Sunday, October 15, 2006

Fashion Victim #1

I saw the Devil wears Prada the other day and I have to say I was impressed. Not only were there buckets of pretty girls in pretty clothes, but the anne Hathaway is too cute for words.

What impressed me most about the movie however was Meryl Streep, playing the bitchy ice queen. This was not a movie with a hero and a villain as such (although if you really wanted to you could look at it like that,) what makes this astounding is how much menace Meryl Streep seems to evoke in her minions and by her on screen presence.

Its uncanny, if the evil scheming villain in a James Bond movie acted like she did, well bond movies would be a touch better. The most compelling scene in the movie was all of a sudden Meryl Streep, sitting in a bath robe on a sofa in Paris, no makeup on delivering tragic news of her personal life to Anne Hathaway.

The amount of shock and tension that scene created was uncanny. It was the only time in the movie we did not see Meryl frocked and dished out to look like Cruela De’Ville. Definitely worth a view, this movie is one of the better told stories on screen at the moment.

2 Comments:

At 11:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd make jokes about u being whipped, boi! if I wasn't actually interested in seeing that movie myself.

 
At 5:46 PM, Blogger Sigmund said...

recently at the movies i have seen nacho libre (jack black), teledega nights (will farrel) and the devil wears prada (some chicks... ?)

so in guy vs chick flicks i call it 2 outa 3, not a bad average so far.

Although when we start adding in videos my average drops, it drops even further if you talk about videos both of us have seen, but only because she has a tendancy to nod off when awesome martial arts are being displayed on screen jap or hong kong action style

 

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