The ***** Wears Prada

About an unstylish wannabe-journalist (Hathaway)'s being an assistant to a successful and allegedly-stylish fashion magazine editor (Streep) in order to get opportunities to become a journalist. Seemed like a ridiculous concept to me, but I've never had an interest in being a journalist, so maybe I just wouldn't know. I doubt it, but "who knows." I didn't like the movie. Notes:

-The introduction where everyone was bustling around to fix everything for Miranda (Streep) to her liking before her arrival and their being frightened of her was so cheesy
-"Accordian" post-it notes go in a special dispenser--always. Always. Everyone knows this, at least those who would buy them would, and a workplace full of haughty people would make sure they had the dispenser, so as not to appear or feel slovenly. Any office would. This bothered me because it was stupid and ignorant, but also I fear they may have thought it would be funny if Andrea (Hathaway) looked "clumsy" in having difficulty trying to pull apart post-it notes, when the reality is instead of being embarrassed, she should have made fun of them endlessly for being so primitive.
-This is the second "Cinderella"/make-over movie of Hathaway's that I'm aware of
-Miranda's clothing was awful. The most-notably terrible article of clothing of hers for me was that ghastly gold coat she wore.
-Everything done with sunglasses and/or eyeglasses was cheesy
-I'm pretty sure Miranda had the same make-up throughout the whole movie, aside from the one scene where she didn't have any
-Incompetence is not made up for by dressing more stylishly, except maybe when you're a female working for a straight male or a gay female
-I hate hats
-No one would lend (or give) someone in-style Channel, "etc." designer clothing/accessories for free. It just wouldn't happen. But what was up with her keeping them and wearing them outside the workplace? Movies...
-Miranda's rescheduling things and arriving early showed she had nothing better to do. No one said anything about it, except that they'd better be mad early since she always was. But I think it's funny that someone that self-important would depreciate the value of their time. I don't think that way myself, but people like that usually do.
-The whole, "Yeah, I mean, there's a hurricane, but it's just a little drizzle and I'm "important" and have connections, so you will get me a flight out of here," "I can't believe you couldn't get me a flight out of that hurricane," and "I'm so sorry I couldn't get you a plane that would fly through a hurricane." -- Awful. Just really, really bad. I think it was the worst part of this movie.
-Fashion is too expensive, in the terms of designer crap which goes out of style faster than it came. But those people are idiots, paying exorbitant amounts of money for garbage that they let someone else decide was in style to begin with, then isn't the next week, so let them suffer. But the money could go to better use...
-What quality-printmaking establishment on Earth would illegally make decent copies of an unpublished installment of a highly-popular book series (Harry Potter)? I mean, I think you could go to prison for that. Crazy world, but seriously, that would probably never happen. And also, what happens when those brats demand the next book which hasn't even been written? I can't stand brats.
-The blonde guy was pretty much Andrea's boyfriend's twin, though maybe ten years older
-The standard-sized birthday candle on the cupcake was endless
-Whose daughters were the twins? Miranda? Did she adopt? 'Cause, I mean, she is like eighty years old
-Boohoo fashion, who cares

Escape From Alcatraz

This is a "classic" about three prisoners' escape from Alcatraz, based on a true story. I didn't like the movie. Notes and/or problems the movie had:

-The mouse being taken care of was adorable
-The prisoners dressed like office workers
-After Morris asked the prisoner who took care of a mouse if there were any forks during his first meal in the cafeteria, the guy responded by saying, "You see any?" Moments later, the guy asked Morris if he could have his spaghetti, to which Morris replied, "You see any?," even though he clearly had some. Cheesy. The guy said that he did and Morris gave it to him and the guy fed it to the mouse. That was adorable--rodents eating things is so cute 'cause they hold it in their tiny hands.
-It was never mentioned what Morris did to be imprisoned to begin with
-The papier-mâché heads were mad shiny
-The flowers thing was so cheesy
-Who would care that the painter had his painting privileges taken away? He should have thought about things like that before he did whatever he did to get himself in prison
-The mouse would totally have died in Morris' clothing--if not from suffocation, from drowning