Great TV; lousy film.
January 21st, 2007 by MrLuxuryFashionGuruI finished all my final exams on Friday. So it may be quite inexplicable that I pulled my first all-nighter of the year last night watching back to back episodes of ABC’s Ugly Betty on the ABC website. With a title like that, it took two different friends’ votes of approval, and two Golden Globe wins for the new show (for best TV comedy) and lead actress America Ferrera (best actress in a TV comedy) for me to suddenly want to see every episode of the show to date. It’s soooo good! Seriously, I can go on and on, and I did today at lunch, for probably an hour.
As a preface, I must start with the fact that viewing Ugly Betty is a little bit like getting to watch a much longer remake of The Devil Wears Prada as a TV series, but with much more character development and denser inter-personal relationships. And perhaps more importantly, compared to other ostensibly similar films and TV series (the long list includes High School Musical, the TV series Popular, and the The Princess Diaries) Ugly Betty has a considerably meatier and more truthful core message (there’s none of the hypocrisy of trying to pass off Anne Hathaway as an unstylish, un-skinny glamazon – America Ferrera is in fact under 5’5″, has a BMI of more than 25 and doesn’t have the usually obligatory “but I’m really a Disney princess!” eyes). Go check it out online, and I promise the plots get better and less ripped off from The Devil Wears Prada quite quickly.
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And now, I will rant about Pan’s Labyrinth, which I had high hopes for, given the lavish critical praise and extremely positive reactions from friends. I thought it was severely disappointing on many levels – story, plotting, characters, cinematography… The post below contains my more extensive analysis of why I disliked the movie, but in the interest of hiding spoilers, I’ve password protected it. To see the next entry, type “Pan” (no quotation marks) as the password.
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It’s now way past my bedtime.
I had so much fun with the Dins and Pitches tonight at Ricardo’s party!
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