Streep Steals The Show
Added 11/16/2009
Like my review for To Wong Foo, I'm at a loss for words with this one. Its not a genre I regularly review but I'm gonna try my best. Meryl Streep is just a great actress, she can do anything. Period. She plays the boss from hell so perfectly that there is sympathy for Miranda when she has her little "heart to heart" near the end. Anne Hathaway proves she can do more than Disney films, convincingly leaving that part of her behind and stepping into a more mature role. She plays Andrea very well and she doesn't seem intimidated by Streep at all. Her portrayal as a girl who is naive about the world of fashion but gets sucked into the world of success and begins to lose everything around her is very well done. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are also excellent supporting players in this, Blunt very handily playing the snob and Tucci as the helpful yet sarcastic fashion designer/consultant, whatever. The songs used in the film are superfluous and I wish they didn't have them. They're just really annoying. Well that's all I got on this one.
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"The Devil Wears Prada"
Added 10/26/2009
I loved this movie! I usually choose movies by the actors/actresses that I love. Meryl Streep is one of my favorites. She does a wonderful job in this film and I am sure that she is far from this type of person in her real life. Her acting was incredible!
What caught my attention the most was the struggle that Andy had while deciding if it was worth her keeping a position that she really didn't want but did keep it in hopes that she would eventually get her dream job. She went above and beyond to try to please this woman she worked for.
I was kind of surprised that Andy's boyfriend eventually left her because he could not deal with her being married to her job. I don't think there are many men out there that are happy with an ordinary woman. I haven't come across too many! I thought he would have stayed by her side, understanding all along that she was just trying to reach her own goals.
I know this is Hollywood but in many ways I could relate to Andy and the life decisions she was making, while playing this part, as I too have worked for a few Amanda Priestly's and could have climbed the ladder of success but instead I chose not to live an artificial role...playing a part in life just to have "a better life". By the way, I like her last name PRIEST...ly! I took a moment to look up the word "Prada" because I really didn't know what it meant or stood for. I'd have to sell my soul to be able to afford this line of clothing. I'd have to say the Priestly name fits!
I will watch this again
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I quit! hahahahahaha
Added 10/24/2009
Andraya,freshly graduated from college.who is trying to get ahead by taking a job as an assistant to an editor for a fashoin mag called Runway. She likes the job, likes the free clothes and purses and the famous people she meets.
But Her boss,Miranda is a total lunatic.She is leaves her crap all over everybodies desks and expects people to get her flights during hurricanes. She times people with an egg timer, and an empoylee gets runover ,while buying her scarfs at Hermes.
Miranda never screams,she is totally beneath screaming Miranda plays these pyschological mindgames with her employees,and constantly threatens to fire people,but never does.Because Miranda's office is a revolving door and she can't keep people there.
Andy is scared at first,but then realizes that if she can deal with it for a year, she can get her dream job as a journalist.Also her sarcastic friend Nigel,who is Miranda's only long-time Employee try to helps her succeed at her Job.
The cast is all fab. Stanly Tucci from Julie and Julia and Simon Baker from the mentalist are both fabulous.Also the clothes are great. Like better than Sex and the city Great.My favorite was the green dress Anne had at the end and her bomber jacket.
The only thing I didn't like when when it got all preachy at the end.
Also Meryl did a great job.She has grey hair and doesn't sound like herself.Her voice is much deeper and flat like a man's shoe. She also plays this with such care, which is why so many people went to see and liked it.
My worse boss story
I used to have a boss that came to work loaded and stoned EVERYDAY.He was paranoid that someone was trying to steal his company off him and that his employees were ratting him out to his competitors,so he cut our pay to minimum wage,took away our sick days bonuses,ect. &bought digital cameras to put in each cubicle. He would watch the videos with his buddies while he was partying and write up the wrong people.I got writ up three times on days I was off! It took me two hours to iron that out with human resources. Then next day I am told our insurance forms were stolen. At that point me and two other people put their notices in.
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Movie About A Hidden Side of Fashion, An Ugly One!
Added 10/23/2009
A young women comes to New York searching a job as a journalist. She gets hired in a fashion magazine, which has a very tough work environment with a very tough president. The young women tries hard at first to resist this new culture she got in, however eventually she gets overwhelmed by it and loses many of its personal values and relationships. She experiences an internal struggle on whether she should keep sacrificing her life for her job, or the other way around.
I am not into fashion myself, but I thought this movie depicts a challenge that everyone can relate to. It depicts the struggle between individuality and society, in which society is usually the stronger one and overcomes individuality.
