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He's literally the main character in Hannibal. Seeing him in Ella Enchanted DANCING AND SINGING......was rolling around laughing. Screaming even. Iconic.
don’t even start with me. this movie is quite literally a cinematic masterpiece. nothing has ever topped it and i doubt anything ever will. isla fisher woke up one day in the late 2000s and knew she had to slay harder than anyone had dared to before.
The book was published in 2000 and as you read it you realise how much less expensive designer goods were then, pre-inflation. She mentions £20k could by 52 Gucci watches, today (at cheapest price) approx 20 Gucci watches
I truly have so much respect for Hugh Dancy for spending a decade playing the bemused but charming love interest in mid-budget romcoms and then proceeding to go "You know what. For my next role I'm going to play a sweaty autistic little guy who wants to smooch Hannibal Lecter."
First, I like how Derek is an antagonist but not a villain. He was only doing his job and I like how the movie showed how frustrating her behavior was to this guy. I also liked how even when making this comedy, they showed her shopping as an addiction. She tried to quit, but quickly relapsed. The first group leader relapsed and has to start over. You see the relationships she lost (at first) due to choosing her addiction over them. While the storyline of her working for a magazine she does not care about is “Beauty and the Briefcase”, I liked how it became more cathartic for her and understood her love of fashion through a new perspective. The writing of this film is surprisingly well done.
yess! In the book Derek even offered to help her make a payment plan and tried to get so many meetings with Rebecca to sort out her debt. He's not a bad guy, this public humiliation was just his last resort of getting her to pay
@@robin0135oh my lord i forget there was a confessions book. i feel like part of the success of chickflicks like devil wears prada and confession is that they were based on a book first, and i feel like book QC through the 90s and 00s were much higher than they are today. plus, chickflicks not being high stakes box offices prolly also translated to less higher-up meddling. so not only did the screenwriters already got a solid foundation to build from, they're also able to translate the story from one medium to another without worrying too much about anything else. this all just a speculation though lol. but that's kinda the vibe that i get.
I was actually on his side my second time watching this movie because I would be annoyed too if someone was making my job that much more difficult and it’s already such a boring, tedious job😭
I mean most of what Derek did is absolutely illegal and he would 100% lose his job if Becks reported how he was harassing her and I get that she was a stubborn case but in general those kind of people at jobs like this annoy me, like dude it’s not your personal money she owes, so chill out there are definitely protocols in place for people who don’t pay their debt that don’t include harassment
@@V_4_Versace i don’t why, but derek feels like bubbles from lilo and stich. “I am the one that people go to when things go wrong. From what I see things are very wrong”. But get that he really wants to nail this girl especially after he started using every protocol possible.
I actually liked that the mannequins still tak to her at the end, it shows that addiction is not just gone because you got a happy ending. She still needs to be wary of the demons that want her to spent all her money again.
Hugh Dancy is a criminally underrated heartthrob. Like that man changed my whole life by introducing me to that posh accent and that basic brown hair, girlies were dying everywhere I looked. It was a war.
Immediately ran to the comments for hugh dancy appreciation. My favorite story will always be him getting voted as prettiest boy AND prettiest girl at Oxford, he is so stunningly pretty
Advice for anyone dealing with debt collectors, they aren't allowed to harass you. If you tell them they can't call you at work and they continue to do so, you can sue them. You should also check out your local/state laws because there might be more protections. The point is that Derek Smeath's harassment of Rebecca is illegal.
I read the book this movie is based on last summer, and in that one I feel like the "harassment" makes a lot more sense. Derek doesn't call Rebecca's workplace but her parents because she also put them on her banking info, and he was just genuinely worried about her financial situation and was trying to help her out.
I'm sad you didn't include the moment when her dad mentions them living in Finland when she was little. I think it's implied that she actually grew up in Finland and they moved to the States and she forgot the language and it makes me emotional because in all the lies she tells, this one bit might be actually true :'))
I totally agree with you on the "bring back fun" point. I feel like everything nowadays has to be either biting satire or super dark. There's definitely a place for that but some of us want to have fun while watching things :)
i actually think theres been a lot of fun films in recent years, people just seem to have trouble finding them bc there are just more films in general ig
@@chickenfoot2423got any reccs? i try to think of fun movies released in the past decade but all i can think of are movies like mad max, john wick, man from u.n.c.l.e, and knives out, lol. they're all defo fun movies, but like, a different kind of fun than chick flicks, y'know? (i do tend to keep up more with movies like this though, tbf, hence why i can't think of anything else lol.)
@@mophead_xu I just drown myself in k-dramas. They still have that whimsy about them. Not taking everything too seriously or too realistically especially rom coms.
