This looks like it should be called The Devil wears Prada 2.

American women from the last two generations have turned into assholes trying to act like the vapid bitches on television is what the shit looks like to me...That and the overall decline in quality-of-life in-general in the U.S.

I blame to a large extent the popularity of craptacularly untalented gangster rappers and the ghettofication of culture by marketing assholes. The same assholes who want us to pay for their (entertainment) shit rather than use it and throw it the fuck away like it's quality deserves. You stole our souls, now I steal your media content.

The same assholes who have glorified names like Fendi, Prada, etc. and made that bullshit household names. I blame television mainly, it's fucking poison for the mind and soul.

It's homogenization of a culture through marketing as a means of slavery and control, it's insidious, pervasive, and terminal.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

I found Hanna completely bizarre. The "facility" she escapes from that looks more like a Prada runway with convenient hidey-holes that aren't even air-ducts, yet somehow lead to all the important rooms. The whole "never-heard-music" thing. What? Her dad can't sing her a fucking song? "Mary had a little lamb?" He didn't bring a cassette tape? She interacts socially with one person her entire life and then functions completely normally in society?
And I realize that the violence in movies is never realistic, but Hanna was just ridiculous. And not even in a good Matrixy-kind-of-way or a brutal Old Boy style. The whole thing played out like a teenage super-model's revenge fantasy. Like if Paris Hilton were to make a movie about her worst enemy.
Not that I think less of anyone for liking it. I was really excited to see it and it was certainly better than the latest "Pirates" turd.


Yeah, but that movie is supposed to play out like a stylized fantasy. All the fairy tale references aren't there by chance.

I found Hanna completely bizarre. The "facility" she escapes from that looks more like a Prada runway with convenient hidey-holes that aren't even air-ducts, yet somehow lead to all the important rooms. The whole "never-heard-music" thing. What? Her dad can't sing her a fucking song? "Mary had a little lamb?" He didn't bring a cassette tape? She interacts socially with one person her entire life and then functions completely normally in society?

And I realize that the violence in movies is never realistic, but Hanna was just ridiculous. And not even in a good Matrixy-kind-of-way or a brutal Old Boy style. The whole thing played out like a teenage super-model's revenge fantasy. Like if Paris Hilton were to make a movie about her worst enemy.

Not that I think less of anyone for liking it. I was really excited to see it and it was certainly better than the latest "Pirates" turd.

One big room full of bad bitches

And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
The basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother
I put that on my partner, I put that on my family
Oakland city representer, address me as your majesty
Yeah you can kiss the ring, but you can never touch the crown
I smoke a million Swisher bluntsand I ain't never coming down
Bitch you ain't no Barbie I see you work at Arby's
Number 2, super-sized Hurry up I'm starving
Gnarly, radical, on the block I'm magical
See me at your college campus baggie full of Adderalls
Call me if you need a fix, call me if you need a boost
See them other chicken heads? They don't never leave the coop
I'm in the coupe cruising, I got the stolen plates
Serving all the fiends over there by the Golden Gate
Bridge, I'm colder than the fridge and the freezer
I'm snatching all your bitches at my leisure


And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
I'm lookin like Madonna but I'm flossing like Ivana
Trump, you know I keep that work in my trunk
Got my hand on the pump if you wanna press your luck
I'm yelling "Free V-Nasty" 'til my throat is raspy
Young, rich and flashy I be where the cash be
You can't find that? I think you need a Google Map
My pearl-handled kitty-cat will leave and press your noodle back
Now Google that groupies follow me like Twitter
I'm rolling up my catnip and shitting in your litter
Why you looking bitter? I be looking better
The type of bitch that make you wish that you ain't never met her
The editor, director plus I'm my own boss
So posh, nails fierce with the gold gloss
Which means nobody getting over me
I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Oh, all you basic ass hoes out there
Man I got rooms full of bad bitches
They don't need Gucci, they don't need Louis
We swagging, ehh, meow

>> ^draak13:
Hollywood has its target audience, and if its target audience wanted to see an intelligent, sophisticated asian woman influencing world politics in their movies, Hollywood would do it.

This is a standard market fallacy. Players in markets will only do what is in their best interest IF they know what is in their best interest. In the case of Hollywood I find that presupposition questionable, even more than in most hight stakes markets.

I would also like to point out that the Mo movie measure is not a test for a good film, or even a socially responsible film, it's a low water mark test for the inclusion of female perspective in a story. This test is a good one for three reasons:

1) It is easy to pass, so at first hearing it seems like it should be commonly passed.
2) The inverse test does usually pass, because the male perspective is present.
3) Movies rarely pass this test, because the female perspective is absent.

While Fight Club could be a reasonable outlier, just as The Devil Wears Prada is an outlier for the inverse test, the fact of the matter is that FC is not an outlier, but TDWP is, and that is the crux of the issue.

Although this is some horrible shit, the idea of combining crunk and screamo isn't necessarily a bad idea IMHO.

