I actually enjoyed this film in a weird way, but I do agree with almost everything Mark says about it. One thing that really struck me was the fact that in order to do all the stuff she does, you would need to have a hell of a lot of money and free time. Was more a story of a rich person killing time than a lost soul seeking a purpose.
I quite like the idea of finding out who I am by going to Italy to eat a bunch of pasta. I already know who I am, but I might do that anyway just to make sure.
One of the most disgusting films I have ever seen. It's a view of the world as seen by an American who has never left America. Mark perfectly sums it up with the word 'grotesque'.
errr no not really. She gives off mosy of her stuff in settlement to her ex husband and ventures off with only jer savings and she resigns her job as well.
@@audreyadams9498 Have you read the books? She LEAVES her husband because she just wasn't happy anymore, boohoo. He got all of her money because she walked out on him so she should go eat pasta. She then leaves the man she meets in Bali for another lover post Eat Pray and Love. A cycle for her, leave another long-term lover and then write a book. She is very privileged and has the mentality of her happiness matters more than anything or anyone else. That is some BS. She is a entitled privileged woman who places herself above those around her.
Oh please, just because she was born in a privileged life doesn’t mean that her journey was not a good experience and life changing for her. It’s different obviously for people in other situations, people who cant just travel across the world, but the movie has some good messages. How to get out of a situation that makes you unhappy, to trust your feelings and rely on yourself and follow your dreams. That it’s never to late to do what you want and stop pleasing everyone. To focus on yourself and your spirituality and finally loving yourself again and being stronger than ever. That could also happen without the traveling, but that was her choice of coping. It also shows a very open mind and respect to the culture of others.
In their defence it is true that in Italy we are all handsome, speak with our hands and eat losts of pasta and all the guys look exactly like Luca Argentero
I found this film offensive to all my senses and horribly offensive to every nationality stereotyped. It's as though the film was made by someone who had never left the US and had never met anyone from the countries featured in the movie. So they just wrote a script around what they thought Indians and Italians were like. Clearly the writers thought that all Italians are like Super Mario and jump around talking about pizza. It actually made me mildly angry.
so i started watching this movie just now and then started counting how many times Julia Roberts complains in the script, eventually i got annoyed and bored with the main protagonist and honestly started reflecting on people i knew in my life who are exactly like her. i needed a video that would take the time to nicely critique the absurdity of the film and now i am here laughing my ass everytime Mark says erotic exoticism. thank you for summarizing the rest of the film for me. accurate
I went to work in Italy for a year in 2011 and before going I watched Eat, Pray, Love and The Tourist. Well, let me just say that my experience there was slightly different than what I saw in the movies. I was outraged the Italians didn't invite me to dinner to teach me Italian while feeding me traditional food!
There was much more in the book. The film didn't really plumb the depths, as you'd expect of any feelgood film starring Julia Roberts. Not that I claim great depth for Elizabeth Gilbert, and I don't quite believe everything she wrote, but the book lays out her journey in greater depth and first-person detail.
I love watching Mr Kermode's reviews! Julia Roberts went to Bali to find her Guru in Eat, Pray Love. I come to UA-cam to find my movie guru! Love your reviews Mr Kermode!!
It's easy to go "Find yourself" if you have money enough to take a year off work and live a luxuriant holiday in exotic locations around the world. You want to "Find yourself"? Try and living pay-cheque to pay-cheque week after week and live a good life.
I know a girl who is like this woman. Obsessed with going to other countries and transparently adopts their religion and culture and bores me to death about it all.
'Eat, love' could be a film where Julia Roberts visits a small bedsit in the North West to find a cure for anorexia..? Javier Bardem could be a bus driver on Route 273 that doesn't stop where she wants and they engage in fisticuffs.
@oneworldfamily I think that's Justine with the news. I'm always enchanted by how the news and travel ladies effortlessly turn their BBC voice on and off.
Reverse the gender of the main character and the whole world would really be disgusted with this film. All you'd hear about it would be "Ah, that horrible film about a chauvinistic pig!"
Towards the end, it feels like he'd been noticing how much the chick was amused (charmed) by his rant, and consequently he kind of veers into gratuitous exuberance... Not only is it a Kermodian rant (which is fine, I love near all of'em), but it's a cranked up, caricatured kermodian rant. Just take a look at how the more you hear the girl laughing, the more the flappy hands manifest themselves.
Evidently im late to the party, but I think the movie (the story) fails as everything comes so easy to the protagonist. In each place she finds exactly what she's looking for, and pretty quickly. I know it's supposed to be feel-good, but I mean an episode of The Flintstones has more conflict.
I really enjoyed Richard Jenkins in this movie. Because it seems that he’s typecast as an impatient jerk. And in this movie, he really got to act and just share his humanity. Even if I felt that he was kind of doing a Jim Broadbent with that look.
