September 3, 2025 • 52 mins
Eric and Phil explore 2006's The Devil Wears Prada, diving into the powerhouse performances of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci in this psychological examination of work-life balance and personal transformation.
• Meryl Streep delivers an iconic performance as Miranda Priestly that earned an Oscar nomination and remains quoted to this day
• The film isn't just about fashion but serves as a character study of ambition and authenticity
• Strong feminist themes emerge naturally through character development rather than heavy-handed messaging
• The relationship between Andy and her boyfriend, Nate, remains a hotly debated topic among fans
• Stanley Tucci steals every scene he's in with perfect comedic timing and emotional depth
• The film's rushed ending leaves some character development unresolved
• Discussion of the upcoming sequel and whether it's necessary given how well the original stands on its own
• Both hosts give the film high ratings with Phil considering it one of his favorite films of all time
Letterbox'd Synopsis: Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is the Wait For it Podcast.
Hey, everyone, welcome back tothe Wait For it Podcast.
I'm your co-host, phil Barrera,aka Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And I'm your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and
for this edition of Late to theParty.
We are going to a film thatPhil has been talking about for
quite some time, and when Ibrought up Pretty Woman, I got
the same look that he probablywas expecting.
When the Devil Wears Prada cameup, vice versa happened, phil.
(01:01):
Here we are now to talk aboutthe Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, this is a movie I actually just watched for the
first time last year and we'llkind of talk about like why
maybe it took us so long towatch this.
I mean it came out in 2006.
So and it is, it is talkedabout still to this day because
of the performances.
There is a sequel on the way.
(01:26):
We'll probably discuss whetheror not that needs to exist.
But all in all, I am excited totalk about what is very quickly
probably becoming one of myfavorite films ever.
It is I did rewatch it heretoday and Eric it is fresh on
his mind as well.
So very, very excited to jumpinto this one here.
Eric, I have gone into thisblind as far as your score.
(01:49):
I have avoided the letterboxleading into this because, like,
we always just spoil it becausewe know what our score is
before going into theseconversations.
So I really will probably onlydo that if I think we both hated
something.
So I don't know how this isgoing to go.
I'm very nervous, as should theinternet be, so we'll see how
this conversation goes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What do you mean?
Why are you scared?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know.
You know why?
Because we're reaching we'reclose to Goodfellas levels with
this movie.
If you don't like it, I'm goingto be very upset.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I mean, I hear what you're saying.
You act like I hated Goodfellas.
I gave Goodfellas a three and ahalf.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I know, but I was saying I was nervous that you
wouldn't like Goodfellas, oh,okay.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I've already been accused of a lot of different
scores today on Discord, so I'mjust, I'm a little, I'm a little
sensitive.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You did put Adventures of Tintin at like
number three on like a top fivelist for Super Bracket Bros or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That was a blind ranking.
That was a blind ranking.
You can't hold that against me.
You put Tintin too low.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You didn't do great on that.
At least your number one wasgood.
I won't spoil it, but at leastyour number one was solid.
But two through five was a mess.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
No, it was a whole nightmare.
I was so scared the entire time.
My worst nightmares were livedin real life.
But, Phil, I mean, what's to beworried about here?
I'm like the biggest fashionguy you know.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So this is a movie for me.
Me too, absolutely.
I had to decide which color ofblack t-shirt to wear under my
flannel here today, so it was adiscussion to be had.
But there are so many morelayers to this film than just
fashion, which is probably oneof the reasons why we may have
avoided it for so long.
But we're going to be talkingabout the 2006 film the Devil
(03:36):
Wears Prada here on theSeptember edition of Late to the
Party.
So if you want to know whereyou can find all the rest of our
content maybe any other filmsor TV shows we just missed out
on make sure you stick around tothe very end of the episode and
we'll let you know where youcan find all of that.
But let's get into a synopsishere.
As always, eric with the DevilWears Prada follows Andy Sachs,
(03:58):
a young, aspiring journalist wholands a job as assistant to
Miranda Priestley, the ruthlessand impossibly demanding
editor-in-chief of ahigh-fashion magazine.
As Andy struggles to surviveMiranda's world of glamour,
pleasure and impossiblestandards, she's forced to
choose between staying true toherself or transforming into
someone she barely recognizes.
So if you are, for some reason,maybe you missed some of the
(04:21):
episodes in August.
We have adopted a new formathere on the WayForward Podcast.
For these episodes, we eachchoose three takeaways, positive
or negative, and we kind ofjust break those down for
whichever ones we want to bringup.
So, eric, I will throw it toyou first, because this is newer
to you.
We both, again, have watched itvery recently, but I want to
know where you would like tostart.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, let's start with my overall feeling of the
film so we can really set thetone for this episode.
I really enjoyed the movie.
I enjoyed the movie.
So you know, there's really onething you got to start the
conversation with when we talkabout the Devil Wears Prada and
I'm happy to take thelow-hanging fruit here.
(05:04):
Meryl Streep, anne Hathaway,emily Blunt, stanley Tucci all
four of them great, great, butespecially obviously our main
focus being Meryl Streep.
Anne Hathaway I'm not we talkedabout this with Julia Roberts.
I'm not a big aficionado intoMeryl Streep films.
I know she's considered thisgreat actress.
(05:26):
Same way, julia Roberts isreally on another level, even we
would say for Meryl Streep, andI never really understood the
height with her.
The only films I had seen herin is like a cameo here or like
Mamma Mia, which should not be ajudge of any of those actors or
actresses' performances.
I loved her.
(05:48):
She was really great in thisfilm and I can see it.
I get it.
Anne Hathaway film this is inthat time frame of Princess
Diaries, ella Enchanted.
She plays that fish out ofwater so well around that time
and then she just eventuallymoved on with her career.
But this was like, I think onthe exit point, or towards the
(06:11):
exit point, of that role for her, from what I could tell and I
mean that just works with her,she's just really good at it.
So there are some things we'regoing to talk about.
You know, I would have loved tosee a little bit more Emily
Blunt, a little bit more StanleyTucci, but what we did get
between the four of them,especially the core group here,
(06:32):
very, very good.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, meryl Streep is an absolute powerhouse in this.
She is outstanding.
I am the same way.
I also am not too familiar withmany of her performances,
although, coming away from thisafter the first time I watched
it very similar to like thisJulia Roberts era you're
entering in.
Like we got to watch more MerylStreep stuff.
So she is absolutely fantastic,earned her an Oscar nomination.
(06:56):
Her performance is still, andmannerisms are still quoted and
mimicked to this day, so she isabsolutely awesome.
I would like to know, like, howdo you feel about Miranda
Priestly, the character as faras is she one of like like the
best cinematic villains?
Is she just doing her job?
(07:17):
Is she misunderstood?
Is it a combination of all ofthose things?
Where did you come away fromthe Miranda Priestly of it all
and how do you feel about her?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
so that was really interesting because, like I
didn't really view her as avillain, honestly, I just I kind
of took a lot of her characterelements and they were just all
being shoved into this story,like different shades of her
being a mother, being a wife,being a boss, like all of these
(07:48):
little roles.
I would have loved to see maybesome of them explored a little
bit deeper, obviously, but giventhe runtime, I really liked
what we did get from her, whereI didn't feel like we were
trying to overly humanize her orwe were trying to forgive her
for her the way she behaves, butat the same time you got a
(08:09):
little bit more of anunderstanding of who this person
is and it's not just astraightforward, she's just an
evil person type situation.
So you know, I really liked allof that when it came to her
character.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, certainly not as just kind of like surface
level terrible person.
I think that a lot of peoplemaybe expect going into this.
I'm so glad you brought upstanley tucci man.
Talk about someone who justknocks it out of the park.
I don't think we've ever seen abad stanley tucci performance.
I don't think I've ever seenthat man has been.
(08:42):
That man has been in conclave.
He's obviously amazing in this.
He is in.
He's this hot dad in easy alike what the hell, stanley
Tucci?
What gives you the right?
How dare you Listen?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
how dare you?
How dare you Listen?
Stanley Tucci is great, I think.
At the very least, he is neverbelow average, Like I.
Just I don't think I've seen abad Stanley Choo Choo
performance.
I don't know that he's alwaysthe strongest performance, but
like I also loved him in likethe terminal.
So like you can pull out somany, you can pull out so many
(09:19):
different movies and roles thathe's been in that he either
knocks out of the park or he'sjust extremely serviceable.
But yeah, I don't think I'veever seen a bad performance from
him, at least not that I knowof.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, he is fantastic and I totally agree with you,
would have loved to see more ofEmily Blunt and you know we we
will in sequel, so we'll see howthat goes.
But, eric, my next takeaway issomething we kind of alluded to
already in the beginning of thefilm or the episode is that this
is not necessarily a fashionmovie and I always thought this
(09:54):
was very fashion centric.
Obviously it is at the core ofeverything that is going on
between these characters, butit's not like it takes you aside
and gives you lore about DolceGabbana or Gucci I'm just
throwing out names that I don'teven know Fashion things,
fashion terminology.
This is not a fashion movie andI want to shout out a video I
(10:17):
watched from YouTube, fromSavage Books, literary Editing
the Devil Wears Prada is apsychological thriller and the
themes that it attacks and thecharacterization that it goes
through, as far as molding Andyand from her journey from point
A to point B and dealing withthis boss who is obviously very
(10:40):
demanding, and it is affectingher personal life and everything
like that.
It's not a psychologicalthriller in the sense that, like
, obviously it's like terrifying, but it is affecting her
personal life and everythinglike that.
It's not a psychologicalthriller in the sense that like
obviously it's like terrifying,but it is a really interesting
character, study into work, life, culture and and all of that.
So one of the reasons againthat I kind of stayed away from
this movie is I thought it wasgoing to be very fashion centric
and it's not necessarily thattype of movie.
So yeah, and what do you thinkabout that psychological
(11:01):
thriller?
The devil wears?
What do you think about thatPsychological thriller the Devil
Wears?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Prada yeah, no, that kind of works, because a lot of
the reviews I was reading isreally encompassed by this one
very quick sentence.
This is just the fashionversion of Whiplash.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yes, he brought that up in the video.
He brought that up in the video.
I was like I got to watchWhiplash and juxtapose these
films.
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Whiplash- is great.
Honestly, I keep forgetting youhaven't seen Whiplash and it is
going to have to be veryquickly a turnaround on this
podcast.
Whiplash is fantastic.
I definitely saw a lot ofelements of that when it came to
just like the mental abuse thatwas taking place, but all in
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the betterment of somebody in away, or at least somebody's
belief of what a betterment ofsomeone else's life would be,
and that's just reallycompelling to watch.
Your second point is kind oflike mine, which was going to be
that I thought I'd get lost inthe fashion terminology.
You are right, they didn'treally explain a lot of the lore
(12:07):
.
I think they made it prettycomfortable of a landing for
someone who doesn't understandthe fashion world to kind of
understand what they were aimingfor in explaining like these
are the things in the fashionindustry that you might
experience or that might behappening, and its commentary on
(12:28):
that wasn't overwhelming orbogged down with all of the
jargon in fashion.
