http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:21:02 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-611359 I thot the movie was alot of fun. But the ending was so cliche' and typical of the fairy tale we wish would happen or that everyone wud do in that situation. I agree w/marta above that andy was in no way shape or form becoming miranda. not in the slightest. andy was just doing her job and doing it well. if her friends/beau can't understand that this 1 year is/is going to be complete hell. then seriously they dont care about her. I know people that have stuck it out for years hoping for doors to open and those dreams never came to fruition. So in a nutshell i think the ending hurt the entire film. the whole miranda seeing something of herself in andy speech was jumping the gun a bit. it seemed as tho the director had a lot of fun making the film and then said oh yeah lets thro a moral theme into it. when in reality if andy had problems with the direction that she was taking. there would have been more of that confusion thruout the film. She was the same andy all thruout the fim. and would still be that same sweet girl after another 6 months. bottom line we all work at places we dont belong. its called paying dues to get ahead. let's face it some jobs dont leave much time for a social life. i think it is called growing up or something like that. i just thot it was stupid that miranda is looked upon as selling her soul. but it is not a married with children type of job. and i was kinda hopeing that andy would take the dark path. by telling her friends and beau to shove it. cuz that is what would happen in the real world IMO. 611359@blogcritics.org Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:21:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-611358 I thot the movie was alot of fun. But the ending was so cliche' and typical of the fairy tale we wish would happen or that everyone wud do in that situation. I agree w/marta above that andy was in no way shape or form becoming miranda. not in the slightest. andy was just doing her job and doing it well. if her friends/beau can't understand that this 1 year is/is going to be complete hell. then seriously they dont care about her. I know people that have stuck it out for years hoping for doors to open and those dreams never came to fruition. So in a nutshell i think the ending hurt the entire film. the whole miranda seeing something of herself in andy speech was jumping the gun a bit. it seemed as tho the director had a lot of fun making the film and then said oh yeah lets thro a moral theme into it. when in reality if andy had problems with the direction that she was taking. there would have been more of that confusion thruout the film. She was the same andy all thruout the fim. and would still be that same sweet girl after another 6 months. bottom line we all work at places we dont belong. its called paying dues to get ahead. let's face it some jobs dont leave much time for a social life. i think it is called growing up or something like that. i just thot it was stupid that miranda is looked upon as selling her soul. but it is not a married with children type of job. and i was kinda hopeing that andy would take the dark path. by telling her friends and beau to shove it. cuz that is what would happen in the real world IMO. 611358@blogcritics.org Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:20:35 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-549824 My interpretation of that scene is that they're both moving on -- one stays in NY and the other moving to Boston and I didn't get the impression that they were going to do the commute/long distance thing. Maybe I am wrong. But definitely, they didn't "get back together" after their little break. 549824@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:35:53 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-549689 At the end, Nate tells Andy there's cheese for the sandwiches he makes her in Boston, & her response is very positive. I was left with the impression she planned to move to Boston with him ... altho she also has just gotten the job there in NY ... ? Maybe she plans to commute or her new place has a branch in Boston, but I can't imagine her getting a transfer when she's still so new. Still, a journalist can work 'from home' better than just about anyone else in any other field, I guess; maybe she doesn't have to report to an office? Geez, I love Meryl Streep. She does drama, comedy, & everything else with such ease. I do believe I'd even deign to watch network TV if she was featured. A truly great talent. Best of all, she's not conventionally beautiful. 549689@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:59:29 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-549501 I'm not entirely sure that Nate has taken Andy back. He's moving to Boston, and their relationship at the end is kind of iffy. I think they do pay for their choices. Nate decides to go for his dream, and Andy realizes nothing is permanent. People make mistakes and you deal with the mistakes. I think that's the lesson Andy learned. 549501@blogcritics.org Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:12:25 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/05/155718.php#comment-544199 Hmm... all I know is that if I was Nate, I wouldn't take back the girl who turned her back on everything she used to be, and then decided to "take a break" and sleep with some other guy while she was in Paris (having too much wine is no excuse)! My best friend was in a relationship of 6 years and something very similar happened, yet he did not take her back... and I guess I think that's the right (and more realistic?) choice. Maybe a better moral would have been presented had the ending shown how much people have to pay for some of their choices, and that sometimes there's no undoing or going back on the things you've done. 544199@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:22:19 EST