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What price success?
Added 10/14/2009
The young journalist Andy gets a job as an assistant
to a fashion dictator and starts to learn about fashion and
how to get ahead in the world of New York.
Anne Hathaway is beautiful in her before and after
roles, but fashion is a very strange mix of art and snobbery
that travels better among the rich of the east
than the poor of the west.
People always feel that they have to dress the role
of their current movement, so changes in dress
follow the change in times.
Taste is another matter and probably can't be dictated
by plastic goddesses? The Quaker plain clothes and plain speaking for me.
I liked Hathaway, but despised this movie.
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Streep Steals The Show
Added 11/16/2009
Like my review for To Wong Foo, I'm at a loss for words with this one. Its not a genre I regularly review but I'm gonna try my best. Meryl Streep is just a great actress, she can do anything. Period. She plays the boss from hell so perfectly that there is sympathy for Miranda when she has her little "heart to heart" near the end. Anne Hathaway proves she can do more than Disney films, convincingly leaving that part of her behind and stepping into a more mature role. She plays Andrea very well and she doesn't seem intimidated by Streep at all. Her portrayal as a girl who is naive about the world of fashion but gets sucked into the world of success and begins to lose everything around her is very well done. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are also excellent supporting players in this, Blunt very handily playing the snob and Tucci as the helpful yet sarcastic fashion designer/consultant, whatever. The songs used in the film are superfluous and I wish they didn't have them. They're just really annoying. Well that's all I got on this one.
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"The Devil Wears Prada"
Added 10/26/2009
I loved this movie! I usually choose movies by the actors/actresses that I love. Meryl Streep is one of my favorites. She does a wonderful job in this film and I am sure that she is far from this type of person in her real life. Her acting was incredible!
What caught my attention the most was the struggle that Andy had while deciding if it was worth her keeping a position that she really didn't want but did keep it in hopes that she would eventually get her dream job. She went above and beyond to try to please this woman she worked for.
I was kind of surprised that Andy's boyfriend eventually left her because he could not deal with her being married to her job. I don't think there are many men out there that are happy with an ordinary woman. I haven't come across too many! I thought he would have stayed by her side, understanding all along that she was just trying to reach her own goals.
I know this is Hollywood but in many ways I could relate to Andy and the life decisions she was making, while playing this part, as I too have worked for a few Amanda Priestly's and could have climbed the ladder of success but instead I chose not to live an artificial role...playing a part in life just to have "a better life". By the way, I like her last name PRIEST...ly! I took a moment to look up the word "Prada" because I really didn't know what it meant or stood for. I'd have to sell my soul to be able to afford this line of clothing. I'd have to say the Priestly name fits!
I will watch this again
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I quit! hahahahahaha
Added 10/24/2009
Andraya,freshly graduated from college.who is trying to get ahead by taking a job as an assistant to an editor for a fashoin mag called Runway. She likes the job, likes the free clothes and purses and the famous people she meets.
But Her boss,Miranda is a total lunatic.She is leaves her crap all over everybodies desks and expects people to get her flights during hurricanes. She times people with an egg timer, and an empoylee gets runover ,while buying her scarfs at Hermes.
Miranda never screams,she is totally beneath screaming Miranda plays these pyschological mindgames with her employees,and constantly threatens to fire people,but never does.Because Miranda's office is a revolving door and she can't keep people there.
Andy is scared at first,but then realizes that if she can deal with it for a year, she can get her dream job as a journalist.Also her sarcastic friend Nigel,who is Miranda's only long-time Employee try to helps her succeed at her Job.
The cast is all fab. Stanly Tucci from Julie and Julia and Simon Baker from the mentalist are both fabulous.Also the clothes are great. Like better than Sex and the city Great.My favorite was the green dress Anne had at the end and her bomber jacket.
The only thing I didn't like when when it got all preachy at the end.
Also Meryl did a great job.She has grey hair and doesn't sound like herself.Her voice is much deeper and flat like a man's shoe. She also plays this with such care, which is why so many people went to see and liked it.
My worse boss story
I used to have a boss that came to work loaded and stoned EVERYDAY.He was paranoid that someone was trying to steal his company off him and that his employees were ratting him out to his competitors,so he cut our pay to minimum wage,took away our sick days bonuses,ect. &bought digital cameras to put in each cubicle. He would watch the videos with his buddies while he was partying and write up the wrong people.I got writ up three times on days I was off! It took me two hours to iron that out with human resources. Then next day I am told our insurance forms were stolen. At that point me and two other people put their notices in.
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