This movie reminds me of "Sex and the City", it is that kind of vibe. At that time there was no Instagram (actually there was but it wasn't wat it is today) and it has the essence of the modern "look at me and my cool life that is not ordinary like yours is" style. The most cringe part of this movie, that just so happens to be the culmination of the self realization of the main character, is the part when she "forgives herself". Dear Lord, it is the embodiment of stereotypical self help books, a virtue signalling via self reflection. It screams "I am special", it screams "I deserve love". And of course she does, she gets the hug from the life itself and the Earth. I hate it, absolutely hate it. I left the theatre craving Fight Club, for a dose of sanity.
one of the worst movie i ve ever seen. a point of view for other cultures totaly unrespectful full of clise. it is only good as a touristic traveling guide.....(you will like it if it is the first movie you see or if you have no idea of geography...)
Bickering like an old married couple. Wonderful. One of the worst films of all time given the hammering it deserves. Not as bad as The Piano or Truly Madly Deeply, but bloody close
Does anybody else start shouting "shut-up Simon!" when Mark's on a roll? I've watched all of these and it's like listening to a mate tell a joke at the pub and the barman keeps interrupting when he gets to the punch-line. I love the bloke, but by jingo, he can be a bit of a damp rag when Kermode's on fire.
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I love how Kermode always compares the length of these horrid movies to 2001
You can always tell it's going to be an awesome rant if 2001's running time is brought up.
***** I imagine him in the cinema watching it thinking "I could have watched 2001 in the same time it took to watch this nonsense".
Soon to be replaced by references to 2020??
@@schex9 thier talking about a movie called 2001a space oddyssy
Amazing how determined Mayo is to interrupt Kermode's flow sometimes.
"She goes back to Hollywood and Werner Herzog tells her there is no God. The end."
I actually enjoyed this film in a weird way, but I do agree with almost everything Mark says about it. One thing that really struck me was the fact that in order to do all the stuff she does, you would need to have a hell of a lot of money and free time. Was more a story of a rich person killing time than a lost soul seeking a purpose.
EVERY movie should end with Werner Herzog sitting the main character down and telling them "there is no God."
Eat Pray Love: The Herzog Cut
"... But w h y ? "
I quite like the idea of finding out who I am by going to Italy to eat a bunch of pasta. I already know who I am, but I might do that anyway just to make sure.
So Lucy 4 years on ...what went on in Italy ? Talk pasta .
Lmfao!!!!!!!!
😂😂😂
outstanding
@@rippedtorn2310 8 years. She must have gone to that bird island to get off with Javier Bardem by now.
One of the most disgusting films I have ever seen. It's a view of the world as seen by an American who has never left America. Mark perfectly sums it up with the word 'grotesque'.
Privileged white woman goes on a trip to appreciate her privilege.
errr no not really. She gives off mosy of her stuff in settlement to her ex husband and ventures off with only jer savings and she resigns her job as well.
Uh oh, we got someone who's finally found themselves over here.
So basically it's about a white woman so privileged she is bored with her privilege, and has the ability to trade it in for other, better privilege.
@@audreyadams9498 Have you read the books? She LEAVES her husband because she just wasn't happy anymore, boohoo. He got all of her money because she walked out on him so she should go eat pasta. She then leaves the man she meets in Bali for another lover post Eat Pray and Love. A cycle for her, leave another long-term lover and then write a book. She is very privileged and has the mentality of her happiness matters more than anything or anyone else. That is some BS. She is a entitled privileged woman who places herself above those around her.
Oh please, just because she was born in a privileged life doesn’t mean that her journey was not a good experience and life changing for her. It’s different obviously for people in other situations, people who cant just travel across the world, but the movie has some good messages. How to get out of a situation that makes you unhappy, to trust your feelings and rely on yourself and follow your dreams. That it’s never to late to do what you want and stop pleasing everyone. To focus on yourself and your spirituality and finally loving yourself again and being stronger than ever. That could also happen without the traveling, but that was her choice of coping. It also shows a very open mind and respect to the culture of others.
"pea brain", original bromance
In their defence it is true that in Italy we are all handsome, speak with our hands and eat losts of pasta and all the guys look exactly like Luca Argentero
This is what I love about Mark- referencing 2001, Werner Herzog and the Emmanuel films in the same review :)
I love his succint review of this movie; Eat, Pray, Love, Vomit. Simple, quick and says it all.
To this day my favourite thing about Mark is when he answers "Exactly!" to Mayos questions like "what does it mean"
Simon mayo desperately trying to tell mark that he is in no position to criticise or make jokes about people who excessively talk with their hands 😂
I found this film offensive to all my senses and horribly offensive to every nationality stereotyped. It's as though the film was made by someone who had never left the US and had never met anyone from the countries featured in the movie. So they just wrote a script around what they thought Indians and Italians were like. Clearly the writers thought that all Italians are like Super Mario and jump around talking about pizza.