Devil Wears Prada has made a pretty good cover of Big Tymers' song Still Fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIvJh71oEF4

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mrs, betty, bowers, prayer, silly' to 'mrs betty bowers, prayer, silly, jesus, prada' - edited by xxovercastxx

Well... I hate:

Willful ignorance
People that fuck up their own language (were/where, pluralizing with 's, needless use of the quotation mark, insure/ensure, they're/there, too/to, do/due) - yes I've seem them all.
Stupid drivers
Asshole drivers
Not being able to turn right on red
Being forced to pay $45/mo for a 1.5 Meg DSL connection because that's all there is
Popcorn flavored Jelly-Bellies
Celebrities
People that spend rediculous amounts of money on clothing like Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and the like. $60 for cheap flimsy sunglases? Seriously? $120 for jeans? WTF!? a $600 fucking purse!?
Bad parents
Ill-behaved kids
Screaming kids
Crying kids
My gut
The chow hall here
Banana pudding
My barracks room (the AC is broken and I live in North Carolina)
Sweating my ass off
The end of a really good book/video game
Inconsiderate people
Cigarettes
People that use a right blinker to turn left (saw it this morning)
Having to piss in the middle of the night
Shitty roommates
"Pimped out" Civics
Fart can "mufflers"
Guys with white sunglasses
Guys with pants tighter than my girlfriend's (shudder)


And much much more.

>> ^Flood:
I agree that eventually we'll get to the point where it simply isn't possible for every citizen to work. I don't think that means we'd have to go to socialism though. You can accomplish the same goals that socialism would tackle by using a Negative Income Tax, without the drawback of giving complete control to the government on deciding whose work is most valuable.


Once you've developed an automated workforce you'll be looking at a planet with probably 10 billion people, 9.5 billion who will likely have no access to a job of any kind.

By that point your glorious Negative Income Tax would serve no purpose.

Doing away with money all together will be the only effective way of dealing with society at that point.

As it stands, we have the technology and resources to provide a much greater quality of life for every person on the planet, but few are willing to sacrifice the false sense of superiority they derive from their wealth. So we continue to prop up a failing economic system, maintain pointless class separations, encourage debt, propagate false scarcity and let millions suffer poverty needlessly, so that rich people can substitute the fact that they're miserable people by driving Mercedes cars and wearing Prada.

The saddest part is that those same greedy scumbags have convinced enough of the lower class shlubs, that it's your own fault if you're not as rich as they are because you're either too stupid or two lazy, and you should work harder because if you're not rich you're not worth anything. And unfortunately enough people have fallen for their bullshit that they continue to facilitate the same system that exploits them and keeps them down.

God hates fogs.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
The fucking pope rejected the French ambassador because he's gay!? The fucking pontiff wears Prada! Everyone knows he's gay, except Sarah Palin. (She hasn't dispatched a witch doctor to the Vatican. Yet.)
I love my country for all of its freedoms, including the freedom of religion. Still, I'll bet you dollars to donuts (actually that's an even equation in our current economy, but deal with it anyway) that the Founding Fathers wanted someone like her nowhere near the corridors of power.
So help me God (in whom I don't believe), we are SO fucked if McCain wins this election. And if I'm wrong, I will be the first S.O.B. to kiss you on the lips in celebration of it.
But why wait? You can kiss me now, for free! Rottenseed: I'm looking at you. Again.

The fucking pope rejected the French ambassador because he's gay!? The fucking pontiff wears Prada! Everyone knows he's gay, except Sarah Palin. (She hasn't dispatched a witch doctor to the Vatican. Yet.)

I love my country for all of its freedoms, including the freedom of religion. Still, I'll bet you dollars to donuts (actually that's an even equation in our current economy, but deal with it anyway) that the Founding Fathers wanted someone like her nowhere near the corridors of power.

So help me God (in whom I don't believe), we are SO fucked if McCain wins this election. And if I'm wrong, I will be the first S.O.B. to kiss you on the lips in celebration of it.

But why wait? You can kiss me now, for free! Rottenseed: I'm looking at you. Again.

In relation to female leads in movies, you need to consider that at a young age, boys tend to prefer male influences to female, while females tend to be more neutral. This is ironic, considering most of us are raised by our mothers or some other female caretaker (or a possible reason why). This is evident in entertainment most especially. For instances, J.K. Rowling used her initial instead of her name because boys don't like to read books by female authors (the initials disguised this). As another example, how many men do you know who went to watch "The Devil Wears Prada" without a woman in tow? Scary Movie 4 may be an exception because, while I didn't see it, the previews I did see did seem to suggest some sexual material (which counters the purpose, as I'm sure you agree).

This preference, weather socially developed or genetic, will definitely play a role in how well a product sells. The fact that movies, books, television, whatever tends to have more male protagonists than female is an EFFECT, not a CAUSE.

Thanks you thank you thank you for your awesome comment. The first one! I'm gonna put this link in my post.

Mu>> ^mundanest:
Randall Munroe of XKCD, had a post breaking down the 2 leads of the top 20 movies in recent years. since 2004 only the Devil Wares Prada and Scary Movie 4. Had two female leads.

Randall Munroe of XKCD, had a post breaking down the 2 leads of the top 20 movies in recent years. since 2004 only the Devil Wares Prada and Scary Movie 4. Had two female leads.