So my second takeaway wasactually going to be that this
movie made it very digestibleand it didn't sacrifice, at
least for me again, as someonewho has zero fashion sense,
someone can correct me but itdidn't feel like this movie was
sacrificing its love, itspassion, its dedication to
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showing off fashion in thatworld, for a general audience
and their digestion of it.
I didn't feel like there was alot of compromise there, and
that was a good thing there andthat was a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, 100.
The fashion of it all is usedessentially as a you know, like
this, this visual companion onandy's journey to show, like, as
she's continuing to like, buyinto this more and more, and
then it all, kind of like,culminates at the very end where
, like, stanley tuccicompliments her on the outfit
that she has put together, whichis just such a great scene.
God, stanley Tucci, damn thatguy's good.
This podcast is actually justabout Stanley Tucci now going
(13:31):
forward.
So, yeah, but I definitelyagree as far as the not getting
lost in the fashion world of itall.
It's very interesting becausethere is another movie that Anne
Hathaway is in, called theIntern, with Robert De Niro,
where she is also in the fashionworld, but she is the Miranda
Pricely in this, but very, verysweet, she's very nice and kind.
(13:54):
So if I had two movies, youknow, if I had nickels for every
time Anne Hathaway, you know,was in some sort of fashion role
, I'd have two nickels, whichisn't a lot of nickels, but it's
weird that it's happened twice.
So, the intern, very good movie.
It won't ever pop up on thisseries, but the intern also very
good.
But yeah, let's get to oursecond point here, eric and
(14:16):
listen, two dudes, two straightcis men, probably not the best
people to talk about theexploration of and like the
healthy way that feminism isbrought up in this movie.
But it was for one thing againthat I saw in a lot, of, a lot
of reviews and also what thisvideo brought up that I watched
(14:36):
over on youtube.
I'll link it in the in thedescription is it was like it
was feminism in the sense thatlike it wasn't like lazy, like
we've seen in, like Wonder Woman84 or like remember the scene
in Avengers Endgame where allthe heroes come together and
like she's got help, like allthat, all of that like terror,
(14:58):
like really just lazy writing.
They put it in the sense thatlike you could have put this
somewhere else in terms of youcould have not had this in the
fashion industry, place thesecharacters in a different
setting, and it would have had avery similar effect.
And also, you could also havehad this be about male
characters as well and the storycould have some sort of general
(15:19):
similar impact in a differentsetting, and I really really
like that.
Again, are we the most qualifiedpeople to talk about that?
But definitely not.
But because of so many women inour lives like absolutely love
this movie and still go back toit to this day, it leads me to
believe that they did somethingcorrect.
So like, even after all theseyears I mean, it's a 20 year old
movie it's still received very,very well and I think that's
(15:42):
something that certainly shouldbe celebrated and they need to
100% keep at the core of thesequel, uh, which we keep
alluding to, and we'll get tothat discussion here shortly.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely, it's definitely a
conversation point because it'svery prominent in the film.
I feel like cause I know withyour first point I kind of
skipped ahead to my second point.
With this one I'm like tryingnot to skip ahead to my third,
which was one of my gripes ofthe film, which I guess, like
(16:14):
the feminism thing, does workmore often than it doesn't, but
in the places that it does, itis like some of the
relationships with Andy and thepeople like her friend group,
her boyfriend, like some ofthose like relationships and
some of the things that happenin the film towards the end I'm
(16:34):
not saying they weren't likedoable, Like they're not deal
breaking, but I don't know itwas.
I kind of had a little bit of adisconnect and I maybe I don't
know if that's putting feminismat the forefront and that's why
maybe some things happen there,but it was something about the
relationships at its core that Ijust didn't really love.
(16:55):
I don't know if you felt thatway at all, but that was
actually going to be my thirdpoint, which was just kind of
like my gripe.
I didn't really love the waythat everything ended, as much
as the journey to get to thatending and some of that had to
do with the relationships withAndy and other characters, other
lesser characters that aren'tin that main core of four that
(17:17):
we talked about, and I justdon't think those relationships
were as strong.
And because maybe she has sucha feminist character, maybe that
had something to do with it.
What's your take on that?
But yeah, that's kind of likemy third point getting meshed in
here as well, because it is.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It is on topic screen time she is absolutely praised
for, and for good reason, stillto this day, for this
performance, and I think whatreally would have helped is like
just kind of expanding on thatrelationship between Andy and
Emily which we start to see andthen, unfortunately, obviously,
(17:54):
like she gets hit by a car whichwas a crazy, like twist.
I did not see, I did not see.
Remember, you know that FamilyGuy meme where, like Stewie and
Brian are like twist.
I did not see, I did not see.
Remember.
You know that family guy memewhere, like Stewie and Brian are
like sending the other dog offto the sunset, like there she
goes, there he goes, brian Offto live his own life.
Oh my God, he got hit by a car.
That's how I felt when thathappened.
(18:19):
So like you see theirrelationship start to blossom a
little bit at like the gala andyou're like, oh cool, like
they're going to be friends, andthen you know obviously, um,
you know she has to make somevery, very difficult decisions.
So I definitely see you kind ofwhat you're, uh, what you're
discussing there and what you'realluding to, I think, with with
the film coming, you know, likeyou said, in a very specific
time we're talking about themid-2000s, like the very early
(18:42):
2000s, and not a lot of filmsare putting, like you know,
career pressure, personalsacrifice when it comes to women
, like front and center in awhole lot of movies.
A lot of films, in terms oftheir stories, were like pretty
cut and paste and they wereobviously very male driven.
So, um, and also offering likedifferent points of career
between Andy, Emily and Miranda.
(19:03):
I really enjoyed that well, soI definitely see what you mean
when it comes to some of thoserelationships.
Because for my third takeaway, Iwant to talk about this the
relationship that is front andcenter well, I wouldn't say
front and center kind of tossedto the side because of Andy's
journey and that is with herboyfriend.
And this is a very, very likenot controversial topic, but a
(19:24):
heavily debated topic in termsof who is the real villain of
this movie.
Leading into the film, thefirst time that I watched it, I
know the discourse was that hesucks, he's holding her back
doing all of this.
And I also found a really,really interesting Reddit thread
about somebody who had alsowatched the movie just a couple
years ago.
(19:49):
I also found a really reallyinteresting Reddit thread about
somebody who had also watchedthe movie just a couple of years
ago and was talking about howthey didn't really feel like he
is necessarily this evil personI forgot his name, but it's not
important but like this, thisjust like terrible person,
that's kind of like holding herback.
And upon a second rewatch I waslike I didn't hate him as much
as I did, or I thought I wasgoing to, and I really think
that honestly, you talked aboutthem earlier.
Their friend, his, her friendgroup, kind of sucks more than
he does, in my opinion.
(20:10):
So what was your opinion andwhat kind of beat do you have on
their relationship and howeverything was handled?
And I also want to discuss theending as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, so I mean no, her friend groups are assholes.
Ending as well.
Yeah, so I mean no, her friendgroups are assholes.
She calls them assholes becausethey like take.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
They like take her phone, like they're in fucking
high school right throw herphone after giving, after
gifting a two thousand dollarbag, that pissed me off.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, that pissed me off, I think they.
So the relationship I don'tthink was strong in the way they
executed, like their partingreally, and the way that that
kind of all went.
And if you're doing it for thesake of, like you know,
individuality and all that likeif you're trying to go for that,
I'm not, I'm just saying Idon't know that it fully landed
(20:53):
for me.
I think the relationship betweenandy and her boyfriend was
something that happens in a lotof relationships, where you just
kind of like, especially at thebeginning they're kind of a
thing, but are they reallyserious?
And then it kind of feels likemaybe they're serious, but
they're both starting to see thechanges with the job.
(21:14):
Like she's going from justsaying I just got to make it
through this, it's just a job,just because, like, I don't love
it, I don't want it, I'm justdoing it, and then she kind of
starts to change and he startscalling out those changes and
then there's confrontation.
So like it felt there were alot of regular relationship
elements that were there, butit's just something about the
(21:35):
way that it all unfolded for methat I haven't quite put my
finger on, and maybe on a secondwatch I'll figure out what that
exactly is, because again we'retalking about All of the deeper
lined Themes of this movie.
I don't really know that all ofthat has to play a part, but
maybe it does.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and to be and to piggyback on what you're
saying Like ambitious youngwoman in the big city Is not a
original Like story that hasnever been told before.
You know we're we're obviouslyvery used to.
Again, we're gonna.
We're talking about tacklingmore julia roberts movies in the
very near future.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
we know we're very familiar with this archetype, so
though I will say it was verybold of this movie to try to go
the princess diaries route andtry to make us believe that anne
hathaway wasn't attractive whenshe got there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Like kind of crazy, I know Kind of crazy.
Pull there.
Yeah, anne Hathaway, like youfat slob in a sweater.
It's like hello.
She's telling you you're notgoing to fit in this.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I don't think we have anything in that size.
It was like hello yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Anne Hathaway, objectively one of the most
beautiful women on the planet.
So, yeah, definitely didn't buythat Again.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think we were on the tail end of her playing
these type of roles.
So it worked.
But I think I could also feelit like it was very much the
tail end of her doing those typeof roles, because it's like
just no longer believable.
It's almost satire at thatpoint.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'd be like putting like like on an
armus and something like in.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Like a live action version of the ugly duckling
like that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We just throw glasses on women and be like, oh,
you're pretty without thoseglasses.
Yeah, so nate is his name, bythe way, which again, I didn't
have to bring up, but you reallywent out of your way to find
that one well, I pulled it, Iwas I already.
I mean, I obviously have imdb upso I just switch tabs.
But yeah, so and listen.
Like in new york city, it feelslike he shouldn't be so
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surprised that this is like aroute that she has to go.
Like he is in a verycompetitive field as far as you
know, cooking, and then, youknow, becomes a sous chef at the
end of the movie and she istrying to be a journalist in the
entertainment capital of one ofthe two entertainment capitals
of the entire world.
So like for him to not kind oflike maybe even see this coming,
(23:57):
like she's gonna have latenights when she's a like a
journalist at a newspaper oranother magazine as well, so
like I don't, I didn't, uh, Ididn't think he should have been
as blindsided as he.
Like does he not have latenights working at a restaurant?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I don't know, see, no , I kind of disagree because I
feel and again, this is only offof one watch through, so maybe
I feel differently on a secondbut I feel like it was pretty
clear that it wasn't the job andthe toll of the job that that
it was taking on her in theirrelationship changes.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No, it was taken away , it was her lack of
accountability on just sayinglike this is me now, like I do,
like this, I do want this like.
She did that in ways, but it wassuch a tonal shift from how she
started the job and she neverreally like actively brought him
onto the train of hey, I'mpivoting, my fashion's going to
(24:55):
change, my personality is goingto change, my life direction is
going to change.
My goals, my ambitions, all ofthat Like it's one thing.
When she's being drug acrossthe carpet, you know my goals,
my ambitions, all of that.
Like it's one thing.