It actually made me mildly angry.
as a culturally sensitive person I didnt find the movie offensive. As you know it is a VIEW of a specific person and her experiences
So did your "Pretty Woman" fantasy ever work for you,AA ? Julia Roberts is your role model ?
"I was talking rhetorically, peabrain." LOL.
so i started watching this movie just now and then started counting how many times Julia Roberts complains in the script, eventually i got annoyed and bored with the main protagonist and honestly started reflecting on people i knew in my life who are exactly like her. i needed a video that would take the time to nicely critique the absurdity of the film and now i am here laughing my ass everytime Mark says erotic exoticism. thank you for summarizing the rest of the film for me. accurate
I never get tired of watching Mark's glorious rants. He gets me with his Werner Herzog impression EVERY TIME. :D
When he called Simon a pea-brain I burst out laughing and couldn't stop.
I love the way Mark says 'populated only by parrots'
dont think people give simon mayo enough credit for being a great foil/straight man to kermode.
"Italy India Bali" instead of "Italy India Indonesia" tells you all you need to know about this film's cheesy exoticism.
I went to work in Italy for a year in 2011 and before going I watched Eat, Pray, Love and The Tourist.
Well, let me just say that my experience there was slightly different than what I saw in the movies. I was outraged the Italians didn't invite me to dinner to teach me Italian while feeding me traditional food!
You should have looked more like Julia Roberts, I guess.
@@ununpopularshe's mid at best
the dynamic between these two is so cool.
hahaha in the beginning,
"theyre going to take a year off to find themselves-
_What does that mean??
_Exactly!" dunno why it cracked me up
This is one of mark's best reviews ever :D
I love when mark compares a film's running time to that of 2001, I use it often myself. By which I mean I've stolen it.
Not at all-you’re simply making an homage to it, a la Quentin Tarantino
There was much more in the book. The film didn't really plumb the depths, as you'd expect of any feelgood film starring Julia Roberts. Not that I claim great depth for Elizabeth Gilbert, and I don't quite believe everything she wrote, but the book lays out her journey in greater depth and first-person detail.
the shittiest movies bring about the best criticism - the film critique paradox
in kermode's case definitely!
I love watching Mr Kermode's reviews! Julia Roberts went to Bali to find her Guru in Eat, Pray Love. I come to UA-cam to find my movie guru! Love your reviews Mr Kermode!!
Eat, Pray, Love VOMIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love the way kermode compares all overlong films to the running time of 2001
It's easy to go "Find yourself" if you have money enough to take a year off work and live a luxuriant holiday in exotic locations around the world.
You want to "Find yourself"? Try and living pay-cheque to pay-cheque week after week and live a good life.
Exactly
There's learning to love oneself and then there's narcissism.
And Eat, Pray, Love cannot tell which one is which.
I know a girl who is like this woman. Obsessed with going to other countries and transparently adopts their religion and culture and bores me to death about it all.
Such jazz hands I have never seen.
You go Mark Kermode!
When he starts comparing a poor film to the running time of 2001: A Space Odyssey, you just know that asses will be kicked and names will be taken.
It took me a long time to find this video again, but that's only because "vomit" hasn't been tagged.
I wonder how many marriages have been destroyed by this childish nonsense
solid review.
Best review in a long time from Kermode.
“she goes back to america goes to hollywood and werner herzog tells her there is no god” 😂🤣 kermode you witty man you
@allaboutdmagic Is there *any* movie that wouldn't be improved by Werner Herzog? I very much doubt it.
Anybody watching these via the rant playlist? Is he going to have a go at every film for being longer than 2001?
I hated this movie. It’s just 2 1/2 hours of a lady crying over how good her life really is. She just doesn’t see it that way.
'Eat, love' could be a film where Julia Roberts visits a small bedsit in the North West to find a cure for anorexia..? Javier Bardem could be a bus driver on Route 273 that doesn't stop where she wants and they engage in fisticuffs.
Best comment ever written, sir!
there is nothing but fear desperation and murder...
I was made to see this with a friend , I never forgave her.
lol
@oneworldfamily
I think that's Justine with the news. I'm always enchanted by how the news and travel ladies effortlessly turn their BBC voice on and off.
Reverse the gender of the main character and the whole world would really be disgusted with this film. All you'd hear about it would be "Ah, that horrible film about a chauvinistic pig!"
Eat Pray Love is also nearly an hour longer than Annie Hall
I can feel the wind rushing through my hair from all the flappy hands action.
Simon Mayo - what do you even add to your own show?
Devil's advocate, i think he is great but this is far from his best moment.
