It’s almost like making a $100,000,000 movie based on a half-forgotten series of trading cards was a bad idea. Tim Burton‘s 1996 adaptation of the early 60s trading card series offers ten minutes or so of really great visuals recreating classic scenes from the series chronicling Earth being invaded by Martians. The trouble is, those 10 minutes are spread out over the film’s 106-minute runtime.
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Twenty years later, The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt. With none of the characters having changed in any notable way, a recently unemployed Andy (Hathaway) returns to Runway with the magazine in desperate need of an image makeover after a dreadful snafu has put the brand, and an ungrateful Miranda Priestly (Streep), in hot water.
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Adapting Lauren Weisberger best-selling novel, 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway as recent college graduate desperate for employment who takes a job as the second assistant to the unreasonable and demanding editor of a fashion magazine (Meryl Streep). While initially overwhelmed in a world she knows nothing about (and openly scoffs), she eventually finds her footing, although her friends begin to fear she’s lost her soul.
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A larger than life summer blockbuster a decade before the idea even existed, 1963’s fantasy epic has something for everyone. Adapted from the Greek epic poem, our story follows Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his band of soldiers on the quest to find and retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote kingdom of Colchis at the end of the world. Jason’s quest is spurred by his need for justice and his plans to retake the throne of Thessaly stolen by Pelias (Douglas Wilmer) who murdered its king and the rest of Jason’s family.
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Although generally well thought of today, Hercules met with mixed reactions when it hit theaters in 1997 underperforming at the box office. The film felt some criticism for its animation, its Disney-fication of the Greek myth simplifying and removing the darker elements of Hercules’ story, and irreverent humor in what was partially inspired by classic Hollywood screwball comedies.
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