What I think about Meryl Streep

[charliesmum]

Just got back from seeing The Devil Wears Prada. Very enjoyable movie. Funny, pretty clothes, happy ending etc.

Back in the olden days, Meryl Streep tended to be in movies where people cried alot and had bad things happen to them. Even when she was in a movie that didn't require her to put on an accent or have to choose what child will live, her characters always seemed so miserable. Like this one movie I can't think of the name of where she plays a character who falls in love with this guy on a train, or something. Sounds nice, but they are both married, and so they mope around the whole time and in the end she misses the train or something and they don't end up together.

Anyway...my point is, as much as I can understand why she got so many Oscars and Oscar nominations, she always bugged me because she took it all so darned seriously. Like she didn't think she'd be a 'real' actress if she didn't play someone who was dying of a rare disease or something.

And even when she started to try more comedy, she made some odd choices. I mean, that Rosanne Barr thing, She Devil? What the heck was that?

This was nice. She was, as always, fantastic in the role, and it was a very fun, funny movie where points were made, but nothing too serious, and people were entertained without leaving the theatre fighting the urge to slit one's wrist.

See, Meryl? That wasn't so hard, was it?

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Comments

[zambonigirl.livejournal.com]

Now I'm really worried that I won't enjoy the movie at all.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

I really liked it, personally. I certainly had some issues with the moral points it was trying to make, but the script was sharp and the acting was wonderful. I mean, Anne Hathaway was pretty good, but Meryl Streep was just amazing in that role. I'm not sure how it will feel to someone who's really familiar with the source material, but it worked for me.