The Devil Wears Prada
 

Just saw the movie and wanted to mention there were some scenes of Paris and many of NYC.

Yeah SeaUrchin and I just want to mention our idiotic 16 screen theater in my city is not showing this movie. See why I complain!!

Did you like the movie? DH and I were just talking about going to see it tonight.

Yes, it was enjoyable. As everyone is saying M. Streep was excellent! The whole cast was excellent.

I was just disappointed in the ending, I would have added more interest and done the opposite, but I won't say any more. I wonder if anyone agrees with me, the audience I was with seemed fine with it.

I do recommend it. LI, I wonder if it is limited release? You have my condolences!

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Above reviewer says " The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama. The first works; the second doesn't ...."

Hi SeaUrchin, it is just that our local theater only seems to show movies that interest children, teens and young men. Had the same problem with the theater where I lived before. So went into SF to see the movies that interested us. But a bit of a hassle to go to SF to just see a movie from where I live now.

I was so mad this weekend, LOL as I really was looking forward to seeing it. The friend that was going to go with me was disgusted too and was my daughter. Bet there were a lot of angry women here this weekend, sigh.

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Just kidding. Have you thought about moving to a more "civilized town"?

Yes bill, Rome as a matter of fact!! And that may happen in a few years.
Bill I live where I do as my family is here. It is a friendly easy place to live but to say it is not the most exciting is putting it midly!

Well except for the shop on Main St., right SeaUrchin? ;;)

SeaUrchin, the title alone is great and from what it sounds like, the movie is too! LOL :) I would love to see it and will have to catch it while it is still in theaters, otherwise, I will wait for it on video. Thanks for the posting.

Huitres, I read the book when it first came out. If you like to read on the plane it might be a fun book for you to take with you!

I wonder if MK2 has a part? LOL

I agree with the critic Kappa posted. Except I did like Anne Hathaway in her role. I would have liked to have left the theatre before the sappy ending, but then again, that is me.

I saw it yesterday.It was a couple of hours of fun,nothing at all serious.The clothes-to die for!!!Meryl Streep?Flawless,of course.

I read the book a couple of years ago,and I believe the ending was faithful to it,as was the tone of the whole movie.

Streep was good - the rest of the cast ranged from OK to amateurish. Had been told it was a comedy. Where was the funnny part? (No one laughed at all at the theater I was in.)

As for the satire - I have had bosses similar to that. I have even been a boss similar to that (not coffee and dry cleaning, but giving non-stop orders to a group of juniors as they ran down the hall behind me on the way out the door to the client). That's not satire - it's just real life in a lot of businesses.

Yikes...every time I read of a novel that is made into a flick, I shutter.

I've been going through this painful exercise daily for the past five months, having my 600-page historical novel translated into a two-hour movie script. Every little change and every character elimination or reduction felt like having a lobotomy without anasthesia. At least the screen writer and I are still on civil terms. For now.
(Will be filmed in Romania eventually).

Stu T.(wife and I are going to see "Devil" tomorrow)

I spent a wonderful week in Paris at the end of May. When 2 of the movie's characters walked along a street near Notre Dame,exactly where I walked several times, I grinned like the proverbial Cheshire Cat! I totally missed their dialogue b/c I was so busy noticing the window displays were different! DUH.

Read the book when it first came out, and I just returned from seeing the movie. I thought it was fun, and although not a comedy, my daughter and I laughed at quite a few of the lines. My daughter traded in the modeling world for motherhood, so we had a few laughs.

Well, yes, satire is the wrong word I guess.

I will just say I enjoyed the movie and so did the man I was with, so not just for chicks!

And Stu you are counting the hours until then? Or not perhaps. But you are a good husband!

Um, Stu, if you are a writer I
wonder if you've been behind the
shutters too long ?
Shu<b>dd</b>er to think !?

Show of hands...?

R5

razzle...as I've said before, that's why my publisher assigns a tough editor to my stuff...of course, you are correct.
Love Italy: we try to see a flick once a week...sometime it's wife's choice, other times it's mine...a trade-off usually. &quot;Devil&quot; is her choice...mine as &quot;Crossword&quot; last week.
Stu T.

