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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 02:56:27 PMTHE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (2026):
I saw the original once in the theater 20 years and remembering thinking it was surprisingly fine (mostly due to the acting) though as it turns out I remember very little about it beyond the general impressions of the main characters and their relationships. I was in no hurry to see this one but watched it with Madame nonetheless and - I'd say it must be just about what someone who wanted a sequel would want from a sequel.
Meryl Streep is about the same as she was in the first one, giving something close to a real performance in spite of long since joining the ranks of Canonical Great Actors like Robert DeNiro who aren't actually expected to give real performances anymore. Stanley Tucci overdelivers (as he did in the first one), which isn't a criticism, just an acknowledgement of the wonder that is peak Tucci. (More to his credit, he could steal the spotlight more ruthlessly than he does but actually underplays tastefully in his biggest scene.) I was more impressed w/ Emily Blunt in 2006 when she was fresh but she's essentially still Emily Blunt. But then there's Anne Hathaway. I liked Anne Hathaway in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, was really taken w/ her performance in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, and then settled in to a more or less passive appreciation of her in everything since. Here Hathaway demonstrates why she is a credible Movie Star as opposed to just an actress. She carries the movie on the strength of her likeability, charisma, humor, and - well, to employ the film's own cosmetic standards - her size 6 figure and her eyebrows (...both of which the other characters tell us are outre and undesireable)........ all in lieu of actually having a convincing character of depth provided by the screenplay. Anyway, I prefer Hathaway's Movie Stardom to that of Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman.
Since I've written recently about a couple of early 30s flicks with seemingly unconscious or only semi-conscious politics (and generally can't help but read politics into most of what I watch), I'll mention another small way in which DWP2 surprised me pleasantly. Although the film remains semi-agnostic about corporatism, oligarchy, and Artificial Intelligence, it at least acknowledges (and dedicates several scenes to) the fact that some reasonable people think all three things are incredibly destructive to human life as we know it and will know it in the future. That's not quite activism or enlightenment, but it constitutes more awareness than I tend to expect from major studio IP.
3.5/5 There is at least one scene though where a character texts a lengthy inquiry to another character and receives a comprehensive reply within five seconds of screentime, so, not a perfect film.
I saw the original once in the theater 20 years and remembering thinking it was surprisingly fine (mostly due to the acting) though as it turns out I remember very little about it beyond the general impressions of the main characters and their relationships. I was in no hurry to see this one but watched it with Madame nonetheless and - I'd say it must be just about what someone who wanted a sequel would want from a sequel.
Meryl Streep is about the same as she was in the first one, giving something close to a real performance in spite of long since joining the ranks of Canonical Great Actors like Robert DeNiro who aren't actually expected to give real performances anymore. Stanley Tucci overdelivers (as he did in the first one), which isn't a criticism, just an acknowledgement of the wonder that is peak Tucci. (More to his credit, he could steal the spotlight more ruthlessly than he does but actually underplays tastefully in his biggest scene.) I was more impressed w/ Emily Blunt in 2006 when she was fresh but she's essentially still Emily Blunt. But then there's Anne Hathaway. I liked Anne Hathaway in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, was really taken w/ her performance in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, and then settled in to a more or less passive appreciation of her in everything since. Here Hathaway demonstrates why she is a credible Movie Star as opposed to just an actress. She carries the movie on the strength of her likeability, charisma, humor, and - well, to employ the film's own cosmetic standards - her size 6 figure and her eyebrows (...both of which the other characters tell us are outre and undesireable)........ all in lieu of actually having a convincing character of depth provided by the screenplay. Anyway, I prefer Hathaway's Movie Stardom to that of Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman.
Since I've written recently about a couple of early 30s flicks with seemingly unconscious or only semi-conscious politics (and generally can't help but read politics into most of what I watch), I'll mention another small way in which DWP2 surprised me pleasantly. Although the film remains semi-agnostic about corporatism, oligarchy, and Artificial Intelligence, it at least acknowledges (and dedicates several scenes to) the fact that some reasonable people think all three things are incredibly destructive to human life as we know it and will know it in the future. That's not quite activism or enlightenment, but it constitutes more awareness than I tend to expect from major studio IP.