When she's being drug acrossthe carpet, you know by her hair
, unwillingly so, when she's infull control of all of the
things that she's doing forMiranda, like I don't know.
(25:15):
I just feel like it was veryclear that he was more upset
about that and I think peoplelose that because of the theme
of the movie and the messagingof the movie, what it's going
for.
I think they just kind of likeignored a very clear comment.
I think when they break up, hemakes that comment of like I
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just want you to be honest thatwe have nothing in common
anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Like just be honest with me.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, yeah yeah, and it's like then she breaks up
with him and then sleeps withthe guy like immediately after.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, but it's France , so like, did it count?
It doesn't count on US soil, no, yeah it doesn't count, no,
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Also, you know, Simon Baker, that's, you know
devilishly handsome, sure would.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe nate should also just trynot being a fucking dork that
would mean they can give that atry.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But she was.
She was a dork in a sweater tostart the movie no, I know she
was dating?
Yeah, she was dating, it wasequal footing that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's true, you know , because ann hathaway, that's
love.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, because ann hathaway could not attract him.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Obviously, selena kyle.
Nah, they could have notattracted him.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Obviously, selina Kyle nah, they could have at
least given her some of theteeth and the fucked up unibrow
from the Princess Diaries.
They could have done some ofthose like the bushy eyebrows
they could have like the frizzlyhair.
They could have really done herup if they wanted to go that
route and just fake us one moretime.
But they didn't even do that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, well, it was all about fashion time, but they
didn't even do that.
No, I mean, well, that was itwas all about.
It was all about fashion.
It really went back to thefashion in her, in her choices,
and like I really love thatscene where miranda like dresses
her down about the sweater,like I thought I I love that.
That's a great scene point ofthe film as well.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So, uh, that yeah, that that was probably my
favorite scene, next to stanleytucci telling andy like you're
not cut out, like you don't want, that's why she hates you Like.
Those two scenes were verystrong early on for me and
probably scenes I'll rememberabout this movie for a long time
.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
How about Miranda just throwing out probably what
was at least $120 steak?
I was like man, that looks good.
I really love the subplot alsoof her getting an advanced copy
of Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Very much.
I love that.
But yeah, those are our maintakeaways.
I do also want to talk aboutthe ending here.
You know, obviously there's awhole bunch of things happen and
I really love the realizationof Andy coming, or Andy coming
to the realization like, oh,this is when Miranda says I see
a lot of me in you and she'slike, oh shit, like she.
That's when she comes to thatmoment, eric, that you're, that
(27:47):
you're wishing that she came toearlier.
When having that discussionwith forgot his name again, nate
, that's what you wish she hadcome to that realization earlier
.
When he, you know, when she'sout in the street and having
that conversation with him andin her being, like what are you
talking about?
Like, everybody wants this,everybody wants to be us, and
then Andy immediately likeproving her wrong and, you know,
(28:10):
going about her life andcorrecting things and all that.
I very much enjoyed that.
I guess just the whole thingabout France is, it all just
comes and goes so quickly andthen we're at the end.
So, even though I very muchenjoyed the ending and it's
already an almost two hour movieso like, how much more are you
really going to add to what Ithink is a very clean and
compact story.
So what were your feelings onthe ending?
(28:33):
Do you think it was a littlerushed, or how did you feel when
the credits rolled?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was extremely rushed.
Yeah, I felt the ending wassomewhat cliche.
Honestly.
I'm not saying we didn't buildup to that, but if you look at
the back half of the movie, whatwere a lot of the redeemable
qualities that Andy wasdisplaying To make her?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, it was rough towards the end.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know what I'm saying.
She felt fully into it andvictimizing herself.
Even Miranda's character tellsher at one point like you,
you're you're doing.
I think it might've been in thecar where she's like, yeah, you
did this, you did this to Emily, like, yeah, you do this.
This is the, this is the worldyou live in.
I don't know that that wasenough to be like, oh, she had
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that realization that like, Idon't know it's like, really
it's not a bad ending.
I just thought we could havedone a lot more to pad up the
ending, to be a little bitstronger.
That's really what it comesdown to and that's ultimately.
One of my only minor gripes withthis film is some of the
relationships with the lessercharacters in this film, and
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then the ending could have had astronger landing point.
For me, it just again, you'reright, we go to Paris, shitty
things are still happening.
There's really no, not no signof redemption.
She's also not too far gone.
So like I do understand that,but I don't know it.
Just it didn't feel like we gotfrom here to here very smoothly
(30:00):
and that there were still somegaps that could have been filled
in.
Yeah, it was just a very likeneat ending.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
you know, like I just wipe my hands of that and I I
go back to my normal life, quoteunquote.
So which, again I I think thehappy ending in this, again in a
very in what is essentiallyrelatively formulaic, when it
comes to, again, ambitious youngwoman, it gets really difficult
job changes things about.
Her realizes she did wrong,like it didn't have to be
(30:29):
anything like incredibly, likemind bending or mind altering,
but yeah, it just seemed like itwas like just a little bit too
neat of a resolution and shedidn't necessarily have to fully
deal with the consequences ofher actions, because of course,
nate, you know they have thatreconciliation.
But it is great that I love themoment at the end, though,
(30:50):
where she gets the job and shegets that recommendation or she
learns of the recommendationfrom Miranda.
They have that little tiny,tiny meet cute from across the
street when she gets in the caryou see the little smile from
Miranda.
I thought that was reallyreally solid as well.
But yeah, it's just kind of arushed ending and would have
liked to see a little bit moreobviously like she gives the
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clothes to Emily, and I thinkthat's a transition into the
final thing we'll talk aboutbefore we get into scores is
what do we expect out of asequel?
This is the world we live innow.
Obviously, I'm excited to seethese characters return, all
three of them.
Stanley Tucci Is Stanley Tucciin the sequel?
I have to look that up.
Where do they go from here,like at this point?
(31:30):
I'm not sure what the time jumpis, but like you have to see
Emily in like in a reallypredominant role.
You have to see that she hasgrown and she she cannot enter
this movie still as an assistant.
She has to be some sort of like, really, really successful.
All this grinding, getting hitby a car cannot be for nothing,
please.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
No, I wholeheartedly disagree.
You still want her to be down.
She's got to be an assistantand she's still got to be
working for her.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
There's no other scenario for Emily Blunt in the
sequel.
No, that's exactly how it shouldbe.
Well, I mean, so what do youfeel?
You asked me this, I think afew weeks ago, like how do I
feel about there being a sequel?
If you told me, like it was,whether or not I wanted it, if I
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had a choice oh, stanley Tucciis in this thing, god, I would
say, like we don't necessarilyneed a sequel to the Devil Wears
Prada.
Am I going to be seated day one?
Absolutely, but what do youthink about this?
And they've also added someother people to the cast, such
as Lucy Liu and another big namewho I'm, I think, pauline
Chalamet there's more ChalametsBJ Novak, and then, of course,
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you know the returningcharacters as well.
So what do you feel about hissequel and what do you think
could be done here, if anything?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I mean a sequel, I think might work for this.
This was like, again, earlypre-2010.
So early 2000s still.
Maybe it could work.
I just feel like I don't thinkthis movie is as in much of a
time capsule, as like PrettyWoman, for example, which again
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we talked about, like ourcorrelation to our reaction to
that film.
I just don't know what would bereally enticing about it.
Like, are we going to learnmore about Miranda?
Because some of the appeal, forme at least, of Miranda is the
ambiguity of it all.
Like I definitely think thatthat is part of her character's
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appeal is we don't fully unravel, unlayer all of the elements of
you know that onion of acharacter.
I don't know.
Do you do that again, andy?
Was there a lot of characterdevelopment where I just talked
about?
I felt like we kind of did aquick 180 back to normal at the
(33:57):
end.
Do I want to see that versionof the character?
No, I'd be more interested inseeing an Andy that is more like
a Miranda now, but that's notthe route they went with the end
of the movie Like ajournalistic Miranda.
Yeah, maybe she.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Emily is her assistant.
We're just torturing EmilyBlunt in this sequel.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah Listen, maybe she still goes down that route,
maybe they do that turn, I don'tknow.
It's really interesting, butthis movie is not as quite in a
time capsule.
Although I thought the timeperiod was fitting for when this
movie came out and kind of theway it was filmed.
I just don't know what thatwould look like.
I feel like it'd be a littlebit too glossy, a little bit too
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glamorous, which is reallyreally ironic considering it's a
movie about fashion.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh shit.
Okay, here is the synopsis fromIMDb.
Do you want it?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Give it to me, baby.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Follows Miranda Priestly's struggle against
Emily Charlton, her formerassistant turned rival executive
, as they compete foradvertising revenue amidst
declining print media whileMiranda nears retirement.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, no, I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Not interested.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Where does Andy come in Mind?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
your own fucking business, you know, maybe
they're like maybe they're bothtrying to like hire her for it
does say like they're fightingover media.
So like maybe she's like thiseditor in chief now.
So for like so they're fightingfor.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
No, no, I hate that, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I disagree.
I'm going to be there.
What is Stanley Tucci doing inthis movie?
Yeah right, you're going to seeone clip with Stanley Tucci and
it'd be like absolute cinema.
I'm in, I'm in.
Well, let's get to the scoresand how we felt about this movie
First.
Let's get to the score and howwe felt about this movie First.
Let's get to how everybody elsefeels about the Devil Wears
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Prada.
Surprised that the Tomatometerscore is a lot lower than I
thought it would be, eric 75%,still certified fresh on the
Tomatometer 76% Popcorn Meterscore.
So that's user score 7 out of10 over on IMDb score.
So that's user score seven outof 10 over on IMDb.
And on a letterbox it isholding strong at a 3.8 out of
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five.
I'll let you go first, eric.
Um, obviously I hold this filmin very high regard when it
comes to my score.
Where did you land for yourletterbox score?
Oh, I did not add this to mylist.
I mean, even though I've seenit.
I'll add that right now.
But while I do that, where didyou score this?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, so the Devil Wears Prada Really enjoyed this
movie.
I was really teetering aroundLike this movie.
I thought when I left it it waslike a three and a half.
It just feels too low.
It just feels too low.
So I feel confident that it's asolid four and that is exactly
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what I gave it.
Phil, I'm pretty sure, basedoff of what I believe your score
is, we're going to have theopposite literally bringing up
Pretty Woman again.
It's just going to be theopposite scenario for us.
I was a little bit higher onPretty Woman.
I love that fucking movie.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You really do.
Eric is in this crazy prettywoman era, and I'm not mad about
it.
It's just like I just was notexpecting it in 2025, neither
was I.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
neither was I, and I think, again, you enjoyed it,
but, like you, even though we'reonly like a half point
difference, you're literallyacting that way.
I think I'm gonna act that waywhenever you bring up the
devil's wear prada, as like agoodfellas territory.
I'm like what the fuck?
Like?
It was good, but, jesus, youreally liked that movie.
That's exactly what's happeninghere.
We both, though, enjoyed bothof these films, and the Devil
(37:33):
Wears Prada Really glad that Ifinally checked it out.
It's been a bucket list moviefor us, something that
constantly.
