The Devil Wears Prada

M was just playing herself.

It's half a good movie. If it is on a movie channel I might record it and FF through half the film, particularly the parts with her jerk boyfriend.

Really good editing in the transformation scene. Her contract allowed her to keep all the wardrobe.

The scenes with Andrea and her friends and boyfriend drag the movie down.

The movie really has its moments but does drag a lot because of establishing these two different worlds that clash.

It's a very good movie and one of Meryl's best performances.

To me, it's one of Meryl's last truly great performances. She doesn't get hammy like she did in Ausage and I love how he entire film keeps Miranda mostly a mystery.

Agree with r3, Andrea's friends were fucking annoying. I would have ditched them for Miranda's glamorous lifestyle, too.

Love Devil Wears Prada! Saw it 3 times in the theater. Hated Andy's friends tho.

I do love Miranda's line "Everybody wants to be us".

The bitch spoke the truth!

The coats and purses montage is fantastic. Meryl is totally believable in this role in a way that she hasn't been since, including as Margaret Thatcher.

I prefer the PORNO version of The Devil Wears Prada. THE DEVIL WEARS NADA!

It was good fun but it's hardly a classic.

As an aside, Anna Paquin's new television series Flack is trying very hard to be the new Devil Wears Prada.

I thought it was too serious. It desperately needed some more comedy.

Meryl was great without being too Meryl-y. Emily Blunt is the funniest thing about this movie. It’s worth it’s weight in gold for the clothes alone. Oh, and AnnE, as always, is a bug-eyed, giant toothed annoyance.

R13- The original NYT review of the movie praised Meryl Streep's and Emily Blunt's performance but couldn't stand SUNNY, CROSSEYED girl from Brooklyn.

Streep, Tucci and Blunt are all excellent, but the film overall is cheesy and heavy-handed. The dramatic tension of some supposed plotting around Miranda’s character felt so stilted and soapy, implausible. Just dumb, blech.

Meryl actually looks GOOD in this movie. She is put in clothes that are almost the exact opposite of her usual outfits that she for some unfathomable reasons chooses to wear. She has a horrid dress sense on her own.

I watched the film for the first time a few years ago (Forgive me DL) and it was like watching my own life. My first job in my industry was a nightmare (though without that level of influence/perks) and almost 10 years later, I still avoid my old bosses.

Love it. M and AnnE and Stanley are all great, but Emily kinda steals the show. She's amazing. And Adrian is SO pretty...

I enjoyed the first episode of Flack, r11 - but you are right! This time it’s Sophie Okanedo as the Anna Wintour/Meryl character and another actress playing a carbon copy of Emily Blunt. Anna Pacquin is the weak link, unfortunately.

Anne was not bad in the movie.

Thanks for the Flack recommendations. Watched the first episode and now I'm hooked. The blonde colleage is such a hilarious cold bitch.

I thought Emily was great in this movie. I still feel she hasn't reached her full potential since this movie.

R22 - Have you seen Loopper?

It's OK. I think it has classic status on Datalounge because so many queens here wish they could deliver the speech about the belt someday to someone. If it weren't for that one bitchy scene, the film would not be beloved as it is.

Disagree R24. I think it very authentically portrays a job that asks EVERYTHING from you and spits you out. The first time I watched it, I FELT it.

Is there a musical? Can I audition? Please call my agent.

You still have one, R26? Are you sure?

Andrea and her boyfriend and friend circle were the epitome of a sick and boring heterosexual life. Insufferable.

Anne was great in this, and if you found her irritating, it's because you were supposed to. She nails the basic bitch snottiness that's needed to contrast the fabulous bitches in the industry.

It’s a guilty pleasure to the point that I even read the terrible book it’s based on. The main character in the book is even more annoying and solipsistic, if you can believe it.

The weak link is Simon Baker. He just doesn’t fit in.

Agreed, R21. Simon Baker brings nothing to the movie. I really hate that little hand twirl he does when he’s telling AndEE about Jaquelin Follet taking over.

Meryl was great in it, and just as Pauline Kael said back in the 80s, Meryl is better in comedy than drama.

Emily Blunt came off like a Datalounge creation: witty, bitchy and elitist. Basically everything that many Dataloungers would like to be if they were a woman.

I just love how OP just assumes that everyone has seen this movie, I haven't.

It was fun the first time, but the second viewing revealed many reasons why I just despise most human beings.

Streep should have won the Oscar that year over Helen Mirren for The Queen. Yes Mirren was great, but does anyone really remember or even talk about that movie or her performance anymore? But just like with this thread, people still talk about Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. She was really quite excellent in it.

R32 She-Devil is my favorite Meryl

R36 I love watching "She-Devil" and "Death Becomes Her" in a double bill. I almost wish Glenn had played the Goldie part.

This movie improved so much compared to the book, the movie plot might be contrived and somewhat absurd but at least it offers a semblance of a dramatic arc whereas the book is just so meandering, It fleshes out the character of Miranda in such a way that you end up sympathizing with her which is just not true for the book.

One of the rare movies I can watch over and over. Funny, sometimes witty, great clothes, cute Adrien Grenier, and an interesting character study in Amanda Priestly.

This thread and DL in general are hardly indicative of "everyone."

Some really great lines in the movie

I love the stare that Meryl gives AnnE following this insult...it just hits the nail in the head!