Thoughts on an Absurd movie
The Devil Wears Prada is trash.
The editor and chief from Northwestern University gets a job at a fashion magazine and goes to her 2nd interview with her potential boss completely unprepared (not to mention unkempt), and some how gets a job working for the "dragonlady." Bullshit. Who goes into an interview not knowing her potential boss, not knowing the company, the culture, what to expect for questions, and how to answer and dodge those questions. She would have googled her boss, the HR would have told her about Miranda (her soon to be boss), her friends who she has most definitely told about a second interview would let her in on Runway (because they all know 1000% more about the fashion world than her, and she would have been somewhat prepared.
This movie got about as many good press clippings as Santa gets letters in the mail. As far as I can tell the only good qualities in this movie are that Meryl Streep continues to solidify her position as the best actress of all time and Vincent Chases proves he has more to him than being a dimwitted sex pot on HBO. The storyline is unbelieveable (she wouldn't be completely abandoned by her circle of friends and boyfriend) and 85% of the characters are cartoons. I hit the play button on my cable box to see how far I was into the movie at one point, thinking I was maybe 2/3s and I was exactly halfway through. This thing just drags. Garbage, not to mention she makes almost all the same choices any other person would make except constantly reiterated to everyone she knows that her job is awful for her social life but it will provide a key to the universe in the end.
While I wouldn't put this in the trash heap as a complete stinker I wouldn't say its worth a watch. This movie ranks somewhere between a glass of milk that has been sitting out on the counter for 45 minutes and a stale bag of chips that somehow still tastes alright. If anyone has any thoughts to the contrary, that's fine, you can fine me in my study.
The editor and chief from Northwestern University gets a job at a fashion magazine and goes to her 2nd interview with her potential boss completely unprepared (not to mention unkempt), and some how gets a job working for the "dragonlady." Bullshit. Who goes into an interview not knowing her potential boss, not knowing the company, the culture, what to expect for questions, and how to answer and dodge those questions. She would have googled her boss, the HR would have told her about Miranda (her soon to be boss), her friends who she has most definitely told about a second interview would let her in on Runway (because they all know 1000% more about the fashion world than her, and she would have been somewhat prepared.
This movie got about as many good press clippings as Santa gets letters in the mail. As far as I can tell the only good qualities in this movie are that Meryl Streep continues to solidify her position as the best actress of all time and Vincent Chases proves he has more to him than being a dimwitted sex pot on HBO. The storyline is unbelieveable (she wouldn't be completely abandoned by her circle of friends and boyfriend) and 85% of the characters are cartoons. I hit the play button on my cable box to see how far I was into the movie at one point, thinking I was maybe 2/3s and I was exactly halfway through. This thing just drags. Garbage, not to mention she makes almost all the same choices any other person would make except constantly reiterated to everyone she knows that her job is awful for her social life but it will provide a key to the universe in the end.
While I wouldn't put this in the trash heap as a complete stinker I wouldn't say its worth a watch. This movie ranks somewhere between a glass of milk that has been sitting out on the counter for 45 minutes and a stale bag of chips that somehow still tastes alright. If anyone has any thoughts to the contrary, that's fine, you can fine me in my study.
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