the devils rejects wear prada - john
PartyEnds is owned, operated, signed, sealed and delivered by the two of us. I live in Austin and Luther in Dallas. After a brief phone conversation where our mutual plans for the evening were reveled to be watching movies this is the first double shot movie review we have ever attempted. I was en route to see the Devil Wears Prada while Luther had the Devil’s Reject’s sitting on his DVD player. Mad Magazine itself couldn't’t have come up with a better mash up of titles. - john
The Devil Wears Prada -
I have seen the Devil’s rejects and from my memory the only parts that are shocking is when that one dude has that gun down that one girl’s panties and when the motel cleaning lady runs out of the room with the skin mask on. Other than those parts- I sort of hated it. The only good parts in the Devil Wears Prada are when I remembered how much I like the Kevin Spacey movie Swimming with Sharks. Devil Wears Prada has the same plot without the darkness. The other good parts where when everyone in the fashion world calls Ann Hathaway’s character fat. It is funny because it is not true. Darkness and fatness aside, I was very interested in the world of fashion. I admit that many of the references were over my Old Navy, dead grandfather wardrobe wearing head, and for that - I admire the film. Ann Hathaway was likable in an American substitute for Audry Tatu kind of way. The whole time I was watching her Entourage star boyfriend (Adrian Grenier) in the movie I couldn’t shake the postmodernism from my brain and think that just was the next film he was selected for after Aquaman in the Entourage Hollywood universe. I am jaded.
The music was horrible. I did catch a Belle and Sebastian track at one point but other than that we are talking about techno clichés and a montage showing the transition from fat and unfashionable to chic set to Madonna’s ‘vogue.’ I get it, the Devil Wears Prada- the movie is about fashion.
I think I might like the book more- where I’m told that the Devil is harsher and I could set my own fashion/ devil soundtrack and not a knockoff of the opening of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. I would have given anything (you hear me Devil?) for the audience full of middle age woman to have accidentally sat thrue all of Rob Zombie’s Devil’s Rejects.
MP3- Cat Power- the Devil’s Daughter 
MP3- Hank Williams III- Blue Devil
The Devil's Rejects -
Well, I have to admit, I'm a pseudo-closet fan of Mr. Zombie. It's sort of in a negative to most unfans (like the undead, we are fans, but not) in that I will openly admit my admiration, but I own not one item of Zombie paraphernalia. That said; I was, like John, a little disappointed in The Devils Rejects as a genuinely scary movie.
I look back on House of 1000 Corpses with the glee that anyone who could enjoy a solid 80's B-movie should. A cheeseball romp through Rob Zombies collection of weird crap he's acquired over the years, and some openly silly special effects, HO1000C was fun. The Devils Rejects, a sort of sequel, was not fun at all. The movie gets points for showing what it might be like to tag along with some people who are genuinely, 100% fucked up. The films portrayal of characters that don't only lack moral qualms about murder, among other things, but who actually take extreme joy from it, is genuinely disturbing.
I was not scared at any point during this film. There wasn't even a moment when I was startled because someone came around a corner fast, or anything. I was just really uncomfortable, tense, anxious, and a little sick to my stomach, as the film mixed gruesome over-realistic violence and sexual elements in a way that exchanges the fascination of the viewer for plain disgust.
The character of the sheriff was pretty good, as you followed him through the plot and he slowly lost his mind, eventually becoming not entirely unlike the killers that he follows. Other character development is sub par, not really revealing anything deep or meaningful about anyone. The plot does have this interesting lilt to where you go from hating the killers that you follow, the being scared for them, to being sorry for them, to being happy that they triumph, only to realize that that they shouldn't even be alive in the first place; it's all very confusing.
I wouldn't suggest this film for anyone with a weak stomach (especially the unrated version that we saw), but if you want to squirm in your seat for two hours, be my guest.
MP3 Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
MP3 Beck - Devils Haircut