3.5/5 There is at least one scene though where a character texts a lengthy inquiry to another character and receives a comprehensive reply within five seconds of screentime, so, not a perfect film.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:43:28 PM- - - Shurley MacLuine is the woman who will not be blamed for nothing - - -
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - Today at 11:39:31 AMQuote from: M.10rda on August 15, 2026, 12:51:04 AMI assume you are consciously gesturing to OUT ON A LIMB, the two-part/four-hour miniseries from the 80s adapted from MacLaine's own memoir and starring MacLaine as herself. I endured the first evening for the aliens but there were no aliens in Part 1, only romantic melodrama. On night 2 I think I made it 25 minutes in and then nodded off and missed the aliens.
I mean everyone, even Hollywood people and even the strangeness that apparently lurks around there is entitled to their own beliefs. I have a personal grudge against the Pleiadians. I think they are the reason when you see Bicycles locked up now, that people have to literally get bars the size of your arm to prevent theft. I blame Shirly Maclaine too, partially at least for that.
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Pros & Novices / Re: What’s the Worst Tech Fail...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - Today at 11:25:29 AMQuote from: Gabriel Knight on July 24, 2025, 07:54:29 AMI think the most absurd would be INDEPENDENCE DAY when they just "upload" a virus to an alien spacecraft, like if they were running Windows XP or something.
On the other hand, the most accurate I've ever seen was UNTRACEABLE. While still has some corny stuff, overall it makes perfect sense, talking about proxies and stuff instead of super hacker skills that makes no sense. Give it a watch if you have the chance.
Sherry Turkle wrote a book about it. Just so you know. So do double duty on that and for sure Dump that Sir Mix a Lot — dummy Rachel Carson stuff.
Silent Farts or Silent Springs, DDT garbage whatever, and get with it.. Because that is really what I think you are talking about. I mean get with the program. I can't seriously believe that someone is bringing up Windows XP as a reason for a failure in Technology. Unless you have Bill Gate's personal phone number why talk about it? Or Rick Santorum collecting all of the private parts of Meresamun and putting it on Mr. Wonderful's face book page? You realize that this is called fiction? How about the movie Parasite. Or Agent Smith talking to Morpheus and saying that human beings are nothing more than a virus. Perhaps that was a technology failure. Because Morpheus survived that encounter. And I am sure that him being called a virus loaded him with a full new barrage of get even tonic. So yup. Technology failure = Agent Smith calling humans a virus. Nope. You should have kept your big mouth shut. 686 pounds of gold and 3,250 pounds of silver. Next to old Ironsides (Hey you never knew that I was the commander of Old Ironsides but in past life?.)
Wear Sunglasses and pledge your allegiance to Christina Aguilera.
Talk about pee ants. Seriously. Yeah throw Linux at them. Give them Carl Sagan signed and autographed portrait with the voo doo dolls
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Bad Movies / Re: movies that namecheck anot...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - Today at 11:03:17 AMQuote from: claws on August 15, 2026, 01:16:39 AMIn Wayne's World 2 (1993), Wayne creeps out Garth by doing a silly, repetitive voice imitating Warwick Davis's titular character from the horror movie Leprechaun (1993), shouting, "I'm the leprechaun!" while Garth begs him to stop.
I had a friend once (believe it or not he was once my best friend) he would do weird stuff like that. I never quite put two and two together. Thanks claws now I know why this friend of mine did that. Sometimes I would go to this guy's house — he only lived a few houses away from me. And for perspective this guy was one of those Jesus Freak people. Sometimes this guy would turn the lights off in his house. Like it would only be him in the house and he would say, hey yeah dude just come in. And I would come in and be like "Hello? Jason?" The lights were off and he would go berserk, and jump out "I'm a Leprechaun!!"
Scared the living pee out of me. I almost wondered like if that is what this guy really was. But thanks claw, he was basically ripping off Wayne's World. It just adds more credence to my theory that no one out here has an original idea. Even your own friends.
No one knows the movie where they keep Name checking Harold and Maude? I guess I will just have to keep chanting I'm a Leprechaun, I'm a Leprechaun!..Might jiggle some memory loose. This is actually kind of hard. To think of movies that name check.
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Bad Movies / Re: movies that namecheck anot...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - Today at 10:53:27 AMUmm..But yeah. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III they name Check The Addam's family. "Like what were you expecting the Addam's family?" Yeah sure, I was expecting the Addam's family. And I was expecting to know if Adam was really the first human ever. Like created by God and stuff.
But..ok.
But..ok.
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 10:11:57 AM
What are bringing for the cook off?
