment or Since You Went Away.

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Okay, I think I'm gonna have to see Wonder, mainly for Jacob Tremblay and Owen Wilson. In other gag-me news, Joolia is on the interview circuit for it, and she's saying the key to joy is to "marry the right person". I think his first wife already thought she had married the right person. She actually mentions her perfect marriage a lot, and I'm starting to think she's trolling us.

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I love Notting Hill even though Julia REALLY played Julia in that one. But, in that partic movie, it worked.

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I will always love Hook. The "Julia Roberts"-ing was kept to a minimum in that one. I think I remember one scene with her braying laugh but otherwise she wasn't the focal point.

[prisma]

Man, but did she look awful in that wig they put her in for Tinkerbell.

I have to admit that I enjoy Erin Brockovich even though she *Julia*s it up in that one in a number of places.

[laurenj]

Nov 2, 2017 9:37:18 GMT -4 @mulva said:

I love Notting Hill even though Julia REALLY played Julia in that one. But, in that partic movie, it worked.

I refused to see that movie simply because of that "just a girl standing in front of a boy..." line from the trailer. The pure cheese of the line itself, coupled with that very particular Julia delivery, just makes me cringe too hard.

Like Tom Cruise, my later-in-life dislike of her ruins my enjoyment of some of the earlier movies that I liked, but there are still some that work for me. Steel Magnolias, My Best Friend's Wedding, Mystic Pizza, etc. all hold up. Movies like Runaway Bride though? Nope.

I think my favorite role of hers might be Sleeping with the Enemy, I thought she pulled that off surprisingly well. And Patrick Bergin is the stuff of nightmares, that last scene never fails to terrify me.

[gremlin45]

I liked Sleeping With the Enemy a lot. Julia was really convincing in that. My favourite JR film is Mirror, Mirror. She plays the Wicked Stepmother (who's hilariously sarcastic) and she loses in the end.