castleinthesky wrote:
Just Myself, your pretty wrong, Marie Antoinette and The Devil Wears Prada were great (Marie) and good (Devils) respectively.
Actually, I believe your pretty wrong. As Roeper so correctly put it,
Marie Antoinette is a frothy milkshake with no nutrients. Yeah, it's pretty to look out, but it's mind-numbingly dull, and honestly, how many times can the relatively modern soundtrack in a period piece setting work? It suited
A Knight's Tale, as it was fast paced and lively; MA was so slow it made its already bloated 2 hour 3 minute running time seem like an eternity. How is this piece of fashion porn the second best film of the year?
And while we're on the subject of fashion porn, don't get me started on
The Devil Wears Prada. Now, I never read the book and honestly never had interest, and probably never would have seen the film had my female friends not dragged me to it (they also disliked it, though not as extremely as myself). I'll admit, Meryl Streep gives an interesting performance and at times is fun to watch, but everyone else around her is so limp and uninteresting it's as if she really is Beelzebub and everyone around her is melting in her presence. The plot is at times so unbelievable and preachy it feels like I'm watching a Lifetime original movie in slow motion.
Overall, two god awful films that had me fleeing the aisles at warp speeds; and yes, I realize both films are female driven, but these are poorly made female driven films and there were others this year that were likable on their own merits. See:
The Holiday.
Cheers,
JM
