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# Julie & Julia Turns Eleven Today
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/julie-julia-turns-eleven-today-08-2020/
- Published: 2020-08-07T15:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-26T00:34:34.000Z
- Description: There is a necktie surprise in here.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, 2009, classic movie premieres, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09

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I caught part of a Twitter discussion of *Julie & Julia* the other day, and it seemed to imply that this movie is divisive and that a lot of people hate one part and love the other. Personally, I turn this movie on every time I see it in the guide, because all I want to see is ONE SPECIFIC MOMENT; when Amy Adams makes Chris Messina some really excellent-looking bruschetta, and he absolutely *houses* it, and the sound the buttery pan-toasted bread makes when he bites it and just the experience of watching him devour it is everything I want my next meal to be, ever, always.

I could take or leave the ENTIRE remainder of the movie. Truly. I just want that one clip. Meryl is amiable and she makes me feel for Julia, but she might also be a little OTT; then again, Julia HERSELF might have been a little OTT, so maybe it's fine? And Julie, as played by Amy Adams, gets a very bad wig and frumpy wardrobe and some truly horrible friends -- like, worse than Anne Hathaway's friends in *The Devil Wears Prada*; they are *awful* caricatures -- but Amy gives her a quiet dignity. It's perfectly pleasant to have on in the background while I work, but oh, for me, that movie is all about That Bite.

And now, I cede the mic.

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