Eat, Pray, Love: Edge of Tomorrow 2: Electric Boogaloo. What a mouthful.
Towards the end, it feels like he'd been noticing how much the chick was amused (charmed) by his rant, and consequently he kind of veers into gratuitous exuberance... Not only is it a Kermodian rant (which is fine, I love near all of'em), but it's a cranked up, caricatured kermodian rant.
Just take a look at how the more you hear the girl laughing, the more the flappy hands manifest themselves.
And Simon is clearly desperate to get a dig in about Mark not being able to criticise people for talking with their hands, but Mark is not having it.
Eat, Pray, Love; an unbridled narcissist's guide to learning to love yourself even more.
stop interrupting the rant Simon!!! jeez
Yeah, it bugs me when he does that too LOL!
richardellipsis Oh no it wouldn't be the same without his dry retorts
Evidently im late to the party, but I think the movie (the story) fails as everything comes so easy to the protagonist. In each place she finds exactly what she's looking for, and pretty quickly. I know it's supposed to be feel-good, but I mean an episode of The Flintstones has more conflict.
I really wanted to like this film, since it was a Ryan Murphy film.
But I heavily disliked it.
'eroticised exoticism' lol
Actually probably the best flappy hands review of the year
So did he like it or not...?
Jesus, is there any way we can get through a review without an argument about
semantics
If only this was available on the red button to go with the show
I really enjoyed Richard Jenkins in this movie. Because it seems that he’s typecast as an impatient jerk. And in this movie, he really got to act and just share his humanity. Even if I felt that he was kind of doing a Jim Broadbent with that look.
Hahaha! The Herzog impression at the end…
@b3108 2001 is a film by Stanley Kubrik.
Well done Mr. Kermode. Glad to see that you trashed this idiotic 'girl power' movie ! A really funny review for a stupid movie.
Simon Mayo doesn't seem to understand what's being said or who he's sharing the studio with. Perhaps he's out of his element.
This movie reminds me of "Sex and the City", it is that kind of vibe. At that time there was no Instagram (actually there was but it wasn't wat it is today) and it has the essence of the modern "look at me and my cool life that is not ordinary like yours is" style. The most cringe part of this movie, that just so happens to be the culmination of the self realization of the main character, is the part when she "forgives herself". Dear Lord, it is the embodiment of stereotypical self help books, a virtue signalling via self reflection. It screams "I am special", it screams "I deserve love". And of course she does, she gets the hug from the life itself and the Earth. I hate it, absolutely hate it. I left the theatre craving Fight Club, for a dose of sanity.
"Eroticized exoticism and exoticized eroticism" lol. the best part...
Yea Mayo sometimes needs to just let Kermode get on with the rant. I still like him though. The show wouldn't be the same without him.
one of the worst movie i ve ever seen. a point of view for other cultures totaly unrespectful full of clise. it is only good as a touristic traveling guide.....(you will like it if it is the first movie you see or if you have no idea of geography...)
why is Mayo such a sarcy git?
They cut out the ending!
No really, what do you REALLY think about the movie?
Now that I have seen the Kermode review, I truly don't need to watch the film!
Mind you, not that I had any intention to do it in the first place...
@fluffymczips it's his show
Bali is the Australian Magaluf
😂😂
Shagaluf as we called it in my day... in fact Shag-a-lot and hard
*ORIGINAL REVIEW*
@Lostdog171 You really need to check him out or you seriously might end up not fully knowing what "great cinema" truly is
If you want to find yourself you should start looking at home.
I would have a look outside first, in case I was there.
You could call around your friends and ask if they'd seen you.
Bickering like an old married couple. Wonderful.
One of the worst films of all time given the hammering it deserves. Not as bad as The Piano or Truly Madly Deeply, but bloody close
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... I almost died laughing after I read this... thank you so much man...
@ec123456789able "2001 a space odyssey", perhaps?
Pea brain..lol. I love Mark Kermode's sillyness. Oh and Poo!
bottom 😜
Ok the end joke got me good.
DO NOT INTERRUPT HIM
I hope this one is going to be a crazy rant...
Entitlement, not enlightenment. Travel porn and as deep as a puddle.
The lady in the corner has lost it.
I should probably watch Gap Yah now
problems of women with no problems.
A loose woman travels the world to ride the carousel. Enthralling.
Accurate. A few clicks and a calculator would definitely prove this
@justlettersandnumber Mayo adds nothing to the proceedings, haha
Does anybody else start shouting "shut-up Simon!" when Mark's on a roll? I've watched all of these and it's like listening to a mate tell a joke at the pub and the barman keeps interrupting when he gets to the punch-line. I love the bloke, but by jingo, he can be a bit of a damp rag when Kermode's on fire.
I'd love to see the film adaptation of that.