{"id":154,"date":"2006-07-10T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T09:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:44:56","slug":"big_screen_the_-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/big_screen_the_-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: The Devil Wears Prada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between Meryl Streep&#8217;s character\/performance in this movie versus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/big_screen_prai.html\">Prairie Home<\/a>&#8230; Wow.  She takes a lot of critical\/consumer flack but she is such the consummate actress.  If you didn&#8217;t KNOW, you would never guess those two characters were played by the same actress.  I kiss the ground you walk on, Ms. Streep, seeing both your new flicks in one weekend was a truly awe-inspiring experience.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this is not much of a movie.  Anne Hathaway bored me.  Where is the Anne Hathaway from &#8220;Brokeback Mountain&#8221;?  Does it have to be an edgy indie movie for you to be alive and excited in it?  There was so little chemistry between Hathaway and Adrien Grenier that I could not imagine caring one iota about their relationship.  Booooring.  And since you&#8217;re supposed to be thinking about how the Streep character&#8217;s irrational demands are destroying her employees&#8217; personal lives&#8230;well, that only really works if you think their personal lives are worth something.<\/p>\n<p>I assume the (many) weaknesses of the movie are straight from the book.  Enjoyable enough, funny sometimes, but not a very good movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between Meryl Streep&#8217;s character\/performance in this movie versus Prairie Home&#8230; Wow. She takes a lot of critical\/consumer flack but she is such the consummate actress. If you didn&#8217;t KNOW, you would never guess those two characters were played &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/big_screen_the_-23.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}