I enjoyed it.
I enjoy any film that has great clothes, NYC in all her glory AND Paris!! what can be wrong with that?? :D

Meryl Streep was so good and reminded me so much of Liz Tilberus..the Emily character was hilarious..I liked it ~

I saw it last night too and LOVED the Paris scenes (along with the background music :) ) ! All that movie did was make me want to get on a plane.

I really thought Meryl's character would be a lot worse. As is typical, the previews reveal all the best lines.

I'm hardly an expert on her but, didn't Anne Hathaway play a &quot;Cinderella type&quot; of character in a previous movie too?

Anne Hathaway played Ella in Ella Enchanted, an adaptation of an award-winning older kids' novel about a cinderella character. She was also one of the stars of the Princess Diaries series, which was a modern-day rags-to-riches type of story. She was also the voice of Little Red in Hoodwinked. This role for her (in the Devil)is something she could play asleep. But I really enjoyed the movie; my favorite character was Emily! Her new diet: &quot;It's very effective; I don't eat anything at all, and when I think I am going to faint I eat a cube of cheese,&quot; followed by &quot;I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight!&quot;

That is, in my opinion, worth the price of admission all by itself. :D

Yeah, the whole Size 6 thing in general was pretty funny!

I'm just back from the movie and it was a HOOT!! DH laughed through the whole thing, but of course won't admit to enjoying such a &quot;chick flick.&quot; ;;)

:-))

I liked it, too. I laughed as did the audience here in Atlanta.

The first assistant character stole every scene she was in and I always like to see Stanley Tucci.

A friend of mine has a small part in it (he was also in several episodes of Sex &amp; The City, so knew the stylist for TDWP).
I'll go see it for Meryl Streep, to look at the clothes, and to watch for my friend of course (he's not a full time actor but manages to get small parts in lots of moviews...In Her Shoes, Hitch, Sixth Sense, A Beautiful Mind, Eraser, Independence Day, Godzilla, Invincible, Lady in the Water, etc. etc. so his appearances have become our personal version of Where's Waldo)

Speaking of Where's Waldo, it was easy to spot the original &quot;Jimmy&quot; in Superman Returns, but totally missed the original &quot;Lois&quot;...who's getting on up there in years. Anyone spot her??

sounds like a very annoying book/film.

Saw the movie yesterday and enjoyed the peek at the world of fashion. Tucci does a great job a usual..a versatile actor...isn't this story based on a real person?

Supposedly based on Wintour but Streep, among others, has apparently taken great pains to disavow any and all possible &quot;connections&quot; in that regard.

I saw it &quot;by coincidence&quot; yesterday because I was walking by the Times Square theater- It was so hot outside, and I ducked into the lobby to grab some airconditioning, and someone walked up to me and offered me a free ticket! What luck... I enjoyed it and think Patricia Field did a great job with the clothes. I loved Stanley Tucci (l tend to love everything he does) and thought Ms Streep was, as always, brilliant.
Seaurchin- I thought the ending was a bit of a let down too,storywise- but the final closeup of Streep and her facial expressions were fantastic, and the audience applauded her! The street scenes and hotel scenes of Paris were beautiful.

Anne Hathaway needs acting lessons and a makeover!

You have to love a movie that has wonderful scenes of NY and Paris, and great fashion as well!

Johanna

I saw it yesterday. I recently read the book and enjoyed it - and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I think they did a great job of translating this book into a movie.

At the end, the audience spontaneously burst into applause - that doesn't happen often.

Loved the scenes of NY and especially Paris.

Bellastar, welcome back, I didn't mind the last scene, just the decision of Andy. I might be over analyzing but it seemed to me that her dysfunctional friends wanted to hold her back for their own reasons.

And....there are plenty of high pressure careers like hers, you have to be up to holding your own if you are serious about what you are doing. I it would have been more interesting if she would have wanted to join in the frey! Grow as a character and all of that instead of going backwards to what she was.

Then there could have been a sequel of her own career.

OK, I took it too seriously I suppose! lol

I kinda disagree that her friends were &quot;dysfunctional&quot; as opposed to having a different viewpoint.

Nobody, IMO, was as UNattractive, despite the &quot;fashion&quot; and that overdne eye shadow than Miranda's first minion-in-waiting.

This movie is, ultimately, all about Streep and her superior performance.

As was recently printed in a review:

Miranda: &quot;Everyone wants to be us.&quot;

&quot;No, Meryl, ewveryone wants to be YOU!&quot;