It's one of those movies thatisn't exactly like known
worldwide.
I don't think.
I think a lot of people knowabout.
I'm not saying nobody knowsthis movie, but it's not like
the big hitters that we've donebefore, but for us it's always
(37:53):
in rotation of conversation.
So it was really a bucket listitem for the podcast, and I'm
glad that I got it done.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, that is a good, good comparison, because even
though I also gave Pretty Womana four, you gave it a four and a
half, which is what I've given.
The Devil Wears Prada again, itis creeping into like just one
of my favorite films of all time.
Do they stick the landingcompletely clean?
No, definitely not, but theperformances and the story are
so strong that I will go back tothis time and time again.
(38:21):
And, yeah, honestly, what weprobably align on right now,
eric, is one.
We need to watch more MerylStreep and two I keep seeing
Aaron Brockovich clips come upon Instagram.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I told you we got to watch here, I fucking told you,
I told you, dude, oh, I can'tfucking wait, I'm like so
excited, let's watch it now.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Watch Party right now .
Speaker 1 (38:45):
No, it's absolutely coming up because I really want
to see it.
I've been seeing clips of itand it looks.
It just looks like more great.
Julia Roberts, which that's oneof the films she's known for,
like that's one of her big films.
So, yeah, definitely need to dothat.
Also, talking about MerylStreep, a couple of films I'll
throw out there that she's apart of uh, she voice acted in
(39:06):
Fantastic Mr Fox, a movie that'sthat is on our list come up a
lot.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
What the I didn't also.
Cj Caleb, from the formerlylevel playing field, gave this a
two and a half, so it gave themworse.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Yeah, we should probably stop talking to him.
There's also the 2019 versionof little women, which I've
heard a lot of good things about.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Oh yeah, me too yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
One of the movies I did see her in that I hated was
into the woods.
Hate that movie.
Also, mary Poppins returns,which was painfully average.
Uh, so I really need toincrease my intake of films
because it's definitely not good.
I really shouldn't be talkingabout Meryl Streep without
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seeing some more films, and Idefinitely am seeing the list
here.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
We're probably going to have to go back in time to
see some of these older ones.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, there are a ton into the in time to see some of
these older ones yeah.
There are a ton, but yeah, Phil, with that being said, we have
a game to play.
Let's do it.
It's called More Like thiswe're using Letterboxd and IMDb.
You're going to have to havesome heavy hitters on this one
for me.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh wait, where does sorry, where does the Devil
Wears Prada end up on your listfor Late to the Party?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Ah, I knew we forgot something and I literally
couldn't think of that.
I was like, oh, we must beready to move on For Late to the
Party.
I have this movie listed, 12out of 39.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
So this movie listed 12 out of 39.
So in the upper tiers, rightbehind Spirited Away and right
above John Wick.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
My face didn't even mean to do that, you just said
Spirited Away and I was like,and you immediately got like
grotesque.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah, yeah, yep, it's number five for me, right
behind Paddington 2, which is anoutstanding film, stefan, and
right in front of Shawshank,redemption.
So, yeah, we're approaching the40 mark, which we'll get to in
October, and, yeah, it is astacked list as far as movies
that are on here.
(41:08):
Pretty crazy, I think this isthe so we're going to have to
start talking about, like peoplethat are appearing multiple
times.
So this is like what?
The second time for emily bluntright, because we did edge of
tomorrow edge of tomorrow, do we?
have any other repeat peoplehere, let's I mean, harrison
ford doesn't really count yeah,because that's the indiana jones
films movies, but I meantechnically shawshank, robert de
(41:34):
niro, joe pesci is matthewmcconaughey and any of the other
ones?
No, yeah, I guess is emilyblunt, our first repeat uh
appearance that can't be.
Oh, robert de niro yeah, weforget about that film, nicholas
.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Constantly Both Top Guns.
So again kind of cheating there.
Oh, tom Cruise, and Edge ofTomorrow as well.
What's?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
the Top Gun.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, so he's up there too.
So yeah, so not our first Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And Okay, gotcha, gotcha, well, yeah, anyway, yeah
, let's get to our game allright, this game is called more
like this, where we find similarfilms recommended by letterboxd
and imdb and we rank themagainst this movie to see would
you rather watch this or that?
So, phil, I don't know how manymovies on here you have seen.
(42:28):
There's also, I guess,unsurprisingly but kind of
surprisingly a lot of rom-comson here.
So yeah, giving you a littlebit of a taste of what to expect
, but I'll try to stay away fromthe rom-coms at the beginning
as much as I can.
Some of them are hard though,so if they're not strictly
rom-coms, the first one, are youready?
(42:50):
Let's do it.
The devil wears Prada orlegally blonde.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Oh, the Devil Wears Prada, because I enjoy the
Legally Blonde musical more thanthe movie, even though I'm
excited for the movie.
No, it's returning as a TVseries and it's a prequel, which
doesn't make any sense.
So yeah, devil Wears Prada, forsure.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Very much a choice.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or Mean Girls?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Shit.
The original, the good MeanGirls, right, not the musical.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, yeah, no, yeah.
The musical movie that shouldbe the musical itself, the
musical theater version.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Excellent Movie, terrible.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Oh boy, oh my gosh, Miranda Priestly versus oh my
gosh, gosh.
Why am I forgetting the name ofthe character in in Mean Girls,
that Regina George?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Regina George versus.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Miranda Priestley is a crazy super bracket bros.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Episode let's go.
Yeah, too bad, that podcast isnever happening again.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
I'm gonna go Mean.
I love Mean Girls and that waspeak Lindsay Lohan too, oh, wow,
wow, that's great.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
What are you rating Mean Girls?
Probably a four and a half.
I'm kind of scared.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
The original Mean Girls.
That's crazy.
Purely on vibes.
No, I hear you Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Would you rather watch the Devil Wears Prada or
Crazy Rich Asians?
Oh, you're such a dick.
You're such a dick.
I didn't, what'd you?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
say to fuck me.
For this is the list, it's onthe list.
Devil Wears Prada.
I love Crazy Rich Asians, butit you know it does get a little
Betrayed.
My culture for white women it'sanne hathaway.
No, stanley tucci betrayed myculture.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
For stanley tucci, let's not get it, man uh between
between uh accusing you of uhbetraying your asian heritage
and our manly talks aboutfeminism.
This episode episode is notgoing very well for us.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Yeah, I know, especially since we're talking
about just mostly Stanley Tucci,it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I feel like Stanley oh.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
I forgot Hunger Games .
God, he's so good.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Would you?
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or Barbie?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Devil Wears Prada yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I love Barbie, but Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, I love Barbie, but Devil Wears.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Prada.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or the
Princess Diaries?
Princess Diaries yeah, okay,would you rather watch the Devil
Wears Prada or Pretty Woman?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
but yeah, I mean yeah , yeah, or Pretty Woman, devil
Wears Prada but yeah, I meanTough, yeah, yeah, all right,
now we're going to go rapid fireon a couple that I mean they
kind of fit.
I guess this one makes the mostsense.
I don't know that you've seenthis, so I'll just ask the Devil
Wears Prada or Cruella.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I've not seen Cruella .
Speaker 1 (45:56):
I feel like you would like Cruella a little bit more
after watching this, but it'sobjectively not a great movie.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
The Emma Stone one.
Yeah, I forgot that.
Came and went people like it.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I don't, but you might like it because it's kind
of got those same vibes arethere dogs in it?
Speaker 2 (46:12):
are there any Dalmatians in Cruella?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
no spoilers for Cruella here You'll have to.
I'm telling you, it's more likethe Devil Wears Prada than 101
Dalmatians, is what I'mexplaining.
There's literally Emma Thompson, is literally Meryl Streep in
that movie, basically.
So, except actually evil, emmaStone, no, emma Thompson is in
that movie as well.
(46:34):
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, and it'slike a.
There's a fashion thing to it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Anyway, we've talked too much about Cruella here,
yeah, this is a mystery, sosorry, some plot we got into.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Apologies.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada?
Or how to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Would you rather watch the devil?
Speaker 2 (46:58):
wears prada, or 10 things I hate about you.
Devil wears prada.
There's two things I hate aboutyou.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
The j-lo one no, that's the one with uh heath
ledger and um 10 things I hateabout.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Is that kate hud?
No, that's not kate hud, nowhat's her name?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
I don't know.
She, she, she has an act.
Uh, julia Stiles.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I love Julia Stiles,
but Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
The Devil Wears Prada , or 13, going on 30?
.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
The Devil Wears Prada or the Notebook.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
The Devil Wears Prada , okay.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Are there any other ones?
Maybe we could talk about thewhat Women Want the movie with
Mel Gibson and he can readwomen's minds.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Let's not talk about Mel Gibson in 2025.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Respectfully what Women Want.
Not a bad film.
Not a bad film, not as bad asyou would think.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Probably bad for the time I gave it a three for
whatever that means.
Oh, Helen Hunt, that's who?
Oh, dude, Helen Hunt.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Actually Johnson is in this.
I used to love me some HelenHunt.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
There's some Eric Moore for you.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, no, I think that's pretty much it.
All these other ones are kindof like hitches on here.
I don't know why that would bebrought up New York City.
You've seen Crazy Stupid Love.
Right, yeah, that, or the DevilWears Prada.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Hmm, because crazy stupid love is a four and a half
for me.
I love that.
I think I have.
I think I've also given it afour and a half.
That movie's fantastic becauseit's just one of the most fun
experiences I've ever hadwatching a film.
It's, I think I would go withcrazy stupid love.
Yeah, it is.
Um, yeah, I wish I could relivethat twist all over, just, over
(48:33):
and over again.
Maybe it's it's up there withlike yeah, I also over and over
again.
Maybe it's up there with likeyeah, I also have the four and a
half.
It's up there with like one ofthe best movie twists ever.
And if you're ranking, like ifI could erase a movie moment in
your mind and watch it again,it's up there.
It's up there.
Don't call her that.
No, no.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
David Ling Hawkins.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I can tackle some.
Yeah, um, it'd be up.
It'd be up there.
We should like do a ranking oflike moments that we would want
to erase from our mind, becauseit would be like something about
like infinity war end game andthen be like crazy stupid love.
That'd be be fun that'd becrazy but yeah no, that is our
game.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
A lot of different movies that came up and, uh yeah
, phil phil, you saw most ofthem, so that that game worked
out really well for us and mostof the cruella.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
So I guess, I gotta, I guess, let cruella no.
December 2025, late to theparty.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
You're watching Whiplash first.
I'll tell you this this movieis essentially Whiplash, except
Whiplash has like no fun in it.
It's like zero.
There's like zero fun.
But JK Simmons is so fuckinggood, Like Meryl Streep is so
good in this movie.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Get the fuck out of my face before.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
I fucking destroy you .
It's funny, unintentionally,like uncomfortably, where this
movie's just kind of like, ohthat's shitty, but you know
there's still some humor in it.
That movie's uncomfortablyfunny at moments but yeah, it's
much, much more aggressive.
So I actually think Whiplash isa lock for you to like.
