Before I watch this again at Jon’s request, I will tell you what I think I know and/or remember about this movie. I see on Letterboxd that I have given it 3 stars. That makes sense because what I remember is there are 2 movies here. One that is, like, 4.5-star rated and stars Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt and another movie is, like, 1.5-star-rated and stars Anne Hathaway and that guy from Entourage. The movie that actually exists and is right in the middle with an average of 3 stars stars Stanley Tucci doing what he often does by being the bridge between an awful movie he should not be in and the one he is actually in and which he is holding together.*
Anyway what I remember is that for no reason whatsoever** Anne Hathaway’s character is the protagonist when clearly Emily Blunt’s character is by far the only one worth making a movie about.
Anne Hathaway is every child I work with who just complains about how hard life is. She sucks. Where did she think she was moving to? What did she expect? The only person who is less sympathetic (by way of being even more pathetic*** than she is) is her boyfriend from Entourage.
Anyway, since the should-be protagonist Emily Blunt is relegated to supporting character, this leaves us with one main character to side with: the Devil.
Kudos to Meryl Streep for a wonderful performance but I think I’d have rooted for her character over Anne Hathaway’s even if she had been played by Jeff Bridges talking like he did in The Vanishing.
Now I will go and watch this movie again and see if time has been kinder to my appreciation of this film. (cue Jon laugh. There is no way.) BRB
*with the exception of The Lovely Bones where he followed Jeff Bridges’ Vanishing example and decided if he had to get paid to be a creepy kidnapper/murderer he’d make sure no one ever gave him any awards for it and was the worst
**well for one reason: this annoying woman wrote the book about herself and probably hates the real Emily Blunt character for always and forever being better than she is (speculating here)
***the one scene I remember the most from this movie, no joke, is when this adult male becomes so, so sad because his girlfriend missed his b-b-b-birthday party. It is so absurd, he is a child, and he is one of my least favorite characters ever (beaten only possibly by every single character on Entourage)