The masters in mechanical engineering required to come up with all of these varying scenarios that conclude in “she ate” is a service to the community. Like, yes mike knows what the square root of 64 is cmon maths!
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
Mike's sense of humor will literally never get old for me. I feel like he just says everything that we're all thinking but in the most clever ways and I adore it always. I will never get sick of the word "slay" coming out of this man's mouth. Continue Mike. You are an icon and a legend.
i literally have learned so many words, it's like a new dialect for me and I love that. He truly has say-anything-itis and he is a major corporal in the idgaf war 💅
Omg, the NOSTALGIA. I was 15 when I discovered The Confessions of a Shopaholic BOOKS, yes, BOOKS. I was obsessed for years lmao. Also in the books, she never really gets past her addiction, it just changes and morphs. At first it's clothes, then it's wedding shit, then it's house stuff, then it's baby stuff etc (as she meets Luke, marry him, get a house together, then a baby etc)
flgdlk came here to comment this. i literally found the book in an alley, someone threw it and a bunch of books in the trash and i took them when i was like 13 and read them. i was so embarassed cause i wasnt a girly girl but i loved the books!
There is a short horror story in wi h a guy hides the cursed item on a block of ice so he doesnt touch it sleepwalking and im convinced that he took the idea from here
This genuinely a really good romcom, I watched it recently & was like "IS THAT WILL FROM HANNIBAL?????" when the love interest was introduced. Man's got range
This masterpiece is finally getting the respect it deserves! If only you talked about “Wild Child” too. That film was my entire personality in my early teens. Thanks, love❤️ Btw, where is the long awaited deep dive on Lost? Girls are dying for some highbrow content
The thing I love most about this movie (other than Hugh Dancy) is that each character feels very fleshed out whether they were on screen for 2 minutes or 2 hours.
random piece of trivia: the woman who's the shopaholic's anonymous second leader I instantly recognized as a character in CSI, specifically an episode in where she murdered her husband for being into diaper play. Don't really know if that's a fun fact but it's something.
as a perth girlie, i am absolutely obsessed with this gal who went to perth modern (basically this super exclusive, can only get into if you're the smartest of the smart, school) playing only the ditziest (affectionate) characters she can find
Mike worrying that his younger audience might not know what a cheque is, is the same way I feel about how I feel about the obsolete presence of knowledge about One direction for pre-teens!!!
This is like my favorite movie from the 2000s I'm so serious. I watched it RELIGIOUSLY as a kid. I'm actually surprised my family didn't clock anything from this being my favorite movie as a kid lol
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate" ~ Carl Jung
Fun Fact : this movie is based on a series of books, there's the first one of which the movie is based on, and there are 7 sequels : Shopaholic Takes Manhattan Shopaholic Ties the Knot Shopaholic & Sister Shapaholic & Baby Mini Shopaholic Shopaholic on Honeymoon Shopaholic to the Stars Shopaholic to the Rescue Christmas Shopaholic When I was a kid, I read all the way up to Mini Shopaholic, then I relized I had a problem and detoxed But the point is... she never learned anything, ever. The series is just about a life long struggle with addiction.
What always pissed me off is when Rebecca is “forced” to donate the dresses. If I was in that situation I would just say fuck you and take my dresses. The new leader can’t actually force her to do anything. She can just find a new group it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Watching this movie in class was part of my financial literacy curriculum. The other 90% of the class was Dave Ramsey shaming poor people for not living on saltines in order to not go into debt.
I was obsessed with that movie as a teen and I watched it so many times, its been ingrained in my bain so deep that nowadays every time someone says "don´t answer" when i get a phone call I automatically follow with "its derek smith" in that scary whisper tone, and I yearn for the day someone understands that very obscure reference, so far no one has :(
Honestly this movie is so slept on. It’s a bit of a specific genre of cinema, but it really delivers what the genre requires it to deliver if not more. Idk how people feel about Isla but I looove the way she fills out her roles. I think it’s also different enough from other similar films in the genre to feel different, while being well produced. The people behind the making of this movie clearly cared about the end product!
I’m very happy you brought up the unreleased Gaga song! My arch nemesis in high school, the only other out gay kid in 2010, tried to gaslight me into thinking Fashion was by Pixie Lott after i found it and downloaded it before him. I always knew i was right! What a shitbag.
I'll never get over how they changed the whole vibe for me because in the book she's in London and in the movie she's in New York. Like that's a whole different story!