So we will see, we will see.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Yeah, that will be coming up soon for sure.
So there you have it, folks.
The Devil Wears Prada crisisaverted.
Eric enjoyed the movie and,yeah, we will see the sequel in
2026.
So we'll see how that pans out.
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Well, if I don't get hit by acar, you'll have it.
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And I'm your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and
for this edition of Late to theParty.
We are going to a film thatPhil has been talking about for
quite some time, and when Ibrought up Pretty Woman, I got
the same look that he probablywas expecting.
When the Devil Wears Prada cameup, vice versa happened, phil.
(01:01):
Here we are now to talk aboutthe Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, this is a movie I actually just watched for the
first time last year and we'llkind of talk about like why
maybe it took us so long towatch this.
I mean it came out in 2006.
So and it is, it is talkedabout still to this day because
of the performances.
There is a sequel on the way.
(01:26):
We'll probably discuss whetheror not that needs to exist.
But all in all, I am excited totalk about what is very quickly
probably becoming one of myfavorite films ever.
It is I did rewatch it heretoday and Eric it is fresh on
his mind as well.
So very, very excited to jumpinto this one here.
Eric, I have gone into thisblind as far as your score.
(01:49):
I have avoided the letterboxleading into this because, like,
we always just spoil it becausewe know what our score is
before going into theseconversations.
So I really will probably onlydo that if I think we both hated
something.
So I don't know how this isgoing to go.
I'm very nervous, as should theinternet be, so we'll see how
this conversation goes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What do you mean?
Why are you scared?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know.
You know why?
Because we're reaching we'reclose to Goodfellas levels with
this movie.
If you don't like it, I'm goingto be very upset.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I mean, I hear what you're saying.
You act like I hated Goodfellas.
I gave Goodfellas a three and ahalf.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I know, but I was saying I was nervous that you
wouldn't like Goodfellas, oh,okay.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I've already been accused of a lot of different
scores today on Discord, so I'mjust, I'm a little, I'm a little
sensitive.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You did put Adventures of Tintin at like
number three on like a top fivelist for Super Bracket Bros or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That was a blind ranking.
That was a blind ranking.
You can't hold that against me.
You put Tintin too low.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You didn't do great on that.
At least your number one wasgood.
I won't spoil it, but at leastyour number one was solid.
But two through five was a mess.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
No, it was a whole nightmare.
I was so scared the entire time.
My worst nightmares were livedin real life.
But, Phil, I mean, what's to beworried about here?
I'm like the biggest fashionguy you know.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So this is a movie for me.
Me too, absolutely.
I had to decide which color ofblack t-shirt to wear under my
flannel here today, so it was adiscussion to be had.
But there are so many morelayers to this film than just
fashion, which is probably oneof the reasons why we may have
avoided it for so long.
But we're going to be talkingabout the 2006 film the Devil
(03:36):
Wears Prada here on theSeptember edition of Late to the
Party.
So if you want to know whereyou can find all the rest of our
content maybe any other filmsor TV shows we just missed out
on make sure you stick around tothe very end of the episode and
we'll let you know where youcan find all of that.
But let's get into a synopsishere.
As always, eric with the DevilWears Prada follows Andy Sachs,
(03:58):
a young, aspiring journalist wholands a job as assistant to
Miranda Priestley, the ruthlessand impossibly demanding
editor-in-chief of ahigh-fashion magazine.
As Andy struggles to surviveMiranda's world of glamour,
pleasure and impossiblestandards, she's forced to
choose between staying true toherself or transforming into
someone she barely recognizes.
So if you are, for some reason,maybe you missed some of the
(04:21):
episodes in August.
We have adopted a new formathere on the WayForward Podcast.
For these episodes, we eachchoose three takeaways, positive
or negative, and we kind ofjust break those down for
whichever ones we want to bringup.
So, eric, I will throw it toyou first, because this is newer
to you.
We both, again, have watched itvery recently, but I want to
know where you would like tostart.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, let's start with my overall feeling of the
film so we can really set thetone for this episode.
I really enjoyed the movie.
I enjoyed the movie.
So you know, there's really onething you got to start the
conversation with when we talkabout the Devil Wears Prada and
I'm happy to take thelow-hanging fruit here.
(05:04):
Meryl Streep, anne Hathaway,emily Blunt, stanley Tucci all
four of them great, great, butespecially obviously our main
focus being Meryl Streep.
Anne Hathaway I'm not we talkedabout this with Julia Roberts.
I'm not a big aficionado intoMeryl Streep films.
I know she's considered thisgreat actress.
(05:26):
Same way, julia Roberts isreally on another level, even we
would say for Meryl Streep, andI never really understood the
height with her.
The only films I had seen herin is like a cameo here or like
Mamma Mia, which should not be ajudge of any of those actors or
actresses' performances.
I loved her.
(05:48):
She was really great in thisfilm and I can see it.
I get it.
Anne Hathaway film this is inthat time frame of Princess
Diaries, ella Enchanted.
She plays that fish out ofwater so well around that time
and then she just eventuallymoved on with her career.
But this was like, I think onthe exit point, or towards the
(06:11):
exit point, of that role for her, from what I could tell and I
mean that just works with her,she's just really good at it.
So there are some things we'regoing to talk about.
You know, I would have loved tosee a little bit more Emily
Blunt, a little bit more StanleyTucci, but what we did get
between the four of them,especially the core group here,
(06:32):
very, very good.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, meryl Streep is an absolute powerhouse in this.
She is outstanding.
I am the same way.
I also am not too familiar withmany of her performances,
although, coming away from thisafter the first time I watched
it very similar to like thisJulia Roberts era you're
entering in.
Like we got to watch more MerylStreep stuff.
So she is absolutely fantastic,earned her an Oscar nomination.
(06:56):
Her performance is still, andmannerisms are still quoted and
mimicked to this day, so she isabsolutely awesome.
I would like to know, like, howdo you feel about Miranda
Priestly, the character as faras is she one of like like the
best cinematic villains?
Is she just doing her job?
(07:17):
Is she misunderstood?
Is it a combination of all ofthose things?
Where did you come away fromthe Miranda Priestly of it all
and how do you feel about her?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
so that was really interesting because, like I
didn't really view her as avillain, honestly, I just I kind
of took a lot of her characterelements and they were just all
being shoved into this story,like different shades of her
being a mother, being a wife,being a boss, like all of these
(07:48):
little roles.
I would have loved to see maybesome of them explored a little
bit deeper, obviously, but giventhe runtime, I really liked
what we did get from her, whereI didn't feel like we were
trying to overly humanize her orwe were trying to forgive her
for her the way she behaves, butat the same time you got a
(08:09):
little bit more of anunderstanding of who this person
is and it's not just astraightforward, she's just an
evil person type situation.
So you know, I really liked allof that when it came to her
character.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, certainly not as just kind of like surface
level terrible person.
I think that a lot of peoplemaybe expect going into this.
I'm so glad you brought upstanley tucci man.
Talk about someone who justknocks it out of the park.
I don't think we've ever seen abad stanley tucci performance.
I don't think I've ever seenthat man has been.
(08:42):
That man has been in conclave.
He's obviously amazing in this.
He is in.
He's this hot dad in easy alike what the hell, stanley
Tucci?
What gives you the right?
How dare you Listen?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
how dare you?
How dare you Listen?
Stanley Tucci is great, I think.
At the very least, he is neverbelow average, Like I.
Just I don't think I've seen abad Stanley Choo Choo
performance.
I don't know that he's alwaysthe strongest performance, but
like I also loved him in likethe terminal.
So like you can pull out somany, you can pull out so many
(09:19):
different movies and roles thathe's been in that he either
knocks out of the park or he'sjust extremely serviceable.
But yeah, I don't think I'veever seen a bad performance from
him, at least not that I knowof.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, he is fantastic and I totally agree with you,
would have loved to see more ofEmily Blunt and you know we we
will in sequel, so we'll see howthat goes.
But, eric, my next takeaway issomething we kind of alluded to
already in the beginning of thefilm or the episode is that this
is not necessarily a fashionmovie and I always thought this
(09:54):
was very fashion centric.
Obviously it is at the core ofeverything that is going on
between these characters, butit's not like it takes you aside
and gives you lore about DolceGabbana or Gucci I'm just
throwing out names that I don'teven know Fashion things,
fashion terminology.
This is not a fashion movie andI want to shout out a video I
(10:17):
watched from YouTube, fromSavage Books, literary Editing
the Devil Wears Prada is apsychological thriller and the
themes that it attacks and thecharacterization that it goes
through, as far as molding Andyand from her journey from point
A to point B and dealing withthis boss who is obviously very
(10:40):
demanding, and it is affectingher personal life and everything
like that.
It's not a psychologicalthriller in the sense that, like
, obviously it's like terrifying, but it is affecting her
personal life and everythinglike that.
It's not a psychologicalthriller in the sense that like
obviously it's like terrifying,but it is a really interesting
character, study into work, life, culture and and all of that.
So one of the reasons againthat I kind of stayed away from
this movie is I thought it wasgoing to be very fashion centric
and it's not necessarily thattype of movie.
So yeah, and what do you thinkabout that psychological
(11:01):
thriller?
The devil wears?
What do you think about thatPsychological thriller the Devil
Wears?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Prada yeah, no, that kind of works, because a lot of
the reviews I was reading isreally encompassed by this one
very quick sentence.
This is just the fashionversion of Whiplash.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yes, he brought that up in the video.
He brought that up in the video.
I was like I got to watchWhiplash and juxtapose these
films.
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Whiplash- is great.
Honestly, I keep forgetting youhaven't seen Whiplash and it is
going to have to be veryquickly a turnaround on this
podcast.
Whiplash is fantastic.
I definitely saw a lot ofelements of that when it came to
just like the mental abuse thatwas taking place, but all in
(11:46):
the betterment of somebody in away, or at least somebody's
belief of what a betterment ofsomeone else's life would be,
and that's just reallycompelling to watch.
Your second point is kind oflike mine, which was going to be
that I thought I'd get lost inthe fashion terminology.
You are right, they didn'treally explain a lot of the lore
(12:07):
.
I think they made it prettycomfortable of a landing for
someone who doesn't understandthe fashion world to kind of
understand what they were aimingfor in explaining like these
are the things in the fashionindustry that you might
experience or that might behappening, and its commentary on
(12:28):
that wasn't overwhelming orbogged down with all of the
jargon in fashion.
So my second takeaway wasactually going to be that this
movie made it very digestibleand it didn't sacrifice, at
least for me again, as someonewho has zero fashion sense,
someone can correct me but itdidn't feel like this movie was
sacrificing its love, itspassion, its dedication to
(12:52):
showing off fashion in thatworld, for a general audience
and their digestion of it.
I didn't feel like there was alot of compromise there, and
that was a good thing there andthat was a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, 100.
The fashion of it all is usedessentially as a you know, like
this, this visual companion onandy's journey to show, like, as
she's continuing to like, buyinto this more and more, and
then it all, kind of like,culminates at the very end where
, like, stanley tuccicompliments her on the outfit
that she has put together, whichis just such a great scene.
