Movie comments, outbursts, quips and general chatter
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duckface
I agree. Watching that movie, I wanted to hurt someone. I was like "Why the hell is everyone being such a dick? She's trying to be good at her job... since when is that a problem?"
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duckface
I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the first time yesterday (properly that is - I remember watching it when I was about nine or ten and not liking it).
Holy fuck, they don't make them like that anymore. Although The Tree Of Life sounds like it might be its spiritual successor.
Holy fuck, they don't make them like that anymore. Although The Tree Of Life sounds like it might be its spiritual successor.
duckface said:
That's what drives me nuts about Hollywood. In films 'careerism = bad' whilst the film industry is full of ruthless careerists who'd sell their grandmother and pimp out their sister for an Associate Producer credit or Golden Globe nomination.
The Devil Wears Prada has crazy morals... but it's not like it's the movie's fault. We have to blame the author of the book, who sees the world of fashion as too ruthless and inconsequantial for her, yet finds it morally acceptable to write a tell-all book about her boss (thinly-veiled as fiction). What sort of message is that for the audience!? I'm going to make a living by writing horrible things about a public figure, but that's ok because they were very demanding when I worked for them...
I always hated Anne Hathaway's character in that film. Ungrateful bitch.
I always hated Anne Hathaway's character in that film. Ungrateful bitch.
I didn't mind the ending to The Devil Wears Prada (the following two paragraph contain SPOILERS for The Devil Wears Prada, and is a bit rant-y, I suppose). I didn't find her friends that irritating (certainly, I didn't care about any of them, but still - they didn't take away from my enjoyment of the film either). Sure, her female friend got a little bit irritated in the gallery but it was perfectly justifiable (she is also friends with Andie's boyfriend, and thought she saw her cheating).
A lot of these type of films end with the lead character completely changed by the end of the film, for a stupid reason (comprimising a bit of herself for the love of a man because a wedding is everything in romcom land), but it wasn't the case in this film. The job changed Andie (obviously she didn't become a full-blown psychopath or anything, but going to Paris, etc. didn't seem like things she would have done before Runway). The talk with Miranda in the limo helped her realise this (great scene, I bet this is why Streep got the Oscar nomination), she quit, and ended the film in a better place because of it.
Hathaway, Blunt, and Streep rocked the movie.
A lot of these type of films end with the lead character completely changed by the end of the film, for a stupid reason (comprimising a bit of herself for the love of a man because a wedding is everything in romcom land), but it wasn't the case in this film. The job changed Andie (obviously she didn't become a full-blown psychopath or anything, but going to Paris, etc. didn't seem like things she would have done before Runway). The talk with Miranda in the limo helped her realise this (great scene, I bet this is why Streep got the Oscar nomination), she quit, and ended the film in a better place because of it.
Hathaway, Blunt, and Streep rocked the movie.
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duckface
itsthemanbearpig said:
There you go.
I normally don't mind/like Anne Hathaway (phenomenal in Rachel Getting Married), but in Prada she was grating beyond belief.
duckface said:
I didn't get past the first 30 mins of Rachel Getting Married. There's only so much lo-fi American indie realtionship angst one man can take
Rachel Getting Married is very similar to my dislike for 500 Days of Summer. I love independent films, but unfortunately, it felt like the buzz word was 'indie', a lot like Elizabethtown.
I was watching films on two very long train journeys recently. I was watching American Beauty and this woman kept looking at it with a horrified face, like I'm watching porn or something in view of everyone?!
I was watching films on two very long train journeys recently. I was watching American Beauty and this woman kept looking at it with a horrified face, like I'm watching porn or something in view of everyone?!
I love independent cinema too, though there was a point when I moved to London 10+ years ago when I went to see every independent film that came out - I burnt myself out of them and got tired of their tropes.
Gus Van Zandt's Elephant and 21 Grams drove me off the edge.
Gus Van Zandt's Elephant and 21 Grams drove me off the edge.
I think both 500 Days of Summer and Rachel Getting Married are fantastic. Ha!
I want to gouge my eyes out at the amount of money Hangover 2 is making this weekend, it's times like these I find myself being a film snob and telling people that although I loved the original, the sequel looks horrendous and you couldn't pay me to see it.
I want to gouge my eyes out at the amount of money Hangover 2 is making this weekend, it's times like these I find myself being a film snob and telling people that although I loved the original, the sequel looks horrendous and you couldn't pay me to see it.
miklc said:
What does that even mean?
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itzkk96
James Franco is a fantastic actor and deserved his Oscar nomination.
Tribal Spaceman
Oh, OK.
Christafa said:
Me too, it was a standard summer blockbuster with delusions of grandeur. I was so disappointed when the final dream within a dream within a dream turned out to be a scene like you would see in a Bond movie. I wanted more trippy landscapes and impossible buildings!