I literally read these books as like a preteen and was always so upset that she was just lying and finessing her fine, rich husband. Like she never changes and it’s just gross and I was hella mad. Like if it was alcohol or drugs it wouldn’t be nearly as cute and I was annoyed she was just enabled and looked fabulous deep in her addiction and rich life 😂😂😂
I'd say she gets better in the much, much later books. Her shopping habit is less destructive. But it's worth noting this a book series in which the character, Suze, marries her cousin... It's weird
I quit at the very beginning of the one where she's pregnant, when she suddenly wanted to drop her ob-gyn she'd been seeing for months because she heard some women in a store talking about a super exclusive (& basically"fashionable" lol) doctor and she wanted that one instead.
Not only did this movie have an unreleased piece of Gaga media, it actually has two versions of the same song “Bad Girl”. Recorded by Rihanna, but after her drama with Chris brown it was remade NOTE FOR NOTE by The Pussycat Dolls . This movie is so iconic, It has an one unreleased original song and two Released identical songs
Fashion is honestly one o my fave gaga songs and it kills me that it's not officialy released. so good quality rips or remixes are a bit harder to come by than other songs. But somehow it manages to be such a mood. it's like... gender envy but not quite? A femenine version ZZtops sharp dressed man - vibes. Put it on and imagine all your fashinable faves slaying up and down the runway. iconic, irreplaceable and yet so elusive and ethereal
how didn't i know that fashion wasn't officially released??? i know it by heart cuz when i was 11 my dance group had a big choreography and showcase to that song. kinda slay tbh
as a fan of the book series (up till a certain point anyway, it got repetitive after “Shopaholic & Baby”) and _definitely_ spent a lot of time religiously rereading the books - i’m an English major but Shopaholic is my comfort turn-off-the-brain series, and it helps that Rebecca is a genuinely likable protagonist for all her spending - i was quite impressed with the movie. it changed quite a lot of things (setting it in NYC, for a start, and at the start of the book Rebecca was already working in financial journalism where in the movie she accidentally gets into it) but the changes worked in favour of the movie, made it a solid standalone. Rebecca’s character arc was still more or less the same, and the movie was just genuinely entertaining. Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy were _so_ charming!
the way my child mind decided that isla fisher and amy adams were the same person after watching this movie and enchanted (in my defense, we got both movies from a really shady dvd rental place and the quality was dubious at best)
Mike! Veronica Mars might be perfect for you to cover if you’re ever looking for another teen drama to recap in an appropriately unhinged fashion. I started rewatching it with my brother around the same time my husband and I started rewatching PLL, and I couldn’t believe how many random specific little plot details PLL totally copied from VM haha. Oh and Krysten Ritter (aka Suze, whom we all ❤) ends up being a big player in Veronica Mars season 2, that’s what made me comment about it. Kk anyway, keep slaying bby!
@@arareanddifferenttune3130 Lmao wow, thanks for reminding me how lucky I am for this actually. We’re planning a group rewatch of Twin Peaks soon to complete the teenage girl murder mystery trifecta. ❤️💀 For some reason it’s the perfect niche genre for getting our minds off everything that sucks.
I remember every part of this movie better than my own childhood. The company names and character profiles are engraved onto my mind like they roll so well when read out loud.
the description of the silver bob had me in stitches omg “this is not a bob, this is a robert” “that thing is structurally sound” “to put simply, professor x could not read her mind”
oh my god yes. this is the movie that kickstarted 10 year old me’s tendency to hyperfixate on things because I watched it every day for 2 weeks straight. I’m a full grown adult and I still watch it every couple of months to this DAY. it changed the trajectory of my life forever and I only have miss girlboss isla fisher to thank
I have this movie on DVD (because of course I do) and the ENTIRE score just slays. Even the background song in the menu is amazing (it's Blue Jeans by Jessie James, by the way). This movie was basically my personality for an entire year after it came out.
I always wondered how Luke knew that the green scarf was the one she bought?? I mean did he remember what she was wearing before?? If I was her I would’ve immediately started gaslighting to secure that job💅 Ps dropped everything to watch this you slayed as always bestie 💖
this movie gaGED me it’s so fun and witty. we NEED more made movies in the photo/journalism/fashion spaces made today. they are all so fun and interesting
When you get "that" notification on your phone and proceed to damn near drop And break your phone trying to get to the video... Mike's Mic worth it EVERYTIME!
I swear to god, Mike is one of the funniest people on RU-vid. I've never even seen half the shows or movies he talks about but I feel like I completely get the. because of the way he explains things.
The way that every word is both necessary and hilarious is something I literally never see anywhere else on the internet. You deserve like twenty awards to start. Thank you for your mind
I remember watching this in high school textiles class senior year and *hating* the bridesmaid dress. Those girls were set up. Also, Miss Korch is played by icon of every generation Wendie Malick who voices the reigning queen of fashion Burdine Maxwell in the Bratz animated series.