God, stanley Tucci, damn thatguy's good.
This podcast is actually justabout Stanley Tucci now going
(13:31):
forward.
So, yeah, but I definitelyagree as far as the not getting
lost in the fashion world of itall.
It's very interesting becausethere is another movie that Anne
Hathaway is in, called theIntern, with Robert De Niro,
where she is also in the fashionworld, but she is the Miranda
Pricely in this, but very, verysweet, she's very nice and kind.
(13:54):
So if I had two movies, youknow, if I had nickels for every
time Anne Hathaway, you know,was in some sort of fashion role
, I'd have two nickels, whichisn't a lot of nickels, but it's
weird that it's happened twice.
So, the intern, very good movie.
It won't ever pop up on thisseries, but the intern also very
good.
But yeah, let's get to oursecond point here, eric and
(14:16):
listen, two dudes, two straightcis men, probably not the best
people to talk about theexploration of and like the
healthy way that feminism isbrought up in this movie.
But it was for one thing againthat I saw in a lot, of, a lot
of reviews and also what thisvideo brought up that I watched
(14:36):
over on youtube.
I'll link it in the in thedescription is it was like it
was feminism in the sense thatlike it wasn't like lazy, like
we've seen in, like Wonder Woman84 or like remember the scene
in Avengers Endgame where allthe heroes come together and
like she's got help, like allthat, all of that like terror,
(14:58):
like really just lazy writing.
They put it in the sense thatlike you could have put this
somewhere else in terms of youcould have not had this in the
fashion industry, place thesecharacters in a different
setting, and it would have had avery similar effect.
And also, you could also havehad this be about male
characters as well and the storycould have some sort of general
(15:19):
similar impact in a differentsetting, and I really really
like that.
Again, are we the most qualifiedpeople to talk about that?
But definitely not.
But because of so many women inour lives like absolutely love
this movie and still go back toit to this day, it leads me to
believe that they did somethingcorrect.
So like, even after all theseyears I mean, it's a 20 year old
movie it's still received very,very well and I think that's
(15:42):
something that certainly shouldbe celebrated and they need to
100% keep at the core of thesequel, uh, which we keep
alluding to, and we'll get tothat discussion here shortly.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely, it's definitely a
conversation point because it'svery prominent in the film.
I feel like cause I know withyour first point I kind of
skipped ahead to my second point.
With this one I'm like tryingnot to skip ahead to my third,
which was one of my gripes ofthe film, which I guess, like
(16:14):
the feminism thing, does workmore often than it doesn't, but
in the places that it does, itis like some of the
relationships with Andy and thepeople like her friend group,
her boyfriend, like some ofthose like relationships and
some of the things that happenin the film towards the end I'm
(16:34):
not saying they weren't likedoable, Like they're not deal
breaking, but I don't know itwas.
I kind of had a little bit of adisconnect and I maybe I don't
know if that's putting feminismat the forefront and that's why
maybe some things happen there,but it was something about the
relationships at its core that Ijust didn't really love.
(16:55):
I don't know if you felt thatway at all, but that was
actually going to be my thirdpoint, which was just kind of
like my gripe.
I didn't really love the waythat everything ended, as much
as the journey to get to thatending and some of that had to
do with the relationships withAndy and other characters, other
lesser characters that aren'tin that main core of four that
(17:17):
we talked about, and I justdon't think those relationships
were as strong.
And because maybe she has sucha feminist character, maybe that
had something to do with it.
What's your take on that?
But yeah, that's kind of likemy third point getting meshed in
here as well, because it is.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It is on topic screen time she is absolutely praised
for, and for good reason, stillto this day, for this
performance, and I think whatreally would have helped is like
just kind of expanding on thatrelationship between Andy and
Emily which we start to see andthen, unfortunately, obviously,
(17:54):
like she gets hit by a car whichwas a crazy, like twist.
I did not see, I did not see.
Remember, you know that FamilyGuy meme where, like Stewie and
Brian are like twist.
I did not see, I did not see.
Remember.
You know that family guy memewhere, like Stewie and Brian are
like sending the other dog offto the sunset, like there she
goes, there he goes, brian Offto live his own life.
Oh my God, he got hit by a car.
That's how I felt when thathappened.
(18:19):
So like you see theirrelationship start to blossom a
little bit at like the gala andyou're like, oh cool, like
they're going to be friends, andthen you know obviously, um,
you know she has to make somevery, very difficult decisions.
So I definitely see you kind ofwhat you're, uh, what you're
discussing there and what you'realluding to, I think, with with
the film coming, you know, likeyou said, in a very specific
time we're talking about themid-2000s, like the very early
(18:42):
2000s, and not a lot of filmsare putting, like you know,
career pressure, personalsacrifice when it comes to women
, like front and center in awhole lot of movies.
A lot of films, in terms oftheir stories, were like pretty
cut and paste and they wereobviously very male driven.
So, um, and also offering likedifferent points of career
between Andy, Emily and Miranda.
(19:03):
I really enjoyed that well, soI definitely see what you mean
when it comes to some of thoserelationships.
Because for my third takeaway, Iwant to talk about this the
relationship that is front andcenter well, I wouldn't say
front and center kind of tossedto the side because of Andy's
journey and that is with herboyfriend.
And this is a very, very likenot controversial topic, but a
(19:24):
heavily debated topic in termsof who is the real villain of
this movie.
Leading into the film, thefirst time that I watched it, I
know the discourse was that hesucks, he's holding her back
doing all of this.
And I also found a really,really interesting Reddit thread
about somebody who had alsowatched the movie just a couple
years ago.
(19:49):
I also found a really reallyinteresting Reddit thread about
somebody who had also watchedthe movie just a couple of years
ago and was talking about howthey didn't really feel like he
is necessarily this evil personI forgot his name, but it's not
important but like this, thisjust like terrible person,
that's kind of like holding herback.
And upon a second rewatch I waslike I didn't hate him as much
as I did, or I thought I wasgoing to, and I really think
that honestly, you talked aboutthem earlier.
Their friend, his, her friendgroup, kind of sucks more than
he does, in my opinion.
(20:10):
So what was your opinion andwhat kind of beat do you have on
their relationship and howeverything was handled?
And I also want to discuss theending as well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, so I mean no, her friend groups are assholes.
Ending as well.
Yeah, so I mean no, her friendgroups are assholes.
She calls them assholes becausethey like take.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
They like take her phone, like they're in fucking
high school right throw herphone after giving, after
gifting a two thousand dollarbag, that pissed me off.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, that pissed me off, I think they.
So the relationship I don'tthink was strong in the way they
executed, like their partingreally, and the way that that
kind of all went.
And if you're doing it for thesake of, like you know,
individuality and all that likeif you're trying to go for that,
I'm not, I'm just saying Idon't know that it fully landed
(20:53):
for me.
I think the relationship betweenandy and her boyfriend was
something that happens in a lotof relationships, where you just
kind of like, especially at thebeginning they're kind of a
thing, but are they reallyserious?
And then it kind of feels likemaybe they're serious, but
they're both starting to see thechanges with the job.
(21:14):
Like she's going from justsaying I just got to make it
through this, it's just a job,just because, like, I don't love
it, I don't want it, I'm justdoing it, and then she kind of
starts to change and he startscalling out those changes and
then there's confrontation.
So like it felt there were alot of regular relationship
elements that were there, butit's just something about the
(21:35):
way that it all unfolded for methat I haven't quite put my
finger on, and maybe on a secondwatch I'll figure out what that
exactly is, because again we'retalking about All of the deeper
lined Themes of this movie.
I don't really know that all ofthat has to play a part, but
maybe it does.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and to be and to piggyback on what you're
saying Like ambitious youngwoman in the big city Is not a
original Like story that hasnever been told before.
You know we're we're obviouslyvery used to.
Again, we're gonna.
We're talking about tacklingmore julia roberts movies in the
very near future.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
we know we're very familiar with this archetype, so
though I will say it was verybold of this movie to try to go
the princess diaries route andtry to make us believe that anne
hathaway wasn't attractive whenshe got there.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Like kind of crazy, I know Kind of crazy.
Pull there.
Yeah, anne Hathaway, like youfat slob in a sweater.
It's like hello.
She's telling you you're notgoing to fit in this.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I don't think we have anything in that size.
It was like hello yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Anne Hathaway, objectively one of the most
beautiful women on the planet.
So, yeah, definitely didn't buythat Again.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think we were on the tail end of her playing
these type of roles.
So it worked.
But I think I could also feelit like it was very much the
tail end of her doing those typeof roles, because it's like
just no longer believable.
It's almost satire at thatpoint.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'd be like putting like like on an
armus and something like in.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Like a live action version of the ugly duckling
like that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We just throw glasses on women and be like, oh,
you're pretty without thoseglasses.
Yeah, so nate is his name, bythe way, which again, I didn't
have to bring up, but you reallywent out of your way to find
that one well, I pulled it, Iwas I already.
I mean, I obviously have imdb upso I just switch tabs.
But yeah, so and listen.
Like in new york city, it feelslike he shouldn't be so
(23:35):
surprised that this is like aroute that she has to go.
Like he is in a verycompetitive field as far as you
know, cooking, and then, youknow, becomes a sous chef at the
end of the movie and she istrying to be a journalist in the
entertainment capital of one ofthe two entertainment capitals
of the entire world.
So like for him to not kind oflike maybe even see this coming,
(23:57):
like she's gonna have latenights when she's a like a
journalist at a newspaper oranother magazine as well, so
like I don't, I didn't, uh, Ididn't think he should have been
as blindsided as he.
Like does he not have latenights working at a restaurant?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I don't know, see, no , I kind of disagree because I
feel and again, this is only offof one watch through, so maybe
I feel differently on a secondbut I feel like it was pretty
clear that it wasn't the job andthe toll of the job that that
it was taking on her in theirrelationship changes.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No, it was taken away , it was her lack of
accountability on just sayinglike this is me now, like I do,
like this, I do want this like.
She did that in ways, but it wassuch a tonal shift from how she
started the job and she neverreally like actively brought him
onto the train of hey, I'mpivoting, my fashion's going to
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change, my personality is goingto change, my life direction is
going to change.
My goals, my ambitions, all ofthat Like it's one thing.
When she's being drug acrossthe carpet, you know my goals,
my ambitions, all of that.
Like it's one thing.
When she's being drug acrossthe carpet, you know by her hair
, unwillingly so, when she's infull control of all of the
things that she's doing forMiranda, like I don't know.
(25:15):
I just feel like it was veryclear that he was more upset
about that and I think peoplelose that because of the theme
of the movie and the messagingof the movie, what it's going
for.
I think they just kind of likeignored a very clear comment.
I think when they break up, hemakes that comment of like I
(25:36):
just want you to be honest thatwe have nothing in common
anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Like just be honest with me.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, yeah yeah, and it's like then she breaks up
with him and then sleeps withthe guy like immediately after.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, but it's France , so like, did it count?
