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« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2007, 10:03:22 PM »

The impression I got was it was a bad popcorn book that had a little more bite to it due the "used to be Wintour's assistant" connection. Probably helped get it published as well. People guessing how much was really Wintour, and how much was creative license.

Her followup novel, Everyone Worth Knowing, apparently had the same plot, but she had no new material from her own life to bring to it, and her weak writing couldn't sustain a book on it's own. Backlash, bad reviews, lackluster sales.

But the movie of TDWP did well, so there may be a flick of this one too.

Excuse me, I need to pick up a couple of truck stop lot lizards, down a case of PBR, and watch a marathon of Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin flicks to get all this girlie-girl info out of my system now.
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« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2007, 07:43:55 PM »

Yeah. I highly doubt that they "ruined the book" with this movie.

In my head, it's probably more like Bridget Jones. A badly written, yet good marketed piece of litterature, that made for an equally awfull film rendition. Yuck  Thumbdown
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« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2007, 08:58:53 PM »

This would be more appropriate in the "Good Films" section.

Unless in the film, the devil actually wears prada.
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« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2007, 09:07:39 PM »

This would be more appropriate in the "Good Films" section.

Unless in the film, the devil actually wears prada.

Uh?  I don't think anyone in this thread thought this was a "good film."

I'm just confused....
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« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2007, 11:42:23 PM »

Okay, I know I'm weird, but I really wanted this film to "wow" me.  I like Streep when she isn't doing foreign accents. And sweet Anne Hathaway, eye candy of the highest order.

I suffered through the entire thing.  Streep was the ONLY good thing in the movie, except for some of the clothes, but we won't discuss THAT fetish here.

And here I go, stretching my neck for whacking, but I might have found it slightly funny if I hadn't been watching "Ugly Betty" for months.  THAT show nails it, slaps the fashion industry around without losing respect for it.  AND they never "prettied" Betty up like they did Anne in "Prada".

This is yet another reason I find it harder and harder to watch anything with a budget larger than my weekly grocery funds.
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« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2007, 06:59:21 AM »

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Uh?  I don't think anyone in this thread thought this was a "good film."
I know, me neither rally, but it's widely considered as such. Good moves can be bad too you know!
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« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2007, 11:37:17 AM »


I hated this movie. It's filled with the sort of rude, self absorbed, self important, pretentious people that I utterly despise.


That's exactly how I felt about THE FAMILY STONE.  Man, I HATED Diane Keaton's character in that movie, and the fact that she was sick (which was only a plot device to keep her sympathetic, imo) made no difference.

And thats why i did not watch this trash. Idiot grade chick flicks.
I would have told the snob boss to take a long hike off a short pier, and been OUTTA there!
The fashion industry seems to be run primarily by gay men desinging over priced cloths for anorexic woman with boy like figures. No, i can't relate to that.  Thumbdown
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« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2007, 09:38:29 PM »

My sister read the entire book, and found it very dull.  She showed me a few parts people thought were funny, and I was quite unimpressed.  Writing isn't good, either in a humorous way or in a prose sort of way.

I guess it isn't a surprise the movie fails.
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