[Standing in Patience]

The television show Millionaire Matchmaker had a recent episode where one of the millionairesses and one of the men that might be a match were supposably both in a midlife crisis. She was 45 ish and all over the place in terms of her attention and lots of pie in the sky thinking.

The male potential mlcer (according to Patty) was a guy who want to be the first painter in space (zero gravity).

They were both exhibited strange behavior I have to say...anyways she went on dates that didn't go anywhere and the male mlcer wasn't picked. Was glad that happened!

[Still]

I did not like "Eat, Pray, Love" ....even though I watched in many moons after bomb drop, it still hit a nerve.

When they are lying in the bed and he says "I don't want to go to_____" and she says, "I don't want to be married anymore." Ouch!

[kikki]

I really disliked 'Eat, Pray, Love' too - both the movie and the book.

I thought she was the most self absorbed woman ..........  very unappealing.

Hit a raw nerve with me too

[Wed2Him?Whatever.]

I agree with those who didn't care for Eat Pray Love.  I was sick and nearly bedridden a few months after my husband's MLC began.  He largely ignored me (prior to MLC, he'd have been fawning over me, making soup and pharmacy visits and fluffing up my pillows for me *sigh*).  Anyway, ill as I was he still insisted on taking his hometown trip to see friends and maybe some guilt got to him because a couple days before leaving he'd rent movies for me to watch in the evenings.  One of them he chose was Eat Pray Love and I hated it.  I thought to myself Wow if H watched this he would probably be booking trips for himself all over the place, since it has worked out so well for this woman.  Yes, we all could learn things about ourselves were money and time no object, and could indulge in traveling like she did.  But when it comes right down to it, at the end, doesn't it ALWAYS end up as a relationship with some new person being the journey's "reward"?  CLICHE!!

[Anjae]

I’ve watched American Beauty and Lost in Translation years before I was aware of what a MLC was. So, at the time, I did not saw them as MLC movies. Now I do.

It's Complicated I’ve saw a while ago. On this one I could recognise the MLC man. I watched it alone and laughed a lot. Would like to see Solitary Man.

[BonBon]

I never saw Eat Pray Love because I don't like JR very much anyway however, I read a review...may have been in "People" or one of those types of magazines.  The reviewer was talking about how you kind of felt uncomfortable with what her character did but then you loved her for ultimately being true to herself.

Right then I new it must be garbage.

Actually, I just found this on Wikipedia (note the reference to narcissism):

Maureen Callahan of the New York Post heavily criticized the book, calling it "narcissistic New Age reading," and "the worst in Western fetishization of Eastern thought and culture, assured in its answers to existential dilemmas that have confounded intellects greater than hers." In addition, she was critical of Oprah's focus on the book, as well as Oprah's fans who enjoy the book, asking why her fans are "indulging in this silliness," and why they aren't "clamoring for more weight when it comes to Oprah's female authors

[Wed2Him?Whatever.]

Yeah I have read some negative reviews of the movie as well.  They mostly refer to her as a poor little rich girl, and very whiney.  One of the things about the movie I didn't like was when the main character has an imaginary conversation with her ex-husband.  She asks him for forgiveness pretty much and of course, he's not even angry or upset by her destruction of their marriage.  I thought, hey that's great now go try asking the real guy for forgiveness, and see how smoothly that conversation goes.  There is also an earlier scene where she gets up out of bed with her then-husband and goes and cries to God, pouring our her unhappiness to Him.  She tells God she will do whatever He tells her to, so I guess God told her to get a divorce or else did not speak at all, making her actions God's fault for not saying in a loud audible voice, "Hey people have much worse on their plates than your temporary dissatisfaction, so suck it up."  I think she'd have ignored it.

[BonBon]

Eek...I would hate to smash my television so I guess I won't rent that movie!
GROSS!

[WarriorPriestess]

I read the book Eat, Pray, Love pre-MLC, and liked it alright, but saw the film after full blown BD/MLC and hated it.  Mostly it just struck too close to home. 

I try to avoid films that are actually about MLC, affairs, relationship issues because they just bum me out.  I do like to watch films that depict strong independent characters (usually female) that I can identify with.  When my brain just won't turn off, I like TV sitcoms because they act as white noise to drown out those repetitive obsessive thoughts. 

[Wed2Him?Whatever.]

Has anyone seen the movie Little Children?

Kate Winslet's character has a husband who might be going through midlife crisis, but it doesn't focus on him as much as it does another male character who, in hindsight, does remind me a bit of my own H in MLC.  When I watched the movie I did not really get that part of it.  Anyway, the guy gets involved in an affair even though as is explained by the narrator he doesn't understand why because he loves his wife and thinks of her as the perfect wife, especially in the looks department.  The OW does not even compare to her in his eyes but as the movie put it, is like the answer to a question he can't recall asking.

If you avoid movies that have to do with MLC and affairs you won't want to see this one.