It doesn't count on US soil, no, yeah it doesn't count, no,
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Also, you know, Simon Baker, that's, you know
devilishly handsome, sure would.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe nate should also just trynot being a fucking dork that
would mean they can give that atry.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But she was.
She was a dork in a sweater tostart the movie no, I know she
was dating?
Yeah, she was dating, it wasequal footing that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's true, you know , because ann hathaway, that's
love.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, because ann hathaway could not attract him.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Obviously, selena kyle.
Nah, they could have notattracted him.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Obviously, selina Kyle nah, they could have at
least given her some of theteeth and the fucked up unibrow
from the Princess Diaries.
They could have done some ofthose like the bushy eyebrows
they could have like the frizzlyhair.
They could have really done herup if they wanted to go that
route and just fake us one moretime.
But they didn't even do that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, well, it was all about fashion time, but they
didn't even do that.
No, I mean, well, that was itwas all about.
It was all about fashion.
It really went back to thefashion in her, in her choices,
and like I really love thatscene where miranda like dresses
her down about the sweater,like I thought I I love that.
That's a great scene point ofthe film as well.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So, uh, that yeah, that that was probably my
favorite scene, next to stanleytucci telling andy like you're
not cut out, like you don't want, that's why she hates you Like.
Those two scenes were verystrong early on for me and
probably scenes I'll rememberabout this movie for a long time
.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
How about Miranda just throwing out probably what
was at least $120 steak?
I was like man, that looks good.
I really love the subplot alsoof her getting an advanced copy
of Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Very much.
I love that.
But yeah, those are our maintakeaways.
I do also want to talk aboutthe ending here.
You know, obviously there's awhole bunch of things happen and
I really love the realizationof Andy coming, or Andy coming
to the realization like, oh,this is when Miranda says I see
a lot of me in you and she'slike, oh shit, like she.
That's when she comes to thatmoment, eric, that you're, that
(27:47):
you're wishing that she came toearlier.
When having that discussionwith forgot his name again, nate
, that's what you wish she hadcome to that realization earlier
.
When he, you know, when she'sout in the street and having
that conversation with him andin her being, like what are you
talking about?
Like, everybody wants this,everybody wants to be us, and
then Andy immediately likeproving her wrong and, you know,
(28:10):
going about her life andcorrecting things and all that.
I very much enjoyed that.
I guess just the whole thingabout France is, it all just
comes and goes so quickly andthen we're at the end.
So, even though I very muchenjoyed the ending and it's
already an almost two hour movieso like, how much more are you
really going to add to what Ithink is a very clean and
compact story.
So what were your feelings onthe ending?
(28:33):
Do you think it was a littlerushed, or how did you feel when
the credits rolled?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was extremely rushed.
Yeah, I felt the ending wassomewhat cliche.
Honestly.
I'm not saying we didn't buildup to that, but if you look at
the back half of the movie, whatwere a lot of the redeemable
qualities that Andy wasdisplaying To make her?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, it was rough towards the end.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know what I'm saying.
She felt fully into it andvictimizing herself.
Even Miranda's character tellsher at one point like you,
you're you're doing.
I think it might've been in thecar where she's like, yeah, you
did this, you did this to Emily, like, yeah, you do this.
This is the, this is the worldyou live in.
I don't know that that wasenough to be like, oh, she had
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that realization that like, Idon't know it's like, really
it's not a bad ending.
I just thought we could havedone a lot more to pad up the
ending, to be a little bitstronger.
That's really what it comesdown to and that's ultimately.
One of my only minor gripes withthis film is some of the
relationships with the lessercharacters in this film, and
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then the ending could have had astronger landing point.
For me, it just again, you'reright, we go to Paris, shitty
things are still happening.
There's really no, not no signof redemption.
She's also not too far gone.
So like I do understand that,but I don't know it.
Just it didn't feel like we gotfrom here to here very smoothly
(30:00):
and that there were still somegaps that could have been filled
in.
Yeah, it was just a very likeneat ending.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
you know, like I just wipe my hands of that and I I
go back to my normal life, quoteunquote.
So which, again I I think thehappy ending in this, again in a
very in what is essentiallyrelatively formulaic, when it
comes to, again, ambitious youngwoman, it gets really difficult
job changes things about.
Her realizes she did wrong,like it didn't have to be
(30:29):
anything like incredibly, likemind bending or mind altering,
but yeah, it just seemed like itwas like just a little bit too
neat of a resolution and shedidn't necessarily have to fully
deal with the consequences ofher actions, because of course,
nate, you know they have thatreconciliation.
But it is great that I love themoment at the end, though,
(30:50):
where she gets the job and shegets that recommendation or she
learns of the recommendationfrom Miranda.
They have that little tiny,tiny meet cute from across the
street when she gets in the caryou see the little smile from
Miranda.
I thought that was reallyreally solid as well.
But yeah, it's just kind of arushed ending and would have
liked to see a little bit moreobviously like she gives the
(31:10):
clothes to Emily, and I thinkthat's a transition into the
final thing we'll talk aboutbefore we get into scores is
what do we expect out of asequel?
This is the world we live innow.
Obviously, I'm excited to seethese characters return, all
three of them.
Stanley Tucci Is Stanley Tucciin the sequel?
I have to look that up.
Where do they go from here,like at this point?
(31:30):
I'm not sure what the time jumpis, but like you have to see
Emily in like in a reallypredominant role.
You have to see that she hasgrown and she she cannot enter
this movie still as an assistant.
She has to be some sort of like, really, really successful.
All this grinding, getting hitby a car cannot be for nothing,
please.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
No, I wholeheartedly disagree.
You still want her to be down.
She's got to be an assistantand she's still got to be
working for her.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
There's no other scenario for Emily Blunt in the
sequel.
No, that's exactly how it shouldbe.
Well, I mean, so what do youfeel?
You asked me this, I think afew weeks ago, like how do I
feel about there being a sequel?
If you told me, like it was,whether or not I wanted it, if I
(32:20):
had a choice oh, stanley Tucciis in this thing, god, I would
say, like we don't necessarilyneed a sequel to the Devil Wears
Prada.
Am I going to be seated day one?
Absolutely, but what do youthink about this?
And they've also added someother people to the cast, such
as Lucy Liu and another big namewho I'm, I think, pauline
Chalamet there's more ChalametsBJ Novak, and then, of course,
(32:45):
you know the returningcharacters as well.
So what do you feel about hissequel and what do you think
could be done here, if anything?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I mean a sequel, I think might work for this.
This was like, again, earlypre-2010.
So early 2000s still.
Maybe it could work.
I just feel like I don't thinkthis movie is as in much of a
time capsule, as like PrettyWoman, for example, which again
(33:14):
we talked about, like ourcorrelation to our reaction to
that film.
I just don't know what would bereally enticing about it.
Like, are we going to learnmore about Miranda?
Because some of the appeal, forme at least, of Miranda is the
ambiguity of it all.
Like I definitely think thatthat is part of her character's
(33:37):
appeal is we don't fully unravel, unlayer all of the elements of
you know that onion of acharacter.
I don't know.
Do you do that again, andy?
Was there a lot of characterdevelopment where I just talked
about?
I felt like we kind of did aquick 180 back to normal at the
(33:57):
end.
Do I want to see that versionof the character?
No, I'd be more interested inseeing an Andy that is more like
a Miranda now, but that's notthe route they went with the end
of the movie Like ajournalistic Miranda.
Yeah, maybe she.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Emily is her assistant.
We're just torturing EmilyBlunt in this sequel.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah Listen, maybe she still goes down that route,
maybe they do that turn, I don'tknow.
It's really interesting, butthis movie is not as quite in a
time capsule.
Although I thought the timeperiod was fitting for when this
movie came out and kind of theway it was filmed.
I just don't know what thatwould look like.
I feel like it'd be a littlebit too glossy, a little bit too
(34:40):
glamorous, which is reallyreally ironic considering it's a
movie about fashion.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh shit.
Okay, here is the synopsis fromIMDb.
Do you want it?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Give it to me, baby.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Follows Miranda Priestly's struggle against
Emily Charlton, her formerassistant turned rival executive
, as they compete foradvertising revenue amidst
declining print media whileMiranda nears retirement.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, no, I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Not interested.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Where does Andy come in Mind?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
your own fucking business, you know, maybe
they're like maybe they're bothtrying to like hire her for it
does say like they're fightingover media.
So like maybe she's like thiseditor in chief now.
So for like so they're fightingfor.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
No, no, I hate that, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I disagree.
I'm going to be there.
What is Stanley Tucci doing inthis movie?
Yeah right, you're going to seeone clip with Stanley Tucci and
it'd be like absolute cinema.
I'm in, I'm in.
Well, let's get to the scoresand how we felt about this movie
First.
Let's get to the score and howwe felt about this movie First.
Let's get to how everybody elsefeels about the Devil Wears
(35:47):
Prada.
Surprised that the Tomatometerscore is a lot lower than I
thought it would be, eric 75%,still certified fresh on the
Tomatometer 76% Popcorn Meterscore.
So that's user score 7 out of10 over on IMDb score.
So that's user score seven outof 10 over on IMDb.
And on a letterbox it isholding strong at a 3.8 out of
(36:08):
five.
I'll let you go first, eric.
Um, obviously I hold this filmin very high regard when it
comes to my score.
Where did you land for yourletterbox score?
Oh, I did not add this to mylist.
I mean, even though I've seenit.
I'll add that right now.
But while I do that, where didyou score this?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, so the Devil Wears Prada Really enjoyed this
movie.
I was really teetering aroundLike this movie.
I thought when I left it it waslike a three and a half.
It just feels too low.
It just feels too low.
So I feel confident that it's asolid four and that is exactly
(36:45):
what I gave it.
Phil, I'm pretty sure, basedoff of what I believe your score
is, we're going to have theopposite literally bringing up
Pretty Woman again.
It's just going to be theopposite scenario for us.
I was a little bit higher onPretty Woman.
I love that fucking movie.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You really do.
Eric is in this crazy prettywoman era, and I'm not mad about
it.
It's just like I just was notexpecting it in 2025, neither
was I.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
neither was I, and I think, again, you enjoyed it,
but, like you, even though we'reonly like a half point
difference, you're literallyacting that way.
I think I'm gonna act that waywhenever you bring up the
devil's wear prada, as like agoodfellas territory.
I'm like what the fuck?
Like?
It was good, but, jesus, youreally liked that movie.
That's exactly what's happeninghere.
We both, though, enjoyed bothof these films, and the Devil
(37:33):
Wears Prada Really glad that Ifinally checked it out.
It's been a bucket list moviefor us, something that
constantly.
It's one of those movies thatisn't exactly like known
worldwide.
I don't think.
I think a lot of people knowabout.
I'm not saying nobody knowsthis movie, but it's not like
the big hitters that we've donebefore, but for us it's always
(37:53):
in rotation of conversation.
So it was really a bucket listitem for the podcast, and I'm
glad that I got it done.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah, that is a good, good comparison, because even
though I also gave Pretty Womana four, you gave it a four and a
half, which is what I've given.
The Devil Wears Prada again, itis creeping into like just one
of my favorite films of all time.
Do they stick the landingcompletely clean?
No, definitely not, but theperformances and the story are
so strong that I will go back tothis time and time again.
(38:21):
And, yeah, honestly, what weprobably align on right now,
eric, is one.
We need to watch more MerylStreep and two I keep seeing
Aaron Brockovich clips come upon Instagram.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I told you we got to watch here, I fucking told you,
I told you, dude, oh, I can'tfucking wait, I'm like so
excited, let's watch it now.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Watch Party right now .
Speaker 1 (38:45):
No, it's absolutely coming up because I really want
to see it.
I've been seeing clips of itand it looks.
It just looks like more great.
Julia Roberts, which that's oneof the films she's known for,
like that's one of her big films.
So, yeah, definitely need to dothat.
Also, talking about MerylStreep, a couple of films I'll
throw out there that she's apart of uh, she voice acted in
(39:06):
Fantastic Mr Fox, a movie that'sthat is on our list come up a
lot.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
What the I didn't also.
Cj Caleb, from the formerlylevel playing field, gave this a
two and a half, so it gave themworse.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Yeah, we should probably stop talking to him.
There's also the 2019 versionof little women, which I've
heard a lot of good things about.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Oh yeah, me too yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
One of the movies I did see her in that I hated was
into the woods.
Hate that movie.
Also, mary Poppins returns,which was painfully average.
Uh, so I really need toincrease my intake of films
because it's definitely not good.
I really shouldn't be talkingabout Meryl Streep without
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seeing some more films, and Idefinitely am seeing the list
here.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
We're probably going to have to go back in time to
see some of these older ones.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, there are a ton into the in time to see some of
these older ones yeah.
There are a ton, but yeah, Phil, with that being said, we have
a game to play.
Let's do it.
It's called More Like thiswe're using Letterboxd and IMDb.
You're going to have to havesome heavy hitters on this one
for me.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh wait, where does sorry, where does the Devil
Wears Prada end up on your listfor Late to the Party?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Ah, I knew we forgot something and I literally
couldn't think of that.
I was like, oh, we must beready to move on For Late to the
Party.
I have this movie listed, 12out of 39.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
So this movie listed 12 out of 39.
So in the upper tiers, rightbehind Spirited Away and right
above John Wick.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
My face didn't even mean to do that, you just said
Spirited Away and I was like,and you immediately got like
grotesque.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah, yeah, yep, it's number five for me, right
behind Paddington 2, which is anoutstanding film, stefan, and
right in front of Shawshank,redemption.
So, yeah, we're approaching the40 mark, which we'll get to in
October, and, yeah, it is astacked list as far as movies
that are on here.
(41:08):
Pretty crazy, I think this isthe so we're going to have to
start talking about, like peoplethat are appearing multiple
times.
So this is like what?
The second time for emily bluntright, because we did edge of
tomorrow edge of tomorrow, do we?
have any other repeat peoplehere, let's I mean, harrison
ford doesn't really count yeah,because that's the indiana jones
films movies, but I meantechnically shawshank, robert de
(41:34):
niro, joe pesci is matthewmcconaughey and any of the other
ones?
No, yeah, I guess is emilyblunt, our first repeat uh
appearance that can't be.
Oh, robert de niro yeah, weforget about that film, nicholas
.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Constantly Both Top Guns.
So again kind of cheating there.
Oh, tom Cruise, and Edge ofTomorrow as well.
What's?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
the Top Gun.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, so he's up there too.
So yeah, so not our first Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And Okay, gotcha, gotcha, well, yeah, anyway, yeah
, let's get to our game allright, this game is called more
like this, where we find similarfilms recommended by letterboxd
and imdb and we rank themagainst this movie to see would
you rather watch this or that?
So, phil, I don't know how manymovies on here you have seen.
(42:28):
There's also, I guess,unsurprisingly but kind of
surprisingly a lot of rom-comson here.
So yeah, giving you a littlebit of a taste of what to expect
, but I'll try to stay away fromthe rom-coms at the beginning
as much as I can.
Some of them are hard though,so if they're not strictly
rom-coms, the first one, are youready?
(42:50):
Let's do it.
The devil wears Prada orlegally blonde.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Oh, the Devil Wears Prada, because I enjoy the
Legally Blonde musical more thanthe movie, even though I'm
excited for the movie.
No, it's returning as a TVseries and it's a prequel, which
doesn't make any sense.
So yeah, devil Wears Prada, forsure.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Very much a choice.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or Mean Girls?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Shit.
The original, the good MeanGirls, right, not the musical.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yes, yeah, no, yeah.
The musical movie that shouldbe the musical itself, the
musical theater version.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Excellent Movie, terrible.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Oh boy, oh my gosh, Miranda Priestly versus oh my
gosh, gosh.
Why am I forgetting the name ofthe character in in Mean Girls,
that Regina George?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Regina George versus.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Miranda Priestley is a crazy super bracket bros.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Episode let's go.
Yeah, too bad, that podcast isnever happening again.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
I'm gonna go Mean.
I love Mean Girls and that waspeak Lindsay Lohan too, oh, wow,
wow, that's great.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
What are you rating Mean Girls?
Probably a four and a half.
I'm kind of scared.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
The original Mean Girls.
That's crazy.
Purely on vibes.
No, I hear you Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Would you rather watch the Devil Wears Prada or
Crazy Rich Asians?
Oh, you're such a dick.
You're such a dick.
I didn't, what'd you?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
say to fuck me.
For this is the list, it's onthe list.
Devil Wears Prada.
I love Crazy Rich Asians, butit you know it does get a little
Betrayed.
My culture for white women it'sanne hathaway.
No, stanley tucci betrayed myculture.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
For stanley tucci, let's not get it, man uh between
between uh accusing you of uhbetraying your asian heritage
and our manly talks aboutfeminism.
This episode episode is notgoing very well for us.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Yeah, I know, especially since we're talking
about just mostly Stanley Tucci,it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I feel like Stanley oh.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
I forgot Hunger Games .
God, he's so good.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Would you?
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or Barbie?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Devil Wears Prada yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I love Barbie, but Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, I love Barbie, but Devil Wears.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Prada.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada or the
Princess Diaries?
Princess Diaries yeah, okay,would you rather watch the Devil
Wears Prada or Pretty Woman?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
but yeah, I mean yeah , yeah, or Pretty Woman, devil
Wears Prada but yeah, I meanTough, yeah, yeah, all right,
now we're going to go rapid fireon a couple that I mean they
kind of fit.
I guess this one makes the mostsense.
I don't know that you've seenthis, so I'll just ask the Devil
Wears Prada or Cruella.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I've not seen Cruella .
Speaker 1 (45:56):
I feel like you would like Cruella a little bit more
after watching this, but it'sobjectively not a great movie.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
The Emma Stone one.
Yeah, I forgot that.
Came and went people like it.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I don't, but you might like it because it's kind
of got those same vibes arethere dogs in it?
Speaker 2 (46:12):
are there any Dalmatians in Cruella?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
no spoilers for Cruella here You'll have to.
I'm telling you, it's more likethe Devil Wears Prada than 101
Dalmatians, is what I'mexplaining.
There's literally Emma Thompson, is literally Meryl Streep in
that movie, basically.
So, except actually evil, emmaStone, no, emma Thompson is in
that movie as well.
(46:34):
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, and it'slike a.
There's a fashion thing to it.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Anyway, we've talked too much about Cruella here,
yeah, this is a mystery, sosorry, some plot we got into.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Apologies.
Would you rather watch theDevil Wears Prada?
Or how to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Would you rather watch the devil?
Speaker 2 (46:58):
wears prada, or 10 things I hate about you.
Devil wears prada.
There's two things I hate aboutyou.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
The j-lo one no, that's the one with uh heath
ledger and um 10 things I hateabout.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Is that kate hud?
No, that's not kate hud, nowhat's her name?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
I don't know.
She, she, she has an act.
Uh, julia Stiles.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I love Julia Stiles,
but Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
The Devil Wears Prada , or 13, going on 30?
.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
The Devil Wears Prada or the Notebook.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
The Devil Wears Prada , okay.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Are there any other ones?
Maybe we could talk about thewhat Women Want the movie with
Mel Gibson and he can readwomen's minds.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Let's not talk about Mel Gibson in 2025.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Respectfully what Women Want.
Not a bad film.
Not a bad film, not as bad asyou would think.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Probably bad for the time I gave it a three for
whatever that means.
Oh, Helen Hunt, that's who?
Oh, dude, Helen Hunt.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Actually Johnson is in this.
I used to love me some HelenHunt.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
There's some Eric Moore for you.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, no, I think that's pretty much it.
All these other ones are kindof like hitches on here.
I don't know why that would bebrought up New York City.
You've seen Crazy Stupid Love.
Right, yeah, that, or the DevilWears Prada.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Hmm, because crazy stupid love is a four and a half
for me.
I love that.
I think I have.
I think I've also given it afour and a half.
That movie's fantastic becauseit's just one of the most fun
experiences I've ever hadwatching a film.
It's, I think I would go withcrazy stupid love.
Yeah, it is.
Um, yeah, I wish I could relivethat twist all over, just, over
(48:33):
and over again.
Maybe it's it's up there withlike yeah, I also over and over
again.
Maybe it's up there with likeyeah, I also have the four and a
half.
It's up there with like one ofthe best movie twists ever.
And if you're ranking, like ifI could erase a movie moment in
your mind and watch it again,it's up there.
It's up there.
Don't call her that.
No, no.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
David Ling Hawkins.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I can tackle some.
Yeah, um, it'd be up.
It'd be up there.
We should like do a ranking oflike moments that we would want
to erase from our mind, becauseit would be like something about
like infinity war end game andthen be like crazy stupid love.
That'd be be fun that'd becrazy but yeah no, that is our
game.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
A lot of different movies that came up and, uh yeah
, phil phil, you saw most ofthem, so that that game worked
out really well for us and mostof the cruella.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
So I guess, I gotta, I guess, let cruella no.
December 2025, late to theparty.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
You're watching Whiplash first.
I'll tell you this this movieis essentially Whiplash, except
Whiplash has like no fun in it.
It's like zero.
There's like zero fun.
But JK Simmons is so fuckinggood, Like Meryl Streep is so
good in this movie.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Get the fuck out of my face before.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
I fucking destroy you .
It's funny, unintentionally,like uncomfortably, where this
movie's just kind of like, ohthat's shitty, but you know
there's still some humor in it.
That movie's uncomfortablyfunny at moments but yeah, it's
much, much more aggressive.
So I actually think Whiplash isa lock for you to like.
So we will see, we will see.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Yeah, that will be coming up soon for sure.
So there you have it, folks.
The Devil Wears Prada crisisaverted.
Eric enjoyed the movie and,yeah, we will see the sequel in
2026.
So we'll see how that pans out.
What do you think about theDevil Wears Prada?
Did you see it when it came out?
Did you see it more recently?
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Did you see it when it came out?
Did you see it more recently?
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That's crazy.
Well, if I don't get hit by acar, you'll have it.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
I need skirts.
Give me like 10 to 15.
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